When Kids Could be Kids

Growing Up in the 1950s

By C.W. Cornell

Copyright 1996
by Wayne Cornell
All Rights Reserved

To Sara, Melanie, Jenny and Tara.
My brown-eyed girls

 


Contents

Introduction

1 - Family Follies
2 -
Barns, Cows and Related Topics
3 -
Animals, animals everywhere
4 -
Trees
5 -
Kinfolk
6 -
Christmas
7 -
Ginger Tea and Related Health Issues
8 -
Keeping Occupied
9 -
The Jensen Kids and Other Playmates
10 -
Pollywogs and Cattail Fights
11 -
Food in the ‘50s
12 -
School
13 -
Learning to Compete
14 -
Gideon
15 -
Father and the Rednecks
16 -
The Printer’s Devil
17 -
The Indian Crick Gang
18 -
Adventures of a Rocket Pioneer
19 -
Surviving Junior High
20 -
Showdown Behind the Lumber Yard
21 -
Fire in the Hole
22 -
The Water Tower Incident
23 -
Del’s Texaco
24 -
Ghosts Don’t Need a Babysitter
25 -
Hot Chocolate and Ax Murderers
26 -
The End of an Era

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