How many here were teens during the 50s?

[trof]

Not very many, I bet.
;-)
I became officially a teen in 1954.
Ike (the last decent republican) had been president for a year.
Here are a few other things that happened that year:

* August - First flight of a B-52 Stratofortress.
* August 16 - Volume 1, Issue 1 of Sports Illustrated is published
* September 3 - The last new episode of The Lone Ranger is aired on radio after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years
* September 11 - First Miss America Pageant broadcast on television
* September 14 - USSR tests nuclear weapon
* September 30 - USS Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (submarine), commissioned by the US Navy
* October 11 - Vietnam War: The Viet Minh takes control of North Vietnam.
* October 18 - Texas Instruments announces the worldwide first Transistor radio.

November-December

* November - The main immigration port-of-entry in New York Harbor at Ellis Island closes.
* November 3 - The first in the Godzilla series of films is released in Japan.
* November 30 - In Sylacauga, Alabama, a 4 kg meteorite crashes through the roof of a house and hits Ann Hodges, badly bruising her, in the first documented case of an object from outer space hitting a person.
* December 2 - Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 67 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."
There were only 48 states then. Alaska and Hawaii were admited in 1959.

unknown dates

* The first organ transplants are done in Boston and Paris.
* Battle of Dien Bien Phu between French and Viet Minh forces in Indochina
* Boy Scouts of America desegregates on the basis of race
* Stop signs are changed from black-on-yellow to white-on-red
* Gerbils (Meriones Unguiculatus), brought to the United States by Dr. Victor Schwentker.
* Unification Church founded.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954#August-October

I am one OLD fart!
:-)

[Left Is Write]

1. My mom and dad! High school class of 1957.

Trof, you have often reminded me of my dad. And that's a compliment!

:)

[trof]

3. I take that as a compliment, and thank you.

It's amazing how many people I remind of their dad now.
;-)

[Debi]

2. My husband (and my folks)

classes of 1961 & 1962