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Music, Cars and Drive-In Restaurants
By Diana Rogers
In the mid 1950’s I was listening to music performers such as Chuck Berry, the Del Vikings and the Shirelles. I was glued to our black and white television watching American Bandstand with Dick Clark and memorizing every dance move that was popular on the East Coast. Jerry Lee Lewis was huge back then and I remembered how much I enjoyed Great Balls of Fire and wanted to play that song. Eventually I learned it and showed others how to play that rocking song on the piano. You could show off your piano playing style standing up and adding those slippery, impressive glissandos. You know playing all those notes in a downhill or uphill spiral with a touch of your finger. In the 50’s my folks played Bing Crosby’s song called White Christmas over and over on vinyl records. To this day, I still have quite a huge selection of records from the swing era and rock and roll days. I enjoy playing disc jockey during our family gathering times. It’s loads of fun. One of my fondest memories as a child was my Dad taking me to the walk in theater to see Bill Hailey and His Comets play Rock Around The Clock. They became hugely successful when they started to combine R&B with country music. This was the beginning of rock and roll! I was so excited that evening that I felt as if I was walking on marshmallows and that rock and roll was here to stay. The theater was alive with screaming teenagers. Funny thing is that my dad wasn't too crazy about it though. Elvis was definitely King back then and was probably the most successful rock and roll star of the 1950s with Blue Suede Shoes. Definitely a new style of music was exploding throughout the United States setting off a popular craze and I was definitely being caught up with it. Another popular item that intrigued me besides music was the Drive In Restaurants. In my small hometown we had a local drive in restaurant called Vaqueros on the main strip. Gas was so inexpensive around 1955 that I remember we would get in my boyfriends turquoise Thunderbird and cruise the main street on a warm summer’s evening. We were styling back then. You could see rows of all kinds of cars from hot rods, low riders to Corvettes, especially convertibles everywhere. We would roll our window down at the drive in restaurant and a carhop gal would come out with this metal tray that would connect to the window and car door. She’d be bringing our order of food that was always a burger with some fries and a milkshake or soda! There were no seat belts back then, just bench seats so we could cuddle away. And gas was around 25 cents a gallon so every Friday and Saturday night we enjoyed hot summer nights at our local drive in restaurant. Those were the good old days of music, cars and drive-in restaurants. Thanks for taking a stroll down memory lane with me.
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Bill & Elvis
1956 Ford Thunderbird Convertible
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Those were the days! I remember them well. Nicely done,Diana.
CONTRIBUTOR'S REPLY
Thanks for your kind and encouraging note... so very thoughtful of you!
Boy that brings back memories! I miss carhops and drive-in restaurants. The ones where the gals came out on roller skates... Then there were the drive-in theaters... Sigh...
CONTRIBUTOR'S REPLY
Yes, I remember... so glad I still can remember! lol
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