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Women were so beautiful

@@auxiliaryxax i agree!

... and they're doin' pretty well for white folk.

All rock and roll dancing started with the Lindy Hop in the 1930s, check out Hellzapoppin film, will leave you reaching for your inhaler if you have one. Can see the clip on here. The Lindy Hop then was carried on into the 40s as the Jitterbug before it became known as rock and roll in the 50s. Watch clip of film mentioned, then look for a jitterbug clip from the 40s, before reaching the 50s. see the many similarities, so much energy, kids of today would never be able to keep up with what their great, and great, great grandparents danced too back then. All they do now is shuffle round their handbags in dingy discos. or stagger around in a drug induced haze at some rave in a field. If you have kids and grandkids, sit them in front of your laptop and have them watch how dancing is REALLY done.

Actually NO-The Jazz Singer from 1927 really WASN'T the first talking movie-But it was the first full length talking movie-In other words there were talking movies before The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson,but they were very short movies-Also known as MOVIE SHORTS-You can see another talking movie here on CZcams with Al Jolson,from 1926 called"A Plantation Act"-It's really super and you will love it-Also it's in colour!!!

@@man975dog I agree -The Jazz Singer - was the breakthrough

Quite right. Food rationing during the war saw to that and was still going on up to 1954 in some places, no one had that much to eat then to get obese like today. In UK we did'nt have fast food places as far as I was told by mum and dad, USA had plenty as their food was'nt rationed to the extent ours was, as they did'nt join the war until Pearl Harbour, Britain was there from the start in 1939. Mum's then had to make ends meet by making their rations go a long way if they had a family and a husband in the services abroad. The GI's brought canned fruit, chocolate, chewing gum, corned beef and nylon stockings for the ladies. It was a hard time that lasted into the early 50s. People kept fit by going to work, walking there and back in some cases as what bit of money they earned had to be used to heat and light their homes and pay the doctor if needed, no NHS back then, cost a shilling my gran told me, some doctors would take pity on large families and try and treat all the family if possible for the shilling and probably some fruit and veg from the allotments people kept to feed their families. Many people had chickens and pigs in pens in their gardens which would be fed scraps to build them up to be slaughtered and eaten. If a family were lucky enough to own a pig or two they would share it with the whole street so they would'nt starve. No one was overweight in those days. Young men and women would flood the dance halls and jitterbug to the hits of the 40s to keep them fit, and walk home in groups when dark for safety as there were no street lights allowed to show the way, and they would be ever alert for the air raid siren. By time the 50s came the lifestyle got slightly better with some items taken off rations. Despite the war, people were optomistic and would still go to the cinema or to dance halls for their entertainment. We were a hardy bunch we Brit's, despite what was thrown at us we kept calm and carried on. The 50s came on the wave of crooners who serenaded us over the radio, before the Rock & Roll explosion burst into our lives in the mid 50s, making our grandparents enraged with the so called teenage rebellion of The Blackboard Jungle film that launched Bill Haley & The Comets into the Rock & Roll era where teenage lads ripped up cinema seats, and girls danced in the aisles. Exciting times ahead for young people who took the Jitterbug, added a few tweaks and made it their own filling every dance floor from here to USA, The scandal of Jerry Lee Lewis and his child bride coming to the UK caused scandal among the older generation, I don't think the teens of the day cared as long as they could hear his music, and what music it was. The fantastic artists and their music still lives on 74 years later, can't say this generation's garbage will live that long can you. As Bill Haley sang, Rock & Roll Is Here To Stay When The Saints Go Marching In. Could'nt have said a truer word. Many will remember all this I have posted, especially our silver surfers older than me, 66 in the New Year. Just wish I had been young then to experience it all first time round?

I'm so happy that you have such wonderful memories! God bless 💓

And Gil and Nikki Brady