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Thank you, Shirley 🙏

Too true, Marta. Completely agree. 🙂

Thank you. :-)

Thank you, Kathy! :-)

Thank you, my friend. More to come soon. ;-)

Thank you🙏 I'm still working on the third installment of this series and I'm also working on a 1950s true crime series. I hope to have the first episode of that up by next week, fingers crossed 😊

You haven't looked at the other videos uploaded to this channel, have you? I ask that question without malice and without sarcasm. The Sportsmen/Forsyth Street Boys gang war of August 23, 1959 involved gun violence in which a 15-year-old girl lost her life, an 11-year-old innocent bystander was shot in the face, and a 12-year-old boy was stabbed to death. The victims I just mentioned were Theresa Gee, 15-years-old, Manuel Cintron, 11-years-old, and Julio Rosario, 15-year-old. Let me repeat, that was in 1959. It was also one week before the "Capeman" murders of August 30, 1959, in which two innocent 16-year-olds, Bobby Young and Tony Krzesinski, lost their lives. Drug cases include the 1953 heroin bust conducted against a teen gang led by Salvatore Pennino. I love the 1950s. If I did not, I wouldn't have started this channel, and I wouldn't have shared this Australian TV teen dance show that was not unlike our own "American Bandstand" or the various other TV teen dance shows of that time (Alan Freed's "The Big Beat," The KPIX Dance Party, Larry Kane, Jack Spector, Buddy Deane, etc.) But.... We can be honest, and state that the negative side of human behavior has always been with us, and if we're really going to be honest, violent crime was most certainly a concern of 1950s society. Here is one of the other videos uploaded to this channel: ua-cam.com/video/CmA_gCLpVdQ/v-deo.htmlsi=PVCWkB5xjzr3aQKP We are currently working on a 1950s true crime series. Below is a rough draft of the intro that will accompany each episode, the extra blank space at the end will be where the title will be placed: ua-cam.com/video/J1wgbkx1bwU/v-deo.htmlsi=YKQ3t_WGHqKBD5h2 You'll see that yes, drugs (heroin) and killers (Charles Starkweather, Donald Bashor, Carl Eder, Harvey Glatman, Melvin Rees, The Egyptian Kings and Dragons street gangs, The Green Street Counts, Robert Kunkel, The Brooklyn Thrill Killers led by Jack Koslow, school shooter Billy Ray Prevatte, the unsolved December 1956 murders of the Grimes sisters in which even Elvis Presley had to make a statement, as the girls were Elvis fans, the home invasion murder in 1959 of the Clutter family, which was the basis for Truman Capote's true crime novel "In Cold Blood") most certainly did exist between 1950-1960. In fact, I started this channel deliberately to..."correct"...that (mistaken) view of 1950s society, that violent crime was "non-existent" and was "not a concern" during the 1950s, that is mentioned in your comment. Please, if we're going to discuss 1950s history, which is the focus of this channel, let's keep it accurate and honest.

Thank you.🙏 I wanted to have the first episode out today, but it's taking a bit longer to edit than expected. I hope to have it up by next week.

An excellent idea as that is a cold case from Maryland I believe. Like the Grimes sisters, the family has yet to find closure. I think Carolyn was 14 when she was murdered and I'm going by memory, so forgive me if the details are hazy, but local youth gang culture was initially blamed, but it seems that was unlikely? One of the first episodes that I am working on right now is the 1959 case of 12 year old Joanne Yamaguchi in Hawaii. In that episode, I will be mentioning the Grimes sisters out of Chicago from December of 1956 and I will also mention Carolyn, being another infamous example of a young innocent as a victim of a possible pedophile. As for doing a full episode on her, yes I think I should, so thank you for that suggestion. (It has been a while since I've looked into it so I will review the materials I have.)

@@Mike_The_1950s_Historian yeah from what I read they picked up local gangs for police interrogations but came with nothing I first heard about her from this video ua-cam.com/video/VgyiWsVxGck/v-deo.htmlsi=HoYRAf7Lgp4tVRbA And was kinda suprised something like that could happen in "the good old days" from what I was always told Looking forward to the first video though, most of these kind of cases get swept under the rug through time

@@-alleycat-1778 excellent, and I also used to believe that "none of these things happened back then, unlike today" mostly because that's what I was told, for years, by individuals who had grown up during that time. When I started doing research, that's when I realized that human nature is the same, and unfortunately, that also includes the dark, evil, side of human nature. I also realize that most former young people of the 1950s and early 1960s, generally, didn't have much interest in the news events of their youth. As older senior citizens however, many of them now take an active interest in current news. Because many of them (not "all," but many) didn't pay attention to the news stories back then, but they do now, the perception is of course that violent crime is a "recent" phenomenon, when unfortunately, it most certainly is not. Besides Carolyn, the Grimes sisters, and Joanne Yamaguchi, other innocent victims of that time period at the hands of human predators include 14-year-old Robert Peterson, 13-year-old John Schuessler, and 11-year-old Anton Schuessler in 1955, 12 and 13 year-old brothers Paul and John Logan in 1957 (like Joanne Yamaguchi, their attacker had actually been released from prison on molestation charges, before committing that triple murder), 9-year-old Candy Rogers in 1959, 6-year-old Karen Mauk in 1954, 4-year-old Joseph Zarelli in 1957 (still unsolved), and 12-year-old Patty Gross, in her own home in 1959, while her brother and sister were tied up during a home invasion. (So much for the idea that "No one ever had to worry about locking their doors back then.") I know that you know this, but what I'm writing below is for anyone else who might be new to this channel. It's very common in nostalgic recollections to state that such incidents "never happened back then," but only by being honest about history can we learn how to hopefully reduce such incidents, or at the very least, avoid being victims ourselves. Besides, those 1950s-era victims should be remembered, while their perpetrators should be rightfully condemned. Sorry I just had to write that. I will definitely do an episode on Carolyn, while mentioning her in the upcoming episode on Joanne Yamaguchi.

Thank you, brother Kwame. I think by referencing film noir, the content might be easier to digest for viewers who are not familiar with the subject. Well, at least I hope so😁

Thank you Eric. I'll try to have the first episode up within 2 weeks.

Thank you, Brown Jenkin. I think by sticking to a 10-minute format, I should be able to get the content up quicker than I have been. Fingers crossed.😁

Thank you. Working on Part Three and I hope to have it done in a few months.

I'm going to actually start posting 10 minute segments of the next documentary. Hope you dig it and keep an eye out for them in the next two weeks.😁

Thank you. I do have a copy of "The Cool World" on one of my files. And I have Warren Miller's book. Okay, it will be one of the projects. 🙂

Yes, I love Hoyt Curtin's Hanna-Barbera soundtrack music, and it just seemed so...right.

@@Mike_The_1950s_Historian exactly, I was born in 97 but grew up on that stuff.

@@darknice10 right? It's Curtin's soundtracks had that retro action/mystery-thing going on. It just "fits" for documentaries on 1950s JDs. ;-)

Thank you 🙏 I've been working on another one for almost a year and I hope to have it completed by the middle of this year. It will include interviews, as well. Hoping you enjoy it when it comes out.

@@Mike_The_1950s_Historian Good to hear.

Oh, that came with the commercial that I inserted. The commercial itself is a 1970s 7-Up commercial that references the then fad for Fifties nostalgia.

Thanks for replying but thats the one at 16:00. It seems the one at 16:25 is different

@@rocky4life167 yes, 16:25 is "Little Darlin'," but it's a karaoke version(!), since I figure the less authentic it sounded, the more it evoked that "Fifties Nostalgia" fad of the 1970s.

​@@Mike_The_1950s_HistorianYes I was specifically looking for the link to that instrumental version. But if you dont find it ots ok. Great video!

@@rocky4life167 I might still have it as an mp3 file. Please give me a week or so to see if I still have it.

Do you mean the doo wop number over the collage of 1950s New York gangs? That's The Gleams' version of "Bad Boy," 1961, originally from Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, which they recorded as "Bad Girl."

During the show, Brian Henderson says that Eddie Cochran was killed in a car crash last week (April 17th, 1960), meaning this Bandstand Episode was recorded in late April, 1960. Johnny Burell/Beryl? has a fantastic voice, but so far I haven't been able to find anything about him online! (Correct spelling of his surname might help, there?) CHEERS! 😊

Oh you mean songs like "Teen Angel" or "Patches?" Those types of teen tragedy songs? It's definitely a good idea.👍

@@Mike_The_1950s_Historian yes! Teen Angel, Patches, Running Bear, Endless Sleep… as said, the 50’s was a much darker and more violent time for teenagers than our Rose-Tinted Nostalgia Glasses would have us believe. The first sub-cultures were born from this decade and with it, the first Teen Tragedy songs. Haha. These tracks were like their equivalent of todays SoundCloud Emo Rappers like Lil Peep or Juice WRLD. 🤣 It was a big enough trend that it lasted into the early 60’s.

@@KarmasAbutch yes, agreed and okay, it's a project that will be in the works 👍

@@Mike_The_1950s_Historian 😃

Yes that's correct. David Van Pelt disputes some of Cruz's claims regarding his time in The Mau Maus in his book "Brooklyn Rumble." That said, Cruz's work in gang intervention is important. I leave it to readers and researchers to interpret the evidence and draw their own conclusions from what David puts forth.

Unfortunately, this one episode without audio, along with a few photos, seems to be all that survived of the show.

It is being worked on right now but unfortunately, as these videos take a long time to make, it won't be up till the end of the year. I do post roughs up on Facebook regularly, however, as well as here. The interview that you just saw will be going into this: ua-cam.com/video/EPrqb51vsWQ/v-deo.html

Actually this show is Australian, so it's actually another country.

Agreed.