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The decade of the 1950s is known for the birth of rock ’n’ roll, flattop haircuts and high ponytails, blonde furniture and teen rebellion against adult authority.

So how did all that translate to life in Granville?

The public is invited to a Granville Historical Society program to help answer that question at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 20, in the Robinson Research Center at the rear of the museum downtown.

The program entitled “Remember Granville in the 1950s?” invites local residents who grew up here to share their recollections, said Sam Schnaidt, a member of the Society’s Board of Managers who will lead the discussion.

Those born during the decades of the 1930s and 1940s are especially invited, he said.

It was a decade when there were six grocery stores downtown, and the Opera House at the southeast corner of Main and Broadway was the tallest structure in the business district. Out on the village’s far east side, there were no housing developments surrounding the Bryn Du Mansion area. And in 1955 the community celebrated the sesquicentennial of its founding.

Schnaidt, a 1960 Granville High School graduate, hopes those in attendance can answer questions such as:

• “Where did you go to school?” (School buildings were much different in those days.)

• “What were the favorite hangouts for high school kids?”

• “What do you remember about schoolteachers of that decade?”

• “Did kids get in trouble?” and “How did the police department function?”

• “What was ‘town and gown’ interaction (the relationship between Denison University and the rest of the community) like?”

Plans are for the Society to hold similar discussions in the future on ensuing decades in the community.

For more information or to ask questions, call Schnaidt at (740) 258-3060.