Posted on 04/24/2024 10:32:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
really.
go back to the African countries and the Peace Corps of today is still teaching them how to string a goat over a fire.
don’t smoke anymore but whenever I see someone lighting up in public I think “good for you”
IBM Selectric was probably #1 because of sales to businesses.
We just got ours from Sears.
I was kinda busy living a normal life in Vietnam.
Yeah. I briefly had a phone when I had to call long distance. I was glad to ditch it for a cell. My bills are less now even though a monthly fee.
HA-HA!!
I laughed out Loud!
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Technology flips business models.
50 years ago you got the phone free. Paid for monthly service and long distance.
Now the phones cost hundreds but calling is free.
Cell phones also killed a huge profit department for hotels. We used to make a 2 million yearly profit on phones. Even got a cut of payphones.
Eventually we had to pay to have a payphone just in case.
Same with in room movies.
That’s interesting. I definitely didn’t think about the hotel situation.
Were you in the Peace Corps?
No, when I looked into it I got the distinct impression that saying I was an Army vet was a strong negative.
Why do you ask since it had nothing to do with my post.
“...the entire hippie movement was hatched by the CIA.”
Hahahahahahhahaha!
The CIA had every reason to disrupt our society, and no reason not to.
They had every means to do so.
It was what they already did in ever other nation in the world.
The mathematical probability that the CIA had no hand in creating the hippie movement is zero.
The only question is how low was their IQ when they did it.
In the depths of each CIA officer’s mind, the festering question is how can I make up for the damage I’ve done?
I was a freshman in HS in 1950 and graduated in1964. I bought my first house in 1969 for $22,0000, a new 1960 square foot ranch. It was the same size as my parent’s first purchased house that they built a decade earlier.
I bought a 1964 Corvette in 1968 for $2,200. I sold it a decade later for $2,100 after putting 200,000 miles on it and a couple of engine rebuilds. That was about when I threw out a dozen, or so worn-out Beatles albums (Hard Day’s Night, Rubber Soul, Yellow Submarine, etc.)
“In 1966, the national average for the price of a men’s haircut was $1.95”
My Dad was a skinflint. That’s why he didn’t mind we when grew our hair long. Saved on haircuts for four boys.
Whatever you’re smoking I want some
I've taken awhile to ponder that statement and consider it from multiple angles. It is wrong. The '60s was nothing other than the Boomers coming into their own. It was Boomers who turned the Beatles demigods. It was Boomers who were buying the Mopar muscle cars, the Mustangs, the GTOs, the Trans Ams, and Firebirds in the '60s. It was Boomers who were either being drafted or protesting the war, and sometimes both. It was Boomers who were into psychodelia, drugs, long hair, bell bottoms, and all the music from the mid-'60 to the mid-'70s. These things created the culture of that decade, apart from its politics.
Those who came of age in the '60s will recall the opening lines of A Tale of two Cities: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Life, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way". How true.
If you think children ran things then go ahead.
In 1965 boomers ranged in age from 1 year old to an old man teenager of 19 years old, I don’t know how many teens and 8 year olds could afford those expensive cars.
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