Posted on 04/27/2024 10:38:51 PM PDT by RandFan
Check out the YouTube circa 1956.
I want to know if life was like that: Congested dance halls, Rock n' roll, a post-War boom?
Seems like another world... One you kind of hanker for.
Can any Freepers recall the era depicted?
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Government-enforced integration
Civil-rights movement funded and orchestrated by Communists
US meddling in Korea, Iran, and the beginning stages of Vietnam
Notwithstanding EEEs post I think I’m in the wrong era/generation .
Eisenhower started NASA, the Interstates, America was healthy, wealthy, and sane, we were free and it was great for the people.
Nobody said that history was stopped and human difficulties and challenges had all taken a vacation.
Eisenhower sent troops to settle down unrest in Little Rock.
Biden allows Antifa, BLM, the FIB, Stupid college kids supporting Pali terrorists etc to INCREASE and INFLAME unrest.
Do you still have a public library in your town?
I would have thought modernity would see them close.
Not been to one in years...
Was born before 1950 remember it well, but I have a hard time remembering what happened yesterday lol
Things were kinda tough if weren’t born into wealth. During haying season by the time I was 7, I worked driving a tractor pulling the bales from sunup to sundown, always milking the cattle (usually 50 or so) morning and night. Ranch life was always more to do than we could.
We were out in the sticks so no TV until about 1960, the first station was built about 1956 would watch when we would go to town and visit the cousins.
Moved to “town” in about 1960, less than 1000 people was on the Northern Pacific Railroad an uncle was station agent got first SS card in 1960 washing dishes at the local hotel still working today 64 years later.
Always needed to work on the families ranches while in school until I joined the Army during the Vietnam era.
I remember the 50’s as basically working to survive....
Same here.
1956.
I don’t remember yesterday...
I was born in 1951. Librarians were SCARY! SHhhhh!
I was in my 20s………I remember cocktail lounges…..wonderful places….also jobs were plentiful….good times.
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Only loose women wore red.
My neighbor was scandalized that a couple let their kid wear blue jeans to church -— in the late 70’s! (Congregational)
Phone (12 party line) when I was 7 and running water, inside plumbing about then.
Attended a 1 room school.
Chemical toilets until I was in 4th grade and it got running water.
Heard the news, weather, etc., on WDEV AM radio.
Listened to "Music to go to the Dump by" on that station, 550 AM, now you can hear it streaming., 9 AM Saturday mornings.
One of the oldest and longest playing radio shows in the country.
2 tv channels -— ABC and NBC. Didn’t get CBS til the mid 60’s. Girls couldn’t wear slacks to school (except snow pants under our dresses) til the 70’s. No shopping on Sundays, except a few neighborhood mom and pop stores, and Robert Hall, til late 60’s.
Read later.
Kids were disciplined.
Not out of the norm
where a spanking in a
grocery store when
warranted, was carried
out.
Home before the street
lights came on, and God
forbid, back-talking.
Which earned extra duties.
McDonalds hamburgers
10 for a buck, milkmen,
mail order Sears and Roebuck
availed a ten year-olds
first rifle, hot rods,
roller skating, abortions
we’re taboo and the
perpetrators married.
Little league baseball,
and Saturday’s neighborhood
ice cream trucks. Gay was
in the bedroom, shut the
door, and shut the hell up.
Ike initiated Operation Wetback and rounded up illegal aliens.
Went to school in a two room schoolhouse. The teacher would teach both my parents and all 7 of my brothers and sisters in her long career.
Played outside most of the time. TV had to warm up before you saw a picture. When a tube broke in the back it could be several weeks before we could get a new one. Dad would often read to us at night as we laid on the floor listening to him. Favorites were Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.
The fifties, despite its charm and innocence, was the first decade when the United States became fully fascist in the true sense of the definition. We became the United States of all the big corporations that helped kick Hitler and Tojo’s asses. The sixties was when people started to figure this out.
And his Vice-President ended the Vietnam War.
-PJ
That same man brought us price and wage controls and opened us to China.
Watergate was not the worst scandal.
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