But the one I really wanted was
Posted on 04/06/2016 9:00:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
We are spoiled now, for sure. If you really had to go back, you would be miserable. I’m thinking of the cars ... ridiculous contraptions! ... But we loved it that way!
In 1956, seat belts and bicycle helmets were considered to be optional pieces of equipment, and car safety seats were virtually unknown.
In 2016, millions of us are afraid to leave our homes for fear that something might happen to us, and if something does happen we slap lawsuits on one another at the drop of a hat.
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Death rates for cars have gone way down since then.
In 1956, there were about 2 million people living in Detroit and it was one of the greatest cities on Earth.
In 2016, there are only about 688,000 people living in Detroit and it has become a joke to the rest of the world.
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True, but there are millions more living in the nice Detroit suburbs. But it gets too cold no matter what year it is.
Reagan mentioned John Wayne’s drinking in the obituary he wrote for him. That’s all I’ll say about that.
In Ala., selected Seniors drove the school buses (with aftermarket AM radios and speaker arrays), kept them at home and washed them....
But the one I really wanted was
Now you can get car payment plans that long!
That picture reminded me that in 1965 a workmate of mine bought a brand new Austin Healey. He took me for a ride at lunchtime in the rain. Damned if the windshield didn’t leak. What a beauty it was.
Well, we have Free Republic now. So there’s that.
Anything specific you want me to look at? Never mind that Wikipedia is not a primary source.
The only reason for government to get involved in anything is to increase its power. And with all due respect to Ike, it would be Janus-faced of him to embrace this increase of power of his office (meaning his branch of government) with respect to micromanaging public infrastructure in the name of “defense” and then go on to speak of a so-called “military-industrial complex” later.
Nothing specific, it just has a broad description of the program.
I used to have a 1959 Austin Healey. Deceptively heavy due its frame. The top and side curtains were just to give you the illusion that the rain wouldn’t get in.
I still would love to have a TR-3.
I was in high school and had my first job making $.76 an hour typing collection letters for the credit department in a clothing store or a manual typewriter. Only reason I was able to get the job was because I had taken two years of typing in high school and had won an award for 80 wpm error free. Then the store owner discovered I also knew shorthand so I took dictation from him on Saturday morning and then typed his letters on Saturday afternoon. Did well and was given a raise to $.95 an hour. At least in school back then we learned how to do something that would help us get a job.
Much as I think that the '50s were oh so awesome, if I had to go back then I'd enjoy it for about a couple of days.
Then I'd get so bored.
I could hang out with Archie and Moose at the malt shop, but then where is my internet?
Where's my Netflix streaming?
To keep up on the news, I'd have to rely on, GASP, newspapers.
At least in 1956, there were enough WWII vets who knew about, and rejected communism.
So there's that.
Just so happens I bought a full set of the World Book Encyclopedia, 1956 edition a few weeks ago. Reading through it gives you a good idea of America in the mid-50s.
Good story. The pay sounds tiny, but then prices were also low. I received a good education when I grew up in the DC area, but little of it was of any use to me. But then I didn’t take typing.
I never felt that I was in danger walking down a Korean street no matter what time of day or night it was and Korea was much poorer when I was there.
That’s one of the things I like is how safe it is. And people actually behave themselves. People make a big deal about how Koreans have a temper, but frankly 99% of the folks I was around were better behaved than many Americans. My experience is you treat people there with respect, they’re very nice and often will go out of their way to help you.
“”In 1956, you could buy a nice ranch house in the suburbs of Pittsburgh for $12,500.”
And how long would an average worker have had to work in order to save that much money?”
Pay cash for everything, I always say!
I resent how the queers, fags and dykes have adopted one of my favorite natural atmospheric phenomenons as a symbol of theirs.
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