Posted on 04/02/2016 7:24:52 AM PDT by Macoozie
But keep in mind that everything is relative. When I began nursing in the early 50s, my salary was $8-9000 and I thought it was great!! When my husband became a partner in a law firm in the late 50s/early 60s he made $25,000 and we thought it was wonderful. Couldn’t believe it.
I wonder if there is a chart showing the cost of living and salaries then and now.
Precisely
Fifty years ago MLB was mostly played in the daytime. There were no Sales Taxes. Candy bars were 5 cents, and with a Dollar a child could buy a pack of cigarettes, a quart of milk, a newspaper, a candy bar, a comic book, and still have change.My mom used to send me to the store often enough.
Little League had real cotton (burlap like) uniforms just like the Majors. The letters DH meant doubleheader, and they had a few every season. I saw my first Red Sox game at Fenway Park and the ticket cost me $.0.75, for 2 games with open seating. A Buck at McDonald's could feed 3 or 4 kids.
Cartoons were Saturday morning and Church was on Sunday, and almost everybody went.
You could travel from any place in the city (metro area) for a Dime.
Everything went bad when the price of a candy bar went to 10 cents.
You also didn't hear of any cases of "thumbitis" back then, caused by people's obsessive addiction to non-stop texting.
Before the commi-hippie-feminazi-faggot-NEA-Wlater Cronkite-warped 1960’s, and the corn syrup-laced American diet, it was definitely much better.
Kids played safely on their own, and were disciplined by a public with a common morality. One wasn’t assaulted for speaking their mind honestly. Women and girls weren’t cursing, tattooed sluts. Men and boys knew they had to work to get, and that queer was queer.
Boys played outside using their leg and arm muscles, not in a basement using just their thumbs. Families included fathers. On Sundays stores were closed and you did home and family activities. TV went off at midnight, and you went to bed by then; and broadcasters were held to moral standards.
Yeah, there was discrimination then — that’s how life’s decisions are made, all day every day. ‘Discriminating taste’ used to be held in esteem. And self-esteem was earned, not handed out for free.
America has not progressed socially. Technically, yes. Socially, no. We’ve regressed.
when I was a kid I would leave the house in the morning, go play in the woods across the street until evening. When the street lights came on it was time to go home.
I would spend all day there, I cannot even remember worrying about breakfast lunch or dinner, we just played and played and made forts and explored, and buitl tree-houses...
I remember for about 3 years in a row, I made it a point to take off my shoes the last day of school, and not wear any all summer until the first school day of the next year.
We had 7 kids in the family and only my dad worked, and I would give anything to go back to those times.
That;’s another thing I remember- my dad would send me to the store on the street corner with a quarter to get him a pack of smokes- Salem - at about 7 years of age.
Fifty years ago I was in my teens. With the exception of the communist country’s the world was much better off. While not as advanced materially, we were more moral and just. And individuals, in the vast majority, took responsibility for their actions. Manners were better and people were much more decent towards each other. Regardless of race or faith. Yes there was segregation, but it was on its way out. Not because of fear or coercion but but because people knew it was wrong.
50 years ago a pregnancy outside of marriage was truly scandalous and jaw-dropping. Now, not so much. Very sad.
Not me dear lady, not me. You just go on and on.
Well done! Carry On! Fourth years back to my service.
Indeed.
“You could buy full sized Ford 150 4x4 for less than $3K.”
Actually you could not, the F-150 did not exist until 1975 and it was initially only available in two wheel drive.
God bless you, 90 years young is inspiring!
Just passed the middle age marker and I know without a doubt that life was far better 50 years ago. I’m filled with sorrow that I couldn’t give my kids the same careful childhood/young adulthood that I was able to live.
We’re only on this rock for a short time (I’m guessing at 90 you feel it has sped by!) and there is much to witness and account for - I wonder, do you write much to leave first hand accounts of how life has changed in your lifetime? Just curious. Thanks
Completely agree, the liberals are getting too bold, how to stop the fall of the country, which believe me it will lead to that, I don’t know.
I doubt seniors in the 60’s missed 1900 living much. Polio, TB, lockjaw. No penicillin. Common for death from infection, childbirth, wounds. No cars (ahh, the smell), electricity, central heating, vacuums, phones, radios, TVs.
Disagree.
“The 1959 model year was the first time Ford built light truck 4x4s in-house. Up to that point, they were farmed out to Marmon-Herrington (M-H) for conversion using a Dana 44 closed knuckle front axle.”
http://www.therangerstation.com/resources/history_of_4x4.htm
Now they might have called them a different number, but they were selling 4x4 pickups long before 1975.
“Now they might have called them a different number, but they were selling 4x4 pickups long before 1975.”
True but they were a different truck than an F-150. The F-150 came into being because of unleaded gasoline. In 1975 the rules changed so that the F-100 half ton pickup had to use unleaded gasoline but the three quarter ton F-250 could still use leaded gasoline. Ford brought out the F-150 which had a three quarter ton payload rating but used five lug rims and tires rather than the six lug type on the F-250 thus getting around the rules on the unleaded gasoline. The F-150 sold so well that Ford dropped the F-100 and soon it didn’t matter because the three quarter ton pickups had to use unleaded gas anyway. What I said was true, you could not buy an F-150, let alone a four wheel drive F-150 fifty years ago, they did not exist. I didn’t say you could not buy a four wheel drive F-100.
Take some of the medical advances since then that benefited the vast majority of the American public - the polio vaccine for instance - and around half of the Internet-related stuff (IE; tech that isn’t just used to make adult toys like Ipads or Xboxes) and you’d pretty much have all that we’ve really done to make progress.
An 8th grade education beats a good many highschool ‘graduates’ now, jobs are far rarer and pay poorer when you account for inflation, our native birthrate has been in a flaming nosedive for decades and our moral base is falling apart at the seams.
Our lives are easier in a few material aspects and those have come at a serious cost. Personally, I’m a massive techie and have been since I was a kid...but I’ve watched nearly everything I knew and loved and grew up with in the 90’s be thrown by the wayside or deliberately destroyed. What’s replaced it has been in no way better and rarely even equal.
Back then, it still WAS music.
Now,.........
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