For me it’s a mixed bag. Great time to be a child. Love the technology of today. Hate the politics and morals of today.
You can describe the (really) “good old days” all you want, but minorities and feminists will play the civil rights card on you all day long.
Of course, some Freeper will be along in a minute and accuse me of fervently wishing for the return of slavery, segregation and/or Jim Crow.
Feelings of nostalgia often seem to be interpreted as unbridled race hatred. Don't know why.
The economic collapse is not an accident it’s a plan.
And to this day they bash McCarthy. Seems he was right all along judging by how leftist commie slimebags have all but destroyed this country.
The downsides of the 1950s. Boring as heck. Swamp coolers instead of a/c. About the only source of current information was via radio, with early television little more than “radio with pictures”.
Transportation was on state roads that were generally not that hot, and often downright dangerous.
Polio and any number of childhood disease were still common, and medical care was as often as not just palliative.
The Red Menace and the growing threat of nuclear war. Pollution getting worse and worse.
In much of the US there was still a lot of gratuitous racism and segregation. Until Eisenhower, the Democrats controlled everything. What happened in Washington was only known to the public when they felt like telling, which was not often.
Food was pretty bland. Flour, fat, meat, sugar, salt in endless combinations.
I love 2012 and all that it brings. You have to accept the good with the bad. In the 1950’s many wives and kids were beat up by their dad’s when he got home from work. It is still that way today but it is more easily to press charges against him. The technology of 1950 is practically zero compared to today. 2012 is fine for me.
In 2012, blacks are enslaved on the Democrat plantation.
I love that bottom picture. That’s Cripple Creek, Colorado and it hardly looks any different now. I spent the night in a hotel on the extreme right side of that picture overlooking that scene.
Of course the decades mean car models to males. LOL! Actually, the sixties was the beginning of America’s demise. The feminist movement, which was anything but feminine; the free love movement; the “Me generation”;The credit card; the environmentalist movement which brought on government control of our lives, and the mass migration of manufacturing off shore; the disappearance of the dress code; no prayer in schools; you name it, and the sixties was when it all reared it’s ugly head. That was when Satan drew his mark in the sand and has been gaining more territory every year since!
Now the fifties were the last of the America I loved. You lived within your means, you practiced the rules your parents instilled in you; you kept your word and your oaths; hoer ego was held in check; the June Cleaver days I long for where you never locked your doors; the kids had to be home in time for dinner;television was clean; most of us had a sense of irresponsibility; and we did not turn to the government for any help at all; taxes were nominal; Doctors and hospitals were affordable; and a dollar bought about Wait ten or $l5 or more will buy today! Give me the fifties every time!
Incidentally, I had that Buick only it was Blue with a white top.
Europe and Asia destroyed themselves 70 years ago. That left us on the top of the heap, the world's greatest political and economic power.
All that wealth was bound to have an effect on our national character. People came to feel entitled to their affluence and all the perks that went with being top country, and with that came symptoms of decline.
There were some signs of "planned" decline: there was an assumption that we could outsource manufacturing the things we consumed to other countries with cheaper labor and less regulation and a feeling that this would make them or keep them our allies. But even without that "managed" decline, other countries with lower production costs were bound to become our competitors, and the triumphant mood of the postwar years was bound to turn sour sooner or later.
Always a mixed bag, depending on which aspect one emphasizes.
But I have to admit, 1950 would be so comparatively refreshing, on a cultural level, just to get away from the vomit-inducing vileness and ugliness of today. The country has become a total moral cesspool. It’s mind-boggling how depraved things have gotten.
I would gladly go back to 1950 but only if I could warn people not to end up like 2012 and not get treated like a madwoman.
Folks back then would likely never believe America sixty years into the future would be like it is today. It would sound too improbable.
I enjoyed the muscle car wars of the late 60’s and now they are back with the Shelby GT500, Camaro and Challenger. Now all we need is Chrysler to bring back the ‘Cuda.
GAllon Gas cost $.27 in 1950 would cost $2.42 in 2010 adjusted for inflation.