Posted on 07/07/2025 11:58:25 AM PDT by grundle
“Houses today are much bigger”
What about lot sizes?
My 1950s subdivision lot is 5/8ths of an acre.
And your kids have 2 fewer cavities—but also 10 fewer IQ points.
Are we really better off with more and larger TV’s?
Is the work force moving more towards indoor office type work really a good thing?
Is watching Netflix a good thing?
Is fluoridated water a good thing?
This really does not impress me at all.
A several years ago we tried cable TV and the installers were appalled that we only had one TV. I never really understood that. An acquaintance of our bought a small RV that had 3 TVs and boasted about it. Why buy an expensive RV if all you are going to do is watch TV?
Yes, I’m old fashioned and I don’t care.
This AI and Grok crap does not impress me either. It’s an excuse for people not to think on their own and use someone else’s programming as an authority.
And in the 1950s, you could, IF you so choose to, watch live plays performed, ballet dancing, opera, operettas, variety shows that featured magicians, scenes from current Broadway plays, singers, dancers of all kinds, and famous comedians. There were many good children's shows, cooking shows, documentaries, comedy series that were actually funny, and NO perversion, no anti-American crap, and NOTHING WOKE! It really was THE GOLDEN AGE OF T.V.!
The 1950s house typically was purchased with a 20-year mortgage.
My father’s parents died young in the 1950s.
My father introduced medical insurance to the company he ran - the employee cost was 25 cents a week.
Well, the younger one, who is 54 had his uppers removed several years ago for implants. The bottoms survived all his years of smoking. The oldest, going on 59 never smoked and has all of his. I never smoked either, and lost my 12 year molars, one with each pregnancy. Too much candy as a kid. Have two permanent bridges, but no dentures. Youngest had all his wisdom teeth removed. Oldest son and I only had two out. Everybody in my immediate family had dentures because they all smoked.
Can't tell you about my kid's IQ's.
ROFL!! Too bad we couldn’t get Democrats to think that was normal behavior.
I wouldn’t need GROK to answer any of those questions. Most are common sense.
“I certainly showered every day and had air conditioning.”
I did as well—but my father had a well paying job so we had more modern conveniences than a lot of other folks.
I remember we were the first in the neighborhood to have a color TV (but that was in the mid 1960s).
I like having a bigger TV to watch my vintage shows and movies on.
You could have just asked Scott.
“I remember we were the first in the neighborhood to have a color TV (but that was in the mid 1960s).”
We were probably the last ones. :-). Dad was frugal.
Grew up in Downriver Detroit area. Parent’s house was 906 sq. ft. We were a family of six. One bathroom, no shower - only a bathtub. Thought it was normal, and it was.
Medical better
State of blacks could be argued either way
That’s it
Everything else has declined societally
I was first cognizant around 1962
Oh more air conditioning another improvement
Less cavities is because people aren’t eating sugar filled foods. They are eating corn syrup filled foods, different monster I am guessing.
Amen
Stable marriages. Way Down.
Divorces. Way up.
Single mothers. Way up
Out of wedlock births. Way up.
Babies killed by their mothers. Way up
% of women who plan to have children. Way down.
% of women at 30 that have children. Way down.
% of desperately unhappy single women growing old by themselves. way up.
% of young men who won’t come near a woman for fear of being accused of sexual assault or having their future finances destroyed by a divorce. Way up.
% of young women who refuse to consider dating or marrying anything other than a wealthy, fashion model. Shockingly high.
% of young men who have just given up on women. Shockingly high.
% of Muslims as a proportion of US population. Way up.
Fentanyl and THC use. Way up.
Church attendance. Way down.
But we all have lots more bathrooms! So there’s that.
Yes it was for the growing middle class in 50s America.
We are not taking month long trips to Disney but neither was the average GM assembly worker back in the fifties. And not only because Disney was not around then either.
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