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If You Fell Asleep in 1961 and Woke Up Today
Townhall ^ | October 1, 2017 | Michael Brown

Posted on 10/01/2017 7:22:20 AM PDT by Mafe

It’s been a beautiful spring day in the suburbs of Pennsylvania on this Thursday, June 7th, 1961. You just got home from work and your wife is almost finished preparing one of her typically delicious dinners. Your kids, a boy and two girls, aged 15, 13, and 9, have been out all day riding their bikes around the neighborhood and playing with friends. Now everybody’s hungry and ready to sit down for the family meal.

Last night was game night, and you barely emerged with a victory in Monopoly. Your kids are getting good, and your wife, normally the more savvy player, had some bad luck. Tonight is TV night, and everyone is ready to enjoy Ozzie and Harriet and Leave It to Beaver. (The younger ones get to stay up a little later on TV night, and you know they’re not going to miss a minute of the shows.)

Of course a live, in-person show is incredible—who could forget your family outing two weeks ago when you all drove into Manhattan and saw My Fair Lady on Broadway? But TV has its own unique appeal, especially with shows like Lassie and Andy Griffith and Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color and Father Knows Best and The Flintstones. And they’re all on at night so the whole family can enjoy them together.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; History; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: culture; lgbt; morality; us
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To: TexasGator

Sounds like you woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning!

I remember all that. I also remember south Florida when it was still Anglo.


21 posted on 10/01/2017 8:15:29 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Mafe

If we had the same family/social values, respect for Christian faith and respect for the nation’s basic values like back then 2017 would be more awesome in comparison although we now have way too many foreigner imports with turd world mentality.


22 posted on 10/01/2017 8:16:00 AM PDT by tflabo
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To: Mafe
If You Fell Asleep in 1961 and Woke Up Today

I would probably roll over on my side and say "just give me five more minutes."

23 posted on 10/01/2017 8:18:18 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Snickering Hound

Comparative to what happened later in the ‘60s, 1961 was an oasis of calm.

For most people in the country, it was still like the good old ‘Fifties. For me anyway.


24 posted on 10/01/2017 8:18:31 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Mafe

when you all drove into Manhattan and saw My Fair Lady on Broadway


The point about heart attacks/cancer is well taken. But my mom, 99, remembers seeing Broadway shows for a couple of dollars for the cheap seats and I remember going to Dodger Stadium for $1 (nosebleed seats). Top-rate live entertainment was available for the average working man/woman back then and is far beyond most of us today.


25 posted on 10/01/2017 8:20:31 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Snickering Hound

I can’t find anything to watch on TV now, so what is the difference? I have only had TV the past several years for grand kids, but now they can’t find anything to watch either. After November 1st we will be TV free. Hazel was a lot to take though, did anyone like that show?


26 posted on 10/01/2017 8:21:04 AM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: Mafe

“There’s only one drinking fountain. Where’s the other one?”


27 posted on 10/01/2017 8:21:17 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Tammy8

Of course! Bobby Buntrock, what a neat name. And Whitney Blake was a knockout!


28 posted on 10/01/2017 8:23:18 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: hanamizu

I recall my great aunt and uncle (my grandmothers sister lived only one block over) went to New York City in 1965 Uncle Vernon said Coke cost .25 cents - we were shocked.


29 posted on 10/01/2017 8:24:49 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: MUDDOG

30 posted on 10/01/2017 8:25:11 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound

Do you remember 1961, or is it just what you’ve read?


31 posted on 10/01/2017 8:26:35 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Mafe

““Did I wake up in hell?”

NO, ... just the outskirts of Detroit!


32 posted on 10/01/2017 8:29:36 AM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now.)
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To: Snickering Hound

LOL!!


33 posted on 10/01/2017 8:29:48 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: MUDDOG

1961 was the year that America was introduced to Democrat National Committee member Bull Connor.


34 posted on 10/01/2017 8:30:38 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: MUDDOG

“I remember all that. I also remember south Florida when it was still Anglo.”

LoL!


35 posted on 10/01/2017 8:32:22 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

“and a whole state under Marshall is ‘calm’?”


Who on earth is Marshall and what state are you talking about?

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36 posted on 10/01/2017 8:32:23 AM PDT by Mears
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To: Our man in washington

The problem is that while your medical care may give you a very few brief years, in terms of eternity it is virtually non existent.


37 posted on 10/01/2017 8:37:03 AM PDT by Rock N Jones (1935)
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To: Snickering Hound

You can take any year and pick out individual bad things.

The Freedom Riders were nothing compared to the later race riots in Watts, Detroit, Newark, etc.


38 posted on 10/01/2017 8:38:09 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Jolla

The price of coke stayed a nickel for 70 years.


39 posted on 10/01/2017 8:38:45 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: RetiredArmy
If you went to sleep in 1961, and I was around in 1961 and remember the times, you would think you had woke up in hell, that you had died and gone to hell while you were asleep.

That's about the first half hour of the movie "Blast From The Past", which is in fact a pretty good comedy.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124298/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_41

40 posted on 10/01/2017 8:41:18 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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