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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BTDT.
One of my favorite time travel movies was The Philadelphia Experiment.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087910/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Two Navy seamen are sent from 1943 to 1984. One of them stays behind.
This guy gets to experience the ‘80s society, technology, etc. He likes the “free and easy” girlfriend he meets (1940s girlfriend wouldn’t “cooperate” with him), has to figure out an automatic transmission, runs into a transvestite (”Why the hell are you dressed like that”), is asked what he liked best about the ‘80s (”TV was great.” “You didn’t see enough of it.”).
“who could forget your family outing two weeks ago when you all drove into Manhattan and saw My Fair Lady on Broadway? “
LOL! A night at the drive-in theater ocean a month was our treat!
Somebody wasn’t even born in the sixties, to think that Walt Disney’s Wonderful World Of Color was on television in 1961. I was just a toddler at the time but remember clearly the year that the networks shifted over to color. It was 1966. My parents splurged uncharacteristically, went out and bought one of those fine furniture-grade consoles with an AM/FM stereo and turntable under a lid on the top, color TV featured prominently in the middle but with nice hideaway doors to cover it when not in use, speakers behind decorative grills on each side. Analog remote, actually turned the knob mechanically, kaplunk, kaplunk, kaplunk, a quieter version of the same sound that the antenna made when you changed directions to pick up this or that broadcast signal, via another knob on the antenna console sitting on the top of that pretty piece of furniture. We were quite the deal in the neighborhood briefly, then everybody else who could, went out and got one too. Ours was a Motorola.
There’s a booming accessory business manufacturing and selling clamp on plexiglass wind wings. A friend has them on a dune buggy, they work pretty well. Combine it with wind netting on the roll bar and it’s a nice pleasant breeze rather than a wind tunnel with the top down, lol.
My mom was looking out a window on the 19th floor of the art deco RJ Reynolds headquarters in Winston-Salem, NC watching National Guard tanks roll down the street below, in 1968.
Me too!!
Age 69, not 13.
1961 Kingston Trio enjoyed by parents, and kids.
Surfing enjoyed by Dad, and oldest son.
Prosperity was the name of the game.
If (that's a BIG if) the world is still ruled buy mankind 36 years from now, you'll see changes that will make 2017 look like paradise!!!! I've seen changes in the last eight years (Obama years) that boggles the mind!!
The liberal genie (spirit of anti-christ) is out of the bottle & is unchanined. This present world is circling the drain faster & faster!
"This place today basically describes what hell will look line when they get there. "......I wish that were true. However, if you read: Luke 16:19-31 King James Version (KJV)
19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:
28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
Here, YESHUA describes what the afterlife is like for the unrighteous & righteous before YESHUA'S crucifixion.
After YESHUA took captivity captive, the rich man & all those like him all still suffering , while Lazarus & all those like him are in Heaven.
An this isn't after the "White Throne Judgement," that's when ETERNAL DAMNATION for those like the rich man begins!!!!
Even today's world is a walk in the park compared to ETERNAL DAMNATION .
Things were good in 1961. We had a President who stole the election, and promised that his religion meant nothing, and would soon be murdered by the Vice President.
In photos of the 1939 World’s Fair, every male 13 and older is in a suit, tie, and hat.
Until the Great Society, black illegitimacy was lower than white illegitimacy. And poverty was disappearing.
Mark Steyn once wrote that if you placed a 40 year old man in a time capsule in 1950, and let him walk out of the capsule in the present day, the first thing he woul say would be, “Why are all the adult males dressed like 12 year old boys”?
I think the first thing you’d notice is people smoking. Everywhere. With little to no regard for non-smokers.
Everything smelled like smoke. Airplanes, Buses. Elevators, Waiting rooms, restaurants, Sporting events. It was ‘normal’ and people lit up without a thought.
“Odd, I don’t recall anything close to 9/11 back in the ‘60s.”
The Vice President murdered the President in 1963.
It is forbidden to discuss what happened on that other date you mentioned.
And no middle class family flew anywhere...ever. In 1964 I flew commercial for the first time in my fanily for a job interview out of college paid for by the company I eventually went with. They flew me to Germany later, and I paid advanced expense cash having no credit cards like most folks then. Cost $2,100 coach. You could buy a car for that much then. Terrorists existed then too but not as many as now, true, but I’d rather have TSA than nothing to keep them off the planes I fly.
Never understood the virtue of watching TV “together”. What is the point?
Horse hockey.
No, not much. Could learn a little from others’ reactions, might raise a useful discussion. Not much to TV anyway.
But the inability of the three networks to provide advertisers segmented marketing groups made for TV that was ‘unifying’ because it had to appeal to all groups.
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Thank you for your cogent weighing of the evidence, especially your careful, detailed refutation of Roger Stone’s book on the subject, The Man Who Killed Kennedy.
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