I recall seeing this movie many years ago on TV. I found it quite enjoyable. I can't recall how 'political' it was.
Get back to where I once belonged!
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. This place today basically describes what hell will look line when they get there. As for me, I am going the other way and simply cannot wait for my LORD to come and get us.
“the whole family can enjoy them together”
Back then TV was an unifier because it had to be. Advertisers had to pay for a broad audience. They had no choice.
Now media’s divisive so advertisers can target specific audiences.
And if you a heart attack in 1961, the treatment was “lie in bed and hope you don’t have another one.” And cancer? Maybe a round of very nasty chemo to get you another year, but then, farewell. Jobs were for the most part far duller and/or more dangerous than today. All that stuff we can do in seconds on a spreadsheet now had to be done manually on paper by a lot of people back then with a lot of checking and re-checking. Not too interesting. So while I would prefer much of the lifestyle of the 1960s, I’ll definitely take my 2017 job and health care.
“If You Fell Asleep in 1961 and Woke Up Today”
I’d still own that ‘57 Chevy Belair 2-door (no post).
Tonight is TV night.
You have 3 channels and ‘Hazel’ is on.
Just stab yourself in the eye with an icepick.
Those things happened in 1961, too. Since there was no 24-hour news cycle then, we just didn't hear about them so much.
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”?
Such a trip for 5 people was pretty expensive, even in 1960.
That was the appearance anyway....however you had to lie, cheat or steal to look good and go along with society. As others have pointed out most of the problems of today were there then -they were just swept under the rug and hidden.
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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.
I would probably roll over on my side and say "just give me five more minutes."
when you all drove into Manhattan and saw My Fair Lady on Broadway
“There’s only one drinking fountain. Where’s the other one?”
““Did I wake up in hell?”
NO, ... just the outskirts of Detroit!
I would want to come back immediately! Having had a heart bypass. new hip and knee replaced, I’d be dead or a wheel chair bound cripple by now. Seriously the old days are memories but not a way to live when you have what we have today. Spent days researching for my thesis that today would take hours. Had to blow in the gas tank of my 53 ford that vapor locked when the temp. rose above 80 degrees. No thanks. ATMs, cell phones, internet, cars that run forever, plane fare that is cheaper than driving there. Food choices never dreamed of in 1961, in or eating out. I’ll stay here or move me ahead 20 years when they have my bald spot fixable.
The Cubs were 64-90...
Wow.... Try that sort of thing today and they'll come home with numerous tats, nose rings and smelling like john street on a Saturday night....