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Posted on 05/29/2011 10:23:38 PM PDT by Dallas59
How the USA has DEvolved, actually, Mom and GrandMom can't sew clothes for the family because they have to work just to make ends meet. There's a reason why just about the same time the democrat fascist party started preaching the "post industrial society" that they began preaching "women should be liberated to work out of the home" as well. They knew that they cost of living would go up and the standard of living would go down as the country industrialized but they also knew that a second income would serve to hide the rate of decline for a good many years.
Give fascists majority control in a democracy for sixty years and all you can expect is a fascist government no matter what they chose to call themselves. I've been laughing for years and years at how the "left" in this country has managed to call everyone else Nazi while actually being exactly like the pre-WWII Nazi party in Germany. People who are so stupid and lazy that they don't recognize reality until it's too late deserve exactly what they vote for.
The democrat party is now and always has been the party of slavery, sedition, treason, secession, civil war, KKK terrorism, Jim Crow laws, eugenics laws, constant voter fraud, constant voter intimidation, anti-Semitic immigration restrictions (in response to Nazi Nuremberg laws), advocates of titles of nobility for protected classes of citizens who are above the law, creators of anti-Christian mythology, creators of the welfare plantation system, advocates of infanticide and euthanasia as well as being the party that designed, implemented, and fights to lavishly fund the systematic, eugenics driven, mass murder of minority infants. The democrat party has to be so thoroughly destroyed as a national political party that it is no longer a factor in national politics. Refusing to support less than pure alternatives over a pet peeve, sitting out elections, or doing anything that keeps you from helping or influences others to not help rid ourselves of these parasites while we're force fed democrat arsenic, is either deliberate democrat supporting fifth column activity or your personal agreement that we should commit national suicide. The entire democrat machine, including both government employee unions and the democrat academic rewards and propaganda infrastructure needs to be fought until, to paraphrase Bull Halsey, " ... democrat is only spoken in hell".
HA...no chips, cookies, candy, soda in THAT budget....and if you notice they are not overweight, either.
Plus, we were thinner back then.
Today you're likely to see some behemoth w/low rider jeans and a tat on her lower back. Another tat on her ankle probably.
Yep..our Mom’s set an example.
But we were thinner because we all played outside from the time we got up and had breakfast until the sun set.
Would I let a kid of mine have the free reign I was allowed?
Nope...to dangerous.
Me too.
Mrs. Nelson got around in style in that 55 Bel Aire. My dear old Dad bought a 59 Impala convertible with a 348 that could outrun anything short of a Corvette. It cost $3100 new, in those days anyone who spent more than 3k on a Chevy could be declared legally insane! In 62 we lived in a 2-bedroom co-op in the Palham Bay section of da Bronx, still a nice neighborhood, in a brand new apt building. It cost my parents an astounding $2500 plus a whopping $120/mo in common charges. I remember them telling me about a recession in 1962. My grandparents, like most other “seasoned citizens” who lived through the Depression were worried that we were headed for another one.
Think of the differences today:
- All cars back then were domestic
- The women all wore dresses
- No credit/debit cards
- Cashier had to “wring up” every item - no scanners
- Very few single parent households
- No cell phones
Grocery carts still look pretty much the same.
My first car was a 1967 Plymouth Valiant coupe (three on the tree) with an AM radio. New it cost $1,825 with the sales tax, registration and license plates included.
Preggies with #6 had to move. 1800 sq. foot colonial on an extra large lot in subdivision. 4 bedroom, living room, family room, dining room and large eat in kitchen 1 1/2 baths, full basement and attached garage for 19,900.00 that was in the mid 60's...Cannot get a car for that now...mortgage at 6% 30 years. Payments were 89.00 dollars a month...
it might be interesting to see what it would cost today for what they bought
i found a 4 lb veal roast price on the net... $46 (i had no idea of the current price, seems crazy high)
assuming value stayed the same but the dollar shrank, $5 in silver would be about 4.5 oz, or about $171. that seems like it’d be close
funny how that is.
You have laid it out beautifully.....thanks.
The women all wore dresses...”
Not only dresses but slips, stockings, full appropriate undergarments including hoops and all those crazy petticoats. We used to starch them with gelatin so there was always one hanging up drying somewhere. And you never wore pj’s without a robe to completely cover them. In the late 1950’s I had at least 10 pairs of wrist length cotton gloves - all white and nary a spot on any of them and we wore them everywhere! The only person who wore denim was my daddy and that was overalls which he wore when doing farmwork. Every pair of shoes had to have a matching purse. You’d think we’d have more money now that there are so many things we no longer wear.
Now that $25 will buy you a couple of bags of groceries, if you're lucky. Thanks Federal Reserve!
I can remember in 1963, buying groceries and coming out of the store and complaining to the wife that we only got one bag of groceries for $5, when the year before at the same store you could get two bags full for $5. Ahhhh, the good old days. I was making $2.06 per hour and considered it pretty fair wages compared to what some people made.
In 62 I was making $3.25/hour and only paying $65/ month rent for a 2 bedroom house.
In 1952 my mother and my step father bought a 3/2/1 on 2.5 acres(in CA)for $4500. I don’t know what the payments were but they were to the former owner, not a bank and they paid it off early. The house was built by the former owner and it was build way above the code standards of the day or even today as far as that goes. The house is still standing and housing my step sisters grand children.
It was nice to see a 57 150 chevy and the 55 bel air didn’t see anything newer than a 57.
Luv the buzz cut. Mom wouldn’t buzz me any other way.
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