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1 posted on 09/27/2014 4:53:18 PM PDT by navysealdad
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many of us above in the fifties knew that evil existed.....but it did not at that point seem to be casting a monstrous shadow across the nation...centered on Washington D.C. and Hollywood...


2 posted on 09/27/2014 5:05:48 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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3 posted on 09/27/2014 5:09:26 PM PDT by tomkat (:^)
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I really do think the 50s were the high point for America. We didn’t have some of the modern medicine but at least we had anti-biotics and bacteria were not resistant to them.

The country’s morals were at a high point, Communism was hated by the average person even if there were many hidden ones just waiting to take over.

Cars were reliable and easy to repair. Gas was cheap. We went to Church twice on Sunday and also on Wednesday, and we were by no means unique in that.

The schools had little money yet were excellent.


5 posted on 09/27/2014 5:16:53 PM PDT by yarddog (G)
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We were better off when people smoked cigarettes and ate lard.

Really.

7 posted on 09/27/2014 5:43:10 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Now is not the time for fear. That comes later.")
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To: navysealdad

Ecclesiastes 7:10

Don’t long for “the good old days.”
This is not wise.


8 posted on 09/27/2014 6:02:41 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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And if you skinned your knee,your best friend was playing with someone else, or you just wanted a glass of (horrors) kool-aid you ran home to mom.


9 posted on 09/27/2014 6:07:01 PM PDT by jonathonandjennifer
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I was going to enter "don't get me started"...but it's too late:

Stick & paper model airplanes and real hobby shops,
Saturday double features with a serial and 10 cartoons,
B.B. guns & pocket knives,
Boy Scout marksmanship training and my first .22 (Savage #15),
Family picnics in places you'd avoid today,
Camping that didn't require a $100,000 RV (bus),
"public lands" that were open to the public,
Grandparents and neighbors who would tell you precisely why they left the "old country",
Actually looking forward to your first job,
Respecting the president even when your folks had voted for the other guy,
Respecting your father 'cause he worked two jobs, insisted you apply to college & was OK with the one you chose...OK, that was the sixties and the omens were already bad.

Like I said, don't get me started.

10 posted on 09/27/2014 6:09:36 PM PDT by norton
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...so they think the past was superior to how things are now.

It was. This, from a 63 year old curmudgeon.What we have now is the Eloi and the Morlocks. Not much in between...

FMCDH(BITS)

11 posted on 09/27/2014 6:10:56 PM PDT by nothingnew (Hemmer and MacCullum are the worst on FNC)
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Dying peacefully in my sleep before the killer robots take over is one of my life goals.

People born much later than I was won't be able to add that to their bucket list.

12 posted on 09/27/2014 7:03:44 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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I think every generation yearns for their version of the “good old days”. I know I do.

What kind of spooks me is that today’s generation will do the same. Freedom is already so limited what is to come?


13 posted on 09/27/2014 7:48:58 PM PDT by berdie
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Mm mm the good ole days.

Polio.
Mumps.
Measles.

Jim Crow.
Lynchings.
Women relegated to serve as secretaries or teachers.
Air raid drills every Friday at noon. Duck and cover.

Yup. D’ems the good ol days.

Living for today isn’t bad. Working for a better future is good. Holding up a sterilized view of your youth is not healthy. Sure, it’s fun to remember. Just make sure you remember everything.


14 posted on 09/27/2014 7:49:46 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (He sounds good.Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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"...back before semi-automatics..."

That would be sometime in the 1800's.

15 posted on 09/27/2014 7:49:57 PM PDT by sjmjax (Politicans are much like bananas. They start off green, turn yellow then rot.)
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My wife grew up in a Communist country. Cramped apartments, shared bathrooms with everyone in the building, little or no meat, cold.

Yet she had a very happy childhood. She wasn’t aware of politics, they had food, the country was peace - and above all, her family, aunts, uncles, cousins were all together, and her parents loved and protected her.

She learned the reality of her nation later when becoming an adult. To have a happy childhood though, children mainly just need a strong, loving family.


16 posted on 09/27/2014 8:10:57 PM PDT by PGR88
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Let’s see now—

WWII air raid drills-at home and school.

Food shortages.

Polio,scarlet fever etc.

Quarantines.

No phone.

Coal furnace.

Ice box,not refrigerator.

No car.

.


26 posted on 09/27/2014 8:55:20 PM PDT by Mears
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Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows.
What are those blue remembered hills?
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content
I see it shining plain
The happy highways where I went
And can not come again.

-Thank you, AE Housman....

27 posted on 09/27/2014 8:58:27 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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The Fifties!


31 posted on 09/27/2014 9:15:05 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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My greatest fear in 1958 was that my Grandparents would be too busy to let me spend Friday night with them. They never failed me.


40 posted on 09/28/2014 8:55:16 AM PDT by Patriot365
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Criminals and the incurably insane were put away so the rest of society could enjoy being outside.


41 posted on 09/28/2014 8:59:16 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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The 70s were not perfect, but everybody I know was much happier then.


53 posted on 09/28/2014 10:01:36 AM PDT by uncitizen (Buckle up! We're on the Facism Fast Track!)
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