Did not have number 1, 2, knew one who had polio but no one with scarlet fever, no quarantines, neighbor had phone but we did not get one until about 1955, space heaters/fireplaces, had icebox until 1954, always had a car.
Looks like things improved for you folks in the mid-fifties.
Same with us. I bought my mother a fan and you’d think I gave her a car,she was so pleased. She even called her sister to come over and see it. (These were not stupid women,they were just women that had little).
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