Posted on 06/19/2015 4:17:00 AM PDT by foreverfree
Doctors smoke.
Drivers get into cars on the passenger side and slides across the front seat instead of walking around. Exception: A male driver with a female passenger. They both get in on the drivers' side. She gets in first but only slides halfway across.
Cops shoot fleeing unarmed suspects. If a civilian is shot during a pursuit, the cop doesn't bother stopping to render aid or call an ambulance; they keep chasing the suspect (of course, assumed to be guilty).
To make sure everyone knows his or her place, formal and familiar modes of address (and reference) are rigidly used.
Black people are always servants and servile (except on Amos 'n' Andy).
When "stuff" happens, women scream. A guy has to handle it for them.
Busy signals.
Convertibles with the top down in apparently cold weather (people bundled up or wearing heavy coats and hats).
Western marshals don't make arrests; they have duels with bad guys and given them the chance to draw and fire first. Cops aren't much better; they approach armed suspects without drawing a weapon, allowing the suspect fire at them so they can have a dramatic shoot-out.
Despite the fact that Roman Catholics are less than a quarter of the US population, about 90 per cent of TV clergy are priests.
You seldom see a TV in the homes of TV families.
It only takes a quick kiss or peck on the lips to make teenage boys happy.
TV homes have table radios with future technology (they don't need to warm up). And when turned on, a news story or announcement relevant to the plot is heard immediately.
Doctors make house calls. Nobody worries about the cost of health care.
Wives are younger and better looking than their husbands.
Women can't walk by themselves; guys must grab an elbow and steer them.
Bathrooms don't have toilets.
People drink coffee with every meal. (You'd think they'd need those toilets.)
Any others?
Dynamite that can be set off by just sticking a fuse in it.
A fascinating vignette! Indeed, it was a very different time from today. A few weeks ago, we had an evening graduation party for the daughter (HS, she's going into the local nursing program) in our carport. We didn't know it until that evening, but there were two others on our street who were graduating, and each was also having a graduation party in their respective carports. If this were a real neighborhood, we would all be in each other's business, we would have known there were three graduates on the street, and we could have had a combined block party.
Now that's true, partly because of the change in diet from then to now, and partly because people actually walked down streets back then, rather than driving everywhere. When I am walking the dog, the only people who are walking also have dogs, and most of the time I am the only person walking on the street.
Car tires screeching on dirt roads.
Your right on the cheaper health care. I remember my father saying that he paid for all the 25 to 30 operations my brother had for polio treatment. He was middle class but was able to pay for them at the time (two jobs).
If we still had telephone "party lines", you might have ;).
I wonder when the last time the whole ‘a man slaps calmness into a woman who is uncontrollably hysterical’ was used without irony or some sort of gag.
Freegards
No toilets, and married women who look like Laura Petrie sleep in a twin bed four feet away from their husband.
What gets me is that anyone, especially a liberal, that brings up the negatives of the 50’s,
somehow always assumes the logical fallacy of “false dilemma”.
There is no reason that having a society with the morality of the 50’s
would have to include polio, small pox, segregation, and air raid drills.
You might have been right both times...
That’s just because we haven’t figured out how to attach a steering wheel, or a bridle.
Old Superman shows -
for some reason, the bad guys thought throwing the empty gun at Superman would hurt him after all the bullets bounced off of him.
And why did he expose his chest to the bullets
but duck when the gun was thrown?
Children speak respectfully to their parents and other adults.
Women show respect to their husbands.
I chuckle at the modern TVs/Movies with the good guy(s) being chased. Good guy skip-dances during the run, as if jumping over the stream of bullets from the semi-automatics. Narry a scratch.
“Faster than a speeding bullet...”
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Then, there is the good guy who points a gun at and makes demands of the bad guy. Bad guy refuses. To reinforce his intent, good guy cocks the gun.
More times than not, the gun gets knocked out of the good guy’s hand and the bad guy beats the crap out of him and escapes.
I get tired of the old folks on this site pining for the good ole days.
They think of all of the wonderful things we had back then, and brush the bad stuff right under the rug.
Instead of fantasizing that type of society is EVER coming back to the US, we should be focused on the positives of today (there are many) and work toward improving our status and personal lives.
Black and White TV sucked. The stories sucked. The morality was “make-believe.” The society was really racist, segregated, and our products pretty much sucked but it didn’t matter because the rest of the world was still digging themselves out of the rubble of WWII.
And why are you calling me a liberal. I am the furthest thing from a liberal you can imagine. But I am also a pragmatic.
The past is gone. Its not coming back. Focus forward and that is where our energies should go.
Ahh.....the days of polio, small pox, air raid drills, segregation....those were the days.
Are you suggesting we now live in a world without disease, terrorist violence and racism Mr Progressive Troll?
Are you enjoying your socialist utopia?
The poster in question is also a member of the “Vote for the liberal-republican or the democrats will win” crowd.
What’s so strange about Busy Signals? I still get them. Just had 3 on Sunday, and one yesterday ..buzz buzz buzz
Bad guy shoots guns at Superman. Bullets bounce off his chest. Bad guy runs out of bullets. Throws his gun at Superman’s head. Superman ducks to get out of the way of the gun.
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