Posted on 12/23/2018 3:04:15 AM PST by vannrox
The American left, which took the training and influence it received from the Soviets and made something uniquely American out of it. The American version of socialism/communism is just as nasty and bad as the Soviet version. And our kids are so uneducated these days that they have no idea about the true nature of what they have been taught to support.
Credit cards did not exist in the 40s and 50s cash was king we had out money backed by gold, not paper or plastic.
I had a teacher who looked a bit like that in high school. Hippie type dude. He was driving me and another guy somewhere and stopped to buy beer for some other students.
It was 1980. I was stage crew lead for the school play and everyone was headed to someone’s house for the cast party.
No boys in our family. My Dad had to travel a lot for a few years when we were kids. When he left on Monday morning he would tell me “when I get back on Friday I want to see a mowed lawn”. That was my main chore. Jax, FL in the summer is a hot humid mess. I got $1 per week.
My main cash flow came from my worm farm which I kept in a 5 gallon bucket. I had fantastic red wrigglers that I sold on Saturdays down at the boat launch by our subdivision. I had steady customers that would wait on me every week.
Kids nowadays have no understanding of the value of a dollar.
That site has this article. I like the way he accurately describes him.
Ode to Diabolical Cretin John McCain
https://metallicman.com/laoban4site/ode-to-diabolical-cretin-john-mccain/
Being somewhat older, 40’s, 50’s, I had some different memories but some things were the same. The war was fresh in our minds. Had ration cards in the kitchen drawer but didn’t need them anymore. Cars were semi-luxuries. Had one but Mom didn’t drive until we were near gone. No Novocain at the dentist, which marks the dividing line for me of good old days and not good. We had much more freedom than my grandchildren have. Fewer organized sports outside of school. Had shop and gym classes; art, music and mechanical drawing too. Worked and had paper routes. Grandkids don’t have either.
Heard today that mothers should not let kids eat unbaked cookie dough. Possibility of egg containing bacteria I guess. If this were a real possibility there must have been a lot of sick kids back then at Christmas time. Don’t remember any.
Back then if you were a threat to kids (psycho, gay, violent, pedophile, etc.), you got locked up.
Now everyone is ‘mainstreamed’, so we need to keep our kids ‘locked up’ in the sense that they’re not safe alone anymore.
We were Free and we had Freedom of Speech!
We were safe and there was a lot less government to get in the way of our Liberties!
This Constitution Republic was alive and well!
Kids today con relate to that and that is why they are so passive to letting it go.
Actually they would not know how to handle that kind of freedom, since the idiot iphone could not tell them what to do with the carefree extra time they would have on their hands!
During the Nixon-Ford presidency, I had a couple of teachers who looked like that. One, a product of UC Berkeley, was a professor of English history when I was an undergraduate. He was a self-proclaimed Marxist, and in his office, he had pictures of Fidel Castro and banners with Marxist slogans on display. But he was academically rigorous and did not impose his beliefs on his students. He even encouraged conservative students to air their views.
The other prof who looked and even dressed like that, a Harvard grad, was a professor of American history at the University of Southern California from whom I took a couple of seminars as a graduate. His views were liberal but not nearly as far left as is most of Academia today.
If you’re interested, Anderson has some YouTube interviews that I found wonderful. He’s clearly a very bright guy.
The nuns and brothers I had in the late 50s had their own style which I still recall vividly.
Another baby-boomer “good old days” thread.
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you must have missed the riots up north. I assure you...they were even more racist that the dims in the South.
I was born in 1965 and lived through this period, it was a blast. My great grand parents had a wood cook stove, barn and smoke house and lived on edge of mountains with a big creek. At age 5 and 4 me and my little brother were out there with great grandfather using a hatchet to splint kindling for cook stove and did fine. The left would melt down now . At age 7 and 6 we were using a lawn mower to cut grass by ourselves. We carried bucket upon bucket of coal from the coal bin to the house in the winter to keep the fire place and stove going to stay warm. And if the tv wasn’t coming in good you were sent out to turn and adjust the tv antenna even in the dark and dad would smack the wall when you hit the magic spot with the antenna.
At age 6 my parents built a house next to my great grandparents and we grew up with BB guns, air rifles, plowing gardens, weeding and harvesting. We burned and cleaned fence rows, dug ditches, had bikes we rode allowed all over town, store, little league games and practice etc... We had fist fights in school, got paddled and spanked again if we started the fight or if we didn’t take our part. We could walk down town from parents business and at the Sports Center grill and get a hot dog, fries and coke for a dollar. And we went with great grandparents once a month to town for groceries where we ate in cafe and had a blast with them. We went to church every Sunday morning and evening. It was expected and fun.
The Kiwanis had and still do a pancake breakfast a week before Christmas where for $2 you got all the pancakes, sausage and milk you could eat and parents would give us the money and tell us where it was and say walk and we did. In the summer we played baseball, stayed home and when lunch time would head to great grandparents and she would have dinner cooked.
We had chores and did them or faced a spanking. I listened to Dad rail against Carter and fuss at Cronkite and other America hating leftist pretending to be journalists even in the 70’s. Dad and mom worked long hours sometimes Dad would go in at 4:00am, work day until 5:30pm come home eat supper and watch news and relax for an hour and then go to basement and start doing work he brought home with him. There were 5 kids and they never made over $30k combined but they bought their home, kept us clothed and fed, and made sure we had good Christmas and never took a penny of welfare. That was my rural Kentucky mountains life in the 70’s. It was good!!!
Well, I was a little kid during the 60’s and all I saw was Walter Cronkite on TV on the evening news. We were sheltered from some things on TV. Heck, I didn’t even get to watch Gone With The Wind until I was grown because Brett said “damn”.
I knew Mom and her family were Democrats and they weren’t at all racist but the Dems I knew about down South were. I remember how bad it was in the South during the 60’s but don’t recall hearing about anything happening up North.
When Ian found the tapes, he must have had a cold ‘cuz there was snot running down his nose.
Another fun fact...
About 90 seconds into the song, the tape began to stretch and a very short piece from a safety copy had to be spliced into the final remastered version.
I happen to have a CDR of that first 90 seconds and it’s interesting to hear the vocal “stretch” with the tape.
Well played! Will have to listen at the 90-min mark. I’m no audio engineer, but I appreciate the “story behind the music.” Thanks for sharing this one. If you ever come across Dave Muse - he’s an incredible musician- met him at a Volunteer jam years ago. He played flute, sax, keys, and sang all in one song. Amazing really.
Just to clarify, the “stretch” was replaced by a short, “non-stretch” snippet from a safety back-up tape so the final commercial release does not have the stretch.
Like you, I enjoy the back stories. My friend has told me plenty of ‘em - esp when he, the label President met ray Charles to finalize the remastering project for a few of his albums.
I gotta run but if I remember I’ll post that story when I return.
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