Posted on 04/17/2020 6:12:11 PM PDT by dila813
Post what you remember of the habits and practices of these generations, almost all of the last of them died in the 70s and 80s. There are a few out there hanging on but they tend to be the younger ones and weren't adults experiencing this.
1. Gentlemen were expected to always have a Handkerchief in his front pocket so it is immediately at the ready to cover his mouth. 2. A Great Gentleman will have two, one for himself and another that he could give to another.
What do you remember?
I’m 52 in may.
pop was born in 1920.
He wore a shirt and tie even when we played catch when I was a kid :)
Sometimes he’d let loose and take the tie off!
Always had a button up shirt and dress pants and shoes on.
Very different times.
He’d kill me if he saw how sloppy I dress sometimes!
Where he spit his his Mail Pouch plugs.
Sneeze or cough in to the neck of your shirt.
I received a set of Birthstone Cufflinks back around the second grade. My stone is a Sapphire or Cobalt blue color.
I don’t have any reason to get dressed up anymore.
If someone from my immediate family died
(Last of the Mohicans), I would need to go somewhere like Men’s Wherehouse and be fitted.
I do still know how to properly tie a dress tie.
I could not verbally explain it, and I would need to have the person I helped stand in front of me as I reached over and did the necessary loops. I think I’m using a Windsor Knot.
Growing up in the 70s there was a very tall, slender elderly man we’d see around town whom we called Goober. He was usually well dressed in a dark suit and tie but was always coughing into white handkerchiefs he carried in his suit pockets. He seemed pleasant and towards us kids but we kinda shied away never knowing what he was sick with. One day one of the kids learned from his parents that Goober was a WWI vet and coughed due to lung injuries he suffered from a mustard gas attack during the war. That really shut us up.
I lived for a while in the 60’s with a grandfather who had been born in 1884, never saw him without a long sleeve shirt and sleeve garters.
He wore long johns year ‘round.
wish now i had asked more questions.
2050
Grandpa what did you do during the great 2020 Corona Pandemic?
Well your Grandpappy was a tail gunner on a Charmin delivery truck.
That is a great story.
i use the inside of the elbow
Yes. That , too.
I went in the Navy in 1956 at 17 and the WWI people were definitely OLD OLD Fogies around and over 60 give or take.
I arrive at that even thought the war ‘ended’ in 1918, add at least 17 years old and the youngest would be about 56, still old (HA HA)
Now it has been 64 years since I went in and when you add the 17.....etc etc etc...
As to my grandfather, the only time the tie came off was when he was in his garden in the back yard. he would wear his shirt and tie mowing the front yard (He wouldn’t ‘let’ anyone else do it, probably the only lone time he had other than the garden.
When I was 14 he ‘had to share’ a room with ME, sort of L shaped and it was not that long ago that I figured, here was a ‘poor’ old guy that walked a mail route for 42 years and in his golden years he was stuck ‘rooming’ with a 14 yo ‘snotty arse’ kid.
I never heard him swear, never heard him complain (then again adults of the day were NOT our ‘friends’).
He was/is a good man....RIP Grandpop.
I guess the ‘old fartz’(despite his age, my GF was NOT an old fart and-for MY sake— NO ONE had better even think I would have thought that...<: <: <:) of the day resented being called ‘old fartz’ as much as at least I do today (NO matter how true)
That would be the 2017-18 epidemic that infected 48.8 million Americans, hospitalized over 959,000 and killed over 79,000........
To tell you the truth, I don't even remember it because nobody said it was going on.......Go figure.
Never heard pop curse. Argued with mom of course but never in a disrespectful way. Ever.
Never complained even though he was in pain every day of his life from kidney infection that occurred before penicillin.
I am Much too opposite him in too many ways.
He died when I was 14 but I saw enough to know how to act.
Not too late to change the ways at 52.
Your grandpop sounds like he was a great guy and a throwback to a time when men were really men.
old fart...nah. :)
I’m 52 and driving a challenger and i’ll be 62 and driving some kind of fast car :)
Whatever age we are is the one we have to work with so we might as well make the best of em :)
Brings back so many memories and feelings from everyones comments. Makes me sad they are gone.
Twice around the small end, then up and through.....oh hell, forget about it.
I remember my mom making us come in from playing outside because we might get POLIO! That was before we had to line up in elementary school to get our shots.
Later, it was Sabin on Sunday. Aww, geez, people.
Lately though, I am glad they were here.
Being a kid in the ‘70s with REAL ADULTS around you made for such great times and parties and memories.
Every party was in a big backyard :) Cheap food, cheap soda and (now I know) cheap beer :)
And they were GREAT
Now every kid’s party for Anything has to be in an upscale, stuffy, boring restaurant.
I think the men in my family now forgot our pops or their pops came over on a boat from a boot not all too long ago.
Me, give me a sausage and peppers hero in a backyard and i’m good :)
Remember fondly and cherish the people who were important in your life and that have passed.
I’m Sure there were great times and it was an honor to know them.
My mom was born in 1918. Died in 2018, six months shy of her 100th birthday. Her mother died in 1920—I always wonder if she died in the last round of the Spanish flu. I have an uncle who was also born in 1918 and he’s still around so he’s lived (so far) through the two great pandemics of the last 100 years.
My grandmother was 16 when the Wright Brothers first flew—lived to see man on the moon. When we are young, we don’t have enough sense to ask our elders about their lives and by the time we do have sense, they are usually gone.
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