It’s great being part of the 1% Special Group !

email from friend | 10/6/2021 | unknown

[sodpoodle]

I remember.

God Bless.

[Magnum44]

My parents are in this group. Mid eighties now.

[rktman]

Dang. Missed by a year.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The lack of television in your early years meant that you had little real understanding of what the world was like

There was LIFE magazine. And who thinks TV gives you any understanding of what the world is like?

[OpusatFR]

My husband remembers the wooden wheels on his sister’s carriage because rubber went for war supplies.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The lack of television in your early years meant that you had little real understanding of what the world was like

Au Contraire...those kids had a FAR BETTER understanding of what the world really was like.

[setter]

Your group had it harder than us but also easier. You had full company paid healthcare plans and generous retirement packages that enabled you to retire in your late 50’s or early 60’s.

Many of you have been on retirement longer than what you worked.
Many of you had jobs for life and never had to worry about offshoring or being replaced by Baboo from India

Young kids today will have it the hardest. Job uncertainty, high taxes and super intrusive govt. And loss of freedoms

[Seruzawa]

I doubt that anyone born in the USA in 1946 remembers ration books.

[Red Badger]

Bookmark.....................

[Hiddigeigei]

I remember someone knocking on our back door in the mid 1930s and asking if we could give him something to eat. Our cook gave him a sandwich of some sort, probably peanut butter.

[Neanderthal]

Newspaper reporters did not quote the opinions of random citizens to support the particular narrative they were pushing.

[waredbird]

What street lights?

[Grampa Dave]

My wife, our siblings and most of our cousins fall into this age group. Most of us are still alive. Covid and the delay in getting standard health care took out many of our friends and some relatives in the Covid wars.

We realize how fortunate we were and are.

Thanks for posting this.

[spokeshave]

I remember in UK

Big US cars in the village streets near the local airport.

Rations of powdered egg in brown wax packs and orange juice in bottles...free milk at school in small glass bottles.

Being sent down to the village store to buy 3 pennyworth of broken biscuits.

Biro pens...and the messy machine in the village store to refill with blue ink.

Annual Christmas food parcel from rich uncle in Australia.

[Tell It Right]

"This special group born between 1930 &1946 = 16 years."
"You are the smallest group of children born since the early 1900’s."

And interesting fact is that people didn't make many babies during the Great Depression because they couldn't afford to raise them (no welfare, no abortion). There were obvious exceptions (i.e. if you grew up on a farm your family was probably self-sufficient and kept making plenty of babies during the Depression). But basically birth rates were way down even before the men went off to fight the war.

And with no birth control pill. No IUD. No thingy in the arm. And condoms that were about as comfortable as the business side of a Goodyear tire.

Yet with all that working against them they knew how to be responsible and not make babies while they couldn't raise them. And today we talk like it's impossible to refrain from making babies.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

There was a sense of community, where you knew all your neighbors and few people moved away.
You played in the cobble stone street, and knew better than to slide into second base, or third.
I lived with my grandparents while my mother got her MSW in NYC, and knew that every Wednesday was "Prince Spaghetti Day",
and that on alternate Thursdays my grandparents would cook "liver and onions", that would make me wretch !
They would send me next door to my Aunt's 'to see what they had for dinner'- generally on Sunday's,it was pork chops or loin, with mashed potatoes, and sauerkraut.
Everybody knew everyone else's business as we were on a party line with 7 other families.
Any long distance call required the assistance of an "Operator", found on the dial phone at "O".

[itsahoot]

1938 Here so remember all those things. Yep we were as poor as church mice, would,t train it for anything.

[pollyshy]

I still have one of my WWII ration books. For meat, I believe.

[ETCM]

It certainly was a different world.

Not sure what the 1% refers to, as people between 75 and 91 make up about 6 or 7 percent of the population. You’re special, but not as rare as you think.

[Karoo]

We had hobos in our little town. Our neighbor fed them.