Posted on 10/06/2021 12:35:08 PM PDT by sodpoodle
This special group born between 1930 &1946 = 16 years.
In 2021, the age range is between 75 & 91. Are you, or do you know, someone "still here?"
Interesting Facts For You
You are the smallest group of children born since the early 1900’s.
You are the last generation, climbing out of the depression, who can remember the winds of war and the impact of a world at war which rattled the structure of our daily lives for years.
You are the last to remember ration books for everything from gas to sugar to shoes to stoves.
You saved tin foil and poured fried meat fat into tin cans.
You saw cars up on blocks because tires weren't available.
You can remember milk being delivered to your house early in the morning and placed in the "milk box" on the porch.
You are the last to see the gold stars in the front windows of grieving neighbors whose sons died in the War.
You saw the 'boys' home from the war, build their little houses.
You are the last generation who spent childhood without television; instead, you “imagined” what you heard on the radio.
With no TV until the 1950's, you spent your childhood "playing outside." There was no Little League.
There was no city playground for kids.
The lack of television in your early years meant that you had little real understanding of what the world was like
On Saturday mornings and afternoons, the movies gave you newsreels sandwiched in between westerns and cartoons.
Telephones were one to a house, often shared (party lines), and hung on the wall in the kitchen (no cares about privacy)
Computers were called calculators; they were hand cranked.
Typewriters were driven by pounding fingers, throwing the carriage and changing the ribbon.
INTERNET' and 'GOOGLE' were words which did not exist.
Newspapers and magazines were written for adults and the news was broadcast on your radio in the evening.
As you grew up, the country was exploding with growth.
The Government gave returning Veterans the means to get an education and spurred colleges to grow.
Loans fanned a housing boom.
Pent up demand coupled with new installment payment plans opened many factories for work.
New highways would bring jobs and mobility.
The Veterans joined civic clubs and became active in politics.
The radio network expanded from 3 stations to thousands.
Your parents were suddenly free from the confines of the depression and the war, and they threw themselves into exploring opportunities they had never imagined.
You weren't neglected, but you weren't today's all-consuming family focus.
They were glad you played by yourselves until the street lights came on.
They were busy discovering the post war world.
You entered a world of overflowing plenty and opportunity; a world where you were welcomed, enjoyed yourselves and felt secure in your future though depression poverty was deeply remembered.
Polio was still a crippler.
You came of age in the 50's and 60's.
You are the last generation to experience an interlude when there were no threats to our homeland.
The second world war was over and the cold war, terrorism, global warming, and perpetual economic insecurity had yet to haunt life with unease.
Only your generation can remember both a time of great war, and a time when our world was secure and full of bright promise and plenty.
You grew up at the best possible time, a time when the world was getting better...
You are "The Last Ones."
More than 99% of you are either retired or deceased, and you feel privileged to have "lived in the best of times!"
Amen!
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You think we had it easy? Try this on:
AGE JOB
9-10 paper route
11-15 Bakers apprentice Sat &
Summer holidays
16-18 laborer, after school &
Sat
18-22 USAF & part time jobs
23-29 usually two jobs
30-40 Aerospace principal engr
40-45 Aerospace manager
45-52 Aerospace Sr Mgr
53-58 Independent consultant
58 Sold business
Note: from 23 to 58 I usually worked 10-12 hours days and squeezed in two degrees and a masters. Yes we had it easy.
I’m still here (Nov 1933) and totally pissed off that I managed to live to see the United States disemboweled and become a communist tyranny...
Me too.
What a puff life eh? 😂😂😂🙌
They remember their parents talking about them. My FIL is in this age group and still has his parent’s ration books.
1939. I remember most of those things.
I have a great old photo of myself riding a tricycle with a big V for Victory attached to the handlebars.
I remember marching in the streets banging pots and pans when WWII ended.
I remember walking home from school when some big kids came up to us telling us that President Roosevelt had died.
I am one of them…born 1932.
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I don't. We got a FADA TV in 1949. It was Kukla, Fran, and Ollie and Kate Smith every day. On the radio, while my mother ironed in the kitchen, was Helen Trent and marching around the breakfast table with Don McNeill. We listened to Arthur Godfrey sometimes. I forget when wrestling was on TV, but we always had a full house for that.
That one, especially, is burned in my memory.
I was born in 1948. My parents did talk about rationing a few times, but actually they focused more on the Great Depression.
1942 here.
Two things I remember the most about the 40’s.
1.My Mother running around pulling down all the window shades because there was a siren wailing to tell everyone it was time to practice for a “blackout”. Just in case.
2.The smell of ether when they were getting me ready to take my appendix out. I was 3 years old.
40’s and 50’s were GREAT!
MAGA
You are the last generation to experience an interlude when there were no threats to our homeland.
I don't know about that. There was a lot of talk about nuclear war in the fifties and early sixties, and the seventies, eighties, and nineties didn't see many serious threats to the homeland.
And occasionally, you would see a window with more than one gold star.
I remember that time so well. I was born in 1937. My parents both worked for Civil Service at Keesler Field in Biloxi, MS. My dad was a propeller mechanic and Mother was an accountant in an office there. Daddy worked on all different planes but his favorite was the Flying Tiger. I have pictures of them. Mother knitted Olive drab yarn for socks for the troops. Lots of good memories for me of people helping one another and coming together to help out. No other time like it.
Thank you for posting this!
And Sante, the Air Raid Warden for our block, knocking on our door to tell us that our shades weren't drawn down enough, because some light was peeping through.
I am either the last of those or the first of the boomers. 1946.
Yes, you did because if you had started a few years later between 45 an 50 you either would have been replaced by a foreign worker willing to work for less or got laid off as your company either outsourced your job or moved production overseas. All of your 10-12 days and schooling wouldn't have meant squat. Trust me, I know. Hopefully the saving grace would have been the thriftiness you learned first-hand and I learned from my parents that lived in your era which made you save enough to survive.
I was born in 1940. I remember ration books, packets of yellow die to color the vegetable oil so it looked like butter. Milk deliveries of bottles with cream in the top. I lived near Fort Meade, MD and watched military convoys returning from the war. I saw the barracks where POWs were held. My mom worked at the fort processing young men for the draft. I stayed home from school to watch the atomic bomb detonate. Many, many memories.
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