God Bless.
My parents are in this group. Mid eighties now.
Dang. Missed by a year.
There was LIFE magazine. And who thinks TV gives you any understanding of what the world is like?
My husband remembers the wooden wheels on his sister’s carriage because rubber went for war supplies.
Au Contraire...those kids had a FAR BETTER understanding of what the world really was like.
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
I doubt that anyone born in the USA in 1946 remembers ration books.
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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.
What street lights?
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.
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.
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.
1938 Here so remember all those things. Yep we were as poor as church mice, would,t train it for anything.
I still have one of my WWII ration books. For meat, I believe.
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.
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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...
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 themā¦born 1932.
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