This is the beauty of our current age. Engineering almost to the atomic level.
Posted on 04/18/2024 5:11:03 PM PDT by Racketeer
Back then, everyone on the beach was good looking.
One problem with old buildings, is that it often costs far more to update them ( for example, a lot of original electrified, beautiful old buildings in NYC, had the "latest" form of electricity, which was DC current, then the next innovation was AC/DC current.
Into the 1950s, building with AC/DC current could buy some things that would accommodate that kind of ancient electricity; however, they cost more and fewer and fewer such items were made until NONE were.
Sadly, into the mid 20th century, new buildings were now FUGLY beyond words and it has gotten MUCH worse as time passed. Stark, bleak, sterile, unimaginative architecture is depressing and in reality, instead of looking "modern", more and more resemble USSR 1940s barracks.
And as fare as "traditions" are concerned, you can thank the RED DIAPER BABIES of the Hippie Movement for brainwashing a lot of over privileged, pampered, Dr. Spock raised babies and the Dem party, who all helped to destroy civility, good manners, dressing appropriately, morality of EVERY sort, and being patriotic.
This is the beauty of our current age. Engineering almost to the atomic level.
the concept of World's Fairs is old hat today and really NOT worth bringing back at all!
Times change and so does child rearing methods; not to mention the idea of "childhood"!
Until Victorian time, "childhood" as we knew/now know it, did NOT really exist at all, anywhere, at ANY previous time! And even in very early Victorian time, ONLY the upper middle classes and upper class were able to engage in that behavior/ideal.
College? Until the very late 1950s, going to college was NOT something that the vast majority of people EVER went to/thought about going to.
The then Prince of Wales, the now King Charles of the UK has been railing about disgusting/sterile architecture for at least 50 years now and he has been correct!
All of that, has been rare.
That depends on the Freeper!
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