Posted on 04/27/2024 10:38:51 PM PDT by RandFan
Check out the YouTube circa 1956.
I want to know if life was like that: Congested dance halls, Rock n' roll, a post-War boom?
Seems like another world... One you kind of hanker for.
Can any Freepers recall the era depicted?
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And to measure your foot to find a shoe that would fit, you would have your feet x-rayed using a fluoroscope. I had that done many times. Fluoroscopes disappeared long ago.
If you made several grand a year.. you could buy a house..a car ..and raise a family of four.
And still go on vacation every year.
Teenage Machine Age--The Travelers (1958)
I recall the metal device that measured the dimensions.
I was born in 1959, but I know in the 1950s and into the 1960s, America was leading the world in so many of the good things.
Shouldn’t say that people will think your a Biden.
Agree good times
In the 50s and 60s, nobody ever heard about “Regulatory Agencies” or “Regulators.”
The first regulators had a LOT of pollution to go after. I remember how stinky automobiles were back in the 50s before any smog controls were instituted.
But the regulatory bodies were disbanded when they cleaned up the bad primary pollutants - unburned hydrocarbons, sulfur, NOx, and particulates. Nope, they were satisfied and they had to keep their jobs at all costs, so they kept ratcheting down emission regulations to the point where they now control CO2 and are driving coal power to extinction.
They are pits of leftism. Librarians are no longer your friends.
Satellite Fever & the Asiatic Flu--Paul Perryman (1958)
We were all better off than royalty..even the poorest slob.. in 1700’s.
People could die from an infected cut before 1880.
I hate that they went after Eisenhower for a bunch of made up crimes...and impeached him twice...oh wait...
I was 4 when Eisenhower was elected. Great time to be alive.
Moscow-Peking--The All-Union Radio Orchestra & Chorus (1950)
You could run the neighborhood on bikes with your friends and all of your dogs without fear of getting snatched by a perv.
Every show on your black and white TV was family friendly and the whole family watched together.
One of the greatest thrills was putting your pajamas on and going to the drive in for a John Wayne movie on Saturday night. My dad would roll the windows down and light a punk coil on the dashboard to keep the mosquitoes out. My Mom would pop a huge bag of popcorn at home to take with us.
Liberals HATE the 1950s. Just mention it to them and watch them boil and screech and explode with rage. That tells you everything you need to know.
That’s rubbish.
The US won by such a huge margin that we were not even interested in exacting the spoils of war - we didn’t need them. It was in our best economic interest to rebuild Europe and Asia into what would become our future trading partners.
Were we necessarily the good guys? Are we still winners today? Absolutely not, but those are different questions.
Our massive WWII victory codified the Military Industrial Complex, which proceeded to poison and corrupt the world with fake fiat currency and CIA meddling. We allowed all our institutions to be infiltrated by Marxists, Hell-bent on destroying the American dream of a self-governing Constitutional Republic.
America did lose a war, but it wasn’t WWII - it was the one after that - the propaganda war that hardly anyone even knows about.
Song of the United Armies--sine nomine (1958?)
Yep. And it required only one wage-earner. We’ve been had.
A truer post was never made.
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