Was born before 1950 remember it well, but I have a hard time remembering what happened yesterday lol
Things were kinda tough if weren’t born into wealth. During haying season by the time I was 7, I worked driving a tractor pulling the bales from sunup to sundown, always milking the cattle (usually 50 or so) morning and night. Ranch life was always more to do than we could.
We were out in the sticks so no TV until about 1960, the first station was built about 1956 would watch when we would go to town and visit the cousins.
Moved to “town” in about 1960, less than 1000 people was on the Northern Pacific Railroad an uncle was station agent got first SS card in 1960 washing dishes at the local hotel still working today 64 years later.
Always needed to work on the families ranches while in school until I joined the Army during the Vietnam era.
I remember the 50’s as basically working to survive....
I was in my 20s………I remember cocktail lounges…..wonderful places….also jobs were plentiful….good times.
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That. Sounds like a hard life. City, townies, and suburbanites had no idea what it took for families like yours to put food on our tables. Thanks for your and your family’s for all the labors to do that.
Yes, the b/w television....going to Aunt Dot’s to watch Bonanza because they had a color TV.