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" I lived though the '50s and the ''40s. They were nothing similar to the way they are falsely depicted"

Exactly! That is what my parents say too. I am disappointed by the way the 60s and 70s are portrayed too. If a person believes what the media tells them, the 60s were all about hippies and Woodstock, when that didn't even hit the mainstream til about 67, and the 70s are all about disco, which most people had nothing to do with.

In the '40s there was an old couple across the street who were in their 90s. It's hard to believe, Mr. Noth was probably 12 years old when the civil war started. I would see him and his wife holding hands and teetering around the block as they walked together with their white hair.

When I was working in a hospital there was an old woman of 87 who broke her hip. Her husband was a great old guy who used to visit her ever day. They had children 70 years old. She called me a monkey when I used to tease her. They were 30+ years old at the turn of the century and were still devoted to each other.

I had two friends who were then in their 60s. Virginia told me she had been married to Earl for 47 years and as far as she was concered it wasn't nearly long enough.

What do Hefner and his eternal teenage followers have? In my life I have found a better all-around psychological adjustment in those generations while studies show a wave of serious mental disorder by a factor of five to 10 beginning with people who were teenages or young adults in the '60s.