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Grad student lives 1950s lifestyle for project
Newhouse News ^ | 2/21/2007 | Tracy Davis

Posted on 02/21/2007 10:07:19 AM PST by Incorrigible

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To: P-40

In re: the birth control, I'm just sayin' why do we assume all single women are messing around?


221 posted on 02/21/2007 11:38:34 PM PST by Marie2 (I used to be disgusted. . .now I try to be amused.)
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To: Marie2
I'm just sayin' why do we assume all single women are messing around?

I think these days that is a fairly safe assumption....sadly.
222 posted on 02/22/2007 5:26:34 AM PST by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: mariabush

I used cloth diapers on each of my six children when they were babies. They were born between 1984 and 1991. Not only did I save $500 per year per child on the cost of disposables, but they were all toilet trained earlier than their peers in paper diapers.


223 posted on 02/22/2007 5:33:28 AM PST by steadfastconservative
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To: Gothmog
Don't know why all the cranky naysayers on this thread.

Just on this thread? LOL

I guess you haven't read the 'I hate public schools' and 'I hate American women' threads. They're very funny actually.

224 posted on 02/22/2007 5:40:58 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: jackieaxe
Also, rotary phone?

We didn't get one until about 1956! We had an 8 party line (which provided a lot of entertainment....)!

225 posted on 02/22/2007 5:42:50 AM PST by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: steadfastconservative

More power to you, and I am not being sarcastic.


226 posted on 02/22/2007 5:52:17 AM PST by Coldwater Creek
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To: gcruse
Winky Dink was hosted by Jack Barry, who went on to MC some of the biggie quiz shows of the time.

Speaking of hosts, I remember seeing Pinky Lee collapse on air while doing his frenetic dance routine. I suppose today they'd have "crisis counselors" or something for the kids ;-)

Betty Furness not being able to get the Fridigaire door open during a live commercial sticks in my mind, too. I can still hear my parents' howls of laughter.

227 posted on 02/22/2007 8:05:36 AM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: mariabush

Wasn't that a hot dog stand? Think the first McDonalds was in San Berdo on E St in about 1953 or 1954.


228 posted on 02/22/2007 8:41:35 AM PST by TruthWillWin
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To: mariabush

Wasn't that a hot dog stand? Think the first McDonalds was in San Berdo on E St in about 1953 or 1954.


229 posted on 02/22/2007 8:45:32 AM PST by TruthWillWin
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To: Mercat

In my last duty assignment, I worked around an E7 and E8 - CPO and SCPO. The CPO was a Civil War Reenactor. He was talking about one weekend when he was participating in a faux battle and he was called by the duty crew. He said he had to go to his car and make some phone calls after that. The SCPO kidded him by saying he was cheating by calling down an air strike on the Southern forces.8-)


230 posted on 02/22/2007 8:50:09 AM PST by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: polymuser
That would be 78's right? Hell, just think if she picked one of the war years. Rationing! No sugar! No new tires!

By the way, has anyone on this thread ever read The Fifties by David Halberstom? A very interestnig book. Holiday Inn came into being in the fifties. And a lot of other stuff we use today.

231 posted on 02/22/2007 8:55:38 AM PST by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: Yossarian

That will leave a mark! 8-)


232 posted on 02/22/2007 8:56:44 AM PST by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: 7thson

wow, 145 years and he's sitting there in a Civil War uniform doing 21st century stuff. I wonder what they'll be reinacting 200 years from now.


233 posted on 02/22/2007 8:59:10 AM PST by Mercat (Conservative Catholic here and I will not rule out either Rudy or Mitt.)
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To: Incorrigible
Sheesh...this is the crap that passes for "education" these days? Maybe I could write a doctoral thesis about having to get up and manually change the channel (ABC,NBC, CBS, PBS) on my family's two-ton console TV when I was a kid. You know, while I was playing with my GI Joes with the life-like hair.

If this is what passes for education, it's no wonder we're so freakin' stupid in this nation these days.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

234 posted on 02/22/2007 9:09:16 AM PST by wku man (Claire Wolfe's "awkward time" is quickly coming to an end!)
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To: KarlInOhio
He'll batch process those on the FreeRepublic mainframe and send you a printout on some 11x17 fan fold paper.

Oh no! I got stuck in a "Do loop" and the print out was 500 sheets before they shut is down.

235 posted on 02/22/2007 9:18:08 AM PST by myprecious
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To: Right Wing Assault
"Antique rotary phone." Oh, the horror of it! So hard to use.

Our church still has a rotary phone hanging in the hallway. It is very fun to watch kids (and some adults) trying to use it for the first time!

236 posted on 02/22/2007 9:20:12 AM PST by myprecious
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To: flying Elvis

YOu're no fun...


237 posted on 02/22/2007 9:34:16 AM PST by ARA
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To: Alouette

I know lots of liberals that live in the 60's, always wishing to recreate the halcyon days on when they almost broke America over their knee.


238 posted on 02/22/2007 10:27:13 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Madame Dufarge

That was similar to when a rotating stage got stuck between scenes on the Jackie Gleason show. The show was live, and Jackie had to come out in front of the curtain and riff, puffing cigarettes and sweating, for a long, long time.


239 posted on 02/22/2007 11:39:20 AM PST by gcruse (http://garycruse.blogspot.com/)
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To: TruthWillWin
You are right about McDonalds in San Bernadino being number one. Opened in 1948. Downey was fourth and was opened in 1953, when I was in the sixth grade. The Downey store is the oldest operating McDonald's in the country, and as i said on the National Historical Register.
240 posted on 02/22/2007 11:47:09 AM PST by Coldwater Creek
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