Posted on 09/15/2020 11:32:24 PM PDT by MacNaughton
If you could go back to 1950, would you do it? There would be no Internet, no cellphones and you would only be able to watch television in black and white. But even though they lacked many of our modern conveniences, people genuinely seemed to be much happier back then. Families actually ate dinner together, neighbors knew and cared about one another, and being an “American” truly meant something. Today, we like to think that we are so much more “advanced” than they were back then, but the truth is that our society is in the process of falling apart all around us. Could it be possible that we could learn some important lessons by looking back at how Americans lived 70 years ago.
Of course there has never been any era in our history when everything has been perfect. But without a doubt, things are vastly different today than they were back in 1950 …
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The article is drivel that is meaningless
The rest of the world esd destroyed. Today we are dealing with a resurgent world that has transcended toe destruction
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"Toe destruction"? By the grace of God I still have the full set of my toes. Hope you do, too, bert.
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No thanks. There were plenty of things wrong in the 1950s and you can start with the treatment of blacks and women. What would be nice is the return of civics to our educational system.
The rest of the world was destroyed. Today we are dealing with a resurgent world that has transcended the destruction
It was awful back in the 1950s because there was still slavery back then. My history teacher told me that.
“hatred of socialism and communism and other individual destroying isms”
Then there was Sen. Joe McCarthy, who did his best to alert the nation of the commie menace, but was destroyed by the commie loving democRATS and leftist media.
My parents were kids in the 1950s. They often say the best years ever were the late ‘50s, early ‘60s. Aside from polio and air raid drills. When I shop with Mom and we hear an oldie, she’ll usually comment. 1960, good year, sorry you missed it.
I do know the music was wonderful, and the movies, and Broadway. The folks passed down what they could. But I understand the atmosphere, the outlook, must be lived and I only have a living sense of our current era. It’s often stifling, discouraging. People my age seem illiterate, intolerant, rude, slovenly, and there’s little warmth or fellowship. If it wasn’t that way in 1950, I’m sorry I missed it.
The life expectancy at birth in the USA in 1950 was 68 years; the life expectancy at birth in 2020 is 79 years. Eleven years is a lot of life to give up for nostalgia.
Well I wouldn’t want to be a US military soldier in Korea in the ‘50s...
After 1972 there were no great cars.
Like anything, it depends on where you were.
I grew up in the 1950s, in Southern California; we lived a mile from the beach. Back then there was still a lot of open space; bean fields, canyons, scrub brush, etc. We hunted jackrabbits, caught countless lizards in the fields, tadpoles and frogs too numerous to count; we played hide-and-go-seek, statue maker, capture the flag, and in the summer we were outside from dawn to dark. We’d chase after the Helms Bakery truck in hopes of getting a free donut, and we tried the same with the Good Humor truck for an ice cream, but without success (the old geezer who drove the truck would pop out a dime from the coin changer on his belt and hold it up to us, saying “One thin dime, one-tenth of a dollar, and it’s yours!”). We were Boomers, and there were kids EVERYWHERE!
I loved it.
Polio.
Korean War.
On the other hand, there was only one tranny in the whole world (Christine Jorgensen).
We all tend to look back on the days of our youth with some nostalgia, but you are right. I grew up in Long Beach and it was paradise for a kid back then. Rode bikes everywhere, went trick or treating without adult supervision and it was safe.
There were poor neighborhoods but there weren’t dangerous neighborhoods.
I’m glad I got the gift of getting to experience it.
Same here. Boomer kids everywhere in the neighborhood. We would play in front of our homes with other kids, until our moms called us back inside. No house key needed, no one locked the door during the day. We had a front door with plain window glass, so a lock would not really keep out a robber, but there weren't any incidents of robbery in the neighborhood that I knew of.
This was in the Mission District of San Francisco. Fast forward to the 1980s and owners put up metal security gates over entrances and street-level windows. Mexicans and other latinos had flooded in during the 1970s and ruined the quality of life for others. High-end art-deco theaters closed (5 favorites within a few blocks of each other), and were gutted into parking lots. Fancy stores and soda shops closed. Lots of vegetable stands replaced them. Lots of assaults, prostitution and car thefts. After having our cars stolen 5 times, and my mother getting assaulted and purse-snatched, the family moved away in the early 1970s. Now in the 21st century, white techies moved into the Mission District and gentrified it, and the latinos are complaining that the whites are "stealing" their "traditionally" latin neighborhood, never mind the latinos stole it 30 years earlier. Nothing stays the same forever.
My dad was a medic with an Army infantry company in Korea.
My father in law was with a Marine rifle company also in Korea.
My wife and I grew up in different small towns in the 60’s.
Both of our parents came from very small towns also and they grew up in the 40’s.
Very different world back then.
One could argue after 1971, when compressions were lowered for 1972.
Still lots of beautiful cars - the engines could be powered-up. Plenty of 1960’s cars to be found, too.
Even the 1980’s had some good-looking cars, though by then Camaro and Firebird.
I’d happily take a new condition 1973 Mach 1 today though I’d prefer a 1971 Boss 351 in the same condition.
They are still out there, but expensive.
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