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re: Anyone else wish they grew up in the 50’s?
Posted on 12/18/18 at 7:57 am to Dawgholio
Posted on 12/18/18 at 7:57 am to Dawgholio
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I was a kid in the 80s. Would have thought being in my 20s back then would’ve been cool
I was in my twenties in the 80’s, but didn’t have much money, which was a bad time to not have much money. Interest rates were sky high in the early 80’s, so buying a home was much tougher than it is now, even with current higher home prices. And return on savings and CD’s was super high by today’s standards, so it was a great time if you had money. Just my two cents, because that’s all I got.
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Posted on 12/18/18 at 7:59 am to WaydownSouth
Born in 52 and grew up in the 50's and 60's. Much simpler times, and like already posted by a few of the older crowd, no A/C in the house, party line phones, 4 channels on the TV, played outside all day long and didn't want to come in at dark.
Plus a whole lot less government interference in our daily lives, far less litigious society for sure where people were not looking to cash in for the slightest slight.
Plus a whole lot less government interference in our daily lives, far less litigious society for sure where people were not looking to cash in for the slightest slight.
Posted on 12/18/18 at 8:08 am to WaydownSouth
Main reason to be a kid in the 50s would be to take advantage of the sexual revolution in the 60s and 70s.
And hope you don’t spend the 80s dying of AIDS.
And hope you don’t spend the 80s dying of AIDS.
Posted on 12/18/18 at 8:09 am to WaydownSouth
frickin a. No limits on fish.
Posted on 12/18/18 at 8:32 am to WaydownSouth
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Football didn’t care about CTE, it was a grown mans sport. Good times
Hard to get CTE when it’s a bunch of old slow white guys running into each other running 5.6 40s and weighing 140 pounds.
Posted on 12/18/18 at 9:05 am to WaydownSouth
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Anyone else wish they grew up in the 50’s?
Well, we know you're white.
And no.
Posted on 12/18/18 at 9:10 am to WaydownSouth
Everything else would pretty much be worse than now except I would be able to drink booze all day while I worked. That would be nice. Also, getting home and just being able to relax or go to my kids sports stuff would be fun too, because my job would actually support a family of 4 and my wife could stay home.
Also, no TD or reddit to frick around with.
Also, no TD or reddit to frick around with.
Posted on 12/18/18 at 9:11 am to WaydownSouth
What in the WASP?
Posted on 12/18/18 at 9:11 am to mdomingue
Central heating/Air wasn’t introduced until the 70s
frick that southern heat without AC
frick that southern heat without AC
Posted on 12/18/18 at 9:39 am to OMLandshark
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The 50s sucked for anyone who wasn’t a white male in the US or Western Europe. It was an extremely shitty decade for like 90% of the world.
Oh, you remember that do you?
Posted on 12/18/18 at 9:44 am to Roaad
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Not if you are a child, a woman, a gay, or a black.
It was a great time to be a child or a woman. Also, black people didn't have it so bad. That was before the black family was destroyed by our welfare system. Sure they had some disadvantages, but I would bet most black people were happier back then than they are now.
Posted on 12/18/18 at 10:01 am to WaydownSouth
I grew up in the 50s (I was born in 1941) and am happy for the experience.
Posted on 12/18/18 at 10:06 am to WaydownSouth
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Anyone else wish they grew up in the 50’s?
I think it would be interesting to go back and live a month or so in the 50's just to see what it was like, but no, I don't want to live there forever.
Posted on 12/18/18 at 10:09 am to WaydownSouth
Nah...the 90's were pretty cool. Still no social media, but AIM was around to keep us kinda connected. Got to see LSU win a natty in high school and another in my freshman year there. The music wasn't exactly historic, but makes me nostalgic none the less. Still had cool things that are no extinct that I can look back on....Blockbuster, AIM, beepers, the mind blowing graphics and rumble pack of the N64.
Posted on 12/18/18 at 10:18 am to ThanosIsADemocrat
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Stan Lee had yet to create the Fantastic Four.
Jack Kirby had already created the Challengers of the Unknown. Stan just hadn't gotten around to appropriating Jack's concept.
Posted on 12/18/18 at 10:19 am to wildtigercat93
AC has made people soft.
Posted on 12/18/18 at 10:27 am to WaydownSouth
Polio
You might get drafted to go fight in the Korean quagmire
The threat of nuclear annihilation
On the upside, most families only had at most one car, so people walked more and there weren't as many fatties.
That was old folks music. The cool kids wouldn't have been caught dead listening to it.
You might get drafted to go fight in the Korean quagmire
The threat of nuclear annihilation
On the upside, most families only had at most one car, so people walked more and there weren't as many fatties.
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Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra.
That was old folks music. The cool kids wouldn't have been caught dead listening to it.
Posted on 12/18/18 at 10:32 am to wildtigercat93
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Central heating/Air wasn’t introduced until the 70s
Movie theaters and shops had central Air long before that. Our house built in the mid-50s had central air and heat.
Our schools were not air-conditioned, but we never noticed the heat.
Posted on 12/18/18 at 10:37 am to Roaad
I was both a child and a woman back then.
Lots fewer toys. Lots of cigarette and pipe smoke. Hot summer days and nights. No hovering parents. Bicycles for transportation until that magic 15th birthday.
Could go shopping in downtown DC without planning how to avoid traffic.
Knew all the neighbors and welcome in all their homes.
Watched the Redskins on snowy black and white TV with my Grandfather every Sunday afternoon as my Father fell asleep in the chair that was his chair at the back of the room.
Handmedown clothes were wonderful. Then Jackie Kennedy style took over and it was wonderful.
Food was bland and a trip to the big city went past a McDonalds.
My parents had worked for IBM so I used "Think" pads left over from their time there. My Father was uncomfortable at the notion of wearing any shirt other than a white shirt to work because of Mr. Watson's rules.
Radio dramas in half hour segments were the afternoon thing before we got a TV.
Drinking wasn't a thing until our town got a Country Club and everybody who was anybody had memberships.
Church on Sunday was expected.
And on and on.
Lots fewer toys. Lots of cigarette and pipe smoke. Hot summer days and nights. No hovering parents. Bicycles for transportation until that magic 15th birthday.
Could go shopping in downtown DC without planning how to avoid traffic.
Knew all the neighbors and welcome in all their homes.
Watched the Redskins on snowy black and white TV with my Grandfather every Sunday afternoon as my Father fell asleep in the chair that was his chair at the back of the room.
Handmedown clothes were wonderful. Then Jackie Kennedy style took over and it was wonderful.
Food was bland and a trip to the big city went past a McDonalds.
My parents had worked for IBM so I used "Think" pads left over from their time there. My Father was uncomfortable at the notion of wearing any shirt other than a white shirt to work because of Mr. Watson's rules.
Radio dramas in half hour segments were the afternoon thing before we got a TV.
Drinking wasn't a thing until our town got a Country Club and everybody who was anybody had memberships.
Church on Sunday was expected.
And on and on.
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