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re: Would living in the 50s be worth no AC?
Posted on 8/22/20 at 9:37 am to Dawgwithnoname
Posted on 8/22/20 at 9:37 am to Dawgwithnoname
I was in HS and LSU in the 80’s. It was a great time to grow up and absolutely love life. None of this bullshite like we have today. However, liberals were still complete assholes and their revolution was starting. They despised Reagan and those of us who supported him. The news was three networks and it was a nightly barrage of Reagan hatred.
We had AC and women still had pussy hair back then. Very few people were fat. LSU was on Mike IV and Bill Arnesparger was our Head football coach.
God I miss those days.
We had AC and women still had pussy hair back then. Very few people were fat. LSU was on Mike IV and Bill Arnesparger was our Head football coach.
God I miss those days.
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Posted on 8/22/20 at 9:38 am to Dawgwithnoname
quote:it is much easier to cook meals, clean house, and keep my husband happy than to go to work and please the office Karens.
A lot of women were happy to be homemakers and mothers and have their husband provide for them
Posted on 8/22/20 at 9:42 am to Dawgwithnoname
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A lot of women were happy to be homemakers and mothers and have their husband provide for them
One thing is for 100 percent certain, and that’s the family unit was fully functional and intact, and people raised their children with values rather than letting the TV or internet, or worse still, the government schools to do it for them.
And so, of course, now we understand where the problem is in society.
This post was edited on 8/22/20 at 9:43 am
Posted on 8/22/20 at 9:45 am to jacquespene8
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Depends on which side of the tracks you lived on back then. I don’t think many black people would want to go back to the “good ole days.”
I keep hearing how I, as a white guy, can’t possibly know how black people feel. But I keep seeing bhite people tell me how black people feel.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 9:46 am to CaptainsWafer
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I’m pretty sure they had AC in the 50s.
it wasn't common. On the flip side houses were built differently. Higher ceilings and had ceiling fans and attic fans that would push fresh air through the house.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 9:46 am to LoneStarRanger
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Talk to most older blacks, and they loved it back then. Klan was nothing compared to Jamaal down the street gonna kill you for nodding in his direction.
Problem is, Hollywood and younger blacks are revisionists and want everyone to believe blacks were leaving in constant fear back then. They weren’t.
I really want to go sit in a southern HS history class some time to see what you guys are taught. Would be fascinating.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 9:47 am to supadave3
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Nativity has its blessings.
It certainly did...
This post was edited on 8/22/20 at 9:48 am
Posted on 8/22/20 at 9:47 am to LSUwag
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God I miss those days.
I do too. The 80s were great. Music was better too!
Posted on 8/22/20 at 9:47 am to Dawgwithnoname
Every generation feels it's in the end times and technology is spiraling out of control. If you were an adult in the 50s it means you were born in the late 20s, early 30s when cars and planes were still rudimentary. In your teens you saw World War 2 and atmoic bombs being dropped, by your 20s it was the atomic age and jet planes. By your 40s we were landing on the moon. If you asked a 40 year old in the 60s if they thought the world would see the year 2000 they'd probably think no way.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 9:49 am to BluegrassBelle
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I don't know any older black person that would want to go back to pre-Civil Rights. Not one.
How many have you asked? I’m guessing none.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 9:50 am to Dawgwithnoname
I grew up in a 2 story house on the northshore across from NO. The upstairs where all us kids slept was not air conditioned until some time in the 1970’s. We had box fans and didn’t mind - it encouraged us to get out and be active. My high school didn’t have air conditioning except for the libraries. That was kind of smart because students would go to the libraries and the ladies who ran them didn’t let you fool around and made sure you were doing schoolwork or reading.
You don’t miss what you didn’t have.
You don’t miss what you didn’t have.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 9:53 am to TopFlightSecurity
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Every generation feels it's in the end times and technology is spiraling out of control.
Yeap. Started with the printing press - gonna ruin those kids memories with them damn books. Cycle continues with TV then video games then internet, etc.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 9:58 am to kciDAtaE
Midnight in Paris
1980-2000 peak society ?
1980-2000 peak society ?
Posted on 8/22/20 at 9:59 am to jimbeam
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They didn’t have global warming back then so yes sign me up
Yeah give me the 4 seasons like back in the day and the 1950's. Hell i grew up in the 70's and remember it being cold for halloween, thanksgiving and christmas. Now everyone of those holidays it seems to be 85 degree's
This post was edited on 8/22/20 at 10:00 am
Posted on 8/22/20 at 10:00 am to BobABooey
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I grew up in a 2 story house on the northshore across from NO. The upstairs where all us kids slept was not air conditioned until some time in the 1970’s.
I spent many summers in the early 80’s at my grandparents’ house in Ohio. The only room in their 2-story house that was air conditioned was the add-on living room. Ohio’s climate is obviously much different than the south’s, but there were several days the high approached 90 there. Even in the AC’d living room my grandparents kept the thermostat around 80. I don’t remember it ever really being uncomfortable in their house, but I was also a kid that spent almost all day outside. They sold that house around 86 or 87 and it still didn’t have central air.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 10:01 am to Dawgwithnoname
60's except for the upper class who had AC in the 50's. Central units were monstrous things which took at least a 1 ton truck to haul the condensor/compressor portion.
We had attic fans or window fans. I remember having to put a quilt on at night from all the air blowing right across my bed. Being a kid the heat didn't bother me in the least during the day when I was outside all day long.
Schools often had outdoor classes in late May, under trees in the playground.
An older friend commented how the coeds at LSU looked in the early 50's for afternoon classes as basically a wet t-shirt fest except they were wearing sun dresses.
We had attic fans or window fans. I remember having to put a quilt on at night from all the air blowing right across my bed. Being a kid the heat didn't bother me in the least during the day when I was outside all day long.
Schools often had outdoor classes in late May, under trees in the playground.
An older friend commented how the coeds at LSU looked in the early 50's for afternoon classes as basically a wet t-shirt fest except they were wearing sun dresses.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 10:02 am to Dawgwithnoname
I would 100% live in the 50s without AC. Would also love to live the 80s as an adult.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 10:06 am to Dawgwithnoname
Can you remain in the wholesome 50's forever in your hypothetical?
If not, you are just a short decade away from the violently turbulent 60s and subsequent decades of "wholesome's" further cultural erosion.
Add in, the shitty medicine, shitty avg 64 years lifespan, shitty technology, shitty communication, shitty transportation etc.
If you lived a full life and died before 1960, you were probably born in the 1880'/1890's and served/survived two World Wars, multiple worldwide/national epidemics, the Great Depression and probably hated the new immoral sound of Rock 'n Roll just as your body is failing.
The movie Midnight in Paris expertly showed the folly in romanticizing the past as Owen Wilson goes back in time to the 20s, falls in love with a girl who thought the 20s were shite cuz she thought the 1880s were the Golden era of culture.
If not, you are just a short decade away from the violently turbulent 60s and subsequent decades of "wholesome's" further cultural erosion.
Add in, the shitty medicine, shitty avg 64 years lifespan, shitty technology, shitty communication, shitty transportation etc.
If you lived a full life and died before 1960, you were probably born in the 1880'/1890's and served/survived two World Wars, multiple worldwide/national epidemics, the Great Depression and probably hated the new immoral sound of Rock 'n Roll just as your body is failing.
The movie Midnight in Paris expertly showed the folly in romanticizing the past as Owen Wilson goes back in time to the 20s, falls in love with a girl who thought the 20s were shite cuz she thought the 1880s were the Golden era of culture.
Posted on 8/22/20 at 10:06 am to SUB
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Would also love to live the 80s as an adult.
I wouldnt trade growing up in the mid 70's and early 80's as a kid for anything. Pick up games at the park, malls, arcades, first taste of cable, beginning of video games/VCR's.The electronic revolution was just beginning. what a glorious time to be a kid
Only downside was probably constant cold war/and bad economic stuff.This post was edited on 8/22/20 at 10:13 am
Posted on 8/22/20 at 10:09 am to Dawgwithnoname
No, the problems present in the 50’s are almost identical to the problems we are experiencing now....don’t forget, there were a lot of diseases that we don’t give a second thought to nowadays for which a vaccine hadn’t been developed back then. Also, the civil rights movement happened in the 50’s, so there was a shitload of racial tension then too.
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