Woman lives every day like it's 1958

officerripley said:
Not me. The problem with too many of the "good" ol' days is that they were only good for just certain sectors of the population (usually only if your skin was the "right" color and you relieved yourself standing up).
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There's good and bad in every era.It's called social evolution.But we never locked our doors,there was no drug epidemic.We had neighborhood schools without metal detectors ,police or fear of mass shootings etc.While times may not have been easier,most people were generally happier and life was less manic in 1958.After living through 2020's riots,pandemic and politics I'd love to go back,maybe not permanently but certainly for a break from now.To each their own.
 

C'est Moi said:
My memories as a kid were the '60s and early '70s, so I'd need some avocado green appliances.
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My bathtub, sink and toilet in the main bathroom are avocado green. If you want to come and pick them up, they are yours, as long as you replace them with something else. I'm tired of them. Grin. I do like colored appliance better than boring white.

I was a kid in the '50s. When I was little our bathtub was the tub my mom did the laundry in. She had a wringer washer in the bathroom. There was only an old white toilet and no sink. To fill up the laundry tub she ran a hose from the kitchen sink.
 
We had to lock our doors when I was a kid.

As to "many people being generally happier": one of the worst riots in US history was in NYC in 1863; people were protesting being drafted into the Union army (unless you could afford the $300 to pay off the draft board).

Then there was the polio epidemic, espec. the summer of 1955; a friend who's a few years older remembers his mother sobbing when she was afraid he & his brothers had gotten polio.

My uncle used to say, "Everyone keeps talking about how great job opportunities were after WW2; well, not for everybody, especially not for me!" (Uncle was kinda trapped in a rural area due to caring for elderly parents so couldn't move to where those famed opportunities were.)

And a lot of black vets were denied--it was always done sneakily of course--attending college on the G.I. bill after WW2; the colleges came up with every excuse in the world for not admitting them.
 
She looks great, ought to be on television. But it is hard to believe...no modern appliances, bad TV, etc.
She's not working? How long can they live like this?
 
officerripley said:
Then there was the polio epidemic, espec. the summer of 1955; a friend who's a few years older remembers his mother sobbing when she was afraid he & his brothers had gotten polio.
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One of my friends in high school had polio when she was a kid. Her left arm just hung there. It was completely useless. She was one of the sweetest persons I've known. At 16 she suddenly died in a diabetic coma. They didn't even know she was diabetic. I was fortunate to have gotten the polio vaccination when I was in grade school. It saved a lot of us from Denise's fate.
 
Ok, Let's all time travel back to 1958! Who's with me?
It was sweet and simple, INCREDIBLE music from Motown, Wolfman Jack, drag racing, cherry cokes, hot rods, chicken every Sunday, draggin' Main, long skirts with petticoats, bobby sox, pointed bras, baseball games, GREAT CARS, street dances, patriotism, rock and roll, FUN, FUN, FUN!!!!
 
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Have you ever seen the “Twilight Zone” show where this man becomes exhausted with the rat race and on his way home, he dozes off, but when he awakens, the train stops at a town in the past named Willoughby and he does this for a few different nights. Then, one evening he decides to stay. At the end of the show, it shows a hearse driving away with the sign on the back of it reading “Willoughby and Sons Funeral Home?”

I though Rod Serling had a very creative mind. Stephen King’s most influential writer.
 
oldman said:
Have you ever seen the “Twilight Zone” show where this man becomes exhausted with the rat race and on his way home, he dozes off, but when he awakens, the train stops at a town in the past named Willoughby and he does this for a few different nights. Then, one evening he decides to stay. At the end of the show, it shows a hearse driving away with the sign on the back of it reading “Willoughby and Sons Funeral Home?”

I though Rod Serling had a very creative mind. Stephen King’s most influential writer.
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One of my very favorite Twilight Zone episodes too!
Point taken!
 
Liberty said:
You can still buy Tangee...from Vermont Country Store. Its still my fav lipstick.
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Yes, but you can't get the cake mascara, can you? Where did she find that?
Actually what we had back then wa Maybelline mascara in a little tube. Came out THICK! That stuff was GREAT!
 
Gaer said:
Ok, Let's all time travel back to 1958! Who's with me?
It was sweet and simple, INCREDIBLE music from Motown, Wolfman Jack, drag racing, cherry cokes, hot rods, chicken every Sunday, draggin' Main, long skirts with petticoats, bobby sox, pointed bras, baseball games, GREAT CARS, street dances, patriotism, rock and roll, FUN, FUN, FUN!!!!
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Hope you all have a great time and let me know how it turned out. The only good thing about traveling back to that time for me would be I would get to see my parents again. I'd rather go forward and see them.
 
Gaer said:
Ok, Let's all time travel back to 1958! Who's with me?
It was sweet and simple, INCREDIBLE music from Motown, Wolfman Jack, drag racing, cherry cokes, hot rods, chicken every Sunday, draggin' Main, long skirts with petticoats, bobby sox, pointed bras, baseball games, GREAT CARS, street dances, patriotism, rock and roll, FUN, FUN, FUN!!!!
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I'm with you, Gaer! :)

Just so you know the first thing I'm buying is a few bullet bras!

In addition to all that you mentioned, we'll rent a 1958 Austin Healey and cruise around listening to all the great music that filled the air back then!

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officerripley said:
We had to lock our doors when I was a kid.

As to "many people being generally happier": one of the worst riots in US history was in NYC in 1863; people were protesting being drafted into the Union army (unless you could afford the $300 to pay off the draft board).

Then there was the polio epidemic, espec. the summer of 1955; a friend who's a few years older remembers his mother sobbing when she was afraid he & his brothers had gotten polio.

My uncle used to say, "Everyone keeps talking about how great job opportunities were after WW2; well, not for everybody, especially not for me!" (Uncle was kinda trapped in a rural area due to caring for elderly parents so couldn't move to where those famed opportunities were.)

And a lot of black vets were denied--it was always done sneakily of course--attending college on the G.I. bill after WW2; the colleges came up with every excuse in the world for not admitting them.
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Thought we were talking about 1958,not the Civil War
 
1958. I'd hop the Erie Limited straight to NY and catch Miles Davis and John Coltrane at the Village Vanguard.That is right after drinking a cherry phosphate with my friends at the corner drugstore.
 
Her Chevy is actually a `55-I know because that was my first car. Hubby had a `57 and his brother had a `56. When we got married,we had a `51, souped up and "raked",and a `61.
 

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