Remember When...

chic said:
I think it's mixed bag Sunny. One thing we didn't have back then was people killing children in our schools which seems to be an unsolvable problem in the U.S. presently. I love technology, it's saved me many times in many ways. But sometimes during times of incredible distress like we've just experienced over the Parkland massacre, it's completely normal that we tend to wax nostalgic.
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Why do we have so many folks of various ages that think they must get a weapon and go kill innocent folks in schools, theaters, parades, no reasons, just something to do.

One problem is that most folks do not know the difference between military weapons and those, same name guns available for purchase by folks in the US. Most guns being used are single pull single shot types and that is a long way from the military style weapon of automatic repeating fire as long as the trigger is held down. Dead is dead whether single shot or repeating shot but it would be nice if most folks really understood those differences. We do not need these anti gun parades where so many are wanting our military guns held from the market. For most of us in the masses military style repeating fire weapons are not avaialable, only single trigger pull single shot weapons are available. Or as I remember it those were the ways these laws were meant to work.

Maybe bring back the draft for all our military once again. Volunteers would get to choose their careers and draftees would just need to obey and do as told. We have no discipline in the homes, schools, public areas, so who would we expect to know how to behave with no education. It is not coming from our political parties, so why not part of our military discipline. We need to tighten down on all these hand out programs we call welfare for the unfortunate. Let us get them back to real welfare for those that do try to make it on their own.

What we have, personal or government, is just not working as expected or should work.
 
We didn't have a phone when I was a child, so these bring back memories for me.

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The hospital bill in January of 1948 for my folks when I was born at Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey, Illinois-
4 days @ $7.50 = $30.00
Anesthetic = $5.00
Medicines =$1.80
Lab Fee =$2.00
Telephone =0.15
Maternity Room = $10.00
Bracelet = $1.50
Total Bill =$60.95
 
I was my the "remote control" for our TV. "turn on channel 2, 5, 7 or 9" is all my mom or dad had to say.
We had a little hobby shop where I bought my comic books and model cars and candy.
There was a little drug store with wood floors that had a soda fountain with the greatest malts and drinks ever.
One theater, I remember seeing Elvis's first movie, Love Me Tender" and they gave out his picture with a box of butter pop corn.
We had a park with a public swimming pool. I nearly lived there.
We burned leaves in our driveway in the Autumn The smell was terrific.
We drove to California from Illinois in a 1950 Ford for vacation.
We lived happily without all the rules and regulations of today
 
Sunny said:
Guess I'm back to being the only grouch here who thinks the old days weren't necessarily so wonderful. Most of our rose-colored attitudes are nostalgia for our youth. (And I had a happy childhood!) I just don't get all this sentimentalizing of the past, where everything is perceived as being better than it is now. That's what prompts all those jokes about the old folks boasting that they trudged to school in the snow, uphill
both ways. ;)

The Woolworth menu may look wonderful, though I gather it's mostly the prices that everybody loves. But think about what kind of salaries people were earning then. Probably the average American income
was around $5-6K a year.

Some of the old TV shows were fun, but I think that in general, the shows have improved tremendously. We do have lots of electronic appliances, and beyond that, more and more "smart" appliances. Even my car is "smart." If I'm about to crash into something, it automatically stops. If I'm backing up and a person or vehicle is approaching from the side and about to pass in back of me, I get a warning beep. All of our cars have seat belts and air bags. I'll take those safety features over the "good old days" any time!

The world of science and medicine is infinitely better. Obviously, we don't have cures for everything, but people are living much longer and healthier lives than they used to.

Sorry, but I'll take the present over that so-called wonderful past any time!
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You can have it!!
 
SeaBreeze said:
Woolworth's lunch menu from the 60's, just the prices have a calming effect. :sentimental:

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I remember a really young child, running around town with mom, paying bills, shopping, and stopping in at Woolworth's for a vanilla milkshake prepared and served in a stainless tumbler, along with a plate of fries! Used to be the highlight of my trip to town with mom.
 
The joy of eating at the Woolworths counter! A BLT, fries and a Coke over shaved ice was about 50-60 cents.

When I went downtown with my Grandma, we always ate at the tea room, like ladies, my dear. As far as she was concerned, only barbarians ate at a dime store counter. Beside, you'd get ptomaine poisoning at a place like that. Oh, how I longed to be one of those barbarians.....

There was no eating when I went downtown with my mother. You went into the department store, you bought what you came for, you got a perfume sample, and you went home. Spend money eating out? No way.

So, when I got old enough to go downtown on Saturdays with my friends, you KNOW we ate at Woolworths. AT L:AST! I was a barbarian. I never got poisoned, either.
 

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