Are you a 1%er?
Aug 2, 2023 16:34:50 #
Going the e-mail rounds.
I am definitely one!
Subject: 1% ers - Hard to believe but this includes many of us.
99% of those born between 1930 and 1946 (worldwide) are now dead.
If you were born in this time span, you are one of the rare surviving one percenters of this special group.
Their ages range is between 77 and 93 years old, a 16-year age span.
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE 1% ERS:
You are the smallest group of children born since the early 1900's.
You are the last generation, climbing out of the depression, who can remember the winds of war and the impact of a world at war that rattled the structure of our daily lives for years.
You are the last to remember ration books for everything from gas to sugar to shoes to stoves.
You saved tin foil and poured fried meat fat into tin cans.
You can remember milk being delivered to your house early in the morning and placed in the "milk box" on the porch.
Discipline was enforced by parents and teachers.
You are the last generation who spent childhood without television; instead, you “imagined” what you heard on the radio.
With no TV, you spent your childhood "playing outside".
There was no Little League.
There was no city playground for kids.
The lack of television in your early years meant that you had little real understanding of what the world was like.
We got “black-and-white” TV in the late 40s that had 3 stations and no remote.
Telephones were one to a house, often shared (party lines), and hung on the wall in the kitchen (no cares about privacy).
Computers were called calculators; they were hand-cranked.
Typewriters were driven by pounding fingers, throwing the carriage, and changing the ribbon.
'INTERNET' and 'GOOGLE' were words that did not exist.
Newspapers and magazines were written for adults and the news was broadcast on your radio in the evening (your dad would give you the comic pages when he read the news).
New highways would bring jobs and mobility. Most highways were 2 lanes (no interstates).
You went downtown to shop. You walked to school.
The radio network expanded from 3 stations to thousands.
Your parents were suddenly free from the confines of the depression and the war, and they threw themselves into working hard to make a living for their families.
You weren't neglected, but you weren't today's all-consuming family focus.
They were glad you played by yourselves.
They were busy discovering the postwar world.
You entered a world of overflowing plenty and opportunity; a world where you were welcomed, enjoyed yourselves.
You felt secure in your future, although the depression and poverty were deeply remembered.
Polio was still a crippler. Everyone knew someone who had it.
You came of age in the '50s and '60s.
You are the last generation to experience an interlude when there were no threats to our homeland.
World War 2 was over, and the cold war, terrorism, global warming, and perpetual economic insecurity had yet to haunt life.
Only your generation can remember a time after WW2 when our world was secure and full of bright promise and plenty.
You grew up at the best possible time, a time when the world was getting better.
More than 99% of you are retired now, and you should feel privileged to have "lived in the best of times!"
If you have already reached the age of 77 years old, you have outlived 99% of all the other people in the world who were born in this special
16 year time span. You are a 1% 'er"!
I am definitely one!
Subject: 1% ers - Hard to believe but this includes many of us.
99% of those born between 1930 and 1946 (worldwide) are now dead.
If you were born in this time span, you are one of the rare surviving one percenters of this special group.
Their ages range is between 77 and 93 years old, a 16-year age span.
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE 1% ERS:
You are the smallest group of children born since the early 1900's.
You are the last generation, climbing out of the depression, who can remember the winds of war and the impact of a world at war that rattled the structure of our daily lives for years.
You are the last to remember ration books for everything from gas to sugar to shoes to stoves.
You saved tin foil and poured fried meat fat into tin cans.
You can remember milk being delivered to your house early in the morning and placed in the "milk box" on the porch.
Discipline was enforced by parents and teachers.
You are the last generation who spent childhood without television; instead, you “imagined” what you heard on the radio.
With no TV, you spent your childhood "playing outside".
There was no Little League.
There was no city playground for kids.
The lack of television in your early years meant that you had little real understanding of what the world was like.
We got “black-and-white” TV in the late 40s that had 3 stations and no remote.
Telephones were one to a house, often shared (party lines), and hung on the wall in the kitchen (no cares about privacy).
Computers were called calculators; they were hand-cranked.
Typewriters were driven by pounding fingers, throwing the carriage, and changing the ribbon.
'INTERNET' and 'GOOGLE' were words that did not exist.
Newspapers and magazines were written for adults and the news was broadcast on your radio in the evening (your dad would give you the comic pages when he read the news).
New highways would bring jobs and mobility. Most highways were 2 lanes (no interstates).
You went downtown to shop. You walked to school.
The radio network expanded from 3 stations to thousands.
Your parents were suddenly free from the confines of the depression and the war, and they threw themselves into working hard to make a living for their families.
You weren't neglected, but you weren't today's all-consuming family focus.
They were glad you played by yourselves.
They were busy discovering the postwar world.
You entered a world of overflowing plenty and opportunity; a world where you were welcomed, enjoyed yourselves.
You felt secure in your future, although the depression and poverty were deeply remembered.
Polio was still a crippler. Everyone knew someone who had it.
You came of age in the '50s and '60s.
You are the last generation to experience an interlude when there were no threats to our homeland.
World War 2 was over, and the cold war, terrorism, global warming, and perpetual economic insecurity had yet to haunt life.
Only your generation can remember a time after WW2 when our world was secure and full of bright promise and plenty.
You grew up at the best possible time, a time when the world was getting better.
More than 99% of you are retired now, and you should feel privileged to have "lived in the best of times!"
If you have already reached the age of 77 years old, you have outlived 99% of all the other people in the world who were born in this special
16 year time span. You are a 1% 'er"!
Aug 2, 2023 16:58:14 #
Not quite accurate.
There were many city parks
Don't forget the Korean War. I remember my mother picking up the news paper from the front porch. She said softly to herself "We're at war again." I was 7 years old
There were many city parks
Don't forget the Korean War. I remember my mother picking up the news paper from the front porch. She said softly to herself "We're at war again." I was 7 years old
Aug 2, 2023 17:01:42 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
Not quite accurate.
There were many city parks
Don't forget the Korean War. I remember my mother picking up the news paper from the front porch. She said softly to herself "We're at war again." I was 7 years old
There were many city parks
Don't forget the Korean War. I remember my mother picking up the news paper from the front porch. She said softly to herself "We're at war again." I was 7 years old
Aug 2, 2023 17:24:12 #
Aug 2, 2023 18:04:28 #
we lived very close to a wonderful park, where Mum taught me the names of the trees and flowers. No one had a phone,,,,,WW2 was
in full swing. We never went up town or downtown...we went "up the street to buy
the messages" ( food)
no one had a car. no fridge either...............we were happy.
in full swing. We never went up town or downtown...we went "up the street to buy
the messages" ( food)
no one had a car. no fridge either...............we were happy.
Aug 2, 2023 18:35:02 #
Born just outside of this group (1948) but much of what was stated applied to me also.
Don
Don
Aug 2, 2023 18:40:44 #
My family had a TV in a house we moved out of when my brother was born in 1947. My father owned a hardware store so we had a truck. And a car. We lived in a house run by women until my father got back from WWII. We travelled by train a lot. We had a candlestick phone. No dial but not a party line. Local operator.
Aug 2, 2023 18:41:54 #
Aug 2, 2023 18:42:15 #
dancers wrote:
we lived very close to a wonderful park, where Mum taught me the names of the trees and flowers. No one had a phone,,,,,WW2 was
in full swing. We never went up town or downtown...we went "up the street to buy
the messages" ( food)
no one had a car. no fridge either...............we were happy.
in full swing. We never went up town or downtown...we went "up the street to buy
the messages" ( food)
no one had a car. no fridge either...............we were happy.
Aug 2, 2023 18:42:33 #
PAR4DCR wrote:
Born just outside of this group (1948) but much of what was stated applied to me also.
Don
Don
Aug 2, 2023 18:43:01 #
DirtFarmer wrote:
My family had a TV in a house we moved out of when my brother was born in 1947. My father owned a hardware store so we had a truck. And a car. We lived in a house run by women until my father got back from WWII. We travelled by train a lot. We had a candlestick phone. No dial but not a party line. Local operator.
Aug 2, 2023 22:27:32 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
Not quite accurate.
There were many city parks
Don't forget the Korean War. I remember my mother picking up the news paper from the front porch. She said softly to herself "We're at war again." I was 7 years old
There were many city parks
Don't forget the Korean War. I remember my mother picking up the news paper from the front porch. She said softly to herself "We're at war again." I was 7 years old
There weren't many parks in the big city I lived in. And, the Korean War notwithstanding, I still maintain that were/ are the luckiest generation and lived in the best of times in in the history of the world.
Aug 3, 2023 04:43:26 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
Not quite accurate.
There were many city parks
Don't forget the Korean War. I remember my mother picking up the news paper from the front porch. She said softly to herself "We're at war again." I was 7 years old
There were many city parks
Don't forget the Korean War. I remember my mother picking up the news paper from the front porch. She said softly to herself "We're at war again." I was 7 years old
But most of those parks only had a swing set with a slide and a few had a Jungle gym.
I was 11years old when we got into the Korean War.
Aug 3, 2023 06:20:28 #
whfowle
Loc: Tampa first, now Albuquerque
Much of what is listed was true for me. Our first TV was in 1960 and we did not have a phone in the house. To make a 3 minute call to my brother who lived in Washington DC, we went to a phone booth late at night so the traffic noise wasn't so bad and deposited several dollars worth of coins into the slots on the phone and then all three of us crammed into so we could close the door. After three minutes the operator would interrupt and ask for more money. I was too young to remember the Korean war but I remember "Ike" being elected President.
Aug 3, 2023 06:20:45 #
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