I'll bet you didn't know 12 July, 2020 ...
Jul 13, 2020 09:31:41 #
Jul 13, 2020 09:59:59 #
Between 1963 and 1968, somehow we became a different world, both for the good and the bad.
Jul 13, 2020 10:23:26 #
Ah, the peaceful fifties...three years of war in Korea, the slaughter of nuns and the French debacle at Dien Bien Phou in Vietnam, military build-up with NATO, the start of the "Cold War" with the USSR, and ducking under desks preparing for nuclear detonations... yeah, that would be fun to live through again.
Jul 13, 2020 10:37:44 #
jhkfly wrote:
Ah, the peaceful fifties...three years of war in Korea, the slaughter of nuns and the French debacle at Dien Bien Phou in Vietnam, military build-up with NATO, the start of the "Cold War" with the USSR, and ducking under desks preparing for nuclear detonations... yeah, that would be fun to live through again.
Selective memory is a god send.
Jul 13, 2020 10:46:16 #
Jul 13, 2020 10:55:16 #
HOHIMER wrote:
Thanks!
Jul 13, 2020 12:33:40 #
Bill 45 wrote:
I remember that. I was in grade school at a Catholic's school. I call that period in my life the dark ages.
In the 40's and early 50's I was in Catholic grade school and Catholic high school. Those were some of the happiest and most memorable days of my life. I still communicate (by phone, letters and e-mail) with many of my classmates. Many have died but several of us are still around (for the present).
Jul 13, 2020 13:00:34 #
Jim70 wrote:
When I was a child (~1954), my parents never locked their doors at night. When leaving for a weekend trip, they also didn't lock the house. I asked my Mother why and her answer was "what if the neighbors needed to borrow something, or there was a problem?" We never had a break in or theft.
Different times indeed.
Different times indeed.
Same was true at my home until the mid 60s. My step-father had a business. I worked the evening shift in my late teens and one night I get home from work and found the door locked. I had a key so was able to get in and relocked the door figuring my parents had a good reason to have locked it. The next morning it was explained, another business owner in another town close to us had been robbed and killed in their home. My folks thought it could be someone passing through the area and robbing business owners homes. Ever after that our door was locked at night or when we were away for even a day.
Jul 13, 2020 13:43:15 #
Same at my house. Doors never locked, car never locked. When I was 7 till about 11yrs old,I would ride my bike down the sidewalk on Main St., park it in front of the 5 and 10, to buy a model car kit, and ride home. Never thinking somebody would steal my bike. Great times in my life. People just don't respect other peoples property anymore.
Jul 13, 2020 13:44:30 #
Amielee
Loc: Eastern Washington State
My folks had lost the key to the front door, it was never replaced. In 1950 we drove to Canada to visit relatives and the front door was unlocked for 4 weeks while we were gone. In our town there were a set of identical twins, one of them committed a murder and one was innocent but which was which? They were both tried and given death sentences and they refused to say who was guilty. They said and thought that rather than hang an innocent person the governor would commute their sentences. Wrong, Governor Rossillini let them both hang. And it took about a year after the trial as I recall. Yes it was a much different world then.
Jul 13, 2020 14:17:06 #
Alafoto
Loc: Montgomery, AL
whfowle wrote:
I remember the entire 50's as the quietest period of my life. Although I now know about what happened during that period, at the time, it seems to be very peaceful.
Except for the Korean "police action."
Jul 13, 2020 14:37:17 #
Those people who think things are worse now than ever have very little knowledge of history.
Jul 13, 2020 14:50:16 #
David Martin wrote:
Back then the media reported the news, rather than creating it.
Jul 13, 2020 14:56:59 #
Jim70 wrote:
When I was a child (~1954), my parents never locked their doors at night. When leaving for a weekend trip, they also didn't lock the house. I asked my Mother why and her answer was "what if the neighbors needed to borrow something, or there was a problem?" We never had a break in or theft.
Different times indeed.
Different times indeed.
Me too, my dad even left his key in the ignition on his truck... on A key ring with the keys to everythingJul 13, 2020 19:28:15 #
Jim70 wrote:
When I was a child (~1954), my parents never locked their doors at night. When leaving for a weekend trip, they also didn't lock the house. I asked my Mother why and her answer was "what if the neighbors needed to borrow something, or there was a problem?" We never had a break in or theft.
Different times indeed.
Different times indeed.
A lot of people disparage those of us who live in tiny rural towns with assumptions, accusations and ridicule, usually based on the notion that rural America is somehow 'behind the times' but entering my 12th year in this home, I've yet to lock the house, our school has an unlocked fitness area with about 100k worth of equipment, and our school only puts locks on lockers when other school use our facilities, like at basketball tournaments. I traded garden produce with a couple of neighbors and while the wife is recovering from surgery, the neighbor's had to be physically barred from bringing us meals that my wife could not (yet) eat. I'm happy to be in a 'backwards' town.
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