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IT WAS GOOD
Were you a kid in the Fifties or earlier? Everybody makes fun of our
childhood! Comedians joke. Grandkids snicker. Twenty-something's
shudder and say "Eeeew!" But was our childhood really all that bad?
Judge for yourself:
In 1953 The US population was less than 150 million... Yet you knew
more people then, and knew them better...
The average annual salary was under $3,000... Yet our parents could put
some of it away for a rainy day and still live a decent life...
A loaf of bread cost about 15 cents... But it was safe for a
five-year-old to skate to the store and buy one...
Prime-Time meant I Love Lucy, Ozzie and Harriet, Gunsmoke and Lassie...
So nobody ever heard of ratings or filters...
We didn't have air-conditioning... So the windows stayed up and half a
dozen mothers ran outside when you fell off your bike...
Your teacher was either Miss Matthews or Mrs. Logan or Mr. Adkins...
But not Ms. Becky or Mr. Dan...
The only hazardous material you knew about... Was a patch of grassburrs
around the light pole at the corner...
You loved to climb into a fresh bed... Because sheets were dried on the
clothesline...
People generally lived in the same hometown with their relatives.. So
"child care" meant grandparents or aunts and uncles...
Parents were respected and their rules were law.... Children did not
talk back.....
TV was in black-and-white... But all outdoors was in glorious
color...
Your Dad knew how to adjust everybody's carburetor... And the Dad next
door knew how to adjust all the TV knobs...
Your grandma grew snap beans in the back yard... And chickens behind
the garage...
And just when you were about to do something really bad... Chances were
you'd run into your Dad's high school coach... Or the nosy old lady
from up the street... Or your little sister's piano teacher... Or
somebody from Church.... ALL of whom knew your parents' phone
number... And YOUR first name... And even THAT was good!
REMEMBER...
Send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, The Hardy
Boys, Laurel & Hardy, Abbott & Costello, Sky King, Little Lulu comics,
Brenda Starr, Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, The Lone Ranger, The
Shadow Knows Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk as
well as the sound of a real mower on Saturday morning, and summers
filled with bike rides, playing cowboy, playing hide and seek and
kick-the-can and Simon Says, baseball games, amateur shows at the
local theater before the Saturday matinee, bowling and visits to the
pool...and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar, and wax lips and
bubblegum cigars
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that!
And was it really that long ago?
Author Unknown
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January 1, 1950
You have been alive for about
19,662 days as of November 1, 2003
You've spent about 6,554.0 days sleeping.
Important Events
Beginning of McCarthyism - Anticommunism
Truman Ok's Development of Hydrogen Bomb
Otis Installs First Self Service Elevator
Assassination Attempt On President Truman
China Occupies Tibet
North Korea Invades South Korea
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Gas cost $.20, milk $.84, and bread was $.14!
You could buy a car for $1,650
Homes went for about $14,300,
You could send a letter for $0.03, and
People made about $2,959 a year.
Academy Award Winners In 1950
Best Actor - Jose Ferrer
Best Actress - Judy Holliday
Best Directed Picture - All About Eve
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