And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
1966, Junction City Oregon. The Rolling Stones Hey Hey, You You, Get Off Of My Cloud was playing on the AM radio. My Mom was driving my Dad's 65 GTO. I was six years old and my little brother was two. That was the first time I went to a burger joint that had roller skating waitresses.
I was born in 1950. My family of 4 lived in a 1400 sq ft house with 2 bedrooms and one bath. We had a one car detached garage. We got our first TV when I was 5 and had one phone on the wall in the kitchen. There was no a/c. Each spring we had to remove our storm windows and put in screens, and reverse the process in the fall.
We had one car that dad took to work each day. Mom walked to the grocery store 4 blocks away. Dad was an engineer, made good wages and probably worked 50 hours/week. Mom stayed at home like 95% of women. Most blue collar workers had it tougher. If they wanted a middle class life, they had to work overtime. Often this meant 60 hour weeks.
Eating out was a big treat that we did about twice/year. There was no carry out, nor fast food to speak of until the 60s. We were lucky that we got to take a vacation each year for a week or so. Most people stayed at home. I first flew at age 21 and I didn’t know any kid who had; it was just too expensive for the middle class.
Life was different. People made less money, had less stuff and lived more simply. It wasn’t as convenient or easy as it is now. People had much less free time to engage in hobbies or entertainment. Free time was largely taken up with the chores of living: housework, house maintenance, lawn care, auto repair, cooking, mending and repair. No one I knew ever paid someone else to do these things.
It was not the golden age people who weren’t born then like to romanticize about. I doubt most living today would like to go back to those days. I know I wouldn’t.
bb's on the pavement provided by the then current jackasses. sad.
ReplyDeleteBack when A&W started the girls brought your trays out but not on skates.
ReplyDeleteTwo-tone paint jobs on cars...ahhh
ReplyDeleteLooks like a '58 Ford, to me.
Delete1966, Junction City Oregon.
ReplyDeleteThe Rolling Stones Hey Hey, You You, Get Off Of My Cloud was playing on the AM radio.
My Mom was driving my Dad's 65 GTO.
I was six years old and my little brother was two. That was the first time I went to a burger joint that had roller skating waitresses.
My first wife did that.
ReplyDeleteI was born in 1950. My family of 4 lived in a 1400 sq ft house with 2 bedrooms and one bath. We had a one car detached garage. We got our first TV when I was 5 and had one phone on the wall in the kitchen. There was no a/c. Each spring we had to remove our storm windows and put in screens, and reverse the process in the fall.
ReplyDeleteWe had one car that dad took to work each day. Mom walked to the grocery store 4 blocks away. Dad was an engineer, made good wages and probably worked 50 hours/week. Mom stayed at home like 95% of women. Most blue collar workers had it tougher. If they wanted a middle class life, they had to work overtime. Often this meant 60 hour weeks.
Eating out was a big treat that we did about twice/year. There was no carry out, nor fast food to speak of until the 60s. We were lucky that we got to take a vacation each year for a week or so. Most people stayed at home. I first flew at age 21 and I didn’t know any kid who had; it was just too expensive for the middle class.
Life was different. People made less money, had less stuff and lived more simply. It wasn’t as convenient or easy as it is now. People had much less free time to engage in hobbies or entertainment. Free time was largely taken up with the chores of living: housework, house maintenance, lawn care, auto repair, cooking, mending and repair. No one I knew ever paid someone else to do these things.
It was not the golden age people who weren’t born then like to romanticize about. I doubt most living today would like to go back to those days. I know I wouldn’t.
Anon
ReplyDeleteI was born in 47'. My life was much the same. I'd give anything to go back to those standards!
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