I hope you enjoy,,, it's brings back memories, my Wife did get it, or understand all of it, but you'll Notice a picture that many here had to do in School Drills Called Duck and Cover
Post by theboyinadress on Apr 23, 2015 9:26:24 GMT -6
I'm from the 60's and the one thing I hold onto in my heart is the belief I had that their were 'grown-ups' somewhere making sure I could sleep safe at night. I'm from the UK and back there and then, with smog-filled days of holding your Mother's hand on the way to school and vaguely understanding that there was a big world out there. Just waiting for you.
The idea that far off in the nineteen-nineties, we'd be wearing hover-boots and sporting jet-packs to get to work (Also a given that work would plentiful!)... and the chance to own a house on the moon. Gosh, all this just a clock-dial away.
I still wait for the bus and old people still wear curious garb. :)
We were the best nation on Earth, for a good part of a Century. Whatever comes in the future, we'll always have that as a point of true pride within our past as Americans. We know how, and we did it. If only we could find our way to doing it again, in modern contexts.
Thanks for the share. Just a small hair before my time, but close enough to feel downright sad at the loss, while happy to watch those simpler times.
Yes, our life was very different than her's and other's I'm sure, I know Expat888 and boyinadress would agree.
For myself, America was a land of wonder and opportunity. The sun always shone and food was plenty. On this side of the pond, Britain was doing fairly well too, although the culture and mind-set was still wrapped within the rationing and shortages from WW11.
But I recall reading the back-pages of comics that told of Charles Atlas-type bodies and Sea Monkeys frolicking in aquariums. A small boy would assume all Americans were still enjoying the multi-equipment lifestyes advertised in the 50's and drove long-finned cars to a kingdom called Disneyland.
Me...? Well I was the kid with the drab hand-me-down coat and the ballaclava with one of my ears sticking out of the side! Money was scarce and so was the sun! The 60's music was still a little too grown up for me and my world consisted of running through seasons and musing on whether I'd ever obtain that rare artifact, a girlfriend!
Yep, life was certainly simpler then!
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We were the best nation on Earth, for a good part of a Century. Whatever comes in the future, we'll always have that as a point of true pride within our past as Americans. We know how, and we did it. If only we could find our way to doing it again, in modern contexts.
Thanks for the share. Just a small hair before my time, but close enough to feel downright sad at the loss, while happy to watch those simpler times.
That's true Wabbit, America was seen as the land that would marshall the world with a fair hand. Money wasn't something to covet, yet there was plenty of it. Many global perceptions were that the USA looked for the good in people and nobody got left behind.
You built towers that could touch the face of God and you held rocketships that would take it's smiling people to other worlds. Aaaah, how I envied (not nastily though) your optimistical view on life.
All the while, I mused that I would visit your land one day and nodding in my resolution, I waited for that darned bus!!
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Born and raised in the time of Saturday morning cartoons, The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, Bugs Bunny...never to replicated. I have downloaded every single episode of all those cartoons for my enjoyment and hopefully for the grand kids as a treasure to pass to them.
I watched the moon landing on our first color tv that was purchased for that very reason. It took me a long time to know that tho. I was told it was my birthday present... roflmao
Fishing alongside my dad when I was more interested in frogs and he was even more interested in the bottle of whiskey in his metal lunch box he used from the mines.
Actually waiting til dark to play kick the can or even to venture out on Halloween. Day time wasn't even an option. And yes, we walked to school without our mom. If we took a school bus, we never had all the moms standing there or waiting for us when we got back.
The comics, cars, treats, drive-ins, pinball, magical Christmas mornings when you were happy with what you got instead of angry with what you didn't ...
Post by Night Star on Apr 23, 2015 17:17:20 GMT -6
I was born in 58. I remember all of the stuff in the video. Mr. Potatoe head, dial up phones, roller skates with the key etc. LOL Back then kids played outside and made friends easily and had fun using their imaginations and were more respectful. Today everything is about electronic devices and how much 'stuff' they get.
Yes, sneaking down the stairs on Saturday morning before mom got up, I would slide down on my feet placed on the trim one squeak, it was all over, "get back in bed, Jackie."