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This is a group where you can add at any time anything you remember from "back then" in our society that isn't the same now. It'll be fun to read how things have changed from a first hand experience of the posters here!
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Comment by Robert Muscovitz on August 6, 2011 at 12:41pm
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Today I couldn't get the "Real McCoys" song out of my head as well as "Petticoat Junction", "Lassie", and "Green Acres". Weird! I was asked if I remember "Rin-Tin-Tin" ,"Zorro", "Flicker","Car 54", "77 Sunset strip", "Route 66", "Twilight Zone", "Outer Limits" and "The Lone Ranger".. Yep, I watched all of these at some point in time in the 50's and early 60's. My mom asked if I remember sitting on dads lap watching "Jackie Gleason", That I didn't recall..But "McHales Navy", I do..LOL! I must be losing my mind..I actually can hear their theme songs in my head..
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Comment by wiffledust on August 2, 2011 at 12:03pm
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agreed. i know that from first hand experience. you're right. but, still, if you have to err, better to err on the side of being human
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Comment by Bains on August 2, 2011 at 12:01pm
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Ahh, but even Good People do some Very Bad Things when they're down on their luck and put in unusual circumstances. The others have to grow up dealing with the consequences.
Just saying; be careful even when it seems the least expected.
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i can think of worse things than a bonus nephew! :-) the price to pay for not taking in any strays is hurtful to the soul.
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My parents always took in "strays" as well. Almost always adult friends of theirs who were down on their luck, getting divorced, needed a place to recover from something or other. Was good and bad, eh. Really Bad in one instance though they still deny it ever happened... {sigh}
In another they get no choice to deny it, just a grandson! Heh! I think that that episode finally learned 'em on the cons of the habit. Mom's only ever taken in strays pets since m' nephew showed up. :-)
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yep, it's important to not overly idealize the past. i'm old enough to remember some seriously bad racial stuff too. i'm so sorry you were in the violence of it. i remember a time when there was a racial divide in my school that was scary at times. and unfair at the best of other times. i think even though there's so much yet to be done, we've made progress.
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Wiff, I have doubts that this happens that much anymore. My son's family has had a few down in the cities but it seems the law enforcement and county people come into the situation and make it a bad choice by having a heart these days. It's pretty risky these days... In my teens I would stay at a friends house in the big city and I liked it up until the race riots after Martin Luther King was killed and the Northside went nuts blaming all us less than colorful kids. Enough of the bad... It was terrible. Him and I got whompt in an alley by about 15 kids because of color which was so wrong. In some ways we understood the situation but never understood the hurt it inflicted upon us nor why!
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wow, bob! that's alot of people in one house! we had alot too, but not sleeping over night after night! ha. however, like you, we were the house where anyone could run away. my parents never turned away a kid...or an adult for that matter. there was always someone running away from home or someone whose parents did something wrong and the kid needed a safe place. do people still do that? they should! maybe there wouldn't be so many kids on the street if they had a friends' house they could go to. we had one little girl here who might as well have been another sister, she was here so much. her parents didn't give a darn about her, and my parents did. i miss that kind of humanity!
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Wiff, We lived in suburbia USA in a housing developement..it was a three bedroom rambler with one bathroom. Dad threw up a couple partitions in the basement but that's it. 4 girls and 5 boys plus, gr-grandma on the fold out couch most the time.. neighbors,,, kitty-corner across the street had 12 kids in the same size house. Here is the funny part,, my youngest sister and brother are blue eyed blonds..the rest of us had darker hair and some brown, green and blue eyes of course... Someone asked my dad about the blond/blue eyed younger two kids and are they the milkmans? Dad's response was,,"Nope, I ran out of color!" Funny you should bring up the open-door policy because my parents would never turn down a kid who was kicked out the house by their parents. Most the time they were from a family or two down the block usually the cops kid, accountants kid or the teachers kid...I even remember a couple foster kids to a family down the block who found sanctuary at my parents home because the foster kids parents were drunk most the time...Dad and mom would never turn them down from a meal or place to sleep and stay if need be. This was the 50's and 60's and no county agency ever gave my parents a nickel for having a heart...
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so i'm thinking that's why there were more children in the old days.
Bwuhuhuhahahahaaaa!
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