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I'm Old Enough to Remember....
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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 wiffledust on July 28, 2011 at 11:43pm
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which 45's did you have, maryrose??? i refuse to tell mine! :-ppp
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Comment by Maryrose Orlans on July 28, 2011 at 10:45pm
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Two Guys!! I bought most of my 45s there :-)
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that's cool, bob. it's great to have such memories, and great for us for you to share them.
i hope i'm not repeating myself....but i remember when everyone disciplined everyone else's children. when i was growing up, if someone was misbehaving, nobody called the parents. they just handled it somehow. i remember my parents dishing out "hey knock that off or else"'s to the kids in the neighborhood, and other parents doing the same to us. and if someone in the neighborhood had to call me out on something, i got in trouble twice...first with the neighborhood person, then with my parents. back then, parents didn't come to the rescue on bad behavior. now it seems like no matter what someone's kid does, you're not allowed to even question bad behavior. parents want to talk gently to johnny while he's hurling a frozen bagel at you in the grocery store. and if you dare say "don't throw that at me", the parent gives you a dirty look!
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Comment by Robert Muscovitz on July 28, 2011 at 5:31pm
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When I was really young we live close to the R/R tracks. One day we woke up to a steam engine stopping behind our house, all the cars said Barnum and Bailey Circus on them. This was new to us kids.. they let out pretty much all the animals from garaffe's to lions, etc. in our yard and the neighborhood. Now how cool was that to be maybe 5 or 6 years old and having this happen. I know we would never go to the circus because my parents couldn't afford it...We had police and fire people everywhere just to monitor the mess. To this day I don't have a clue what happened and why our neighborhood..
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serious story there, bob. ....sherry, along those lines but not the same, i remember manners being a whole lot more important. you had to actually answer RSVP's back then. people nowadays don't even seem to respond when you invite them to something. back then if you said "i'll let you know closer to the date" you would have been looked at like a total social failure. boyfriends HAD to observe certain rules. i had to answer the phone a certain way. thank you notes were crucial. ...not to mention you had to actually get dressed up for church.
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When I graduated in 69 it was the first year of the draft lottery. Yet, I still had to get my draft card which was a male thing we all looked forward to.. My lottery number was 365 so I didn't worry.. Two of my grad friends got number 1 and they were gone in about two weeks to boot camp..The goal at that time was to have a 1-Y classification for school/college which was impossible to get into back then especially if your parents didn't have money. I was lucky!
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Comment by Sherry Somach on July 27, 2011 at 1:42pm
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I remember when tattoos were only gotten by drunken sailors and low lifes.
"Nice" girls did not go to pool halls, or even nearby where the guys hung out.
If you wore short shorts, you were a slut...and guys would follow you making cat calls. Those 50s and early 60s were some repressed years!
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Comment by margaret kraft on July 27, 2011 at 1:25pm
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I miss the individuality of stores as well. When I was in college in Athens, GA I loved strolling down the rows of shops downtown. I try not to spend as much money in the "Superstores," but they do save time and money. I just wish we didn't have to lose so much to save so little.
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You are correct.. but there really was never a wobegon here. Yes, there are a few lakes true, plus two rivers. I agree with the less choices, knowing the transitions of that little town I happened to be a part of,,, though we lived in the next town. From the malt shop on main street where we got a coke and fries to the A & W for rootbeer to the Armory where I and other musicians first played in a rock and roll band at friday night dances. The local pool and city hall all built and paid for by a local company in 1956-57 just being nice to the townfolk. It doesn't happen in our towns anymore which is a shame. Now that's worthy of a tax deduction or right-off as an American dream,, which never happened there again...The companies went public and were sold,, Wall Street took its profits to line strangers pockets and there is no sense of community anymore. We all saw this...It was a great town to be part of but is no more.
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get OUTTA HERE! i was trying to be funny, and it turns like you're actually FROM lake wobegon??? LOL! ....you know, i was just thinking about matthew's point about the choices. we have so many choices, and yet...in some ways, like the individuality of the towns issue i brought up...we have fewer choices. for example, we used to have a clothing store with x type of stuff in town A. then down the way there was store B with y type of clothing stuff. different furniture in different stores in different towns. but now....there's a gap and a pottery barn everywhere and on every human and in every house. so is that really having more choices or less??? just thinkin'
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