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I’m so old I remember watching Dobie Gillis....Thalia Menninger and Maynard G Krebs.
I remember that too. Even as a little boy, I did not understand why Dobie did not become Zelda's boyfriend, when Zelda was a good-looking girl who was interested in him. Instead, Dobie kept chasing after girls who had no interest in him.
I remember when one-bathroom houses were for the middle class.
Right. My parents were depression era kids who became adults during WWII. I remember the first home they owned in the 50’s. It was a prefab built by the Gunnison Co. One bath, three tiny bedrooms on a concrete slab with green linoleum floors.
They were built in large numbers in the suburbs at the time. There was a housing shortage and prefabs were relatively cheap and easy to assemble. At the time this was considered middle class living. And many of theses homes are still around.
Beer Cans No pop top.. you used a church key to pierce the top
Glass & Beer Bottle no twist of.. need the church key to open
Hold you hand over the carburetor on a cold winters day for starting along with either.
Home Telephone Black with a rotary dial and cloth cord you wired to the base molding. And the party line. You had up too 6--8 people. You just answered when you heard the correct number of rings..
Cloth diapers no disposable . Same as no paper towels . and Toilet Paper or corn cobs and the out house.
Oil Lamps every home had them. Coal fired stoves along with wood.
Bicycles came with 1 speed. Fancy ones had 3 speed
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Old enuff to remember when the only 'approved' life for most young men back then was getting married, raising a family, and becoming a "Good Provider". For better or for worse, Playboy permanently changed all that.
It soon became the biggest men’s magazine in the world, selling seven million copies a month at the height of its success.
Hefner said he started the magazine in part because he was “raised in a lot of repression” in a strict Methodist household. “The major civilizing force in the world is not religion,” he wrote in the Playboy manifesto, “it is sex.” In an interview later in life, Hefner declared that “in terms of pop culture and sexual attitudes, we do live in a Playboy world now.”
Old enuff to remember when the only 'approved' life for most young men back then was getting married, raising a family, and becoming a "Good Provider". For better or for worse, Playboy permanently changed all that.
I'm not sure Playboy changed anything that much. According to Social Security only 4% of men and woman have never been married by the time they retire. It doesn't seem that people are no longer getting married, they are just waiting a lot longer. I'm not sure that Playboy has much to do with that. I expect that has more to do with financial reasons.
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△ Well, for Playboy being 'ineffectual', we sure wouldn't know it judging by all the 'vitriol' over the years from both the angry 'gender feminists', and the 'wingers, who've even claimed it's helped bring about the downfall of the Family, and the 'Murikin Way of Life!
The publication wouldn't be a success with out people buying it.
People couldn't buy it without it being published.
i do remember it being passed around in school and hidden in lockers. if you wanted to get someone in trouble, you could squeeze it through the hole in someone's locker then report the to a teacher.
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