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I love early 60s' style in cars, music, clothes, furniture, etc. The economy was pretty good too; it's weird to think that people used to go around with real 90% silver dimes and quarters in their pockets. But in many ways it's been pretty much downhill since JFK's assassination, sadly, and it doesn't seem like what we lost is ever going to come back.
The period in question was also the golden age of the wooden pleasure boat. Magnificent vessels from Chris*Craft, Matthews, Wheeler, Owens, Elco, and many others. The wonderful Detroit Diesel 71 series engines were also showing up in pleasure boats during this era.
Also those great mahogany speedboats from Chris*Craft, Century, and GarWood were plentiful. I wish I had been of age back then...I would have tried to fill a barn with them. They're worth a bundle today...especially the 1955 Chris*Craft Cobra with the big Cadillac motor in it.
My boat, a 1967 57 foot Chris*Craft Constellation, was built at the tail end of the wooden boat era. Sadly, I can cruise for months without seeing another large wooden yacht out on the water.
"If God meant for us to have fiberglass boats, He would have made fiberglass trees"
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My opinion that the past was better was not based on the lack of medical advances back then. Of course today, is a better time for healthcare.
Of course 'back then' my doctor's first question to me was what's troubling you?, now it's what insurance do you have?
I'm not so sure it's possible to say one period in time was better than another. Often, for every improvement in one area there's another that's gotten a little worse. Things are what they are, we have little choice but to start there and try to improve things.
Continue forward. This American of white European ancestry is ashamed of the Jim Crow era. Ashamed of an era when an educated female's highest possible position was secretary, who had better do whatever (inappropriate) the boss wanted.
Being ashamed of something that you didn't do isn't noble. It's actually a sign of mental derangement.
Being ashamed of something that you didn't do isn't noble. It's actually a sign of mental derangement.
Agreed. If you played no part in it there is no reason for "you" personally to be ashamed. Bleeding heart liberals who fit that type do have a mental problem, IMO.
Those years were truly the greatest in our history. It has been a downhill slide ever since. Now, all we ever hope for is change - a change that never comes.
I would take that option too, this country is going down the crapper, attitudes, sense of entitlement, decline in quality of life more so in the major cities. Even the 1980s was a far better period of time than today.
People have been saying the country is going into the crapper since day 1.
So things like that don't happen, especially on this forum? I see a whole lot of hypocrisy here.
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