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"Moldy Tater Gangrene, even before Moscow Marge."
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Leave it to Beaver, etc. are NOT documentaries.
A lot of people seem misguided and deluded about what life back then for the American family was like. The nostalgia they have is not the past as it was - it's the past as they want to remember it being like. If you don't believe that, then listen to what Jerry Mathers (The Beaver) had to say about this 50 years later (60 years before today).
Neither one of my parents, who were adolescents during the '50s, had families that resembled the Cleavers, although for entirely different reasons. My siblings and I came closer, but it's really my own children, born in the late '90s and early aughts, who have the best claim to the secure, happy, single income household lifestyle that everyone seems to think was the mid-century norm.
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