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the price of gasoline and fuel oil would knock 'em dead
The price of a gallon of gas now is the same as a hamburger or a chocolate malt, a paperback novel or Sunday paper, six postage stamps, or half the price of a movie ticket or a haircut. Same as it was then.
If you think gas is expensive, to in to the fountain drinks, and start filling cups with iced tea or Coca Cola, until you have a gallon of it, see now much that rings up to.
OK, I'm going to be he guy stepping out of the time machine, and here is my question:
How come everybody spends so much time working? In 1950, I work 40 hours a week, my wife stays home housekeeping and childrearing, and every Friday I bring home enough for everything we need and a few things we want. Why does everybody now need a second job and a working wife to barely get by? Work was hard then, heavy lifting, and accounting with a fountain pen. I thought if I worked hard, I could make you a good life where you wouldn't have to, but now you spend twice as much time at the job.
Why does it still take four years to get a college education. My kids got a degree in four years, when you had to walk to the library and spend all day there, or send a letter and wait as week for a reply, to find out what nowadays you can google in 30 seconds.
My parents came over here at the turn of the century and ran smack into the first world war, the depression, the second world war. And I get out of this dad blamed time machine and all I hear is whiners. I worked hard when times were tough, and I served in WW-two, to save the world for you kids, but if I had known you guys would turn out like this, I wouldn't have bothered.
TV's and radios that play instantly when turned on. (No tubes to warm up)
Telephones have dials that don't rotate.
Locomotives that don't burn coal.
Airplanes without propellers.
Electric typewriters.
Monthly Electric bills over $30.
No overhead open wire telephone lines with glass insulators.
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To expand on the question, while there are a lot of obvious differences between now and 1950 in terms of technology, culture, etc., I wonder which changes or new things they'd grasp easily and which would be utterly perplexing.
Someone from the 50's and the 40's show up daily in my life since they are now in their 60's and 70's and still breathing.
I'm not sure what the point of the question is unless of course you mean the 1850's.
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All things that I support, but also all things that I imagine would be hard for the average American from the 50s to understand. Especially since many people alive today from that era have such a hard time wrapping their heads around that concept, both my parents included.
OK, I'm going to be he guy stepping out of the time machine, and here is my question:
How come everybody spends so much time working? In 1950, I work 40 hours a week, my wife stays home housekeeping and childrearing, and every Friday I bring home enough for everything we need and a few things we want. Why does everybody now need a second job and a working wife to barely get by? Work was hard then, heavy lifting, and accounting with a fountain pen. I thought if I worked hard, I could make you a good life where you wouldn't have to, but now you spend twice as much time at the job.
Why does it still take four years to get a college education. My kids got a degree in four years, when you had to walk to the library and spend all day there, or send a letter and wait as week for a reply, to find out what nowadays you can google in 30 seconds.
My parents came over here at the turn of the century and ran smack into the first world war, the depression, the second world war. And I get out of this dad blamed time machine and all I hear is whiners. I worked hard when times were tough, and I served in WW-two, to save the world for you kids, but if I had known you guys would turn out like this, I wouldn't have bothered.
Reminds me of the CO-OP feed store where I was farming.
I recall when they first got computers.
The CO-OP manager was so proud and declared how much time computers saved in the office.
An old farmer said ..........." if those computers save so much time, why are there 3 women working in the office sitting on a desk with computers. Elsie used to be the only one and she didn't have a computer. ".
1950? If not mentioned yet it would have to be a African America President...Next would be the term Africa American rather than "N". Remember we are talking about 1950. So this would cover the race of most any person coming back from that time.
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That's a wrap