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And you're an authoritative expert on what life was like in the 1890s
Our time traveler could talk to plenty of people who remembered 1890, and pay attention to them, and not just blow them off as old geezers who knew nothing. My first grade teacher was born during the Grant administration, so even I have talked to and listened to people telling me what life was line in the 1890s.
I remember the 50's, and how television was readily accepted. I see no reason why someone from that era, would not accept all the gizmos we have now. In fact, I think they might be disappointed that we're not further along with technology than what we are. Particularly in the area of transportation. Not that transportation isn't more reliable and safer, but that travel still requires the same amount of time for a given distance, and in some instances more.
The big shocker would be popular culture, and the general decline of manners and the social graces.
He would be puzzled.
Back in the 50's, they thought that in 2013 we would be travelling to the stars, travelling in time-space continuums, flying cars, etc....
So he would be puzzled to find a technologically backward era submerged in a moral morass.
Back then people asked, "HOW in the heck people can drive down the road, radio blaring, eating an ice cream cone, and kissing with their eyes closed, all at the same darn time???"
I'd have a hard time explaining to them why we've taken their beautiful residential architecture and remuddled so many of those houses into McMansions and other modern monstrosities.
My wifes' grandfather was born in 1870 and he passed away at the age of 107 in 1977, up unit the the last few months of his life he had all his mental focus in tact. He was a pleasure to sit and talk with, he came to Oregon on the Oregon trail at the age of 5, he saw the advent of the automobile, airplane, radio, tv, and he saw man landing on the moon. He saw more changes in his lifetime than I'll ever see in mine. Some of the stories he would tell would spell-bounding.
How expensive things are today.................but then realizing how high wages are today.
( comparing today to 1950 )
People from the 1950s who could still do arithmetic without a calculator would very quickly understand from the above that a US dollar today is now worth about as much as a DIME, Back them you were doing good if you made 5,000 dollars a year but back then a 1957 Chevy was priced under $2,000 and you could get rach style house or little Cape Cod home from Mr. Levitt in places like Levittown or Garden City for under $10,000. Guess what in state tuition was at the newly renamed Penn State University in 1953?
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