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Did you ever watch, "I Love Lucy"? Your description of that show tells me you never saw it. I wonder just how much you know or just how old you are. Geesh LOL
I agree with the other statement, girls should be getting an education, etc plus not getting pregnant and becoming baby factories but tell them. A lot of them want to be single mothers without much of a future ahead of them.
Can't believe you really posted this. I give it the Stupid Statement of the Thread Award. Congratulations!
Jim Crow, the Red Scare, the Korean War...ahhh good times...good times.
(Hint...those families weren't real...)
Why just bring up the bad things?
Some of us did have a good upbringing in a traditional family. My neighbor had a bomb shelter and we know about such things but we were secure in a stable family. Sorry, but that existed, still does except the assault on the family is all around us now.
The truth is that the 50's were the best of times this country has ever seen, and we've been going downhill ever since. We are in the worst of times today, but it will be even worse tomorrow.
There seems to be an agenda to rewrite history, to present this false image that the nationalism and moral foundations that held the American population together back then were evil. The opposite is true. That was a time of great prosperity, and Americans were united. The 50's were a great period and should not be smeared by those that desire to paint a false picture, for whatever reasons they are doing that.
We peaked in the 50's and have been on the downslide of self-destruction from that time. People that say otherwise are either lying or have something to gain by attacking that which is good. Nobody says it was perfect, but it was a time when role-models were important and family business was not aired as dirty laundry. You honored your parents, didn't shame the family, didn't disrespect your elders, and appreciated what you were provided. We cleaned our plates and didn't waste food because there were children starving in Africa. There were no homeless unless they chose to be hobos, hop the trains and see the country - they were rebels, they lived an alternative lifestyle by choice.
The tv programming reflected the average home, as it should be, yes it was the ideal, and many didn't live up to that model, but that's okay, it was something to strive for, even if we came up short. We didn't complain, we thanked God for what we had.
The truth is that the 50's were the best of times this country has ever seen, and we've been going downhill ever since. We are in the worst of times today, but it will be even worse tomorrow.
There seems to be an agenda to rewrite history, to present this false image that the nationalism and moral foundations that held the American population together back then were evil. The opposite is true. That was a time of great prosperity, and Americans were united. The 50's were a great period and should not be smeared by those that desire to paint a false picture, for whatever reasons they are doing that.
We peaked in the 50's and have been on the downslide of self-destruction from that time. People that say otherwise are either lying or have something to gain by attacking that which is good. Nobody says it was perfect, but it was a time when role-models were important and family business was not aired as dirty laundry. You honored your parents, didn't shame the family, didn't disrespect your elders, and appreciated what you were provided. We cleaned our plates and didn't waste food because there were children starving in Africa. There were no homeless unless they chose to be hobos, hop the trains and see the country - they were rebels, they lived an alternative lifestyle by choice.
The tv programming reflected the average home, as it should be, yes it was the ideal, and many didn't live up to that model, but that's okay, it was something to strive for, even if we came up short. We didn't complain, we thanked God for what we had.
You are either very old or very young and are either waxing nostalgic in your waning years or blathering on about an era that you've only read about. Either way, you're entitled to your opinion....
You are either very old or very young and are either waxing nostalgic in your waning years or blathering on about an era that you've only read about. Either way, you're entitled to your opinion....
Then you were there? Because you seem to know all about it.
So horrible that families could live comfortably on one income, schools actually educated, and kids had intact families.
You are either very old or very young and are either waxing nostalgic in your waning years or blathering on about an era that you've only read about. Either way, you're entitled to your opinion....
The truth is that the 50's were the best of times this country has ever seen, and we've been going downhill ever since. We are in the worst of times today, but it will be even worse tomorrow.
There seems to be an agenda to rewrite history, to present this false image that the nationalism and moral foundations that held the American population together back then were evil. The opposite is true. That was a time of great prosperity, and Americans were united. The 50's were a great period and should not be smeared by those that desire to paint a false picture, for whatever reasons they are doing that.
We peaked in the 50's and have been on the downslide of self-destruction from that time. People that say otherwise are either lying or have something to gain by attacking that which is good. Nobody says it was perfect, but it was a time when role-models were important and family business was not aired as dirty laundry. You honored your parents, didn't shame the family, didn't disrespect your elders, and appreciated what you were provided. We cleaned our plates and didn't waste food because there were children starving in Africa. There were no homeless unless they chose to be hobos, hop the trains and see the country - they were rebels, they lived an alternative lifestyle by choice.
The tv programming reflected the average home, as it should be, yes it was the ideal, and many didn't live up to that model, but that's okay, it was something to strive for, even if we came up short. We didn't complain, we thanked God for what we had.
This is not a rose tinted vision of the past at all. I assume that this may have applied to a certain demographic.
But, the unions were strong back then so, that specific demographic lived well and was compensated properly.
Since the unions were strong, and the fact the at rest of the world was either A) Rebuilding B) Fighting for their independence C) Under Soviet Control D) Engaged in Proxy Wars or being destabilized and/or E) Fighting mass famine.
So in conclusion, yes if you were a working class American Caucasian male that belonged to a union, life was indeed good.
This is not a rose tinted vision of the past at all. I assume that this may have applied to a certain demographic.
But, the unions were strong back then so, that specific demographic lived well and was compensated properly.
Since the unions were strong, and the fact the at rest of the world was either A) Rebuilding B) Fighting for their independence C) Under Soviet Control D) Engaged in Proxy Wars or being destabilized and/or E) Fighting mass famine.
So in conclusion, yes if you were a working class American Caucasian male that belonged to a union, life was indeed good.
No you did not have to belong to a union and non-white people had jobs, homes and families too.
Many people were first generation born here to immigrants and made their way, starting businesses and getting educated, with supportive communities and families. There were several businesses owned solely by women in town, which were started in the fifties.
I never heard of black gangs back then, they were in the big cities though but no trouble in small cities. I think things went downhill when the drugs came to small cities, plus the so called WAR ON POVERTY told the black men they were no longer useful and they needed to leave the home so his family could collect welfare.
That broke families apart and I don't think they ever got back together. Now we have more single black mothers than married. No one can say that is better now than it was in the 50s.
Then you were there? Because you seem to know all about it.
So horrible that families could live comfortably on one income, schools actually educated, and kids had intact families.
Yes, I was. We're you?
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I give it the Stupid Statement of the Thread Award. Congratulations!
