I recall seeing this movie many years ago on TV. I found it quite enjoyable. I can't recall how 'political' it was.
Posted on 10/01/2017 7:22:20 AM PDT by Mafe
It’s been a beautiful spring day in the suburbs of Pennsylvania on this Thursday, June 7th, 1961. You just got home from work and your wife is almost finished preparing one of her typically delicious dinners. Your kids, a boy and two girls, aged 15, 13, and 9, have been out all day riding their bikes around the neighborhood and playing with friends. Now everybody’s hungry and ready to sit down for the family meal.
Last night was game night, and you barely emerged with a victory in Monopoly. Your kids are getting good, and your wife, normally the more savvy player, had some bad luck. Tonight is TV night, and everyone is ready to enjoy Ozzie and Harriet and Leave It to Beaver. (The younger ones get to stay up a little later on TV night, and you know they’re not going to miss a minute of the shows.)
Of course a live, in-person show is incredible—who could forget your family outing two weeks ago when you all drove into Manhattan and saw My Fair Lady on Broadway? But TV has its own unique appeal, especially with shows like Lassie and Andy Griffith and Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color and Father Knows Best and The Flintstones. And they’re all on at night so the whole family can enjoy them together.
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Get back to where I once belonged!
If you went to sleep in 1961, and I was around in 1961 and remember the times, you would think you had woke up in hell, that you had died and gone to hell while you were asleep. This place today basically describes what hell will look line when they get there. As for me, I am going the other way and simply cannot wait for my LORD to come and get us.
“the whole family can enjoy them together”
Back then TV was an unifier because it had to be. Advertisers had to pay for a broad audience. They had no choice.
Now media’s divisive so advertisers can target specific audiences.
And if you a heart attack in 1961, the treatment was “lie in bed and hope you don’t have another one.” And cancer? Maybe a round of very nasty chemo to get you another year, but then, farewell. Jobs were for the most part far duller and/or more dangerous than today. All that stuff we can do in seconds on a spreadsheet now had to be done manually on paper by a lot of people back then with a lot of checking and re-checking. Not too interesting. So while I would prefer much of the lifestyle of the 1960s, I’ll definitely take my 2017 job and health care.
No question but that you are correct about being in the last days of earth history.
We just don’t know when!
But it will be sooner than it was?
“If You Fell Asleep in 1961 and Woke Up Today”
I’d still own that ‘57 Chevy Belair 2-door (no post).
Tonight is TV night.
You have 3 channels and ‘Hazel’ is on.
Just stab yourself in the eye with an icepick.
Those things happened in 1961, too. Since there was no 24-hour news cycle then, we just didn't hear about them so much.
Mark Steyn once wrote that if you placed a 40 year old man in a time capsule in 1950, and let him walk out of the capsule in the present day, the first thing he woul say would be, “Why are all the adult males dressed like 12 year old boys”?
The mind plays tricks about how one remembers the good old days. Most folks equate those "days" to childhood memories that were perceived as good while parents sheltered us from the bad.
Such a trip for 5 people was pretty expensive, even in 1960.
You don’t remember the Bay of Pigs ... or the race riots?
1961 was a little early for the race riots. Things were still pretty calm.
Bay of Pigs was a fiasco, but again small potatoes to what came later.
That was the appearance anyway....however you had to lie, cheat or steal to look good and go along with society. As others have pointed out most of the problems of today were there then -they were just swept under the rug and hidden.
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They would have been in the local newspaper if they happened. And they never happened in the small city where I grew up.
Children were so safe on the streets they were allowed to go anywhere they wished on foot as long as they were home in time for the evening meal.
The only deaths I recall were from accidents. The pole on top of a swing set fell and hit the head of a girl in my elementary school and killed her. During the summer a boy dove into a shallow pool in a creek and hit a rock bottom, breaking his neck.
There were broken homes but they were rare. In one near me, a mother raised her four children allalone and worked to earn a living. She was not on welfare. She also took them to church and encouraged other neighborhood children to go to church. She had her hands full as her teen age bosy were rebellious and disobeyed her and she worried hey would get in trouble with the law — but they never did.
Teen pregnancies were very rare and hush-hush. And marriage was the norm and what people aspired to in order to have a happy life. Girls went away to have a baby and they did not get abortions, which were deemed to be murder by just about everyone.
Nearly every grown men worked and often moms worked, too. Hard work was a virtue and respected, as were all the other virtues taught by the church.
The world has gone to hell in a hand basket. There’s no question about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Riders
1961 was the year of the ‘Freedom Riders’
Riots pretty much wherever they went. Kennedy denounced them although you will never here that repeated in the media...
Really. Firebombing and a whole state under Marshall is ‘calm’?
Perhaps you also don’t remember the standoff in Berlin!
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