[Strategerist]

Nothing is more tedious than cliched "Everything was perfect in the good 'ol days" article.

[nascarnation]

rate the beauty, class and dignity of Katharine Hepburn, Sophia Loren and Audrey Hepburn

well they are a rung or two above Paris & Britney, LOL

[the OlLine Rebel]

But they have great points. You can't deny those truths.

[vetsvette]

"Nothing is more tedious than cliched "Everything was perfect in the good 'ol days" article."

It wasn't perfect, but in most ways and for most Americans, it was better.

[Rumplemeyer]

No, it wasn't perfect, but it was less in your face and base.

The day after 9/11 I thought, "people are behaving differently, the tenor had come down a few octaves, I wonder how long this will last, it feels like 1973 again, simple common courtesies abound" the answer was two weeks.

[trumandogz]

Who can forget the Good 'Ol Days, when racial segregation was the norm of life expectancy was at least ten years what it is today?


Happy those days are gone forever!

[jwparkerjr]

Just curious, were you there for those days or are you hearing about them from the articles? It was indeed a different life, so much so that it strains the imagination sometimes to remember that there really were some 'good' things about the good ol' days. But it's also true there were some not-so-good, in fact downright awful and horrible, things about those days too. Like the 'colored' drinking fountains and the blacks in the back of the bus. What a shame we couldn't fix the bad things without destroying the good things too.

[-YYZ-]

I agree. For example, you could get service for you car almost anywhere because cars 50 years ago were much less reliable than today's, and also more easily repairable with general knowledge and common tools. Even the tires of 50 years ago were much less durable than modern ones. I can count the number of flats I've had in about a million miles of driving on one hand.

That's not to say that many things have changed for worse, however, even since I was a youngster in the 70s.