Grad student lives 1950s lifestyle for project

Newhouse News ^ | 2/21/2007 | Tracy Davis

[Incorrigible]

Wonder if she'll be listening to Joe McCarthy on the radio?

[Incorrigible]

 

A Generation X'er goes... Back.... To the future!

 

[Alouette]

I know Civil War reenactors who live in the 19th Century.

As for those Renaissance Faire people...

[P-40]

Wonder what she uses for birth control. :)

[ConservatismNow]

That's a very novel idea for a grad project! Good for her. At least she's not bashing Bush to get her degree, like a lot of other programs.

[marsh2]

She gets an F. I was born in 1949 and my parents had a tv before I was born.

[AU72]

She should use crisco to cook most of her suppers. Light up a pack of Winstons a day. And use DDT spray the bugs in the summer.

[flying Elvis]

It's a silly project lacking in any real scholarly merit. She could easily interview some folks who actually lived during the fifites, but then again she would not get all of this attention.

[isthisnickcool]

Well, at least she can't catch aids since it does not exist....

[Preachin']

I think this is a pretty cool project.

Last year I bought a house from the neighborhood I grew up in.

The house was built in 1962, and my wife and I are planning to decorate it in the styles of the late 50s to early 60s.

I don't think I could go so far as to relinquish all of the technology we have in our home.

[ladtx]

This past weekend I sat down and wrote a letter to my brother, not on the computer but actually used a fountain pen on real stationery. It makes you think more about what you're about to commit to paper since there is no delete or backspace. I'm sure he'll be shocked. Hopefully it will become a new way for us to communicate.

[boxerblues]

I was born in 1949 and my parents had a tv before I was born.

They may have been around but not very common place. We did not get our first TV until the mid 60's

[Lil'freeper]

I'm excited for her for all the things she's learning, but I agree, this doesn't have much scholarly merit. I've done some living history - 1860's homesteading - and it's great fun!

[ConservatismNow]

Exactly. How could you FReep without a computer?

[Mercat]

We were at a Civil War reinactment in Virginia a few years ago and waiting in line for food when the woman in front of me, dressing for the period and carrying a basket instead of a purse, reached into said basket and pulled out her cell phone and started chatting. LOL

[Dr.Zoidberg]

How could you FReep without a computer?

Carrier pigeon?

[PurpleMan]

Luddites Unite!

[JmyBryan]

Wonder what happened to the word habitual? And why has it been replaced by addicted?

I suspect it all boils down to government grants and lawsuits.

[MamaB]

They were not that common way back then. I remember there were very few in the small town I grew up in. They did not stay on for 24 hours a day either. I can remember hearing the National Anthem before the stations closed for the night.

[Preachin']

"They may have been around but not very common place. We did not get our first TV until the mid 60's"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television

Regular network broadcasting began in the United States in 1946, and television became common in American homes by the middle 1950s.

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That's pretty cool. I did not know TV went back to the 1940s.