This is a pic from her web site, presumably showing her living arrangements. I could be wrong, but I don't believe there were VHS tapes or post-it notes back in the '50s.
Posted on 02/21/2007 10:07:19 AM PST by Incorrigible
This is a pic from her web site, presumably showing her living arrangements. I could be wrong, but I don't believe there were VHS tapes or post-it notes back in the '50s.
Title is wrong. She's trying to live a PRE-1950's lifestyle.
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Does she know how to dive under her desk in case of a nuclear attack and can she order a handgun over the mail from a magazine?
Her looks.
Off topic comment - It seems like rather than encouraging others to learn about and admire their culture(s), indian leaders are trying to bury it through political correctness. We'll end up respecting them into forgetful oblivion.
Yes, indeed. Our next-door neighbors had a TV in 1947 -- complete with a water-filled magnifier in front to make the B&W image look a bit bigger. Used to visit and watch Roller Derby on it.
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She is dancing around an interesting question. Will technology be our slave or will we become a slave to technology? I have a love hate affair with technology. I used to have two cellphones and I have given them both up. The result has been very positive. And I when I watch television, which is mostly sports, I rarely turn on the sound. Try watching the shopping channels without the sound, you will get bored quickly but you will learn that those talking heads on the shopping channels are now the hardest working people in show business.
Kodachrome was invented in 1935, but I don't think color film for snapshots was in widespread use during the '50's (color snapshots on desk).
I can't imagine what she will do when she finds herself sharing a restroom with a "negro".
Very cool!
No push button phones, call waiting, cordless phones,cell phones, microwave ovens, digital clocks, radios....
I wonder how many types of shampoo, toothpaste, and soap were available.
Oh come on in the 50's if you weren't married you did not have $*x nor did you talk about it.....(sarc)
"I wonder how many types of shampoo, toothpaste, and soap were available."
How about breakfast cereal? There are hundreds of choices today.
It makes me wonder about the quality of a history department where professors sign off on such a project.
You should check out these books if you can find them: Please Stand By A Prehistory of Television by Michael Ritchie and A History of Broadcasting (three volumes) by Erik Barnouw. I enjoyed reading them.
From that photo...I didn't know we had VCR tape and pre-fab furniture back then. :)
Pee.
She is in Michigan, not Alabama...
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