[Lynne]

Born in 51 and remember all this stuff!! A guy down the block worked for RCA and had one of the first color televisions. The whole block went down to his house on New Years to watch the Rose Parade (he still has New Years Day open houses).

The older boys actually let us little girls play with them with NO sexual or other problems!! They gave us rides on their bikes and in their boats (we are on a lake), they let us play touch football, etc. They actually looked out for us.

We never locked our door. On Sundays I wore a frilly dress with white gloves and a hat to church. We had block parties on the lake. All the men on the block got together every Saturday and drank, are you ready, Horlacher Beer.

The Moms I knew stayed home, Dads worked, and people were still able to buy a home and raise a family and send them to college on one salary.

So many memories.

[VMI70]

LOL--
We also had one of the first RCA color TVs, so we had lots of visitors. Of course the thing didn't work right, and my father was so mad (it was really expensive) that he called General Sarnoff (the Chairman of RCA!) and told him to come pick up his terrible TV set.
I think it was about a day later, a truck pulled up to the house, brought in a brand new TV and hauled the old one away, no questions asked. The new one worked just fine.
Can you imagine that happening in this day and time?