Posted on 06/09/2016 5:58:58 PM PDT by Beowulf9
That’s a lot of kids in a short time.
I see what she means, that she would welcome having periods, which would give her a break between pregnancies........
I grew up in the number ten town on the Soviet hit list.
We had a SAC base, nuclear weapon assembly facility, and a helium plant/reserves. The Cold War was very real for us.
“You” is one of my mom’s favorites, so I hear it regularly.
Some beautiful music they had back then.
We were over in Arlington maybe five miles from the White House. So like your airbase we had a big fat target nearby but I never spent a moment worried about it.
I’d be much more worried living there today. IMO Islamic terrorism poses a much greater real threat to the residents of NVA than the USSR did for the majority of the Cold War.
I did just read of one incident during Reagan where... Andropov... had his boomers sitting on our continental shelf with the missile doors open which means the fool was prepared to launch so we may well have dodged an Armageddon bullet with that one.
You left out one really big negative: most houses didn’t have air conditioners. Of course you’re in San Diego so you never noticed.
Couple of my favs!
1) Only You...the Platters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r2pEdc1_lI
2) Bobby Darin.....Dream Lover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVHAQX5sSaU
Yep, good point. I don’t want to overlook how air conditioning has made summer much nicer in many parts of the country.
And we could add, how most cars back then didn’t have air conditioning. So it’s not only homes but cars which have air conditioning now.
I’d be delivering my Evening Star paper route in 90 degree heat with 90% humidity in a glorious Washington DC summer wondering what I had done wrong to deserve such punishment. The 70 degree temps I’d see reported on the California coast looked like paradise.
We had regular duck and cover drills in school but we hardly “lived in fear of nuclear war”. That seemed a very remote possibility. The first worry like that didn’t happen until the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
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My experience mirrors yours. And I remember that an adult assured me during the Cuban Missile Crisis by saying that the Cubans would not nuke us because, should they invade us, they would want our prosperous country to remain intact.
Wonderful times.
War.
Nuclear fear in a daily basis.
Polio.
Communism.
I guess there were some good things though.
Like the fact that there was pretty much no Domestic Violence laws. So beat the wife when she is bad!
Oh!!! And if your skin color resembles a darker version of yours then off to the back of the bus, diner, school, etc....
So it’s not all bad.
What fun time to grow up in.
I remember:
white Band-aids
clamp on roller skates with keys to adjust them
I Love Lucy
Gillette Friday night fights
25 cent Saturday movies and a dime for popcorn and Coke
Baby Doll pajamas
lead ice cicles for Christmas trees
Green Stamps
cloth diapers and plastic pants
bobby pins
Evening in Paris perfume
formica tables
sock hops
saddle oxfords
Bobbsey Twins
Nancy Drew Mysteries
girdles and garters
drive in movies
juke boxes
“I like Ike”
Kukla, Fran and Olly
Howdy Doody
Duck and cover drills
I could go on and on. The best of times.
A fun thread.
“50’s were the best times in America,”
for myriad reasons , without a doubt ...born June 9 , 1952 .
Not my kind of singing. Here’s one of my favorite groups:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nRU0GEBmWc
The Platters singing “Twilight Time”.
Yep, we had a family of 11 and one bathroom. Still great times.
Yes
The best.
We didn’t know, did we. People would hardly believe it now.
We know it in our bones, like the whiff of freedom and taste of liberty, like cold, sweet water.
They may kill us off, but that they cannot kill, anymore than they can kill our souls.
Apparently Castro realllly wanted to see us get nuked. But the Russians had total control of the missiles and Khrushchev wasn’t a fool. Those missiles were as much a bargaining chip as anything else.
Our street had only five homes on it with the trees bowing over on both sides to meet in the middle.
There were colonial mansions scattered throughout the area with one where George Washington stayed. It had a dirt road, used originally for horses and carriages that went all the way down, nearly a mile, to it. Both sides with apple trees and old homes going back to the 1700s.
Beautiful beautiful area. I found Indian paint pots and in the woods were Indian pipes, lady slippers, skunk cabbage, whippoorwills, Bob Whites and all sorts of animals in the woods. Harmless black snakes swam in the creek and hid in holes on the banks. My older brother and his friends built tree forts and ground forts and watched Hop-a-Long Cassidy and Daniel Boone.
I miss those days.
“I’m sure others can come up with many many more items.”
Air conditioning.
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