[manaboutown]

Originally Posted by coralway

this post is a word for word paste and copy from some 50’s Facebook group.

It did look familiar. I recall receiving something like this in one or more emails. Drinking Kool-Aid and water out of the hose rang a bell.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by coralway

this post is a word for word paste and copy from some 50’s Facebook group.

True but did appreciate the words expressed. OP should have mentioned he took it from someplace else.

[Cyndee@twc.com]

Long Island NY is far from Wisconsin but it all sounds just about right. We had the same TV shows we had chores to do we had to be in when he street lights went on . WE had respect for adults and did not use bad language. We had more time outside then in . Never ever played computer games we did not have them yet. We had censorship on what you could see and hear. things that were censored Movies, TV shows, Music, Books and News papers. even the TV commercials. We the country let all that go. Now nothing is censored except some of our rights. It's a different world today.

Originally Posted by Michael G.

I grew up in Wisconsin, but never thought I was raised by low income parents during a time when most everyone treated each other with respect. We didn't eat a lot of fast food because it was considered a treat, not a food group.
We drank Kool-Aid made from water that came from our kitchen sink with real sugar.
We ate bologna sandwiches, or even tuna (which was in a can not a pouch), PB&J & grilled cheese sandwiches, hot dogs, pot pies, but mostly homemade meals consisting of mainly dough, meat, potatoes, vegetable, bread & butter, and homemade dessert.
We grew up during a time when we mowed lawns, pulled weeds, babysat, helped neighbors with chores to be able to earn our own money. We went outside a lot to play games, ride bikes, red rover, dodge ball, run with siblings, and friends & played hide and seek. We drank tap water from the water hose outside... bottled water was unheard of. If we had a coke -it was in a glass bottle ... and we didn’t break the bottle when finished …
We watched TV shows like Bonanza, Leave It To Beaver, Gilligan's Island, Happy Days, Bewitched, The Brady Bunch, Little House On The Prairie, and I Love Lucy. After school, we came home, and did homework, and chores before going outside or having friends over. We would ride our bikes for hours. We had to tell our parents where we were going, who we were going with, and what time we'd be back.
You LEARNED from your parents instead of disrespecting them, and treating them as if they knew absolutely nothing. What they said was LAW, and you did not question it, and you had better know it!!!
When the sun was starting to set you had better be home. In school we said the Pledge of Allegiance, we stood for the National Anthem, and listened to our teachers.
We watched what we said around our elders because we knew if we DISRESPECTED any grown-up we would get our behinds whipped, it wasn't called abuse, it was called discipline! We held doors, carried groceries, and gave up our seat for an older person without being asked.
You didn't hear curse words on the radio in songs or TV, and if you cursed and got caught you had a bar of soap stuck in your mouth, and had to stand in the corner. “Please, Thank you, yes please no thank you yes ma'am no ma'am yes sir, and no sir were part of our daily vocabulary!
You grew up to respect the Nation, and the flag.

Re-post if you're thankful for your childhood, and will never forget where you came from & the time you came from!

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by Queenie504

I'm really glad I didnt have to live through the 1950's with sexism, racism and inequality. I'm quite okay with living in the here and now. The past is gone and it's not coming back, thankfully.

I'm sure glad we don't have sexism, racism, and inequality today.

[MartinSE]

Originally Posted by Captainpd

Why would you "challenge" people to repost your post?? 7 paragraphs long, isn't that enough. Pretty much all of us had a great time in the 50-60's. I'm not sure what you post is supposed to do. Those times are gone forever and it's fine to have those memories but DON'T challenge people with it..

Not everyone, almost maybe.

I don't look back favorably, not such a good time. I look forward to my grandkids having a better life.

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by Michael G.

I grew up in Wisconsin, but never thought I was raised by low income parents during a time when most everyone treated each other with respect. We didn't eat a lot of fast food because it was considered a treat, not a food group.
We drank Kool-Aid made from water that came from our kitchen sink with real sugar.
We ate bologna sandwiches, or even tuna (which was in a can not a pouch), PB&J & grilled cheese sandwiches, hot dogs, pot pies, but mostly homemade meals consisting of mainly dough, meat, potatoes, vegetable, bread & butter, and homemade dessert.
We grew up during a time when we mowed lawns, pulled weeds, babysat, helped neighbors with chores to be able to earn our own money. We went outside a lot to play games, ride bikes, red rover, dodge ball, run with siblings, and friends & played hide and seek. We drank tap water from the water hose outside... bottled water was unheard of. If we had a coke -it was in a glass bottle ... and we didn’t break the bottle when finished …
We watched TV shows like Bonanza, Leave It To Beaver, Gilligan's Island, Happy Days, Bewitched, The Brady Bunch, Little House On The Prairie, and I Love Lucy. After school, we came home, and did homework, and chores before going outside or having friends over. We would ride our bikes for hours. We had to tell our parents where we were going, who we were going with, and what time we'd be back.
You LEARNED from your parents instead of disrespecting them, and treating them as if they knew absolutely nothing. What they said was LAW, and you did not question it, and you had better know it!!!
When the sun was starting to set you had better be home. In school we said the Pledge of Allegiance, we stood for the National Anthem, and listened to our teachers.
We watched what we said around our elders because we knew if we DISRESPECTED any grown-up we would get our behinds whipped, it wasn't called abuse, it was called discipline! We held doors, carried groceries, and gave up our seat for an older person without being asked.
You didn't hear curse words on the radio in songs or TV, and if you cursed and got caught you had a bar of soap stuck in your mouth, and had to stand in the corner. “Please, Thank you, yes please no thank you yes ma'am no ma'am yes sir, and no sir were part of our daily vocabulary!
You grew up to respect the Nation, and the flag.

Re-post if you're thankful for your childhood, and will never forget where you came from & the time you came from!

I can't wax THAT poetic about my childhood. It was just something that happened. It was neither terrible nor super wonderful - just somewhere in the middle, just average.

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by manaboutown

My family moved from NJ to Albuquerque, NM in 1945 when I was three so I do not remember anything about NJ. Thankfully my parents took a few snapshots of my brother and me there. I remember not having a car for the first few years. We took the bus. We had gas rationing for a while as well as food (I think meat) rationing. I also remember sticking stamps in a book for savings bonds. 11/11 was still Armistice Day. Polio was a HUGE problem until the vaccines came out. No penicillin, kids got boils, ringworm and such. We all had chicken pox, red measles and mumps. My mother did not believe in vitamin pills and only a few were available anyway. She cooked almost everything from scratch as that was all we could afford. Looking back that was a good thing! My parents never had more than one car that they bought used and we definitely had less money than 80% of my childhood friends' families.

I did feel SAFE as a child and rode my bike everywhere I wanted to go after I finally got a bike.

Right about all that stuff. I also remember S+H green stamps put into books. I had forgotten about ringworm.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

I'm sure glad we don't have sexism, racism, and inequality today.

The more things change the more they stay the same, as a wise man once said

[Michael G.]

Here's a scary thought when we mention here about our childhood, making history, and commenting on how people and the world changed since the 50's 60's.

"What will this generation say about being raised in the year 2022 in the year 2087?"

I hope to god in the year 2087, there will be happy memory's about 2022 for those kids to look back on.
That is if the world doesn't destroy itself before hand.

[Bilyclub]

We prefer original content here, not regurgitated FB crap.

Originally Posted by Michael G.

I grew up in Wisconsin, but never thought I was raised by low income parents during a time when most everyone treated each other with respect. We didn't eat a lot of fast food because it was considered a treat, not a food group.
We drank Kool-Aid made from water that came from our kitchen sink with real sugar.
We ate bologna sandwiches, or even tuna (which was in a can not a pouch), PB&J & grilled cheese sandwiches, hot dogs, pot pies, but mostly homemade meals consisting of mainly dough, meat, potatoes, vegetable, bread & butter, and homemade dessert.
We grew up during a time when we mowed lawns, pulled weeds, babysat, helped neighbors with chores to be able to earn our own money. We went outside a lot to play games, ride bikes, red rover, dodge ball, run with siblings, and friends & played hide and seek. We drank tap water from the water hose outside... bottled water was unheard of. If we had a coke -it was in a glass bottle ... and we didn’t break the bottle when finished …
We watched TV shows like Bonanza, Leave It To Beaver, Gilligan's Island, Happy Days, Bewitched, The Brady Bunch, Little House On The Prairie, and I Love Lucy. After school, we came home, and did homework, and chores before going outside or having friends over. We would ride our bikes for hours. We had to tell our parents where we were going, who we were going with, and what time we'd be back.
You LEARNED from your parents instead of disrespecting them, and treating them as if they knew absolutely nothing. What they said was LAW, and you did not question it, and you had better know it!!!
When the sun was starting to set you had better be home. In school we said the Pledge of Allegiance, we stood for the National Anthem, and listened to our teachers.
We watched what we said around our elders because we knew if we DISRESPECTED any grown-up we would get our behinds whipped, it wasn't called abuse, it was called discipline! We held doors, carried groceries, and gave up our seat for an older person without being asked.
You didn't hear curse words on the radio in songs or TV, and if you cursed and got caught you had a bar of soap stuck in your mouth, and had to stand in the corner. “Please, Thank you, yes please no thank you yes ma'am no ma'am yes sir, and no sir were part of our daily vocabulary!
You grew up to respect the Nation, and the flag.

Re-post if you're thankful for your childhood, and will never forget where you came from & the time you came from!

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by jwwbmw

I also grew up in Wisconsin… except on a farm, so you can add into the mix milking cows, fieldwork and barn chores. It was a great life. Everything you said I could identify with so well. What part of Wisconsin? Chilton and Sheboygan area here.

Small farms were part of making America strong. They guaranteed nutritious local food for most people. Today not so much. It might be good if we incentivized small farms and NOT giant corporate farms.

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by Captainpd

Why would you "challenge" people to repost your post?? 7 paragraphs long, isn't that enough. Pretty much all of us had a great time in the 50-60's. I'm not sure what you post is supposed to do. Those times are gone forever and it's fine to have those memories but DON'T challenge people with it..

I enjoyed that thread-starter. I had forgotten about some of those things from those by-gone eras. Like bologna sandwiches, sleds, and clotheslines. It was nice to remember them. "Tne child is father to the man"!

[Weezylou77@aol.com]

We lived in the BEST of times

[blueash]

Originally Posted by billethkid

When;

core values mattered!
Discipline and enforcement was expected.
Majority mattered.
Patriotism and pride were ever present.
One was expected to work for monies received.
Accomplishment was earned by ability (not one's color or organizational membership/participation).

To name a few.

Core values still matter. They may not be the values you hold so dear. And there were plenty of people with different values in the 50s but you never heard about it in your community

The majority still matters, but which you might mean white Christian straight people, but we have moved a little bit to recognize that the minority matters also. The Bill of Rights and most of the amendments exist to protect the minority from the majority. Our jury system protects defendants from the will of the majority.

Patriotism still exists. Some are thoughtfully patriotic, some are nativist patriots. Pride, well they have wonderful gay pride parades in every major city. Lots of pride going around

People still are expected to work for money. That's not changed. But we don't let people starve or do without medical care. There were always welfare agencies. Every city had a "poor house". Social workers were a major occupation in the 50s who mostly worked to get social services to needy people.

And "Accomplishment was earned by ability (not one's color or organizational membership/participation)" is complete BS. Do you think Black people were not blocked from jobs because of their color? Do you think women were equally welcomed into high paying professions, or policing, or labor unions? Was it entirely by accident that huge numbers of Irish were cops? Was that all by merit, nothing to do with family members getting you in? Or the same for getting into labor unions? or becoming a dock worker? or getting a bank loan?

Your view of how things used to be merit based is so wrong, unless you mean once you were a white male and from the right church or national origin which got you the job, then making progress might be merit based. But Jews, Blacks, Native Americans, Asians, gays, need not apply.

Those are your good old days, when parents could abuse their children, men could rape their wives and you could call your secretary sweet tits.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by Bilyclub

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