brin
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Yes they were the good ole days and I am so thankful I was born when I was....I fear many will never know the freedoms we had...they are mostly gone now.
Were They Really the Good Old Days?
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Yes they were the good ole days and I am so thankful I was born when I was....I fear many will never know the freedoms we had...they are mostly gone now.
I have 5 kids (now married with children) and am truly concerned that all the opportunities afforded me will not be available to them. Starting out, my house payment was $360/month, gas was 19 cents/ gallon, car and home insurance was reasonable. I understand that I made a whole lot less money and could afford these things but my kids have college degrees and make a bunch more money than I but with everything being so expensive, I doubt they will surpass Dad's social hierarchy and move up in this world.
It's getting to where vacations are for the rich and my social class is relegated to Disney World and forget any foreign travel.
Makes you wonder why Congress members spend millions running for an office that pays $100K-$200K per year. The Government is where the money is and people are fighting for jobs there. It's the only position that has good salaries, benefits and security. Pretty sad, don't you think.....
It's getting to where vacations are for the rich and my social class is relegated to Disney World and forget any foreign travel.
Makes you wonder why Congress members spend millions running for an office that pays $100K-$200K per year. The Government is where the money is and people are fighting for jobs there. It's the only position that has good salaries, benefits and security. Pretty sad, don't you think.....
Jesse masterson
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Haven't read all the posts in this thread but what I've read seems mostly financial about the good old day , and how much easier it is today with mostly everybody had ac, but I would like to say the good old days are not really financial, what about when you could get help in a emergency when you need it, what about when people really cared ? What about when out children got in fist fights at school instead of going in with a gun firing random at whoever they can hit, I m not anti gun mind you so refrain in post, I know it's not the gun it's the phychological factor of many people. The good old days have nothing to do with what you have or had, but who you are inside. That's what's lacking today!
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In the good old days, when my $100 car broke down out in the boondocks, and a car finally stopped, and an African American man got out the car, I knew he was stopping to help me. This happened to me a few times and nowdays I want to pay the favor forward but I am afraid to. 
Jesse masterson
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That so true , but may I take it a step farther. I would be afraid of anyone stopping to help. Seems everyone has alternative motive nowadays
It seems to me that a lot has to do with all the "newer and better" communications. Now a lot of people want to text or email someone or forgodsake, communicate via facebook, then some will take the time to pull the cell phone out of the pocket and actually take to another.
Back then, you had to go the house to use the phone and if you had a party line, you might not even be able to make a call when you wanted. Just about every little town had some type of general or grocery store, people would sit around, shoot the bull, re-establish relationships with each other. We did a lot of visiting with friends and family, you went to their house and spent some real quality time with them.
At least back in those days, you had real friends, not contacts. Even though communication methods were worse, it seems that everybody knew about everybody else and if someone needed help, then there would always be someone of that crowd that would give the help.
Family get togethers were at a house, usually wound up at the dinner table instead of a restaurant.
As a side note, back in those days when everybody usually wound up at the local store (we called ours the liars club), there wasn't as much crime because eventually it would be found out and you just didn't want that to happen to you or your family.
Back then, you had to go the house to use the phone and if you had a party line, you might not even be able to make a call when you wanted. Just about every little town had some type of general or grocery store, people would sit around, shoot the bull, re-establish relationships with each other. We did a lot of visiting with friends and family, you went to their house and spent some real quality time with them.
At least back in those days, you had real friends, not contacts. Even though communication methods were worse, it seems that everybody knew about everybody else and if someone needed help, then there would always be someone of that crowd that would give the help.
Family get togethers were at a house, usually wound up at the dinner table instead of a restaurant.
As a side note, back in those days when everybody usually wound up at the local store (we called ours the liars club), there wasn't as much crime because eventually it would be found out and you just didn't want that to happen to you or your family.
Loren49
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U.S. Gas Price History: From 25 Cents to Nearly $5 a Gallon
1919: Gas prices were 25 cents per gallon
1946: Highway statistics were kept; gas still 27 cents per gallon
1974: Average gas price went above 50 cents for the first time in the United States
Inflation Calculator | Find US Dollar's Value from 1913-2014
Today's value of $360 house payment in 1919 is about $4850
Today' value of $360 in 1946 is about $4300
Today's value of $300 in 1974 is about $1700
The good old days weren't that good.
14. WERE THE GOOD OLD DAYS ALL THAT GOOD?
WERE THE GOOD OLD DAYS ALL THAT GOOD?
The good old days. Were they the 1950痴? Or before any of us were born? We tend to romanticise the past if for no other reason than we were younger then. A very selective memory also tends to create myths about the past.
The idea of a Golden Age buried somewhere in the past is also part of the mythology and story-telling of almost every national and cultural group. When we go back to the earliest recordings of human history we find that the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks or Hebrews all had their sacred stories of a golden age just as the Australian Aborigines have their Dreamtime. In more recent history, national or cultural groups have created their own golden age of noble beginnings.......
What about the golden age of Early Modern life before the onset of the industrial revolution? Films can easily give us romantic images of beautiful people living in harmony with nature. Princeton historian Lawrence Stone tarnishes that myth with this account::
The almost total ignorance of both personal and public hygiene meant that contaminated food and water was a constant hazard. The result of these primitive sanitary conditions was constant outbursts of bacterial stomach infections, the most fearful of all being dysentery, which swept away many victims of both sexes and of all ages within a few hours or days?he prevalence of intestinal worm were a slow, disgusting and debilitating disease that caused a vast amount of misery and ill-health?nother fact of Early Modern life which is easy to forget is that only a relatively small proportion of the adult population at any given time was both healthy and attractive, quite apart from the normal features of smell and dirt?oth sexes must very often have had a bad breath from the rotting teeth and constant stomach disorders which can be documented from many sources, while suppurating ulcers, eczema, scabs, running sores and other nauseating skin diseases were extremely common and often lasted for years. (Cited by Bjorn Lomberg, The Skeptical Environmentalist, p.53)
No wonder archivist Otto L. Bettman actually wrote a book called The Good Old Days: They were Terrible.
People have not changed significantly from any good old days. I find many are willing to help out when there are problems and most care for their families and just try to get along. Overall our most pressing problem is that we are spoiled. How many people in the good old days had the luxury of a $20,000 4WD tractor? We had a JD60 and JDA as our only tractors on a 250 acre dairy farm.
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Of course the honest answer is Yes and No.
vabiker23518
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As one who is approaching "golden age" (I'm sixty) I remember paying 32 cents average for a gallon of gas. I've seen gas wars where the price was 15 cents/gallon! And I remember being excited to earn $3.60 an hour with a summer government job in 1973! Before that I would cut lawns in the neighborhood for $2 to $3.50 depending on their size. I went to the local savings and loan as a 15 year old (around 1968) and wanted to buy a $1,000 CD; the teller was amazed that someone my age could afford a CD! For me, they were the good old days!!!
