[Loch-Ruadh] The 50's

[Terry Varner]

>Subject: The 50's
>
>Were you a kid in the Fifties or earlier? Everybody makes fun of our
>childhood! Comedians joke. Grandkids snicker. Twenty-something's shudder
>and say "Eeeew!" But was our childhood really all that bad? Judge for
>yourself:
>
>In 1953 The US population was less than 150 million... Yet you knew more
>people then, and knew them better... And that was good.
>
>The average annual salary was under $3,000... Yet our parents could put
>some of it away for a rainy day and still live a decent life... And that
>was good.
>
>A loaf of bread cost about 15 cents... But it was safe for a five-year-old
>to skate to the store and buy one... And that was good.
>
>Prime-Time meant I Love Lucy, Ozzie and Harriet, Gunsmoke and Lassie... So
>nobody ever heard of ratings or filters... And that was good.
>
>We didn't have air-conditioning... So the windows stayed up and half a
>dozen mothers ran outside when you fell off your bike... And that was good.
>
>Your teacher was either Miss Matthews or Mrs. Logan or Mr. Adkins... But
>not Ms Becky or Mr. Dan... And that was good.
>
>The only hazardous material you knew about... Was a patch of grassburrs
>around the light pole at the corner... And that was good.
>
>You loved to climb into a fresh bed... Because sheets were dried on the
>clothesline... And that was good.
>
>People generally lived in the same hometown with their relatives... So
>"child care" meant grandparents or aunts and uncles... And that was good.
>
>Parents were respected and their rules were law.... Children did not talk
>back..... and that was good.
>
>TV was in black-and-white... But all outdoors was in glorious color....And
>that was certainly good.
>
>Your Dad knew how to adjust everybody's carburetor... And the Dad next door
>knew how to adjust all the TV knobs... And that was very good.
>
>Your grandma grew snap beans in the back yard... And chickens behind the
>garage... And that was definitely good.
>
>And just when you were about to do something really bad... Chances were
>you'd run into your Dad's high school coach... Or the nosy old lady from up
>the street... Or your little sister's piano teacher... Or somebody from
>Church... ALL of whom knew your parents' phone number... And YOUR first
>name... And even THAT was good! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
>
>REMEMBER....
>
>Send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys,
>Laurel & Hardy, Abbott & Costello, Sky King, Little Lulu comics, Brenda
>Starr, Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow
>Knows, Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk as well as the
>sound of a real mower on Saturday morning, and summers filled with bike
>rides, playing in cowboy land, playing hide and seek and kick-the-can and
>Simon Says, baseball games, amateur shows at the local theater before the
>Saturday matinee, bowling and visits to the pool...and eating Kool-Aid
>powder with sugar, and wax lips and bubblegum cigars
>
>Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that! And
>was it really that long ago?




Terry Varner
Life is like a Ferrari, it goes by too damn fast. But thats OK we can't
afford it any way.


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