What changed our lives since the 50's until the modern age of 2008?

I like the old fashion style for pictures. But I like new technology than before. I like the 50's music, dress, car, diner and etc. But I don't like 80's and 90's glasses and running shoes. It's UGLY!!!!! I hate 80's and 90's hot curly on front hair like rooster. EKKKK!!!! LoL I am glad what I am wearing a style glasses today from past. :D My both parents' born years in 1948 before 50's. I have many pictures of them. They told me everything about 50's decade. It's very interesting!
 
~♥~Pinky~♥~ said:
That's cool! I bet you got it from Cracker Barrel Restaurant. Am I right? I did read my born years. It's interesting. :)
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To answer to your question, nope. Juneau, Alaska don't have Cracker Barrel Restaurant. I bought it from a different store in Juneau.
 
Men were not allowed in delivery room.
Bottle feed babies with different kind of milk, unlikely today powder with water.
Cloth diaper yuck.
 
Dixie said:
yeah because times were 'simpler' then. You know there were no 'grey' areas in life. It was all black and white in the sense of right and wrong. Kids respected their elders, families were less prone to be dysfunctional, while it seems as if it were all jolly, each era had its own problems, whereas with the 1950s it was the threat of the 'cold war' and nukes landing on US soil from Russia, thus why nearly every house built in the 1950s has a basement level.
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There was a bomb shelters under the grounds in case of wars or atomic bombs. They also believe in UFO when they heard the radios about "Wars of the World" where aliens try to wipe out population of humans all over the world. It was a long time ago and I forgot the famous person who put it on the show on radio. People really believe it is true and it was scary. But it was not true and the people who plays the roles in the radio were laughing about it after when they realize people were going bonkers and getting all panic about the UFO. I was born in 1945 so I have been there in the fifies.

1950 brought me some memories. I wore long skirt with poodles and have a pennies in the saddle shoes. I wore pony tails which I am wearing it sometimes. :cool2:
 
Maria said:
And, about the milk I remember it was really glass, not carton. Ohhh how I miss those days. I wish it will bring back if, it wasn't for computer age. It was soo much fun back then. Sorry, I didn't have 50's magnet. I got my 1960 magnet from Alaska when I live there before. In Skagway, Alaska they have all those " old days " stuff at one store. I LOVE those things and it brought my memories back. :lol: I really enjoy rememberin' them.
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I remember the glass milk container and that it was delivered to homes by a milkman. There was a cupboard on the side of the house that the milkman put the milk in. My mom open it from the inside the house. I don't see those cupboards on the houses anymore unless I visit an older house. Sometimes they brick it up. The top part of the milk would freeze during the winter and I would ask for it. I pretended it was ice cream.
 
Bebonang said:
There was a bomb shelters under the grounds in case of wars or atomic bombs. They also believe in UFO when they heard the radios about "Wars of the World" where aliens try to wipe out population of humans all over the world. It was a long time ago and I forgot the famous person who put it on the show on radio. People really believe it is true and it was scary. But it was not true and the people who plays the roles in the radio were laughing about it after when they realize people were going bonkers and getting all panic about the UFO. I was born in 1945 so I have been there in the fifies.
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H. G. Wells. The radio show did tell right in the beginning that it is fiction but many people tuned in the show right after that message and missed it. That is why they thought it was real.
More on this: Radio Listeners in Panic, Taking War Drama as Fact

I remember that parents can leave kids in their car with windows open without fear. They can leave kids in a section of the store while they shopped at another section without fear of abduction. Not anymore. Now the parents are afraid of sexual predators on the internet going after their kids.
 
Buffalo said:
H. G. Wells. The radio show did tell right in the beginning that it is fiction but many people tuned in the show right after that message and missed it. That is why they thought it was real.
More on this: Radio Listeners in Panic, Taking War Drama as Fact

I remember that parents can leave kids in their car with windows open without fear. They can leave kids in a section of the store while they shopped at another section without fear of abduction. Not anymore. Now the parents are afraid of sexual predators on the internet going after their kids.
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You could also leave your doors unlocked without fear of having a criminal barge in and rob you. My, how times have changed!
 
Buffalo said:
I remember the glass milk container and that it was delivered to homes by a milkman. There was a cupboard on the side of the house that the milkman put the milk in. My mom open it from the inside the house. I don't see those cupboards on the houses anymore unless I visit an older house. Sometimes they brick it up. The top part of the milk would freeze during the winter and I would ask for it. I pretended it was ice cream.
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Aw, what a sweet memories! Yes, I remember milkman, too. :lol: When I was a kid, they have a crushed ice in a paper cone and have all different kind of flavors to pour on the crushed ice -- that was in New York City at that time when they have a cart on the street.
 
Oh, yes that " fear " is everywhere - not like before. Mistrust. Paranoid. Control. Uncertain approach. This is not America anymore - more like communist. :cool:
 
Bebonang said:
There was a bomb shelters under the grounds in case of wars or atomic bombs. They also believe in UFO when they heard the radios about "Wars of the World" where aliens try to wipe out population of humans all over the world. It was a long time ago and I forgot the famous person who put it on the show on radio. People really believe it is true and it was scary. But it was not true and the people who plays the roles in the radio were laughing about it after when they realize people were going bonkers and getting all panic about the UFO.
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That was Orson Welles in 1938.
 
Maria said:
Oh, yes that " fear " is everywhere - not like before. Mistrust. Paranoid. Control. Uncertain approach. This is not America anymore - more like communist. :cool:
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yea... guess who caused it... OH WAIT!!! FORGOT TO SAY 9/11!!! :laugh2:
 
So are those scarier halloween costumes nowadays than those back in the '50s, too! lol
 
Reba said:
That was Orson Welles in 1938.
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That is the right name for the famous actor who put it on the show and scare them out of their wits with fear. They thought it was really real aliens out to destroy the people. The radio that broadcast was in Chicago, Illinois at the time. The people in Chicago were out of control and panic after the radio show. They did not know what they were doing. I guess everything is new to them when they have new invention like radio. Hehehe.

I think H. G. Wells is the author of the science fiction on the "Time Machine" and maybe few of the bestsellers. I don't H. G. Wells is not related to Orson Welles. :hmm:
 
Bebonang said:
That is the right name for the famous actor who put it on the show and scare them out of their wits with fear. They thought it was really real aliens out to destroy the people. The radio that broadcast was in Chicago, Illinois at the time. The people in Chicago were out of control and panic after the radio show. They did not know what they were doing. I guess everything is new to them when they have new invention like radio. Hehehe.

I think H. G. Wells is the author of the science fiction on the "Time Machine" and maybe few of the bestsellers. I don't H. G. Wells is not related to Orson Welles. :hmm:
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No, not related.
 
If only today's prices were the same as 1950's prices ;P

Stupid economical recession.
 
The rudd government is trying to avoid the recession in Aussie, Sherrie.
 
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