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158. Well, they didn't know much about them, anyhow.

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The "Good Old Days?" Well, not so much, really. [View all] MineralMan Sep 2023 OP

Yeah, I scoff when I hear people talking about "the good ole days." Ferrets are Cool Sep 2023 #1

Either they weren't alive then, MineralMan Sep 2023 #9

Wifey uses the phrase but she is very selective with her memories. Ferrets are Cool Sep 2023 #43

Same here Rebl2 Sep 2023 #59

The point about those good ole days is that they were KIDS Warpy Sep 2023 #93

I wish. Ferrets are Cool Sep 2023 #100

I said relatively uncomplicated, not happy. Warpy Sep 2023 #108

Oh my, I'm so sorry that happened to you. AllyCat Sep 2023 #156

Thank you AC Ferrets are Cool Sep 2023 #169

I grew up during the '50s and '60s in Spokane. leftyladyfrommo Sep 2023 #119

Many children are getting very good educations, many, unfortunately are not... Caliman73 Sep 2023 #165

Yes, Elessar Zappa Sep 2023 #2

You said it!!! qwlauren35 Sep 2023 #166

And about domestic violence or child abuse, the 'it's not our business' duhneece Sep 2023 #3

Yes, those things, too. MineralMan Sep 2023 #6

agree debm55 Sep 2023 #40

Good post. And, as a woman, Diamond_Dog Sep 2023 #4

Exactly. I remember women's struggle, too. MineralMan Sep 2023 #7

I fear we don't have any rights, again. n/t 1WorldHope Sep 2023 #60

Exactly. Wednesdays Sep 2023 #153

And you wouldn't have True Dough Sep 2023 #5

Good point. Yes. MineralMan Sep 2023 #8

Now there's a trip down memory lane! Permanut Sep 2023 #129

Yup. FORTRAN on an IBM 1620. MineralMan Sep 2023 #130

It was 1969 for me for programming. willamette Sep 2023 #147

I had a couple of programming classes in 1963-4. MineralMan Sep 2023 #160

I always had a client or boss, willamette Sep 2023 #167

Yeah, self-taught, which is why I stuck to variations of BASIC. MineralMan Sep 2023 #171

Addiction TSExile Sep 2023 #10

Just don't try to use marijuana, though. MineralMan Sep 2023 #11

In Texas, possession of anything over an ounce Wednesdays Sep 2023 #154

And if your car broke down dalton99a Sep 2023 #12

I honestly don't know how I drove ANYWHERE before google maps. Ferrets are Cool Sep 2023 #45

I always wrote down directions before I left my home. LeftInTX Sep 2023 #125

"I have a pretty good sense of direction " Ferrets are Cool Sep 2023 #151

Mapsco! LudwigPastorius Sep 2023 #146

The Thomas Guide to Los Angeles County mnhtnbb Sep 2023 #148

I had that, too, and I didn't even live in LA. MineralMan Sep 2023 #164

Are those the spiral bound? LeftInTX Sep 2023 #172

Living was more affordable back in the 1960s. More people could afford homes. Ziggysmom Sep 2023 #13

That's one thing that was better. Elessar Zappa Sep 2023 #15

IMO, most of that wasn't because things were better but because people lived Ferrets are Cool Sep 2023 #46

That wasn't a result of "credit cards" and isn't unique to our time... Caliman73 Sep 2023 #168

The 2008 crash wiped out a lot of middle class home ownership Farmer-Rick Sep 2023 #67

Republicans started intentionally destroying the middle class with Reagan. Sky Jewels Sep 2023 #87

+1 intheflow Sep 2023 #114

The good old days weren't every time I hear about how good the schools were in the fifties, I ... marble falls Sep 2023 #14

True. MineralMan Sep 2023 #16

The downside of nostalgia, which paints the past as rosier than it was. NT. andym Sep 2023 #131

Life has been pretty tough at times. I don't know about wanting to back to the fifties. marble falls Sep 2023 #133

Agree 100%, maybe we mostly long to be young again? chicoescuela Sep 2023 #17

Could be. MineralMan Sep 2023 #18

Yes, I'm happy and grateful for my life today but given a choice I would choose chicoescuela Sep 2023 #28

Still, we are not given that choice. MineralMan Sep 2023 #32

Exactly, hence the Twilight Zone reference chicoescuela Sep 2023 #121

I worked with a guy who went from Newport News to Houston in the early 60's underpants Sep 2023 #19

The people who participated in voting issues MineralMan Sep 2023 #21

During the 1970's nostalgia fad, I wrote an essay about the "good old days." Archae Sep 2023 #20

Actually looking at the realities of things MineralMan Sep 2023 #23

Government regulations improved things! yardwork Sep 2023 #66

I remember reading a book in the 1970's Wednesdays Sep 2023 #157

The best thing about the good old days Mr. Ected Sep 2023 #22

Oh, I don't know. I can still do all the things I used to do. MineralMan Sep 2023 #24

You're a hoot, MineralMan! Mr. Ected Sep 2023 #26

You're very kind. MineralMan Sep 2023 #33

No offense to our more mature readers, but NCDem47 Sep 2023 #25

Neither would we, frankly. MineralMan Sep 2023 #34

I was born in 1952. Grew up on a farm. We were not poor. Many of my friends were. twodogsbarking Sep 2023 #96

Indeed there are too many poor. MineralMan Sep 2023 #98

Spot on wryter2000 Sep 2023 #27

We had those because people who were young in those years MineralMan Sep 2023 #36

I'm one of those old geezers wryter2000 Sep 2023 #103

Yes. They did. I remember talking to MineralMan Sep 2023 #107

Wonderful wryter2000 Sep 2023 #111

That's very difficult for most people to do. MineralMan Sep 2023 #113

I remember the old days cksmithy Sep 2023 #29

Yes. Exactly. MineralMan Sep 2023 #37

We remember the old days as good old days because we were kids Ocelot II Sep 2023 #30

All of what you said is what I remember except we weren't financially secure... Hekate Sep 2023 #105

The "good old days" weren't always good and tomorrow isn't as bad as it seems paleotn Sep 2023 #31

I remember the impact seeing those signs for the first time. MineralMan Sep 2023 #41

And homophobia was the norm, accepted, and often lethal. thucythucy Sep 2023 #35

Yes, those things too. MineralMan Sep 2023 #38

Too many people think Leave It To Beaver was a documentary chowmama Sep 2023 #39

All of those sitcoms were fantasies, MineralMan Sep 2023 #42

In my freshman year at college in 1963, I had a Japanese-American MineralMan Sep 2023 #47

Yeah, there were no MRIs just X-Rays, much surgery was "Exploratory" to see what's going on bucolic_frolic Sep 2023 #44

There is always good and bad, regardless of the time period. MineralMan Sep 2023 #48

There are some scholars who posit . . . Collimator Sep 2023 #49

Yes, exactly. MineralMan Sep 2023 #51

Demonizing the poor is not a recent development ExWhoDoesntCare Sep 2023 #104

That's true. Collimator Sep 2023 #139

A fabulous OP malaise Sep 2023 #50

Thank you. MineralMan Sep 2023 #53

I am just glad you are writing them malaise Sep 2023 #55

And you are one of mine! MineralMan Sep 2023 #56

You are one of the people I look for Hekate Sep 2023 #109

I didn't write this post Marthe48 Sep 2023 #52

Thanks! My pleasure. MineralMan Sep 2023 #54

Not that long ago Lanius Sep 2023 #57

Yes. Not that long ago. MineralMan Sep 2023 #58

Coincidentally I was recently thinking about when the "good old days" were in America. CaptainTruth Sep 2023 #61

Back in the Good Old Days, ... stuck in the middle Sep 2023 #126

Just the music. Iggo Sep 2023 #62

Amen moniss Sep 2023 #69

Absolutely! Good point housecat Sep 2023 #76

Smoking on airplanes heckles65 Sep 2023 #63

Even encouraged on planes. MineralMan Sep 2023 #71

And metal silverware! intheflow Sep 2023 #116

Yeah, I remember that, too. MineralMan Sep 2023 #117

Vietnam. twodogsbarking Sep 2023 #64

Korea and moniss Sep 2023 #70

I hear you moniss Sep 2023 #65

I don't remember people being any more courteous or helpful MineralMan Sep 2023 #72

You probably lived in an area different from me. moniss Sep 2023 #80

Ditto Mineral Man! We are from the same generation. In 1965-1969 I was in US southern states. usaf-vet Sep 2023 #68

I was stationed only briefly at Texas AFBs. MineralMan Sep 2023 #74

I thought we had similar backgrounds. usaf-vet Sep 2023 #110

Nope. Lackland and Goodfellow. MineralMan Sep 2023 #115

Wow my daughter and her husband are both at NSA.......now. usaf-vet Sep 2023 #120

I'll bet that place has changed a lot since 1969. MineralMan Sep 2023 #122

I think you are right. I'll bet in your time, a FORMER president didn't take custody of TS docs.... usaf-vet Sep 2023 #123

twenty one pilots: Stressed Out [OFFICIAL VIDEO] stuck in the middle Sep 2023 #73

The problem is that posts that are about one thing affecting young adults today intheflow Sep 2023 #75

Glad you mention the arts scene. Half a century later we're still using mid-cendtury designs for housecat Sep 2023 #79

Same goes for music, writing, and cinema/tv. intheflow Sep 2023 #101

Absolutely! Good list housecat Sep 2023 #135

That thread triggered this one. MineralMan Sep 2023 #82

THIS stuck in the middle Sep 2023 #149

And nobody knew about learning disabilities then. betsuni Sep 2023 #150

Well, they didn't know much about them, anyhow. MineralMan Sep 2023 #158

At UT Knoxville the freshmen aren't required Lars39 Sep 2023 #161

Yes. Off-campus housing is often out of reach, financially. MineralMan Sep 2023 #163

We can do better. One person at a time. Be kind. Don't be an asshole. twodogsbarking Sep 2023 #77

As always. MineralMan Sep 2023 #84

I think that we have such fond memories of the good old days because we were so young world wide wally Sep 2023 #78

Everything was simpler. There were expectations for behavior and a limited number of alternatives housecat Sep 2023 #102

I remember a whole lot of child abd domestic abuse. leftyladyfrommo Sep 2023 #81

Yes. Often, though, they still do. MineralMan Sep 2023 #85

MineralMan tiredtoo Sep 2023 #83

I don't take posts here as attacks. MineralMan Sep 2023 #86

K&R Blue Owl Sep 2023 #88

TY for the reality check. When I was young, I was optimistic--I miss that about the old days Hekate Sep 2023 #89

We all were, pretty much. MineralMan Sep 2023 #91

3 dollars/hr in 1962 would be 30/hr today. enki23 Sep 2023 #90

Reactionaries who want America to revert to the "good old days" Martin Eden Sep 2023 #92

Yes, exactly. MineralMan Sep 2023 #95

The best things about the Good Old Days: Fiendish Thingy Sep 2023 #94

Yes, some things back then were worse ExWhoDoesntCare Sep 2023 #97

All of what you say is true, of course. MineralMan Sep 2023 #106

It's not necessarily gloating... Lars39 Sep 2023 #99

The student loan thing is complicated. MineralMan Sep 2023 #112

Housing/mortgage costs, too. intheflow Sep 2023 #152

K&R betsuni Sep 2023 #118

And about that GI Bill TexasBushwhacker Sep 2023 #124

I don't know about the details of that. MineralMan Sep 2023 #127

Scroll down to "The GI Bill and discrimination" TexasBushwhacker Sep 2023 #143

Ah. OK, the WWII GI Bill... MineralMan Sep 2023 #159

I started work late 1965 just out of high school. Fla Dem Sep 2023 #128

The downside of nostalgia: Keep in mind that the middle-aged then longed for earlier good old days andym Sep 2023 #132

Google to find Eliz. Warren's talk at Cal-Berkeley! Grins Sep 2023 #134

Well said, OP. NotVeryImportant Sep 2023 #136

This message was self-deleted by its author ymetca Sep 2023 #137

Make America Great Again is a plea to restore racism and bigotry LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2023 #138

Wasn't that a time struggle4progress Sep 2023 #140

TY MM. bluestarone Sep 2023 #141

Thanks. MineralMan Sep 2023 #142

..."they were terrible" book Buttoneer Sep 2023 #144

OK, Boomer. LudwigPastorius Sep 2023 #145

I'm about the same age and.... Joinfortmill Sep 2023 #155

Working class WHITE folks did better before Reagan. Elessar Zappa Sep 2023 #170

Point taken Joinfortmill Sep 2023 #173

That's what I thought, too. Though, I must say, jaxexpat Sep 2023 #162