1953
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 cockleburrs 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....
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?"