Lost in the Fifties- Another Time, Another Place

[Niehart]

Little bit before my time but thought some of you older guys might like it.

https://safeshare.tv/w/FEDEwZHZXu

 

[Jer]

I must say that I so miss the simpler times.

 

[DennisJ]

Really makes me feel old but I remember so much of that.

 

[Pterodactyl]

The times were no simpler, we were just kids and didn't know what was really going on. Racisim, the civil-rights movement, cancer was a death sentence, people went to jail for being gay, mental institutions were horror shows and real fear of "The Bomb"; the list is as long as it is today. The kids of today will look back at these times through the same filter of youth and ignorance.

Not to say I did not enjoy the trip down memory lane to a time when I thought the world revolved around baseball, bicycles and the quest to get my hands on a Playboy Magazine.

 

[Mihalis fjr]

Great Video Niehart!I really liked!

Thanks!

 

[Jer]

The times were no simpler, we were just kids and didn't know what was really going on. Racisim, the civil-rights movement, cancer was a death sentence, people went to jail for being gay, mental institutions were horror shows and real fear of "The Bomb"; the list is as long as it is today. The kids of today will look back at these times through the same filter of youth and ignorance.
Not to say I did not enjoy the trip down memory lane to a time when I thought the world revolved around baseball, bicycles and the quest to get my hands on a Playboy Magazine.

They were simpler times for me and all of the horrors you mention are still going on somewhere in this world.

 

[steveoreno]

I wasn't born until 57 but I remember a lot of that stuff shown. What I really miss are family members from those times and I will be burying another Uncle this Thursday....that crap is getting old.

 

[SacramentoMike]

Sorry about your uncle, Stev(oreno). I'm all out of uncles, aunts, and even some of the first cousins, myself. That's the tough part of getting older, of course, but on the bright side, we have their memories, and mine include EVERY face, scene, and product shown in that great video! Wow, that captured the childhood of this 1946'er, the very vanguard of the Post War Baby Boom. I always said I was the first member of that not-exclusive group, born ten months after the surrender of Japan. Figure one month travel time after mustering out, nine more after that, and you have . . . ME, in June, 1946. And quite a few others, too.

Dave, I really enjoyed that video. I'm bookmarking it. (And I know you remember it all as well as I do.)

 

[SeattleTy]

 

[Panman]

The times were no simpler, we were just kids and didn't know what was really going on. Racisim, the civil-rights movement, cancer was a death sentence, people went to jail for being gay, mental institutions were horror shows and real fear of "The Bomb"; the list is as long as it is today. The kids of today will look back at these times through the same filter of youth and ignorance.
Not to say I did not enjoy the trip down memory lane to a time when I thought the world revolved around baseball, bicycles and the quest to get my hands on a Playboy Magazine.

Personally I think think times were way simpler.

I was raised 50's & 60's close to a place known as Rat City played with Black kids, Hispanic kids & Asian kids and raised by poor Democratic Catholic parents and didn't dare look down at anyone!

We played with hand-me down Lincoln Logs, Tinker Toys & building blocks. Our parents never worried about us riding our bikes all over Seattle or going to the parks by our self's.

Bad guys were never made hero's, and you never were put down for doing the right thing! Jackie Gleason & Red Skeleton were about as Risque as you would see on TV.

I really didn't know much about or hear about Racism till King was assassinated, then Black friends turned to Black Panthers and they showed me what that was all about.

All about perspective I guess and what you make it.

 

[rogdeb]

I was on the other side of the Atlantic in those days, but same applies. Lean days but great memories.

Thanks Dave