I miss the '50's (inspired by the old guy who misses shit from his childhood)

The 70s and the 90s

Uniforms for different professions.

Doctors, Nurses, Nuns...

Around the time Amazon started, a book by this author came out and listed "Endangered Pleasures."

Asbestos

Sodomy Laws

Outhouses

19th Century Surgical Techniques

Polio

Thalidomide

[quote]Polio

Thanks to Dr. Jenny McCarthy, it could be making a comeback!

Russel Baker review of Barbara Holland:

"IF YOU ARE fed up with the Puritan tyranny over modern America, boy, have I got a book for you!"

[quote] Thanks to Dr. Jenny McCarthy, it could be making a comeback!

Those were some great times. Remember those really cool leg braces and the really cool crutches. If you were really cool you had a wheel chair. We had so many really fun and exciting funerals too. Those were such good times. I sure do miss the olden days.

I miss segregation in all walks of life

Banging Ginny from billing on top of the ditto machine.

Fins

R10 = can of Tuna

skinnydipping

R7 Have you forgotten me?

Life before cellphones became computers.

Weekly Canasta games with Mamie Eisenhower.

Iron lungs.

Duck and cover

Communist witch hunts conducted by a cross-dressing director of the F.B.I.

Commies

Anti-communist propaganda cartoons

Celebrities accused of being communists

The Fonz

Banging Ginny from billing on top of her Dict-O-Graph machine.

Banging Ginny from billing on top of her Royal typewriter.

I guess just banging Ginny from billing. Whatever happened to her?

Wringer-washers and hanging laundry on a clothes line to dry.

Dorothy Kilgallen.

Ginny from billings, Mt. Such a hot piece of ass.

I'm sure every decade had its problem, but it does seem like life is more complicated now. As a culture, I just feel like we're devolving. I'm in my 30s but it does seem like life before Vietnam War seemed more "innocent." Kids able to play outside long after the sun sets. Kids can walk home without fear of being kidnapped (which is not to say kids weren't being snatched back then). We certainly didn't have 7 billion people competing for resources.

I'm glad I don't have kids. What will the next decade bring?

R19, Ginny from billing ran off with the lady who used to clean the offices at night. Sorry, stud.

Miss the 60s where parents let you run around if you lived a small town, and life was slower, summers dragged on and on a kid, you never used the phone because habits were in place. Phoning was for out of town chats. We had the local "pervert" from a neighboring town but he was an object of great fun and hilarity, being a distant relative. Saturday was grocery shopping, milk delivered in bottles first thing in the morning, and evenings on the veranda chatting with the relatives and passers-by.

Hiding and smoking corn silks

Drive-in theaters

Freedom to play and walk anywhere without being afraid of some pervert kidnapping you

Privacy

A simple, less stressful life

Hitchhiking EVERYWHERE!

One of my professors was telling us how common hitchhiking was. I just can't imagine anyone doing that now. The professor did say that taking an Uber might as well be hitchhiking.

Children who could keep a secret.

Wonder bread

The clap

Lawn jockeys

Nazi occupation of France

Pill popping housewives

Senator McCarthy

Asexual queers

Jimmy Crow

Chain smoking bowling teams

Traveling freak shows

Mandingo

Why would anyone miss the 50s?

"Exploratory surgery" where they made a foot long incision and poked around.

Packards, Studebakers, Ramblers, Kaisers, Nashes...

Winky Dink

Not lock the front door

Another vote for hitchhiking

Woodies

John Cameron Swayze

Grape NeHi

^^locking^^

[quote] Not having to feel ashamed of one's bigoted views.

Ashamed? Us? Never!

Gale Storm

Lynchings

Gay bar raids

Marital rape

Lobotomies

Lynchings = police brutality 2015

The clap? We've got AIDS

Wonder Bread? Try to find supermarket bread made without fructose and preservatives.

Duck and cover? We've got the TSA

Red scare? We've got Muslims

Pill popping housewives? Today we've got prescription mood drugs for everyone ...even kids.

Segregation? segregated schools and neighborhoods still exist.

Poodles...the fashion accessory dog of the 50s

department stores

tea rooms (as in, places to drink tea and eat lunch while shopping)

They're Republicans, R31.

rigid societal conformity

oh, and fucking Ginny from Billing.

[quote] "Exploratory surgery" where they made a foot long incision and poked around.

In the 1920's doctors performed "exploratory surgery" on my great grandmother.

And Then She Died!!!

(leaving 6 young children behind)

True Story

Hitchhiking!

And yet for all that, economic growth was 4% per year, the highest in American history, either before or since, chiefly because the rich were shackled with 97% top bracket taxes.

And the middle class had savings thanks to rising wages, and the rationed consumption of WWII.

I miss MY 50s.

I wasn’t alive then. But I think everyone was happier with traditional gender roles.

R33 My first car was a 1960 Rambler.