If You Had A 2nd Chance In Life What Period In American History Would You Prefer?

[Bamb0]

Personally the 50’s. was everything perfect “NO’ but IMHO it was better time in American history


* you didnt have to lock the front door and could leave the front windows open.
* There was no swearing on TV,people in general were more respectful
* A father by himself,could support a family - and still have money left over to go on vacations
* Neighbors knew each other.
* If you wanted to talk with someone,you generally had to meet them in person. (Phone calls were OK but not the same.)
* Chewing gum was a nickle.
* Hostess Cupcakes were 13cents.
* You could walk around the neighborhood at age 6 after dark,no cell phone,no neighborhood watch,no nothin' - and parents didnt worry,and you always came home safe and sound.
* World War III didnt happen.
* Baseball was actually interesting.
* You could play in the middle of the street and drivers would patiently wait for you to get out of the way...
* Very few people were in a rush.
* As a child you were allowed to be a door-to-door salesman,selling crafts that You made and werent harassed by anyone. Always you made it home safely.
* you could ride your bicycle without a helmet
* You didnt have to deal with political correctness,the nanny state,or new math,or any of the other "experiments" from governments and activists who "only want to help."
* Phone numbers had only 7 digits, the first two being letters.
* Everyone kept up their front yards.
* In general you could afford home if you wanted to own a home.
* Movies - almost always double-features - with a cartoon short - were 35cents.

So people ask what happened....... The world got mean and evil

[TenFour]

Give me the early 1700s when there were huge swaths of unexplored territory over the horizon, there were 100-foot high trees not yet cut down, there were mountains not yet climbed, there were peoples not yet met or even known of, and a person could stake out a claim to virgin wilderness and call it home. Though I hope I would have been sailing up and down the mostly uncharted coasts. Actually, I could also go way back to before Europeans arrived and North America was still being populated and explored by Native Americans who didn't name themselves after a 15th century Italian. The 50s look better through rose-colored glasses. There was also rampant and blatant racism, poverty like nothing you see today, the Korean War and the beginnings of Vietnam, cars that spewed fumes from leaded gasoline that still haunt us today, things like steel mills and coal plants spewing unbelievable amounts of pollution, nuclear waste not being handled well, atomic bomb's being exploded for testing and polluting pristine areas for centuries to come, etc. Every era has its pluses and minuses.

[Bamb0]

Ya I hear ya......... Nothing like what we have seen since the 70s I dont think

[webecedarian]

I suspect that if you were a woman (or if you were black), you wouldn't much like the 1950s.

[chrisretusn]

I'm fine with my 1st chance.

[Bamb0]

Ya mine also.......... Im glad I was here when I was when the world was still beautiful