How many of us here remember the best of times?
*CHILDREN OF THE GREATEST GENERATION
*Born *in the 1930's and early '40's, we exist as a very special age group.
*We *are the smallest group of children born since the early 1900's.
*We *are the last generation, climbing out of the depression, who can remember the winds of war and the impact of a world at war which rattled the structure of our daily lives for years.
*We *are the last to remember ration books for everything from gas to sugar to shoes to stoves.
*We *saved tin foil and poured fat into tin cans.
*We *saw cars up on blocks because tires weren't available.
*We *can remember milk being delivered to our house early in the morning and placed in the milk box on the porch.
*We are the last to see the gold stars in the front windows of our grieving neighbors whose sons died in the War.
*We saw the 'boys' home from the war, build their little houses.
*We are the last generation who spent childhood without television; instead, we imagined what we heard on the radio.
*As we all like to brag, with no TV, we spent our childhood "playing outside.
*There *was no little league.
*There *was no city playground for kids.
*The lack of television in our early years meant, for most of us, that we had little real understanding of what the world was like.
*On* Saturday afternoons, the movies, gave us newsreels sandwiched in between westerns and cartoons.
*Telephones *were one to a house, often shared (party Lines) and hung on the wall in the kitchen (no cares about privacy).
*Computers *were called calculators, they were hand cranked; typewriters were driven by pounding fingers, throwing the carriage, and changing the ribbon.
*The *'INTERNET and GOOGLE were words that did not exist.
*Newspapers and magazines were written for adults and the news was broadcast on our radio in the evening by Gabriel Heater and later Paul Harvey.
*We *weren't neglected, but we weren't today's all-consuming family focus.
*They *were glad we played by ourselves until the street lights came on.
*Polio *was still a crippler.
*We *came of age in the '50's and '60's.
*The Korean War *was a dark passage in the early 50's and by mid-decade
school children were ducking under desks for Air-Raid training.
*Russia *built the Iron Curtain and *China *became Red China.
*Eisenhower *sent the first 'Army Advisers' to Vietnam.
*Castro *took over in Cuba and *Khrushchev *came to power.
*We *are the last generation to experience an interlude when there were no threats to our homeland. The war was over and the cold war, terrorism, global warming, and perpetual economic insecurity had yet to haunt life with unease.
*Only our generation *can remember both a time of great war, and a time when our world was secure and full of bright promise and plenty lived through both.
*We *grew up at the best possible time, a time when the world was getting better. not worse.
*We are "The Last Ones"*
More than 99 % of us are either retired or deceased, and we feel privileged to have* "lived in the best of times"!*
"We lived in the best of times"!*
*Born *in the 1930's and early '40's, we exist as a very special age group.
*We *are the smallest group of children born since the early 1900's.
*We *are the last generation, climbing out of the depression, who can remember the winds of war and the impact of a world at war which rattled the structure of our daily lives for years.
*We *are the last to remember ration books for everything from gas to sugar to shoes to stoves.
*We *saved tin foil and poured fat into tin cans.
*We *saw cars up on blocks because tires weren't available.
*We *can remember milk being delivered to our house early in the morning and placed in the milk box on the porch.
*We are the last to see the gold stars in the front windows of our grieving neighbors whose sons died in the War.
*We saw the 'boys' home from the war, build their little houses.
*We are the last generation who spent childhood without television; instead, we imagined what we heard on the radio.
*As we all like to brag, with no TV, we spent our childhood "playing outside.
*There *was no little league.
*There *was no city playground for kids.
*The lack of television in our early years meant, for most of us, that we had little real understanding of what the world was like.
*On* Saturday afternoons, the movies, gave us newsreels sandwiched in between westerns and cartoons.
*Telephones *were one to a house, often shared (party Lines) and hung on the wall in the kitchen (no cares about privacy).
*Computers *were called calculators, they were hand cranked; typewriters were driven by pounding fingers, throwing the carriage, and changing the ribbon.
*The *'INTERNET and GOOGLE were words that did not exist.
*Newspapers and magazines were written for adults and the news was broadcast on our radio in the evening by Gabriel Heater and later Paul Harvey.
*We *weren't neglected, but we weren't today's all-consuming family focus.
*They *were glad we played by ourselves until the street lights came on.
*Polio *was still a crippler.
*We *came of age in the '50's and '60's.
*The Korean War *was a dark passage in the early 50's and by mid-decade
school children were ducking under desks for Air-Raid training.
*Russia *built the Iron Curtain and *China *became Red China.
*Eisenhower *sent the first 'Army Advisers' to Vietnam.
*Castro *took over in Cuba and *Khrushchev *came to power.
*We *are the last generation to experience an interlude when there were no threats to our homeland. The war was over and the cold war, terrorism, global warming, and perpetual economic insecurity had yet to haunt life with unease.
*Only our generation *can remember both a time of great war, and a time when our world was secure and full of bright promise and plenty lived through both.
*We *grew up at the best possible time, a time when the world was getting better. not worse.
*We are "The Last Ones"*
More than 99 % of us are either retired or deceased, and we feel privileged to have* "lived in the best of times"!*
"We lived in the best of times"!*
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.....and how sad it is to have to compare those times with the ones we live in now. 0 -
I'm a child of the mid 50's but have great respect for my elders and all of the generations that came before me.
My dad was my hero, a WWII veteran and my mom was always around our home when she was needed and not out trying to make a living like todays moms.
I can still remember a lot from the tail end of what Arby's best of times was all about. Being one of the many "after" baby boomers, I had an older sister and a brother from his era. They were the epic teen ager's of the real "happy days", bobby socks, greased pompadour, with a pack of lucky's rolled into the T shirt sleeve. [:)]0 -
Those were the days for kids, while lots of parents were dying in war, or wearing out their shoes while looking for work, but they knew it beat the hell out of picking cotton and riding the rails, or standing in soup lines, that many of them had known before. 0 -
Good list, but I disagree with:
*We are the last to see the gold stars in the front windows of our grieving neighbors whose sons died in the War.
I see that in my own neighborhood, unfortunately.0 -
I was born in 1936. I remember when the Japanese bombed pearl. The 50s were probably the best days in America in my opinion. America has gone a long ways down hill morally. Drugs have devastated this country.
rap is not music. Hollywood thrives on sex, blood and guts. It's plentiful to see. in the 50s a hamburger fries and a chocolate malt was 50cents. An ounce of gold was $35.00 Gas was as low as 18centsa gallon 100 octane. cars were cool looking. Everything was made in America.0 -
You sure had a lot more "*" than we have now. Shouldn't have used them all up.
Me, I think the present is just fine and know there are better times ahead.0 -
While it is all nice everything about what *they* did and what *they* remember, it must also be remembered that it was *them* who put us on the path to where we are today.
Thanks.
Thanks a lot.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Don McManus
While it is all nice everything about what *they* did and what *they* remember, it must also be remembered that it was *them* who put us on the path to where we are today.
Thanks.
Thanks a lot.
If only they had known.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Brookwood
I'm a child of the mid 50's but have great respect for my elders and all of the generations that came before me.
My dad was my hero, a WWII veteran and my mom was always around our home when she was needed and not out trying to make a living like todays moms.
I can still remember a lot from the tail end of what Arby's best of times was all about. Being one of the many "after" baby boomers, I had an older sister and a brother from his era. They were the epic teen ager's of the real "happy days", bobby socks, greased pompadour, with a pack of lucky's rolled into the T shirt sleeve. [:)]
If you were born in the 1950's you are a baby boomer.0 -
I was born in February of 1940.
I grew up in the best of times.
Nuff said!!!!0 -
How can I remember the best of times when they are still yet to happen? 0 -
Mr. "P" Lets hope so my friend, let's hope so. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Don McManus
While it is all nice everything about what *they* did and what *they* remember, it must also be remembered that it was *them* who put us on the path to where we are today.
Thanks.
Thanks a lot.
My distinct pleasure, Suh! [;)][:D]0 -
Matter of opinion 0 -
I came along in 1945 so things were on the rise. It was a good time to be a kid of the 50s. Didn't have a lot but didn't know it. Seems like we had a lot more fun then for very little expense. It takes a lot of money for kids to have fun these days. 0 -
Born in Feb 44 not much to add the list is a good one 0 -
quote:Originally posted by kimi
quote:Originally posted by Don McManus
While it is all nice everything about what *they* did and what *they* remember, it must also be remembered that it was *them* who put us on the path to where we are today.
Thanks.
Thanks a lot.
No it was the next generation the Drug generation of the 60s
My distinct pleasure, Suh! [;)][:D]0 -
mom still has her milk box on the back porch. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Navybat
Good list, but I disagree with:
*We are the last to see the gold stars in the front windows of our grieving neighbors whose sons died in the War.
I see that in my own neighborhood, unfortunately.
Not to mention a gold star in the window simply means you have one serving....not dead necessarily.
My apologies, I was thinking of a blue star...not gold.0 -
Actually what is known as the "Greatest Generation" was born between 1910 to 1924.
Generation Name Births Start Births End
The Lost Generation The Generation of 1914 - 1890 1915
The Interbellum Generation 1901 1913
The Greatest Generation 1910 1924
The Silent Generation 1925 19450 -
quote:Originally posted by bearman49709
quote:Originally posted by Brookwood
I'm a child of the mid 50's but have great respect for my elders and all of the generations that came before me.
My dad was my hero, a WWII veteran and my mom was always around our home when she was needed and not out trying to make a living like todays moms.
I can still remember a lot from the tail end of what Arby's best of times was all about. Being one of the many "after" baby boomers, I had an older sister and a brother from his era. They were the epic teen ager's of the real "happy days", bobby socks, greased pompadour, with a pack of lucky's rolled into the T shirt sleeve. [:)]
If you were born in the 1950's you are a baby boomer.
If you actually read my post, you will see that I said I was a baby boomer. [;)]0 -
quote:Originally posted by jerrywh818
quote:Originally posted by kimi
quote:Originally posted by Don McManus
While it is all nice everything about what *they* did and what *they* remember, it must also be remembered that it was *them* who put us on the path to where we are today.
Thanks.
Thanks a lot.
No it was the next generation the Drug generation of the 60s
My distinct pleasure, Suh! [;)][:D]
We Baby Boomers were not in the majority in Congress in the 60s and 70s, or even 80s.
We were not in the majority at the voting booth in the 60s, 70s, or even in the 80s.
We picked up the banner and ran with it, but it was, as stated, upon the path that was laid out to us.
We should have stopped.
We should have turned back.
Yes, we should have changed direction at some point, but we didn't.0
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