Ever wonder how your life differs from your grandparents or parents? Maybe not but… Let’s take look anyway
All girls wore ugly gym uniforms
The TV took 5 minutes to warm up
Nearly everyone’s mom was home when kids got home from school
No one owned a purebred dog
A quarter was decent allowance
You’d reach in a muddy gutter for a penny
Your mom wore nylons that came in 2 pieces
You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped without asking, all for free AND you only paid 29 cents a gallon in the 50’s
Well paid dads brought home $600 a month (1950’s)
We had “PARTY” lines on our Home telephone (We all had home phones or no phone at all) No one had a private line You’d pick up the phone & make sure your neighbor wasn’t talking. (The “original” conference call) There was NO call waiting
The men teachers wore ties everyday and the women had their hair done daily
Laundry detergent had FREE glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box as a prize.
They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed and they did
None asked for the car keys because they were always in the car, in the ignition and doors were never locked
Kids would lie on the grass look up and say, ‘That cloud looks like…”
Stuff came from the store without Safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had been poisoned yet
When the only weapons found at school a SLING SHOT
When being sent to the principal’s office was NOTHING compared to the fate that awaited when you got home from school
They ACTUALLY sold….
CANDY CIGARETTES
Glass bottles in Soda Machines
And
What about Cars & Gas?? A Cadillac in the 50’s = $5,000 NOW = $60,000 plus Gas in the Mid 1960’s = $0.33 a gallon NOW = $3.59 a gallon
AND These DIDN’T EVEN EXIST in everyday homes Microwaves OMG..How would you make popcorn?? Personal Computers Handheld Cell Phones The first were in a bag & weighted 3 lbs. Cassette tapes VHS, CD, DVD What… No movie or video game rentals???
Color TV Most families had black & white TVs Cable & Satellite TV (Fresno had 4 channels with rabbit ear antennas to pick up the signal) Surround Sound – Home Entertainment We had record players Xbox, Nintendo, Home Video Games Digital clock radios Central Air & Heating.. Ahh! swamp coolers Car air conditioning We had 2 windows & 60 miles an hour
I-anything (IPOD, MP3, etc) TEXT MESSAGES Coffee makers And MORE. Life has changed fast in 40 years…. Now, Can you imagine what things will change in the next 40 years? HOW WILL YOU CHANGE?