This is for you old timers, LOL. Kids today just don't have a clue. http://home.tiac.net/~cri/2005/grandma.html

And North Brunswick was "country" and I could roam all day through the fields and woods with my guns and never see another person.

Good one. 1947 isn't that long ago (only 8 years before I was born). Times and attitudes have indeed changed. Speaking of grandmothers...I remember when she bought her first color TV. It was a Zenith and looked like an ornate piece of furniture. And it was a beast!! My dad and uncle each busted a nut carrying that thing up the stairs for her. In fact I can remember asking my grandmother why dad kept calling the TV a "son of a bit**". lol. And yes, we were treated to the dulcet tones of The Lawrence Welk Show when we visited. Good memories.

Personally I blame the baby boomers. The greatest generation screwed up raising them pretty bad, and then the boomers screwed up my generation.

Also nowadays I think "Made in Japan" is a sign of quality. China makes all the crap, along with India, and I can't really speak to the quality of American goods since I rarely encounter them lol.

My Parents were born in the mid 20's and 30's. We had several real conversations about such things in real time. I treasure the time I had with them. Thanks for the trip down memory lane Silverado!

Took care of my grandma till she died of old age at 96... She was born in Germany in 1894 I believe it was. My grandparents both came here as farmers... My grandpa died when I was 6... He taught me how to paint and make clam chowder. He was a policeman, fireman and a mason as well as a machinest. He was also from Germany. I've learned a lot from both. But my grandma taught me a lot... Well everything except how to curse in German... That came later, lol. A fridge was always a Fridgadaire (sp?)... Cause thats what they had. Prob no more than an icebox. She called it that even till modern days after she got a GE... We took the 4 Singac bus to Paterson every weekend to shop at her fav German delis and stores. Got her shoes repaired and polished anytime needed. We sat in those booths till the shoemaker was finished, always making them like new. When done, we stopped at Woolworths to visit my other grandma, (she worked at the soda fountain downstairs), and have a sundae, banana split. Then she took me upstairs and pick out one toy. Usually a new bag of those green toy soldiers. Sometimes some new GI Joe gear or even a new toy gun. I had all the best guns on the block! Everyone wanted to be on my side when we played Army, so they could use my guns while the enemy, usually the Germans, (go figure, lol), used sticks. We ran through every neighbors yards yelling like loons.. Bang you are dead! No, you are!!! We never feared anyone getting mad at us because everyone new everyone. When done, helped my grandma pick fresh raspberries and grapes. She made all her own jellies by canning them and stowing them in the basement next to the coal bin. I can go on and on... She took care of me more than my parents. She taught me how to cook and bake. Boy she made a great German Crumb Cake! Ahhhhhh, I gotta stop. I miss those days and would give my left, well you know, to go back in time. I know I miss the hell outa her!

 

 

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BHunted Thanks for reminding me of my Nana. She passed when I was 8, but she did help raise me well.

Interesting but there is quite a bit wrong. Televisions, where invented prior to WWII. The outbreak of WWII prevented wide scale production, but they were around. Penicillin was discovered in the 1920's, saved it's first life in 1942 and by 1944 was being mass produced for soldiers. Frozen food was first sold in 1929. Dishwashers date back the 1880's, though those were originally powered by hand, Dishwashers where in there modern form by the 1920's and even dried dishes by 1940. Dryers date back to the 30's, and even before if you count the ones that did not use heat. The term "Fast Food" while officially added to the dictionary in 1951 was around prior. The "coke" in coca-cola is because originally coca-cola had cocaine in it (and apparently still uses a cocaine free extract from the coca plant.) In 1947 cars cost on average 1,200 and gas was at least 15 cents a gallon maybe as high as 23 cents. Day care in the US started in the 1850's, the gay rights movement has it origins dating back to the 1700's. That’s just things that existed before 1947; there are also a number of things in there that in reality a person born in 1947 would not remember not existing.

 

I feel like there should be a point to this (which I am guessing is suppose to be look how much the world has changed in the last 65 years, with a little bit of things use to be so much better thrown in for good measure), but it is lost when a lot of the facts are wrong.

 

And If you must know no I did not know all of that off the top of my head, it was the penicillin and television parts that first that struck me as wrong since I was positive soldiers got penicillin shots during WWII. The television part I knew based of my self motivated research project based on the question just how shocked would someone from the 1920's be by technology, if they found themselves in modern times. From there I kind of just started looking stuff up.