I beg your pardon? No teenage pregnancies? No drugs? Where were you living?
Why do you think it's called the "baby boom"? Have you looked at the number
of adoptions in the 40's & 50's? Did you think all those kids came from
people over 21 and married? And what about Benzedrine, cocaine, heroin,
marijuana, etc. etc.(not to mention moonshine)? Gosh, I must have missed
something there.........The abandonment of the idyllic lifestyle of the 50's
in the 60's just might have had something to do with the dishonesty (sweep
it under the rug or hide it in a closet) of that period. So much for my high
horse.

John Dendy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Bowles [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 5:22 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Buttermilk .. no 'bout a dout it (as we used to say)
>
> Buttermilk is not the same in cartons as it was in glass bottles. But than
> nothing is the same.
>
> There was a quality of life that was left behind in the 60's, whose
> philosophical basis was
> established during the depression, that gathered solidarity during the war
> years and blossomed
> in the late 40's & thru the 50-'s.
>
> Work ethics, family, picket fences, and a general appreciation of decency
> and honesty were what
> marked this period.
>
> You won't find it in excavations, unless you can recognize the solidarity
> through pictures, for
> instance, of the family sitting around the Silvertone.  There were no
> drugs or teenage pregnancy
> problems, we wore beanie caps, penny loafers, (knee length nickers .. if
> you can believe it) and
> argyle socks.
>
> It wasn't "old time radio" then .. it was the golden age of radio.