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zatoman wrote:

Abraham wrote:Ruark,

Sorry ole chum, but those were great days, for some...

I too am a product of the fifties and while I miss some of the positives, I don't miss any of the negatives of which the list is quite long.

Mayberry RFD never really existed.

Mayberry existed for many. Me included. Doors never locked. Fishing and hunting whenever we wanted to. Our town had one cop who would let you get away with mischief as long as you weren't causing any real trouble. I tell people that my childhood was idyllic, and I also tell them that for my children, growing up in the highly regulated suburbs (near necessary employment centers) with zero tolerance brain-dead schools was not healthy.

Same here. Shows like Andy Griffith, Lassie, Leave it to Beaver, etc. are views into my early years. "The America Norman Rockwell painted." Gone forever.

zatoman wrote:

ScottDLS wrote:I will cling to my guns and religion until the blue helmeted UN troops fast rope from the black helicopters into my back yard. Then they'll march me to the FEMA camps where they turn us into Soylient Green.

I guess that is one vote that I am overly concerned. But to me the trend is obviously not on our side. I think the Country is unrecognizable (and not in a good way) to what it was in the '50s.

Same here. I grew up in the 50s, when many people didn't even have keys to their front doors; the milkman would come into your kitchen if you weren't home and put the milk and eggs in your refrigerator. Every elementary and middle school had 300 bicycles parked in front. Everything was closed on Sundays. Credit cards, answering machines, and cable TV were still science fiction. No red-blooded American boy would be caught dead without a good pocketknife, a bicycle, a dog and a baseball glove for Little League. The whole town shut down on the nights Billy Graham was on TV. Don't get me started........