Re: [FWDLK] Shaving Nosing Decking...

[Jan & Roger van Hoy <vanhilla@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Huh?

there were no "rules" ,

IN THE '50's??? SHOOT, WE KIDS HAD ALL KINDS OF RULES.  YOU GOT A GIRL 
PREGNANT, YOU EITHER DID THE "RIGHT THING" AND GOT MARRIED OR ARRANGED A 
COATHANGER ABORTION.  KIDS WERE OVERTLY RESPECTFUL TO THEIR ELDERS.  PEOPLE 
RESPECTED COPS.  THE LIST GOES ON.

> (and post-war elation had not occurred, since the Roaring-20's) ,

THE '50's HERALDED A GREAT GROWTH IN THE MIDDLE CLASS, A NEW PROSPERITY, 
RISE IN HOME BUYING, DEVELOPMENT OF THE "EISENHOWER" INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 
SYSTEM, TWO CAR FAMILIES, ET CETERA.  THE AVERAGE INCOME IN THE LATE '50's 
WAS ABOUT $8,000 PER YEAR AND YOU COULD BUY A NICE CAR FOR UNDER $3,000, 1/3 
OF A YEAR'S INCOME, AND A DECENT MODEST HOUSE FOR $15,000, LESS THAN TWO 
YEARS' INCOME.

except for a general civility & politeness-----hence, The popularity of > 
Lawrence Welk Show,

WHICH WAS A GENUINE CIVILITY AND A BASIC SENSE OF POLITENESS BECAUSE THAT 
WAS THE "RIGHT THING TO DO" AND THE WAY WE WERE RAISED.

but also of  'gang'  "rumbles" (remember THAT
> term???), and individual "knife" fights, as depicted in West Side Story.
> Guns? You mean, like :"Zip-Guns"??

MAYBE IN THE MOVIES AND IN NEW YORK, BUT NOT SO MUCH IN THE GREAT PACIFIC 
NORTHWEST.

IT ISN'T JUST NOSTALGIC HYPE, IT REALLY WAS A GREAT TIME TO BE AN AMERICAN.

--Roger van Hoy, Washougal, WA, '55 DeSoto, '58 DeSoto, '56 Plymouth, '66 
Plymouth, '41 Dodge 

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