Babyboomer RV'ers Have Experienced it All!
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We had opportunity and space. Few Regulations and no interference.
The bigger the crowd the less the opportunities, the less resources available to everyone.
Did not understand how fortunate we were. Mom and Dad had it rough and I spent a lot of time in the mountains with Grandmother.
It was so quiet it hurt you ears. The only sound was the school bell at morning noon and evening. It was several miles away but it was about the only sound. No airplanes flew over, and a car on the dirt road was rare as hen's teeth.
No money but neither did anyone else. Grand Ma and Mom worked hard, the routine would absolutely frighten a young person today, to death, and they would refuse to do it.
Walked to store a mile or so away with a rifle on my arm at age 6 or so to buy .22 shorts with a quarter and four cents,it seems. Longs or Long Rifles when they came along. No sales tax.
i remember the first sales tax. Went to the corner store in town. all of a sudden if you spent more than a dime you had to pay eleven cents. So I bought a dimes worth and no more. It was supposed to be temporary. i was maybe 6 or o even then but more aware of money, when it concerned what I could raise or get from Mom or Dad.
You bought cars by weight, or the standard seemed to be. You had a lot of money your car was bigger and heavier.
Drove a Model T, sorta, as a kid.
Walked to town by myself on the mountain. Walked to school a mile away second day, at age 6 by myself. Talked to the Policeman who manipulated the stop light on the main road I had to cross. Was always fascinated by his revolver.
I still remember him.
Went to school the same time Dad walked to work. got home about the same time.
In high school worked after school and bought my own cars.
Kids won't make that relative kind of money today.
Anyone anted a job there was at least two waiting somewhere.
Army was a rite of passage to manhood.
Even in the seventies, jobs were everywhere. Your wife didn't work, in our world.
There was no such thing as unwed mothers or teen pregencies, in that world either.
People that just graduated Eighth grade, had more knowledge and better able to function than high school and even college kids today.
Matter, of fact most, money, I've known didn't finish high school.,
They didn't need to or want to learn how to manipulate. They learned, to think to learn, and to earn.
Everyone said yes Mam and no Mam. No one feared walking to town or school
we left our doors unlocked on the mountain and in town.
Everyone went to Church and knew right from wrong. you didn't go to Church you were shunned or didn't do business with you.
There is wisdom there for today. They would never elect someone, that didn't, at least, appear, to everyone as moral and devoted to his Country and Fellow Citizens. People didn't go on words, of politicians but the actions they heard.
Sure they got fooled, sometimes but not anywhere like it is today.
People know they are lying, but vote, based on the best show, it seems.
In school we carried pocket knives, even the girls.
We made quill pens one year from turkey feathers using our pocket knives, carefully instructed by our Teacher, Mrs Parish, in the Fourth Grade.
We wore dress shirts and polished shoes to school every day come rain or shine.
To go to School was the same as going to Church or any one's house or town, or Doctor.
You were brought up to put your best face forward, every time and to live by the standard.
I could go on and on as all the older Folks and hopefully all the younger ones here.
Even Dad, before I was though of, as a Sharecropper was dressed, as fine as they could afford and went everywhere with best face forward. Even as a poor Sharecropper and I mean poor, he was Deacon in Church.
I don't know how we can put American back in order but we owe it to our children and our Republic to try.
I'll quite now, as I've diverged and just noisy.
The bigger the crowd the less the opportunities, the less resources available to everyone.
Did not understand how fortunate we were. Mom and Dad had it rough and I spent a lot of time in the mountains with Grandmother.
It was so quiet it hurt you ears. The only sound was the school bell at morning noon and evening. It was several miles away but it was about the only sound. No airplanes flew over, and a car on the dirt road was rare as hen's teeth.
No money but neither did anyone else. Grand Ma and Mom worked hard, the routine would absolutely frighten a young person today, to death, and they would refuse to do it.
Walked to store a mile or so away with a rifle on my arm at age 6 or so to buy .22 shorts with a quarter and four cents,it seems. Longs or Long Rifles when they came along. No sales tax.
i remember the first sales tax. Went to the corner store in town. all of a sudden if you spent more than a dime you had to pay eleven cents. So I bought a dimes worth and no more. It was supposed to be temporary. i was maybe 6 or o even then but more aware of money, when it concerned what I could raise or get from Mom or Dad.
You bought cars by weight, or the standard seemed to be. You had a lot of money your car was bigger and heavier.
Drove a Model T, sorta, as a kid.
Walked to town by myself on the mountain. Walked to school a mile away second day, at age 6 by myself. Talked to the Policeman who manipulated the stop light on the main road I had to cross. Was always fascinated by his revolver.
I still remember him.
Went to school the same time Dad walked to work. got home about the same time.
In high school worked after school and bought my own cars.
Kids won't make that relative kind of money today.
Anyone anted a job there was at least two waiting somewhere.
Army was a rite of passage to manhood.
Even in the seventies, jobs were everywhere. Your wife didn't work, in our world.
There was no such thing as unwed mothers or teen pregencies, in that world either.
People that just graduated Eighth grade, had more knowledge and better able to function than high school and even college kids today.
Matter, of fact most, money, I've known didn't finish high school.,
They didn't need to or want to learn how to manipulate. They learned, to think to learn, and to earn.
Everyone said yes Mam and no Mam. No one feared walking to town or school
we left our doors unlocked on the mountain and in town.
Everyone went to Church and knew right from wrong. you didn't go to Church you were shunned or didn't do business with you.
There is wisdom there for today. They would never elect someone, that didn't, at least, appear, to everyone as moral and devoted to his Country and Fellow Citizens. People didn't go on words, of politicians but the actions they heard.
Sure they got fooled, sometimes but not anywhere like it is today.
People know they are lying, but vote, based on the best show, it seems.
In school we carried pocket knives, even the girls.
We made quill pens one year from turkey feathers using our pocket knives, carefully instructed by our Teacher, Mrs Parish, in the Fourth Grade.
We wore dress shirts and polished shoes to school every day come rain or shine.
To go to School was the same as going to Church or any one's house or town, or Doctor.
You were brought up to put your best face forward, every time and to live by the standard.
I could go on and on as all the older Folks and hopefully all the younger ones here.
Even Dad, before I was though of, as a Sharecropper was dressed, as fine as they could afford and went everywhere with best face forward. Even as a poor Sharecropper and I mean poor, he was Deacon in Church.
I don't know how we can put American back in order but we owe it to our children and our Republic to try.
I'll quite now, as I've diverged and just noisy.
