>
> on 6/5/06 10:24 AM, TurquoiseB at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer
> > <fairfieldlife@> wrote:
> >>
> >> Patti Boyd: My life as a muse
> >
> > The muse sayeth:
> >> But you have to cut yourself a bit of slack in the end,
> >> I think. I certainly wouldn't have lived through any
> >> other era. People blame the 1960s for just about
> >> everything these days, but it was the decade when all
> >> that post-war furtiveness and small-mindedness was
> >> finally blown open and opportunity really came
> >> knocking."
> >
> > Well said. It was an interesting era to live through.
> > I don't know who here is old enough to remember the
> > 1950s and what it was like growing up in them. We're
> > talking 'duck and cover.' We're talking people brag-
> > ging about the size and quality of the fallout
> > shelters they just built in the back yard. It was
> > not a happy time, no matter how many neocons think
> > it was and want to return us to that mindset.
>
> I'm old enough (56) to remember air raid drills in grammar school in which
> we'd assemble in the hallway and cover our heads with our hands (as if that
> would protect one from an atomic bomb) and the local lumber company had a
> fallout shelter for sale, prominently displayed on the main street. We used
> to play in it.
50's: I remember lining up for polio shots at school, the smell of the toner for
mimeograph machines (no copying machines yet), black rotary phones, and a friend whose
older sister got pregnant before marriage - scandal. If a father hadnot served in the war,
no one ever asked why, it was considered embarrassing. I recall the excitement when
sugar free soda first came out.
>
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