Oh, yes, I remember them well. I was in Grade school/Jr. High, in the 50's & I'm so glad I got to grow up in that era. It was a really neat time to be growing up.
Thanks so much for the stroll down memory lane. It's a stroll I always enjoy taking.
I wore nylons with garter belt before panty hose was invented. I used to get S&H Green Stamps when I bought gas. Milk in glass bottles with a tab top, yes.
Yes, white candy cigarettes with red ends. I really miss phone prefix's. I have a hi fi floor model from 1960 and I do play my 45s rockvn roll records.
I iron my sheets regularly because I enjoy it. I find it satisfying. The homemade stuff you mentined I did not see living in a city.
But the biggest change apart from air pollution and food chemicals that I don't like is the dangererous people and mentally ill people out and about. I would be happy if the internet and PCs had not become available. I would include voicemail in the list of unwanted inventions.
Someone mentioned gym shorts. We had one piece bloomers and our sports were girls or boys only. I sometimes think the permissiveness of the 60s did not help children become self-sufficient or good parents.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.