Jokes and Giggles Part Two
Copyright© 2017 by Jack Spratt
Chapter 519
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- This one is a little before your time, but I thought you might want to pass it on to some of your older friends.
Special Group / Born Between 1930 - 1946. Today, they range in ages from 75 to 90. Are you or do you know someone “still here”?
Interesting Facts for you:
You are the smallest group of children, born since the early 1900s.
You are the last generation, climbing out of the depression, who can remember the winds of war and the impact of a world at war which rattled the structure of our daily lives for years.
You are the last to remember ration books for everything from gas to sugar to shoes to stoves.
You saved tin foil and poured fat into tin cans.
You saw cars up on blocks because tires weren’t available.
You can remember milk being delivered to your house early in the morning and placed in the “milk box” on the porch.
You are the last to see the gold stars in the front windows of grieving neighbours whose sons died in the War.
You saw the ‘boys’ home from the war, build their little houses.
You are the last generation who spent childhood without television; instead, you imagined what you heard on the radio.
With no TV until the 50’s, you spent your childhood “playing outside”.
There was no little league. There was no city playground for kids.
The lack of television in your early years meant, that you had little real understanding of what the world was like.
On Saturday afternoons, the movies gave you newsreels sandwiched in between westerns and cartoons.
Telephones were one to a house, often shared (party lines) and hung on the wall in the kitchen (no cares about privacy).
Computers were called calculators; they were hand cranked.
Typewriters were driven by pounding fingers, throwing the carriage and changing the ribbon.
INTERNET’ and ‘GOOGLE’ were words that did not exist.
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