I'm so old I Remember when:

[BigBlueHen53]

We actually had one of these mowers. Would cut tall grass so you were constantly miwing the yard.

I have one now that I ordered last year. I got it so I can keep the path to the henhouse mowed in between the times my DH can get to it. We have 3 acres he mows on a circuit and sometimes my path grows up a bit before he gets back around to it. It's good exercise!

 

[007Sean]

It was different, for sure! Things were changing so fast... technology, transportation, civil rights, fashion, music....... and we were still innocent (mostly). There were no mass school shootings, no strangers in white vans asking if you'd seen their puppy, we left our doors unlocked, AIDS didn't exist, everyone knew their neighbors and people helped each other. It's so sad that everything has turned upside down. So much have been GOOD changes, but all that progress has led to broken families, used needles and condoms on the sidewalk, helicopter moms (out of necessity) raising snowflake kids, collapse of societal morals and values that used to keep most evil in check.

I feel sorry for my grandkids who'll never have the kind of joyful experiences we've had, but I can only hope they'll create new and better ones of their own and for their kids and grandkids. But at the same time, I feel honored and blessed to have witnessed so many events that have transformed our lives. To me, living through the 60's and 70's (and my elders who witnessed the 50's) - that particular period of time was magical (excepting the Vietnam War) and life will never again be the same.

Amen, they call WWII's generation the 'greatest generation' and with good reason but I think the boomer generation is the greatest generation....I mean look at all the advances in technology, science since WWII and how we have learned to adapt to the changes/challenges we have faced and at the speed they have increased.
As some have pointed out in this thread, rotary phones, now cell phones(smart phones) smart tv's, smart appliances, computers, video games weren't around yet, automobile technology (self driving cars) kids now days don't know how to drive a 'stick'. In my time, we have gone from flying airplanes to flying to the moon, a feat that took less than 100 years. We have had to face so many changes and at an incomprehensible speed.

I grew up in the country, we never locked are doors, even when we left the house. I could go hunting and fishing in a 40 square mile radius and no one would even question me if they saw me walking down the road with a rifle or shotgun...not even the police. Times were way different than they are today....I feel sad for kids now days, they will never know what it was like to grow up during this time period with the freedom we had, wasn't 'true', 'complete' freedom but pretty close. People cared more for their neighbors back then than they do today. People had more common sense back then than today. People look back and say, 'oh, the good old days'....they weren't good just different than things are today.

I'm off my rant, I just decided to take a look at this thread, didn't think I'd be responding to zombie threads....but here I am.

 

[007Sean]

Doh!!!!

 

[EmmaDonovan]

 

[EmmaDonovan]

 

[EmmaDonovan]

Getting these on school work felt like quite the achievement.

 

[EmmaDonovan]

 

[EmmaDonovan]

 

[EmmaDonovan]

 

[BDutch]

.I mean look at all the advances in technology, science since WWII and how we have learned to adapt to the changes/challenges we have faced and at the speed they have increased.
As some have pointed out in this thread, rotary phones, now cell phones(smart phones) smart tv's, smart appliances, computers, video games weren't around yet, automobile technology (self driving cars) kids now days don't know how to drive a 'stick'. In my time, we have gone from flying airplanes to flying to the moon, a feat that took less than 100 years. We have had to face so many changes and at an incomprehensible speed.

You forgot to mention this generation (at least the CEO’s who new) knew about pollution and did nothing to stop it. On the contrary they started lawsuits against people who tried to stop the pollution.
And i am not talking about one kind of pollution. There are many ways you can destroy a healthy environment.

I name a few that pop up: Greenhouse gasses, Mining, herbicides and pesticides, Plastics, large-scale factory farming, steel factories, PFAS production, chemical processes to make clothing and paper, asbestos (now forbidden), cadmium for yellow an red paint/colouring, bombs, nuclear plants.

The male boomers (mostly arrogant and rich white males) are to blame for the positive progress, and for the pollution as well.