Is the U.S. better or worse than it was 50 years ago? - Page 3

Q Classic · March 20, 2003, 14:14

i don't quite understand the choices. yes? no?

how is that better? or worse? eh?

Ned · March 20, 2003, 14:29

Joseph, I used to ride my bike downtown to see a movie or shop. I would just park it in front of the store or theater. Very few kids, if any, locked their bikes. There was no theft.

Joseph · March 20, 2003, 15:22

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Originally posted by Ned
Joseph, I used to ride my bike downtown to see a movie or shop. I would just park it in front of the store or theater. Very few kids, if any, locked their bikes. There was no theft.

Yes I use to hitchhike into Modesto to buy a TV guide and one day made it in 45 min to and from (about 8 miles one way). We did not have a car most of time. Did not have TV until Nov of 58.

Ben Kenobi · March 20, 2003, 19:41

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Leave a house unlock. Leave your car unlock. About 50% of the kids still live in the country.

I'm from a small town- used to have that growing up, but not so much anymore.

BTW- this is very much a part of 'social' life.

Glad to see someone post personal experience. Like I said, none of us really know what we're talking about.

Peace, joseph. Maybe we'll see times like this again.

axi · March 20, 2003, 21:21

None of the two, you are currently reaching about the same depth in the Abyss as during the Korean War.

Reminds me of our stockmarket, which has now dropped to the levels of 1991, the 1st Gulf War.

Drake Tungsten · March 20, 2003, 21:24

Greece has a stockmarket? I didn't know you could buy shares in goat herding enterprises...

Willem · March 20, 2003, 21:32

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Originally posted by Joseph
Leave your car unlock. About 50% of the kids still live in the country.

And you could run around all day and not have to worry about getting skin cancer later on.

Lincoln · March 20, 2003, 21:49

I am almost as old as Joseph and I agree with him. The society in general was more honest and safe. There was also more mutual respect for neighbors. I grew up in California so I saw very little racism but I must say that there was not the hatred that there is now between various groups of people. Of course the nation has always been plagued by bigots and that has not changed over the years.

chequita guevara · March 20, 2003, 22:23

We could leave our house unlocked in Batavia, IL up to the day we moved out, in 1988. When my Mom moved to Winfield, we kept the door there unlocked also, that was until the early 1990s. I know people here who keep their door unlocked.

JohnT · March 21, 2003, 01:38

I have no idea why being able to have your doors unlocked while you sleep automatically is superior to any culture where people decide to lock their doors.

I'd no sooner go back to 1950 than I would 1980. Unless I had my current memories.

Starchild · March 21, 2003, 09:24

Even when I lived in the countryside I used to lock the doors. Leaving them unlocked is just so....wrong.

Joseph · March 21, 2003, 18:06

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Originally posted by JohnT
I have no idea why being able to have your doors unlocked while you sleep automatically is superior to any culture where people decide to lock their doors.

I'd no sooner go back to 1950 than I would 1980. Unless I had my current memories.

John T!!!

Ben Kenobi · March 21, 2003, 18:31

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I have no idea why being able to have your doors unlocked while you sleep automatically is superior to any culture where people decide to lock their doors.

One word- trust.
If you are able to keep your doors unlocked, this is a symbol of the trust that you share with your neighbours.

Sava · March 21, 2003, 18:37

Even if I lived on a planet where I was the only human being, I'd still lock my doors. I'm just a paranoid SOB

Joseph · March 21, 2003, 19:25

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Originally posted by Sava
Even if I lived on a planet where I was the only human being, I'd still lock my doors. I'm just a paranoid SOB

Let's grab the first time machine and I will take you back to the 50s and show you around. Your paranoia will go away in a few days.

Ben Kenobi · March 21, 2003, 19:33

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Let's grab the first time machine and I will take you back to the 50s and show you around. Your paranoia will go away in a few days.

If you want to make more money than anyone else has ever dreamed:

Make a workable time-machine that can travel to the past.