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Oct 27, 2010 20:05:06 GMT -5
Post by PeterW on Oct 27, 2010 20:05:06 GMT -5
Snap, Mickey.
The world was a very different place then.
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Oct 28, 2010 9:33:37 GMT -5
Post by mickeyobe on Oct 28, 2010 9:33:37 GMT -5
PeterW,
Indeed it was.
I guess I am strange but what I miss most about that world is quiet. Plain, simple, unheard, uncelebrated quiet.
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Oct 28, 2010 9:47:12 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2010 9:47:12 GMT -5
Amen.
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Oct 28, 2010 11:12:43 GMT -5
Post by PeterW on Oct 28, 2010 11:12:43 GMT -5
What I don't miss about that world in the UK are post-war austerity, housing shortage, food rationing (still, for some things, 9 years after the war), restrictions on many so-called luxury imports and general shortage of consumer goods for the home market.
What I do miss is the community spirit, the lack of constant grouching and grumbling, the number of small shops before the rise of the giant supermarkets and a general sense of optimism and feeling that things could only get better - as indeed they gradually did.
Ah well, even nostalgia's not what it used to be.
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Oct 28, 2010 12:42:04 GMT -5
Post by mickeyobe on Oct 28, 2010 12:42:04 GMT -5
We were lucky here in Canada, PeterW, not having to experience those things that you don't miss.
By 1954 Canada, at least from my point of view, was a rapidly improving happy and optimistic place with an expanding population of immigrants determined to work as hard as necessary to become Canadians and to be part of our society. They brought such wonderful innovations and colourful customs and cultures and knowledge that they changed this country from a staid, rather dull place to a vibrant multicultural society that really works.
The optimism grew and grew and reached a magnificent culmination in 1967, Canada's 100th anniversary, with the amazing Expo 67.
Things have changed now. Most immigrants still strive the way the earlier ones did. But some want to make Canada over in their own image to suit themselves, to adopt their culture and their laws and their hatreds - to destroy all that we enjoy and all of us have worked so long and hard to build.
We are fortunate that we have a Prime Minister and government with a conscience and the strength and courage to do what is right rather than politically correct or expedient or profitable.
Here I go again, off on another rant.
Back to camera collecting.
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Oct 28, 2010 12:56:43 GMT -5
Post by photax on Oct 28, 2010 12:56:43 GMT -5
Hi ! I am 45 and I dont know how things have been in 1954, but as Peter said, a general sense of optimism would not hurt these days . "the number of small shops before the rise of the giant supermarkets" From time to time I am visiting the Czech Republik, Hungary and Slovakia. Something I notice is that with every year their cities are looking more similar. All the little cafes, the galleries and the small shops are gone, instead of them you`ll find supermarkets, Mc Something fast food, bank branches and fashion chains as you can find in any other european town. I think it is a pity, but the inhabitants decided to live in an average modern european town... MIK
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Oct 28, 2010 13:53:42 GMT -5
Post by Randy on Oct 28, 2010 13:53:42 GMT -5
Here, this will make you SNAP!
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Oct 28, 2010 18:18:19 GMT -5
Post by mickeyobe on Oct 28, 2010 18:18:19 GMT -5
Randy,
After a few days lying thin and flat in the middle of the road under that hot southern sun Pewtunia will start to CRACKLE & POP.
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Nov 2, 2010 15:06:05 GMT -5
Post by drako on Nov 2, 2010 15:06:05 GMT -5
Hi ! I am 45 and I dont know how things have been in 1954, but as Peter said, a general sense of optimism would not hurt these days . MIK I'm 47. I don't know about elsewhere, but I have certainly noticed here in US and Canada that people in general are more compassionate than in the past.
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Nov 2, 2010 21:33:50 GMT -5
Post by herron on Nov 2, 2010 21:33:50 GMT -5
I was only six, but I remember a lot ... mostly the things a kid would remember. The early TV shows on a tiny B&W screen. Nights under the radio (it was a big console, with lots of tubes that made it warm underneath). My bike, a single speed wonder with wide tires. Baseball (hadn't heard of soccer, yet). My father's Kodak Brownie Holiday camera, which I was not allowed to touch!
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Nov 2, 2010 22:24:58 GMT -5
Post by mickeyobe on Nov 2, 2010 22:24:58 GMT -5
I remember our first TV. (English translation - telly). It was black and white and had a massive 9" screen with lots of snow even in the summer.
My father would set it on a chair in the vestibule and the whole family and guests would sit on the stairs, in tiers. It was a perfect set up. Even the test patterns were watched avidly.
Our favourite programme was the CBC weather forecast with Percy Saltzman. He had a blackboard that stretched from the floor up about 8'. He was a character and genuine meteorologist and crammed the board with fascinating details. If there wasn't enough room on the board he would continue onto the floor. He used a large, thick piece of chalk and always ended by tossing it high into the air and catching it. His occasional miss brought peals of laughter from us, part of his huge, sophisticated audience.
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