Changes in Society

Over the last 70 years many things have changed in our society including computers, electronics, shopping experinces and how much everything now costs, this section is to tell peoples memories of times gone by



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USA, World War II Memories
World War II Memories

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Name Withheld , USA, The Depression Years
Memories From The Depression Years


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Frank , United States, Baby Boomer Memories From the 50's
Baby Boomer memories

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Remember Growing up in the 60's
60's generation Growing Up

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Remember the Recession years From The 70's
Remember the 70's

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Popular Culture and Music From The 80's
Eighties Popular Culture

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Music Concerts from the 90's including Woodstock
Woodstock 94


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Laura, United States of America, Buying a Calculator in 1973
Buying a Calculator in 1973


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Jim , United States of America, Price of Gas in 1968
Price of Gas in 1968


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The Yuppie Era
The Yuppie Nineties

DO YOU HAVE MEMORIES FROM THE CHANGES IN SOCIETY AND EARLIER GENTLER TIMES YOU WANT TO SHARE
PLEASE USE THE COMMENTS FORM TO SHARE YOUR MEMORIES
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Purple Checker Marathon

Memory From:
Callie Mae, United States, Purple Checker Marathon

During the 80's, I ended up with a car like no other. It was a 1972 Purple Checker Marathon, not an old cab, but a sedan sold to the general puplic. It was a beast with a good old fashioned 350 chevy motor in it, but because it was a Checker, it had to have a custom exaust, which in this case was always blowing the exaust manifold gaskets on an annual basis and because I was poor and tired of spending money on replacing the exaust, I decided to drive it loud and live with the fumes and backfires. Whats worse is that it then developed an issue with the power steering in that every time I pulled into a parking space the power steering hose would blow and start an engine fire. The first time that happened, I was at a gas station and I remember grabbing sand and gravel off the pavement and throwing that on the engine in a panic to put out the flames until the attendent came out with an extinguisher. After a few times like that I learned to carry my own fire extingusher in
the front seat next to me and it then became "old hat" and I would just put out the fire, start the car back up and be on my merry way. I did love that old car, it was fun to drive, but in winter, even with 3 separate heaters in it, darned cold!

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I Loved The 70s

Posted By
Margarita, United States,

I had four births. Now they are grown to be lovely ladies and I have 10 grandchildren. I am now beginning to live life now by writing about my life and writing about other nonfiction stories. As a child loved reading and gaining knowledge. As a teenager I loved sports. I loved the 70's because you can be yourself or who you were.

When We Were Kids In The Fifties

Posted By
Mahdj, United States, When We Were Kids In The 50's
When we were kids... television was relatively new on the scene and most of our fun was inventing games outdoors - we used twigs for "guns" pretended to be Roy Rogers and Dale Evans - together with Trigger, Buttermilk, Bullet, Pat and Nellybelle!

On Saturday morning we would watch the Lone Ranger with Tonto, and then we'd be him... Other programs that we were allowed to watch were Farmer Gray, Sky King, Ramar of the Jungle, and Froggy the Gremlin ("Plunk your magic twanger froggy," and Midnight the cat in the Buster Brown Show, a/k/a Andy's Gang.

There was also the Super Circus with Claude Kirchner and "the Queen," Mary Hartline... Of course everyone knows about Howdy Doody, Buffalo Bob, Dilly Dally, Mister Bluster, Flubbadub, Clarabelle, and Princess Summer Fall Winter Spring and, of course, the peanut gallery!

How about Captain Midnight and Ovaltine (still around)... Kukla, Fran, and Ollie was fun for kids, and Kate Smith was on every TV as we'd walk by homes in the evening... but that was when air conditioning was not available and doors were never locked!

And I remember crying when King Kong was killed hanging from the Empire State Building.

Despite objections from some, we love the little rascals and Amos and Andy, Abbot and Costello and the 3 Stooges.

Ed Sullivan was on every Sunday evening - then there was Jack Benny, Milton Berle, George Gobel, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca, Dinah Shore (mwah!) and Arthur Godfrey with Marion Marlowe, Frank Parker, and Julius LaRosa. Music was the central theme of Lawrence Welk, the Hit Parade (Jazelle McKenzy), Perry Como, and a friend at school appeared on Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour.

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Married at 39

Posted By
my Honey, United States,

I got married at the young age of 39 , now have a dog, a cat and a loving wife!