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Do you like our era?

Dne'

Dne'

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When I was driving my '57 chevy home from Houston to Conroe(about an hour drive), I tried to imagine the cars/truck around me were of the same year~ like I was living in that time! A sadness came over me, or a sentiment thinking of my younger years. I was born in '55, but felt my life was living more in the '60's-70's and remember those times vividly. My question, "do you like our era?" mainly strikes me about everything TODAY! Social status between us and our children despite all the forms of communication and we get a text message now and then! I do like the computers I suppose, but unsure about cell phones. Things are so different today and I feel I'm in the wrong time/wrong year! America was a little more America then, I think! Having only 4-5 TV channels would be fine today! Having 155 channels and still can't find anything to watch burns me up, and especially what are kids are watching! OMG!
I could go on, but reality strikes me, and my memories of growing up in a neat era are just memories and today's generation have no idea what a simpler life it was!

I remember in high school, I always had a choke problem with my '66 plymouth valiant! I'd get out, have someone turn the key while I held the choke closed, and it would start! yahoo! no ac,ps,pb bypassed heater core,etc. I wouldn't have traded it for anything! How many of our kids even open the hood of their own sophisticated cars!

Maybe this thread is more of a ranting thread?
Just like to hear if I'm not alone?
your friend, dne'
 
Gotta agree, (born in '51). Although my folks (born in '20 and '19) said they had simpler times, and my daughter (born in '71) says the same thing to her kids and on and on and on.

I love it when I am driving and a couple other vintage cars get in the traffic mix. Brings back the good days for sure.
 
Its all relative to what you grew up with. Of course it was always better in the old days. Why? Because you were young, a kid, who didn't really care about the times at hand. Heck the 60's were great as long as you weren't in VietNam. The 50s now that was the time...except for that nuclear annihilation thing. Oh the 40s now there was a simpler time...oh that World War, yeah that wasn't good. Now the 30s...what wasn't fun about the great depression?

The common denominator is that those that remember the past as being better were remembering it as kids. That's why it was better.
 
I think the baby boomers had it best. I'm not a BB, but my parents are (born '45) Not only were the cars awesome, but life was much simpler. Families spent more time together, less divorces, more respect for each other, and less PC. While technology is great, it really takes away from more important stuff a lot of the time.
 
I was born in 53, and chariot races were the rage! The bummer was that the horses would do their thing, and you would sometimes get their droppings into the chariot. Except for a spoke breaking on the wheel now and then, they were extremely simple devices and easy to maintain. *sigh* I miss those days.
 
"KBMWRS" said:
The common denominator is that those that remember the past as being better were remembering it as kids. That's why it was better.
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Since I was growing up in the 60's & 70's for some unknown reason :kaid I just don't remember too much of that time............................ :craz
 
Since I'm usually different, I prefer.......................right now. I can do what I want, go where I want, when I want and do stuff that's really fun; tracking the car, water skiing with better equipment, seeing more of this Country.

Yeah the current state of the Country is abysmal, but it'll change.....hopefully for the best.


I would prefer the 60's cars over today's though :coo
 
My neice has an early 60's oz GMH EK sedan, looks like a small 57 chev.
The bumper sticker says "The best cars have already been made, the best songs have already been sung"
The more i look at cars today and listen to the radio, the more i agree with her
 
I was born in '83 but I have to say that I am not totally comfortable with the direction my generation and younger generations are heading in.

For example: communication! Where has it gone? It went from writting someone a letter or speaking face to face. Today, the last thing anyone wants to do is talk to someone face to face. :scar Why? because it causes to much anxiety, and very few remember what it was like to take a pen to some paper.

What the heck is going on with today's noise (I refuse to call it music)? To me music came from singers and musicians, people with talent, Glen Miller, Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and others that thankfully graced us with their melodies. Just to be clear, not all the noise is terribly bad but its slowly heading in that direction.

Once again, please don't misunderstand me, I don't believe that my entire generation is heading down this path that I fear. I do think that enough of them are, which will make it easier for the younger generations to head down the same road and push the limits of what is socially acceptable even further.

I understand that I can only teach my son how to carry himself, how to treat others with respect as a gentlemen and teach him how to stand up and fight for our way of life. In the end he too will make his own choice on what is and what isn't important to him and I can only hope for the best.

BTW: I would love to see a bunch of 30's - 60's cars growling up and down the highway. That would be too cool.
 
My Mom's time

I was speaking with Mom earlier~ she's turning 83 this Sat, and I posed this question before I posted this thread. She too said the '50's, '60's were the best, and I'll say she has more wit than anyone I know! Despite the wars being pretty nasty back then, she says the country was full of honor, and times weren't so crazy like today. Nowadays the medical field is crazy, a doctor for every ailment! I'm getting offtrack~

I remember getting fresh milk delivered to our home(unpasturized)early '60s and fresh bread! We knew our postman and they dressed in uniform, it was a government job and it was considered an honor(my father was a postman for 18yrs). The family getting in the old pickup truck and going to the drive in movies(Hercules, Pink panther, our man flint!LOL) We had chores: feeding the chickens, cattle, picking up maneur for the large garden.

There's no imagination left~ everything has been invented, there's very little chance of you, your children, inventing something. Maybe that's why when we fix up an old car, we feel a sense of accomplishment!
When one leaves a movie, they gripe about the graphics being poor! I can still watch the original War of the Worlds and see the strings holding up the Alien spaceships! But it was superb!

I appreciate everyone's input :ecit~ but I see a definite sway that the times were definitely special for some!

*post one thing that would benefit the upcoming generation/s~ I say all students should have to take at least one year of Auto mechanics!!!!
 
I will mention only two things :sur they are the two things I hope when all is said and done I'm able to pass on to my kids because if you can get ahold of these concepts many other things seem a bit easier


Drum roll please :rulez


#1 Cause and effect or action and re-action

#2 Respect
 
Before graduating HS, students should have to pass a "rare" sense course.




Why "rare"? well, if it was "common" everyone would have it and after 30+ yrs in the construction trade, I know for a fact that it ain't common at all :eek:mg
 
Short answer, not really. Born in the 70's, the decade taste forgot, I still don't have enough time under my belt to say what's the "good ole days".
As for my generation, I can't stand it. A good portion of them are useless, no work ethic, no work and social skills, self centered, and rude. Seems every generation after mine gets a tad worse.
Music sucks now. No real talent out there on the radio. Cars are not as fun, nor have a "soul" like pre-70 cars do. Just plastic, cookie cutter, jelly bean looking cars.
 
These are the best of times, right now, today. You can keep what you want, and throw away the rest.

Keep the carb'd cars for the weekends, and the fuel injection ones for the week days!
 
Dne'

Being a couple of years older than you, I grew up in the same decade(s) but in California. Though one tends to remember the good and forget the bad as time marches on, there are some universal truths that apply to those decades that contrast markedly with today:

1. People took more pride in expressing themselves in writing. Ever look at a handwritten letter from that era? How many kids in high school today have a clue about diagraming a sentence?

2. When sports and entertainment figures (role models to us) made public appearances, they dressed formally. When is the last time you saw one of them with a coat and tie?

3. Respect for one's elders was required. The school Prinicpal was the equivalent of God when at school and no one would even think of mouthing off to him/her. Back then , when addressing an adult it was "Mr. Jones" or "Mrs. Smith". I wouldn't even contemplate calling an adult by their first name. Today's kids were raised in a much more informal world.

4. Being polite was a requirement, not just "please" and "thank you" but "excuse me" and "may I...". Today, those niceties are practically extinct, especially when someone's cell phone rings. Rudeness has become the norm and consideration has become the exception.

5. The quest for "easy" money has replaced the virtue of hard work.

Jeeeeeeezzze...............the older I get the more I sound like my Dad!!!!!!!
 
"Midlife" said:
I was born in 53, and chariot races were the rage! The bummer was that the horses would do their thing, and you would sometimes get their droppings into the chariot. Except for a spoke breaking on the wheel now and then, they were extremely simple devices and easy to maintain. *sigh* I miss those days.
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Didn't you have to fight off the T-Rex for your dinner??? :beat
 
Amen! :wor I guess there are some small towns around these days(out in the sticks so to speak) that are raised a tiny bit better?

Would you think that cell phones have just gone a bit overboard with technological advances? which in turn, all of us fall prey to, and especially our younger generations that will be running our country some day? I think they should have just left them as Cell phones with no other capabilities(internet, facebook types stuff, games, text, etc), what's that one now that will display a movie on the wall? plus they're just one more thing to misplace!!


"JeffTepper" said:
Dne'

Being a couple of years older than you, I grew up in the same decade(s) but in California. Though one tends to remember the good and forget the bad as time marches on, there are some universal truths that apply to those decades that contrast markedly with today:

1. People took more pride in expressing themselves in writing. Ever look at a handwritten letter from that era? How many kids in high school today have a clue about diagraming a sentence?

2. When sports and entertainment figures (role models to us) made public appearances, they dressed formally. When is the last time you saw one of them with a coat and tie?

3. Respect for one's elders was required. The school Prinicpal was the equivalent of God when at school and no one would even think of mouthing off to him/her. Back then , when addressing an adult it was "Mr. Jones" or "Mrs. Smith". I wouldn't even contemplate calling an adult by their first name. Today's kids were raised in a much more informal world.

4. Being polite was a requirement, not just "please" and "thank you" but "excuse me" and "may I...". Today, those niceties are practically extinct, especially when someone's cell phone rings. Rudeness has become the norm and consideration has become the exception.

5. The quest for "easy" money has replaced the virtue of hard work.

Jeeeeeeezzze...............the older I get the more I sound like my Dad!!!!!!!
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He was bigger than me, so I let him take whatever he wanted. However, I learned from the Romans and fed him water tainted with lead...eventually, he and his kin died and then I had a big ol' feast!
 
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