[Clayart] TR: People Born 1930 to 1946 facts

[Edouard Bastarache]

De : Gilles L. Michaud [mailto:gillesl...@videotron.ca]
Envoyé : 31 janvier 2021 09:54



Special Group / Born Between 1930 - 1946. Today, they range in ages from 75
to 90. Are you or do you know someone “still here”?



Interesting Facts for you. You are the smallest group of children,
born since the early 1900s.



You are the last generation, climbing out of the depression, who can
remember the winds of war and the impact of a world at war which rattled the
structure of our daily lives for years.



You are the last to remember ration books for everything from gas to
sugar to shoes to stoves.



You saved tin foil and poured fat into tin cans.



You saw cars up on blocks because tires weren't available.



You can remember milk being delivered to your house early in the morning and
placed in the "milk box" on the porch.



You are the last to see the gold stars in the front windows of grieving
neighbours whose sons died in the War.



You saw the 'boys' home from the war, build their little houses.



You are the last generation who spent childhood without television; instead,
you imagined what you heard on the radio.



With no TV until the 50's, you spent your childhood "playing outside".



There was no little league. There was no city playground for kids.



The lack of television in your early years meant, that you had little real
understanding of what the world was like.

On Saturday afternoons, the movies gave you newsreels sandwiched in between
westerns and cartoons.

Telephones were one to a house, often shared (party lines) and hung on the
wall in the kitchen (no cares about privacy).

Computers were called calculators; they were hand cranked.

Typewriters were driven by pounding fingers, throwing the carriage and
changing the ribbon.

INTERNET' and 'GOOGLE' were words that did not exist.



Newspapers and magazines were written for adults and the news was broadcast
on your radio in the evening. As you grew up, the country was exploding
with growth.

The Government gave returning Veterans the means to get an education and
spurred colleges to grow. Loans fanned a housing boom. Pent up demand
coupled with new instalment payment plans opened many factories for work.

New highways would bring jobs and mobility. The Veterans joined civic clubs
and became active in politics.

The radio network expanded from 3 stations to thousands.

Your parents were suddenly free from the confines of the depression and the
war, and they threw themselves into exploring opportunities they had never
imagined.

You weren't neglected, but you weren't today's all-consuming family focus.
They were glad you played by yourselves until the street lights came on.
They were busy discovering the post war world.

You entered a world of overflowing plenty and opportunity; a world where you
were welcomed, enjoyed yourselves and felt secure in your future though
depression poverty was deeply remembered.

Polio was still a crippler.

You came of age in the 50s and 60s. You are the last generation to
experience an interlude when there were no threats to our homeland. The
second world war was over and the cold war, terrorism, global warming, and
perpetual economic insecurity had yet to haunt life with unease.

Only your generation can remember both a time of great war, and a time when
our world was secure and full of bright promise and plenty. You grew up at
the best possible time, a time when the world was getting better...



You are "The Last Ones." More than 99 % of you are either retired or
deceased, and you feel privileged to have "lived in the best of times!"





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[Terry Lazaroff]

Instead of browsing your I-Pad or Smart phone at breakfast, you read the back of the cereal box.
The arrival of the ice man meant you had a chunk of ice for your popsicle.
You took time out to pet the bread-man’s horse.
Listening to the Rag and Bones caller from his wagon as it passed by your home.
A 7oz bottle of coke cost 7 cents and there was a 2cent refund on the empty.

Terry

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[Eleanor Kohler]

One week from today, I’ll turn 90. This is my autobiography!

Eleanor Kohler
New Haven, Vermont

[vpit...@dtccom.net]

I don't quite make it into that category. I was born in 1948. But I am more than happy to wallow in nostalgia. I remember welcoming the milkman when he walked right into our house without knocking to put the fresh bottles of milk in the fridge. We'd leave the empties in a wire basket outside the back door. When I was in high school, you could get a gallon of gas or a pack of cigarettes at the Regal Station on University Avenue below Grove Street (now MLK Boulevard) for 23 cents. This was in Berkeley, California.

I do remember reading the stuff on the cereal box at breakfast, searching the boxes for prizes, and sending away for additional prizes - magic decoder ring, etc. When I was a young child, we had a small fridge with a tiny ice box top-center that did little more than accommodate the metal ice trays to make ice cubes for my parents' drinks. We also had a "cooler," a cabinet with oiled wood open-slat shelves, and screened vents to the outside top and bottom. This was in the Berkeley (California) hills, and we kept our mayo, butter, eggs, condiments, nuts, dried fruit, fresh fruit, potatoes, onions, and other such things in the cooler.

My brother and I mowed our two lawns with a push reel mower - no power other than our legs and arms.
- Vince

Vince Pitelka
Professor Emeritus of Art/Ceramics
Appalachian Center for Craft
School of Art, Craft & Design
Tennessee Tech University
Now Residing Chapel Hill, NC
vpit...@dtccom.net
www.vincepitelka.com

[Kash Mistry]

Just an interesting and true perspective of that age group
I am shy by just two years, and growing up in the mountains in india on the western ghats, we experienced similar days and happenings but not to the extent that my fellow Americans experienced . we did not have dust storms , but we did have troops returning from World War II. My father in law served in the British army as a Major
No phones or TV, but pen pals all over the world including my US pen pal Janet Beckham from Huntington Beach, CA, who worked in the offices of JF KENNEDY.
Had to come home before the sun set as up in the mountains there panthers and tigers and other wild life
Life was simple and good and a feeling of contentment even on my fathers salary as a school teacher.
I hope to be potting till both feet are in the box.
Thank you for bringing back nostalgic days
Kashmira
The Happy Potter
From Keller, texas


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> On Jan 31, 2021, at 8:42 PM, Terry Lazaroff <terryl...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Instead of browsing your I-Pad or Smart phone at breakfast, you read the back of the cereal box.

[Sharon Wetherby]

Vince,
I had almost forgotten about the decoder rings. I always dreamed about
having a Dick Tracy Watch. I have one now; it's called an Apple Watch!
Love it. I can remember when my dad shipped out on the train from Dallas
to San Francisco. It was a sad day. I started crying and before you knew
it, my mom and grandparents were all crying thinking we might never see him
again.

Sharon Wetherby
Fort Worth, TX, USA

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[vpit...@dtccom.net]

Hi Sharon -
Through most of the run of "Dick Tracy," they had two-way wrist radios, and for us, familiar with the size of portable transistor radios, even that seemed a stretch. And then in his later years, Chester Gould started getting a little wacky and introduced elements of fantasy and science fiction into the strip. That's when the two-way wrist TV appeared, and we thought, no, that'll never happen.