Nostalgia? All it's cracked up to be?

[wpod]

I am 67 and as a kid the neighbors had horses and motor cycles [in Millbrae California] and during the summer I would spend all summer at my relatives cattle ranch helping with the chores messing with the horses, cows driving the tractor, having guns to shoot, going fishing in the streams and ponds. . Getting older riding motorcycles with abandon and having a fun job, my best friends dad owned an auto whole sale business and from 16 to 18 years old he would bring home a Corvette for us to drive during the summer with the warning of if you wreck it no more Corvettes. We never wrecked one the 70's were really good the 80s were good the 90s were good and to present is good. We live is a nation of opportunity , life has its hard times .

 

[SeaJay]

At one point, banks often closed at 3:00pm Mon-Thurs with a 5:00 close on Friday. Most retail stores closed at 6:00 during the week, with grocery stores having a 9:00pm close on Thurs & Fri. Most everything was closed on Sundays.

 

[Spector]

It was a safer time to bring up a family IMO.

 

[wpod]

At one point, banks often closed at 3:00pm Mon-Thurs with a 5:00 close on Friday. Most retail stores closed at 6:00 during the week, with grocery stores having a 9:00pm close on Thurs & Fri. Most everything was closed on Sundays.

How did we survive? From 15.5 years old to 18 years old I worked two evenings at a pancake house 5 pm to 9 pm. and Friday and Saturday did the 8pm to 4 am shift it was a blast !

 

[Cujet]

Given the chance who would turn back the clocks to 1965?

I'm not at all concerned with the past. Although I would have enjoyed seeing a Saturn V moon launch (my wife did!)

I'm interested in the future and all the cool things we can do. Let's do some of them!!!!

 

[OilReport99]

I'm interested in the future and all the cool things we can do. Let's do some of them!!!!

The past is history. And belongs to books.

 

[AutoMechanic]

I’m not old enough to remember a lot but I think I would of been happier in the older times cars were simpler and everything else was too. And my dad told me that Beetles were much more common and everywhere so I definitely would have liked it. I’ve never been big on anything modern and I don’t like video games and stuff so I don’t really fit in with my generation. I have also always wanted to go to a Western Auto store which were all gone when I was born. I have some of their old tools and they are pretty good so I’d have liked to have went to one lol.

 

[Dave Hess]

At one point, banks often closed at 3:00pm Mon-Thurs with a 5:00 close on Friday. Most retail stores closed at 6:00 during the week, with grocery stores having a 9:00pm close on Thurs & Fri. Most everything was closed on Sundays.

I remember when PUBLIX was closed on Sundays similar to Chick Fil A.

 

[Yah-Tah-Hey]

The past is history. And belongs to books.

The arrow of time points in one direction. We remember the past and ponder the future.

 

[wpod]

The arrow of time points in one direction. We remember the past and ponder the future.

Can't go back,, always forward.

 

[PeterGreen]

As a kid I loved helping Dad work on our cars. The day he let me hand lap all the valves on his 1966 GMC 305 V6, I thought I had it all!!! Picking up soda bottles and getting deposit for them. Ya, I go back for sure. Now if we could just get rid of texting and driving.........

I had never heard of the GMC 305 V6 and when I saw an article about a restored 1964 Carryall, I was sure that the writer had made an error, or that it was some kind of weird restomod. But then I googled GMC V6 engines and found out about the whole family of GMC engines of that era, including a V-12??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMC_V6_engine

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/cla...e-past/ar-AAQhfzL?ocid=mailsignout&li=BBnbfcL

 

[twouvakind]

The "good old days" were not always good.

 

[Job]

Better in almost all ways now. My grandfathers didn’t get social security. What they retired on was what they had at the time. One did get like $130 per month from GE. He thought that was a lot. My dad got $136/ month from Lockheed, retiring in late 70’s. They thought that was pretty good. He got about $750 from SS. That was real money then. He worked for 53 years non stop. They lived in PaloAlto.
Then there was this, which was there in the “good old days.” Safety was for some, not for others.
Some may not like to hear this.

https://www.history.com/news/the-green-book-the-black-travelers-guide-to-jim-crow-america

 

[PandaBear]

Better in almost all ways now. My grandfathers didn’t get social security. What they retired on was what they had at the time. One did get like $130 per month from GE. He thought that was a lot. My dad got $136/ month from Lockheed, retiring in late 70’s. They thought that was pretty good. He got about $750 from SS. That was real money then. He worked for 53 years non stop. They lived in PaloAlto.
Then there was this, which was there in the “good old days.” Safety was for some, not for others.
Some may not like to hear this.

https://www.history.com/news/the-green-book-the-black-travelers-guide-to-jim-crow-america

I bet the real retirement money they had (if they could afford to own the house) was the home appreciation.