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In reply to the discussion: I grew up with AM radio and b&w TV. I saw this tonight for the first time [View all]frazzled
(18,402 posts)49. Um, people from the 1950s don't "suddenly appear": millions of them are here
and dealing quite nicely, thank you, with technological change.
I'm from the 1950s. Heck, my dad was born in 1916 and will soon turn 97. He was well into his 30s in the 1950s. He's fairly fine with both the technology and the culture.
We actually had electricity in the 1950s (though I naughtily used to tell my kids that we didn't when I was a child, and it really confirmed all their beliefs).
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I grew up with AM radio and b&w TV. I saw this tonight for the first time [View all]
DainBramaged
Aug 2013
OP
My parents bought me a $150 Bomar Brain calculator for college graduation.
displacedtexan
Aug 2013
#65
"Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic."--Arthur C. Clarke
lastlib
Aug 2013
#14
In 1968, our phone was still a black countertop model, rented from Ma Bell,
Art_from_Ark
Aug 2013
#42
We got the option of buying the rotary phone or getting the Princess phone
Art_from_Ark
Aug 2013
#55
Jean Shepard at 9PM on WOR Am in NYC under my pillow so my Dad wouldn't hear it
DainBramaged
Aug 2013
#64