Special '50's Memories, dedicated to Kritts

[tcmgpt13]

Kritts, I saw your latest post on Chester's thread and would have replied there, but I thought, no don't clutter up that thread with what I am going to post here. I think there are always problems, in every era, but I do think life was a lot slower back then. In these idealistically portrayed shows (Happy Days was made later than the '50's but the show was written about '50's life) every one could be happy. The Second World War was over. No one wanted to question the status quo that much. Although there were some unpleasantries in the background and the news (McCarthy era, the Rosenberg trials and executions, integration) I don't remember people discussing it that much. Much was left unspoken by a generation who had lived through the depression and a prolonged world war. Men did not have to work as hard then (at least most) and one person with a decent job could support a family, even of five or six without the wife having to work (unless she wanted to which back then was not that frequent). I think we tend to put current values on life in the past. I am sure there were some women who wanted to work outside the home, but there were also many who wanted to stay home and raise their children and to forget the hard times of their past. It is nice that today women have more choices or do they? Now it is harder for a woman to stay home with her children and not work. Life is a good deal more stressful and fewer people seem content.

I hope the following is a trip down memory lane for you and others here.

50th anniversary of Leave It To Beaver show on Good morning America

YouTube - Leave it to Beaver 50th Anniversary on Good Morning America

Happy Days 30th reunion:

YouTube - Happy Days 30th Reunion - 2005

YouTube - Happy Days 30th Reunion - 2005

YouTube - Happy Days 30th Reunion - 2005

Father Knows Best: Introduction to the program, dog bark included:

YouTube - Father Knows Best 1954 Beginning

Another short excerpt from Father Knows Best, about as rique as it got LOL):

YouTube - Father Knows Best - Badminton

I do not think this show, featuring Robert Young and Jane Wyatt as the parents, ever had a really happy, cohesive cast. There are some interviews from cast members on utube, but I think none of it is very happy. I think this is why there is no reunion from this series posted. Most likely there never was one.

And next a short from Mr. Wizard. I thought this experiment would remind us of morgellons fibers as described by Staninger:

Mr. Wizard from utube

YouTube - Mr. Wizard

[Kritters]

You are so the best TC!

I wrote a whole thingie to you, but it was lost in cyberspace.

thanks for the memories.

Kritts