I am old enoughf to know communism was bad. Now we have China apologists, even after covid. When did communism become cool?
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I am old enoughf to know communism was bad. Now we have China apologists, even after covid. When did communism become cool?
Quoted from cottonm4:When the average price of a new car costs more than my house I bought 42 years ago.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/21/business/car-prices-record-high-short-supply/index.html
" The average new car price was $37,200 in the first quarter, according to JD Power, up 8.4% from the same period just a year ago."
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When today's pickup trucks are larger than the tractor/trucks used to pull trailers in the 1950s.
(Look at this monster. You almost need a step ladder to get in. And all the pickups now have steps built into the rear bumpers, or you would have to haul a step ladder around to be able to climb into the pickup bed).
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'Merica!
Quoted from cottonm4:I was off in my years in replying to Swampfire's posts.
It was in 1987 I sat at the side of my dad's hospital bed as we smoked and joked. He died in May 1988. On New Years Eve, 1988, my mom went into hospital ( a different hospital ) and was on the cancer floor. Smoking in the rooms was not allowed but down at the end of the hallway was a bench and an ashtray. My mom died in Feb. 1989.
In the early 80s, the college I attended allowed smoking the the lobbies.
As noted earlier, The Feds shut down smoking in the early 90s.
It was different back then.
Smokers sort of ruled the country. Non-smokers had to just shut up and take it. There were cigarette commercials on TV, in the pages of the magazines, on road signs.
You could walk into a grocery store and see stomped out cigarette butts on the floor.
Smokers were inconsiderate. My dad had a small retail shop selling and repairing vacuum cleaners (now you know why I am so hosed up ) and one day an old woman was in looking for a vacuum cleaner. And my salesman father was displaying the features of the sweeper while blowing clouds of smoke in her face; He was oblivious to the offense; it was just different back then.
IIRC, hospital gift shops sold cigarettes. Every shop sold cigarettes. There were cigarette machines everywhere.
And hospitals were no exception.
One place that you could not smoke was in the libraries. Except if you lived in Winston-Salem North Carolina. Since the tobacco companies funded the library there smoking was allowed and ashtrays were furnished ( I only read about this. I have never been to N. Carolina).
You know how you know youvare getting old?
Our recollection of past events get skewed!
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