This isn't what the 50's was really like.

Yes it was really like this... for some people. And no, 60% of households didn't have 2 incomes. We are talking about a pop about 1/3 the size it is today.
They didn't put together a sitcom to tell truths. TV had only been around for 10 years. There were tensions within the family. Ward and Fred yelled and hit. George Haskell, he ignored.

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Also Andy Griffith said it was actually about life in the 30s, even though it was set in the present. The show was inspired by his own childhood.

Hey, Doug genius. 1960 was the final year of the 50s. And that’s all the time I’ll waste on your dumb ass.

Yes I know Andy Griffith was the 60's. I only included him because his show is more well known than shows like Make Room for Daddy.

There are many Americans right now screaming for a return to the "good old days" and I'm just curious during what time period were those days? Are they the "Little House on Prairie" days? Someone on that board posted that they wish they could have lived during those days. How things were so much better back then. Really? When the #1 cause of death in Women was childbirth. Is it the 50's? I've given examples in my previous posts about how they weren't as "great" as these shows portray.

I know today's society is not perfect, but "ills that are destroying American values" have always existed since the dawn of time they were just more hidden.

It's a nice thought to think that free people correct mistakes and injustices, but recent events have shown me that most people are selfish, uncaring, self-righteous jerks who spew hatred against anyone who isn't exactly like them and take pride in their hatred.


YOUR VOTE MATTERS! Please vote in every election. Thank you.

"Remember, women didn't get the right to vote in the U.S. until the 1920s, blacks, in the 1960s."

Black men could legally vote after the Civil War (and possibly before that in certain parts of the country) Yes they were terrorized so they did NOT vote, but some places were better (Harlem) and some places were worse (Texas) and yes worse all around than white men everywhere.

But to say "Blacks didn't get the right to vote in the U.S. until the 1960's" is inaccurate. Hell, if you want to go that route, you can say they still can't vote TODAY. That would be more accurate.

The laws that are being passed today in the South to try to suppress black voter turnout bothers me, but the real bullshit was when they were dropping all these registered voters off the rolls, like in 2000 and 2004. "Oh, here's a Michael Jackson who was incarcerated for grand theft auto, let's remove EVERY Michael Jackson from the rolls."

YOU ARE WRONG!! Black males had the right to vote since the civil war!

"Yes, LITB was really what the 50's was like. liberal propaganda posts/threads like the OP crop up from time to time, but that propaganda is the fake thing, not the normal and moral lifestyle & society as represented in LITB"

Really? Were you there? If you were there did you travel to every city in this country and see every family (black and white) living exactly the way the Cleavers lived? Are those women who said they were forced to give up their babies for adoption lying? Are the children who claimed they witnessed their father beat their mothers just hallucinating? So the hundreds (maybe thousands)of historians, books (non-fiction), movies, and documentaries about 50's life are just propaganda? Are you telling me my entire college degree is based on propaganda? I'll admit I wasn't there and use to assume that this was how it was for everybody. Then I realized on my own after growing up around old, angry, bitter, heaving drinking, racial slur slinging relatives (both male and female) with children who grew up to be just as repulsive that maybe things back then were as "hunky-dory" as TV.

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Please don't think I hate this show because I actually enjoy it. I wish TV stations would go back to airing these old shows like LITB, The Brady Bunch, and Father Knows Best. I would rather my children watch these old shows over anything that currently airs on Nickelodeon. If fact we cut our cable three years ago and my kids mainly watch PBS.


"Even something simple as longing for a time when a trophy was a bragging right not a participation award."


Funny thing about this complaint is the people I know who gripe the most about participation awards are the ones who growing up had shelves full these types of trophies.



As far as my "liberal indoctorned education"; My "liberally biased education" is the reason I'm able to live the Ward and June Cleaver lifestyle in this day and age. Plus my opinions about political and social issues didn't just come from books or what I learned in school. I've lived in the south my entire life. Every generalization you've accused me of making without any merit has come from personal experiences and face to face encounters. I'm well aware of what the world is like.

And please also note: I have not been the one on this thread screaming propaganda and accusing people of lying.




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teen girls were the ones who had to drop out of school. could not work outside the home and had to 'go away' this is why people pretended it was not as common. Oh and there was no maternity leave even for adult women either--or professional looking maternity clothes in a lot of cases (unless custom made) so becoming pregnant for grown women was difficult back then.

Is it your notion that a TV comedy show should try to inject every aspect of life? Almost everything you mention--however accurate--is something that would be most unlikely to add to the laughter in any show.

Capitalism destroyed the families; let's face facts. Back in the 50's men went to work and women stayed home, now men and women work and sometimes they work more than one job. People had more of a moral compass back then; not saying that everything was rosy, but people knew and cared about the consequences of their actions. Back in the 50's Sunday was a day of rest(I didn't experience this until the 60's and 70's)where families could be together and enjoy each other. Businesses would start closing sometime Saturday afternoon and wouldn't open again until Monday morning. I would go to church, visit one grandmother around noon for Sunday dinner and then go to my other grandmother's around 5pm. All the uncles, aunts and cousins would be there too. My parents kept all of us close to all of the big family we had. Now the family has been destroyed by money grubbing Capitalists who only care about profits. They even open their crappy businesses on Thanksgiving and Christmas now. They can't close even on two days a year now. No wonder people are so screwed up.