The age of well being

[happy daze john in oz]

· This special group was born between 1930 & 1946 [16 years] - In 2021, the age range of the group is between
75 & 91
· Are you – or do you know – someone “Still here?”



Interesting facts about this group

This is the smallest group of children born since the early 1900’s

You are the last generation, climbing out of the Great Depression, who can remember the Winds of War and the impact of a

world at war which rattled the structure of our daily lives for years

You are the last to remember Ration Books – for everything from gas to sugar to shoes to stoves

You saved Tin Foil and poured fried meat fat into tin cans

You saw cars up on blocks because tires weren’t available

You can remember milk being delivered to your home early in the morning and placed in the “Milk Box” on the porch and,

if it was cold enough, the cream at the top pushing its way out of the bottle

You are the last to see the Gold Stars in the front windows of grieving neighbors whose sons [and a few daughters] died in the war

You saw the “boys” home from the war, build their little houses and Bank Loans fanned a nation-wide housing boom

You are the last generation who spent their childhood without TV, instead. You “imagined” what you heard on the radio

while he nation’s radio networks expanded from three to thousands

With no TV until the 50’s, you spent your childhood playing outside. There was no Little League and very few if any, city playgrounds

The lack of TV in your early years meant that you had little real understanding of what the world was really like

On Saturday mornings and afternoons, the movies gave you newsreels sandwiched between westerns and cartoons

Telephones were “One to a House” – often shared on a party line and hung on a kitchen wall (no cares about privacy)

Computers were called “Calculators” and they were "hand-cranked”

Typewriters were driven by pounding fingers, throwing the carriage to start a new line, and changing the ink ribbon

The words “INTERNET” and “GOOGLE” did not exist

Newspapers and magazines were written for adults and the news was broadcast on the radio in the evening

The government gave returning veterans the means to get an education and spurred colleges to grow. Vets joined

civic clubs and became active in politics

Pent-up demand, coupled with new installment payment plans, opened many factories for work

New highways brought mobility and sprawl to urban areas

Your parents were suddenly free from the confines of the depression and the war and they threw themselves into exploring

opportunities they had never imagined. They were busy discovering the post-war world in a multitude of different ways

You weren’t neglected, but you weren’t like today’s all-consuming family focus. Your parents were glad you played outside with

other kids or by yourself until the street lights came on

You entered a world of overflowing plenty and opportunity; a world where you were welcomed and felt secure in your

future although the misfortunes and even poverty of the depression were deeply remembered

Polio was a feared, crippling – even fatal illness - that finally was cured by the world’s medical communities acting together

Your generation came of age in the 50’s and 60’s

You are the last generation to experience an interlude, however brief, when there were no threats to our homeland. World War Two

was over and the Cold War, terrorism, global warming, and seemingly perpetual economic insecurity had yet to haunt our national psyche

Only your generation can remember both a time of great war and a time when our world was secure and full of bright promise and plenty

You grew up at the best possible time, a time when the world was getting better . . . You are the “Last Ones”

More than 99% of you are either retired or deceased and you feel privileged to have “lived in the best of times"

AMEN! It’s great being a living part of the 1% Age Group!







Virus

[Doc Vernon]

I am one of those and proud to be as well. Her Indoors misses out by one Year !

Yes all so true , so all those that are in this Group and still Kicking , count yourselves lucky! Very Lucky!
Yipeeee!!!

[cappy]

there are many of us still here ......some gents some old barstewards .....and an old count or two .....my spelling is not of the best ....but we saw it ...did it.....and we missed nothing.....would we do it again......just give us a chance....hip hip hooray for the old counts

[Harry Nicholson]

The flickering of candles in the Anderson shelter. The crump of bombs. The gap in the street next morning. The cornfields set ablaze by incendiaries. Gathering weeds for Dad's rabbits - and him showing me how to kill one and skin it for dinner. Arthur next door coming home from Dunkirk - he got a boat. His brother in law died on the beach. Mr Jones next door showing me the tattoo he got in the Boer War. Dad letting me play with his WW1 medals on a Sunday - he refused to wear them.

[j.sabourn]

the ARP warden armed with a stirrup pump and a bucket of water trying to cool the same incendiary device down. JS

[cappy]

my gran shutting the curtains when the telegraph boy on his red bike coming up the street then waiting to see if he knocked ....one son in POW hands japan ....one son fighting into germany ....

[John T Morgan]

After delivering the morning paper round, finding shrapnel and filling my canvas paper bag, the big find was the nose cone of an incendiary bomb, it was all heavy on my nine year old shoulders but still fun.

[happy daze john in oz]

But for all of that we became very good people.
We learned how to work, how to fix things, how to live on very little, walk to school and that kept us fit.
We enjoyed life and made our way in the world, raised families without all the hand outs of today.

We had respect for others such as the teachers, bus conductors and shop keepers.
Do something wrong and you got a whack for it, no crying mental illness in those days.
Punishment fitted the crime and the crims paid dearly.

Police were respected, our only drug was a quick smoke behind the bike shed, along with other activities there.

But then society moved on, told us it was the new age, we would be far better off, but were we?

Better off depends on individuals concept of what that is. For many it means money, for others health, others may have their own ideas.

But until WW3 comes along, and it may well do as the very last ever, we will continue to enjoy what we have now.