What else has changed since the wonderful ‘50’s besides accessibility of baseball players.  

One of my good friend’s dad was a managing editor of the New York Daily Mirror, a huge NYC newspaper.  I was always envious   Of Tommy. He got to sit in the Yankee dugout for several games due to dad’s position.   His dad made an astonishing annual salary of $7000   I thought he was a millionaire.  One could live well-on $7000. In 1953.  

Movies. 25 cents. Ice cream 10 cents.  Milk shake ( that I made as a soda jerk). No comments plz 30 cents. 

No internet  few TVs.  Radio was king.  

Lone Ranger, Superman, The Shadow, Gangbusters, Mr Keen, tracer of lost persons,  the Green Hornet, Straight Arrow.   All radio heroes.  

Uncle Don  no relation.  used to read the Sunday comics to kids ( like me) every Sunday until he thought he was off the air one Sunday and said something like “ Thank God I’m done with those GD brats for a week.  That was end of Uncle Don.

Quiz shows.  Truth or Consequences, $64 question ( not 64000)  soap operas for my mom.  John’s Other Wife,

Betty and Bob. Guiding Light.  I didn’t listen.  Pop music singers Bing Crosby, Jo Stafford, Vaughan Monroe ( Sinatra was a skinny upstart ).  Even after getting my 12 1/2 “ RCA Victor TV in 1949.  I listened to radio a while until Tv took over. Mid 50’s or so.    

I got first after school job at Drug Store in 1955. 65 cents an hour. Mon and Wed for 4 hours.  Then ice cream, candy, newspaper, cigarette, store and luncheonette next door offered me 75 cents to work Tues/Thurs/Sat.  I was rich but a tired high school sophomore. 

Many many more contrasts between then and now.  Many conveniences came later but work ethic kinda died 

Lotsa good memories of the ancient history of growing up.  But. In reality we also had a cold war, polio ( until Salk) 

Medicine had a long way to go. Somehow, we old farts survived. Believe it or not you can learn something from us unless you wait too long.