Loading ...I remember some of those things as a preschooler in the early 50s. I remember helping a great Aunt of a farm wash cloths and put them through that ringer. Also milked a cow fed the animals with supervision. On a farm even more work including cutting firewood, boiling water for baths and burning your trash. Much work and enjoyed it all. What ever they did I wanted to learn. I was to small to reach the counter to make the bread yet but was learning to sew. As you get older it’s a different story.
They had little time to sit around and watch TV if they had one. I remember the first TV the picture was very small. Technology moved very fast in the 50s. By grade school there was 19 inch TVs then color TVs. Washing machines changed dryers came out no more hanging out cloths to dry, as well as all other machines.
I remember the people in the generation before you thought you had it easier than them too. Especially when medicine and particularly antibiotics came out they didn’t have. About operations on tables with no anesthesia even as a kid. They were a very strong self sufficient generation. Family’s stuck together and they looked after each other. In the 50s the nuclear family appeared. Mom dad kids no more extended family’s living together then convalescence hospitals unfortunately in most cases.
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