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1. How have people's homes changed since you were a teenager? What appliances that are common in homes now did not exist at that time?

2. How have transportation & communication technologies changed?

3. When did you first see a television set, a jet airplane, a videotape recorder, a computer? What were the first versions of these machines like?

4. What was it like to be a teenager then? What were common leisure activties for teens?

5. How have the roles of men & women changed in society & in the workplace?

6. What work was most common in those days? How does this compare to now?

7. What changes have you seen in the way people work? How have offices, factories, farms, and other places of work changed?

8. How old were you when you started working?

9. How much money did you earn at first?

10. How much did various items cost?


Please answer all questions. All questions answered in full and complete sentences = best answer.
 
Why don't you check out a website that give you all the answers you need. This is too much work for a mere 10 points. I lived through this period and when I needed to know something about an earlier period of time I went to the library. We didn't have computers at that time. If you know how to maneuver on the internet, use that skill to find your answer.

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1) Homes are not particularly different. Appliances not found would include microwaves and dishwashers, these existed, but not many people had them. The Radarange dates from about 1969, the year I turned 15.

2) Transportation is similar, there is still a great deal of people using personal vehicles, though there is more public transportation, in urban areas at least. Communication now includes small portable computers and mobile phones, something that didn't exist then.

3) I first saw a TV when I was a toddler, we had a Zenith table model with about a 17 or 19 inch screen, black and white of course. I didn't see a jet until 1963, on a tour of the military side of O'Hare airport with my cub scout den, of which my Mom was the den mother. A videotape recorder was large, with 3/4 inch tape. I don't think I've ever seen a Betamax machine. Computers were large, taking up entire rooms. My Dad was a programmer so I saw those up close.

4) In my hometown there was no theatre, so leisure was mostly at home, sometimes with friends. In other places they went to movies. Drinking was a big deal then, and drugs was beginning to come on, but not too much, yet.


5) My mother was the only mother in the neighborhood to work outside the home. She was a nurse. I don't remember anyone ever saying anything about a woman being submissive to her husband, except hearing about how my Grandfather was with my Grandma. Now most mothers work, because they can't afford not to. The roles of women are not much different, the influence they have in the family unit is about the same, I suspect, a woman's opinion can make itself known today just as it did in 1961.

6) There were more manufacturing jobs then, many of those have left the US now. There was no real work from home schemes then, without personal computers this was impossible.

7) People work fewer hours as a rule. They are usually paid more, but the value of the money doesn't buy as much.

8) I got my first job at 22.

9) I earned minimum wage, though I don't remember how much that was.

10) We used to think it was a great bargain to get a 6 pack of quart bottles of Coke for 99 cents, plus the 30 cent deposit on the bottles. Once you got one, you could keep returning it and getting a new one for under a dollar. In college, we thought this was a great bargain. Gas was over a dollar by the time I graduated college, about 35 cents a gallon when I graduated high school. Eggs were much cheaper, you could still buy a loaf of white bread for a quarter. I seem to remember hamburger at about $1.50 per pound.
 
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