Lee in Quartzsite
Member
ONE-PERCENTERS
It's hard to believe but this includes many of us. 99% of those born between 1930 and 1946 (worldwide) are now dead! If you were born in this time span and are still alive, you are one of the rare, surviving, one-percenters of this special group who's ages range from 77 to 93 years old, a 16 year span.
You are the smallest group of children born since the early 1900's.
You are the last generation, climbing out of the depression, who can remember the winds of war and the impact of a world at war that 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 bread and meat.
You learned how to make Oleo look like butter.
You saved tin foil and poured fried meat fat into tin cans.
You can remember milk being delivered to your house early in the morning, with the birds pecking through the foil tops to get to the full fat milk. Semi-skimmed didn't exist.
Discipline was enforced by parents, grandparents, and teachers. You said "Yes Sir" to your father and "Yes "Ma'am" to your mother.
You are the last generation who spent childhood without television; instead, you "imagined" what you heard on the radio.
With no TV, you spent your childhood "playing outside".
There was no public playgrounds for kids.
The lack of television in your early years meant that you had little real understanding of what the world was like.
We got "black-and-white" TV in the late 40s that had 3 stations and no remote. We watched and laughed with the Howdy Doody Show. Ranger Bob, Clarabell the Clown made us all laugh.
Telephones were one to a house, often shared (party lines), Usually in the hall (no cares about privacy).
Computers were called calculators; they were hand-cranked. Slide Rules were cool if you knew how to use one.
Typewriters were driven by pounding fingers, throwing the carriage, and changing the ribbon.
'INTERNET' and 'GOOGLE' were words that did not exist.
Newspapers and magazines were written for adults and the news was broadcast on your radio in the evening (your dad would give you the comic pages when he read the news). The 'Beano' the 'Eagle' & 'Girl' appeared in the 50's
New roads would bring jobs and mobility. Most roads were 2 lanes (no freeways).
You went to town to shop. You walked to school.
The radio network expanded from 3 stations to thousands.
Your parents were suddenly free from the confines of the depression and the war, and they threw themselves into working hard to make a living for their families.
You weren't neglected, but you weren't today's all-consuming family focus.
They were glad you played by yourselves.
They were busy discovering the postwar world.
You entered a world of overflowing plenty and opportunity; a world where you were welcomed, enjoyed yourselves.
You felt secure in your future, although the depression and poverty were deeply remembered.
You came of age in the '50s and '60s, and your parents didn't like the new Rock-n-Roll music!
You are the last generation to experience an interlude when there were no threats to our homeland.
World War 2 was over, and the cold war, terrorism, global warming, and perpetual economic insecurity had yet to haunt life.
Only your generation can remember a time after WW2 when our world was secure and full of bright promise and plenty. Most Civil Defense shelters closed and the sound of Air Raid siren tests at noon on Fridays were silenced. Duck and Cover Drills at school were no longer practiced every week.
You grew up at the best possible time, a time when the world was getting better.
More than 99% of you are retired now, and you should feel privileged to have "lived in the best of times!"
If you have already reached the age of 77 years old, you have outlived 99% of all the other people in the world who were born in this special 16 year time span, you are a 1 percenter.
It's hard to believe but this includes many of us. 99% of those born between 1930 and 1946 (worldwide) are now dead! If you were born in this time span and are still alive, you are one of the rare, surviving, one-percenters of this special group who's ages range from 77 to 93 years old, a 16 year span.
You are the smallest group of children born since the early 1900's.
You are the last generation, climbing out of the depression, who can remember the winds of war and the impact of a world at war that 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 bread and meat.
You learned how to make Oleo look like butter.
You saved tin foil and poured fried meat fat into tin cans.
You can remember milk being delivered to your house early in the morning, with the birds pecking through the foil tops to get to the full fat milk. Semi-skimmed didn't exist.
Discipline was enforced by parents, grandparents, and teachers. You said "Yes Sir" to your father and "Yes "Ma'am" to your mother.
You are the last generation who spent childhood without television; instead, you "imagined" what you heard on the radio.
With no TV, you spent your childhood "playing outside".
There was no public playgrounds for kids.
The lack of television in your early years meant that you had little real understanding of what the world was like.
We got "black-and-white" TV in the late 40s that had 3 stations and no remote. We watched and laughed with the Howdy Doody Show. Ranger Bob, Clarabell the Clown made us all laugh.
Telephones were one to a house, often shared (party lines), Usually in the hall (no cares about privacy).
Computers were called calculators; they were hand-cranked. Slide Rules were cool if you knew how to use one.
Typewriters were driven by pounding fingers, throwing the carriage, and changing the ribbon.
'INTERNET' and 'GOOGLE' were words that did not exist.
Newspapers and magazines were written for adults and the news was broadcast on your radio in the evening (your dad would give you the comic pages when he read the news). The 'Beano' the 'Eagle' & 'Girl' appeared in the 50's
New roads would bring jobs and mobility. Most roads were 2 lanes (no freeways).
You went to town to shop. You walked to school.
The radio network expanded from 3 stations to thousands.
Your parents were suddenly free from the confines of the depression and the war, and they threw themselves into working hard to make a living for their families.
You weren't neglected, but you weren't today's all-consuming family focus.
They were glad you played by yourselves.
They were busy discovering the postwar world.
You entered a world of overflowing plenty and opportunity; a world where you were welcomed, enjoyed yourselves.
You felt secure in your future, although the depression and poverty were deeply remembered.
You came of age in the '50s and '60s, and your parents didn't like the new Rock-n-Roll music!
You are the last generation to experience an interlude when there were no threats to our homeland.
World War 2 was over, and the cold war, terrorism, global warming, and perpetual economic insecurity had yet to haunt life.
Only your generation can remember a time after WW2 when our world was secure and full of bright promise and plenty. Most Civil Defense shelters closed and the sound of Air Raid siren tests at noon on Fridays were silenced. Duck and Cover Drills at school were no longer practiced every week.
You grew up at the best possible time, a time when the world was getting better.
More than 99% of you are retired now, and you should feel privileged to have "lived in the best of times!"
If you have already reached the age of 77 years old, you have outlived 99% of all the other people in the world who were born in this special 16 year time span, you are a 1 percenter.
