Things I remember from the 60's:

Television worth watching, where the most violence you saw
was on Road Runner cartoons.

An odd remark, as we're now living in the Platinum Age of television... The
Soparanos, Mythbusters, and The Simpsons/King of the Hill/South Park, to
name just a handful of great shows. I ought to throw in the live version of
The Tick, one of the most wonderfully written TV shows I've ever seen.


I could walk into a radio shop and watch the tech work on things
for hours, and not only did he not get upset, he tought me as he
went. Virtually no repair shops are left, and most of the ones that
are, don't repair, they exchange.

This appears to be because most modern electronics cannot be economically
repaired. And even if it's built to last, changing technology has an
irritating way of rendering it obsolete 5 to 10 times as fast as it used to.


A hamburger was 19 cents. * If you wanted fries and a Coke,
it was 45 cents. If you felt like going to eat at a real cafe, sit
in a booth and have someone serve you, the price went up to
a dollar.

You're looking at Ye Olde Days through rose-colored glasses. How did those
prices compare to your disposable income?

* More like 15 cents.


You weren't worried about whether your neighbor was a serial killer,
abductor, or politician.

grin


You could go out all day, and never lock your door.

In Bermuda, perhaps, but that was hardly common in the US.


So, yeah. There was Richard Speck, Sirhan Sirhan, Jack Ruby,
Herbert Hoover's dossier's, the Cuban missile crisis, the Watts riots...
but overall, things were not so bad. The Russians did a lot of sabre
rattling, but I don't recall any bombs.

You are ignoring WWII, as it occurred before you were born (or you were very
young). Post-WWII America was certainly its Fat 'n Stupid era.

I'll agree with one thing... We're entering an era where it appears that the
utter stupidity of world leaders (and I'm condemning all of them) will lead
us into a global war that will make double-u double-u 2 (punning reference
intentional) look like a tea party.