How America Has Changed

Guest Post by Steve Candidus (Steve C)

LLPOH wrote a most interesting article about how Europe has changed so much in his most recent visit to the way it was years ago that it got me to thinking about how America has changed. Specifically, what would happen if I were able to visit the America that I grew up in, in the 1950s and 1960s.

I was perusing some old videos on YouTube and came upon a set of videos about the New York World’s Fair of 1964 and 1965. I was twelve years old and living on Long Island at the time and I visited the fair at least a dozen or more times in its two years of existence.

The World’s Fair video that I found the most interesting was a copy of an NBC documentary hosted by the late Edwin Newman that for YouTube posting was done in six parts. Its original showing on NBC in 1964 was just a single one-hour program.

Edwin Newman got quite a bit of criticism in the YouTube comments for being such a downer and a stick-in-the-mud, but the fact that he wasn’t hyping the fair like all of the other videos that I found is the reason that I found it the most useful to my purpose.

I watched these videos of thousands of people all rushing into and mingling at that fair without a single confrontation among them and asked myself if that would be possible in today’s America. There were long lines to get into the fair, lines at the pavilions, lines at the food courts (identified by the multi-bubble balloon looking things on top), people rushing together under cover when it rained, and everyone was pleasant to each other and very well mannered. Newman even commented on it at the nine minute mark in part four of the YouTube listing.

The first time or two that I went to the 64-65 NY World’s Fair was with my family. All of the rest of times I went with friends. Somebody’s mom or dad would drop us off early in the morning at the train station – The Long Island Railroad (LIRR) – and we would take the train to the Woodside Station and then head upstairs to get the EL (Elevated Line).

Since we were just kids and never had much money, we figured out quickly that rather than take the LIRR to the Jamaica Station and waiting for the LIRR train to take us the rest of the way to the fair it was faster and cheaper to go to Woodside and pick up the EL. It was only ten or fifteen cents. Much cheaper and faster than the LIRR.

Whether it was just my best friend Donnie and I or whether we had a station wagon load of friends, we would go off to the fair on our own, spend the whole day, even to the fireworks at night before heading home tired and foot weary without every worrying about our safety.

After getting back to Baldwin Station we would call somebody’s dad (we had to save ten cents for the phone call) to come and pick us up. Fortunately just about everybody’s mom or dad had a station wagon. Sometimes we filled it.

When I look through videos of fairs and events or Disney World videos today I find fistfights, muggings, pickpockets, assaults of all sorts captured and posted by bystanders. I also see people almost morbidly obese as the norm. I didn’t see any of those things in the old 64-65 World’s Fair footage and don???t remember seeing any of it in my visits.

It’s not just Europe that has changed. The world has changed, and not all for the better. We have so many wonderful new inventions and luxuries, but people have devolved towards a kind of barbarism towards each other. If we were to visit a fair such as the one in 1964-1965 today we would be gate-raped by the blue-gloved perverts on the way in, subjected to every humiliation, and be fearful of rape, robbery, muggings, and beatings. Twelve year olds probably wouldn’t even be safe to take the train alone today before they even got to the fair.

How did this happen? When and why did we as a people change? Where are we headed?

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I encourage comments to this article, but please try to keep them on topic.

Steve Candidus is a writer and history buff that works as a product and application specialist of large AC electric motors in Spring, Texas.

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Bilco
Bilco
July 24, 2019 7:50 pm

I was recently out with my 13 year old grandson. An older women of I would say 80 started a conversation with me. She told me she had a 13 year old grandson also. Then she looked at me and said. Our grandchildren have no idea what they missed in America. I often give thanks for having grown up in that time,and never miss a chance to remind those that missed it.Just what they missed. Even still when someone is born here it like winning the lottery. It is sad why s many hate it….

55 Chevy - Mexican by birth - American by coyote
55 Chevy - Mexican by birth - American by coyote
  Bilco
July 24, 2019 10:54 pm

Exactly how does an 80 yo woman have a 13 yo grandson? Her son or daughter would be 60 or so. Only movie stars wait until they’re 45 to start having kids. By that time, the vagina walls are so weakened by a constant barrage of dick that she has to stay in bed the entire pregnancy.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

80 year old woman, 45 year old child who’d had a kid at age 32. They’re probably white people.

If my youngest has a kid at 36, by the time that kid is 13, I’ll be 90.

Done in Dallas
Done in Dallas
  Iska Waran
July 25, 2019 10:30 am

My Mom was born in ’24, I was born in ’62, my son born in ’92. Do the math.

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation
  Bilco
July 25, 2019 8:15 pm

I am just at the cutoff, I believe, who recalls those times. We’d ride our bikes to the Lionel Kiddie City, buy some wax packs, and go behind it to play stickball.

NoThanksIJustAte
NoThanksIJustAte
  Bilco
July 25, 2019 9:26 pm

“I was recently out with my 13 year old grandson. An older women of I would say 80 started a conversation with me. ”

I call BULLSHIT. Americunts routinely incarcerate their elderly in Senior Homes as soon as these turn 70 and the inheritance paperwork has been assured. Other than that, the only way to actually see an 80 year old is at the local cemetery

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NoThanksIJustAte
NoThanksIJustAte
July 24, 2019 8:01 pm

How America Has Changed – A Pictorial Guide:

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llpoh
llpoh
  NoThanksIJustAte
July 24, 2019 9:00 pm

One quibble – the above implies that cops did not used to beat shit out of people. Hardly.

I witnessed cops beating shit out of folks long ago. If anything, I suspect it was more rampant, as the risk of getting filmed today is discouraging them.

I do not think they killed as many, especially innocent bystanders, in days gone by, though I may be wrong, but beatings? Boy howdy, cops have ALWAYS beat the citizenry. Always.

SeeBee
SeeBee
  llpoh
July 24, 2019 9:42 pm

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Hell Yeah. But in those days they called it “Street Adjudication.”

22winmag - Yankee by birth - Southerner by choice
22winmag - Yankee by birth - Southerner by choice
  SeeBee
July 24, 2019 10:04 pm

Modern policing was born in corruption, and has evolved into a Standing Army of Twinkie eating diversity scum that wouldn’t last 2 minutes under field conditions.

That’s the only bright spot to *real* civil unrest, death squads, and Balkans style warfare.

The cops won’t be much of a factor but you can bet they’ll be back looking for their paychecks the instant the shooting stops, just like the politicians.

FaCubeItches
FaCubeItches

Who do you think will make up the death squads?
– Veterans of Reserve Police Battalion 101

22winmag - Yankee by birth - Southerner by choice
22winmag - Yankee by birth - Southerner by choice
  llpoh
July 24, 2019 9:50 pm

Guess who took a hard punch at age 16 because a cop plowed into my parked car?

If anyone has a reason to dislike gun and badge slime, it’s me.

Still, it didn’t stop me from carrying larger government weapons on behalf of Reagan and Poppy.
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TampaRed
TampaRed
  llpoh
July 24, 2019 10:16 pm

you’re correct,llpoh,that cops used to beat guys but imo they do beat them more brutally today–
speaking of cops in the old days,a higher # used to be killed —
you’d never know that from the way today’s cops talk–

Unreconstructed
Unreconstructed
  llpoh
July 25, 2019 12:08 am

Yeah. My nose is now situated about 1/4″ inch to one side of my face from a 1969 run-in with a cops fist.

llpoh
llpoh
July 24, 2019 8:05 pm

Nice one, Steve. Will get back to it after some cogitation.

BTW – your comment about “keeping on topic” will no doubt prove successful. (sarcasm off). It is one of the both great and vexing things about TBP – comment threads morph so fast and vary so wildly that any effort to keep the threads on topic is a waste of time. There is a famous thread that started out about something I now forget, which morphed quickly into people talking about bat guano, which I will never forget. It simply would not be TBP if people stay on topic.

Plus, what on earth would Maggie do? She is a TBP treasure, but damned if 99% of the time can I figure out what leads her to comment on the things she does, because they almost never relate, best I can tell,to the article posted. But her comments are nonetheless valuable.

I think I have abandon topic already, but at least I am addressing what you wrote!

Steve C
Steve C
  llpoh
July 24, 2019 8:26 pm

Plus, what on earth would Maggie do? She is a TBP treasure, but damned if 99% of the time can I figure out what leads her to comment on the things she does, because they almost never relate, best I can tell,to the article posted.

LOL

Truthfully, I never know what the hell Maggie is talking about either, but then again, I grew up listening to Casey Stengel so I got some early experience in the art of hearing and reading things that are not written in any known language…

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Steve C
July 24, 2019 10:23 pm

Steve..
True enough about Casey. “Ya can look it up”. We hated Brooklyn fans and they hated us, till O’malle moved them.
There was an old joke about a man in Brooklyn teaching his young son situational awareness.
Said the father, if you get on an elevator with O’malley, Hitler and Stalin and you only have 2 bullets. Who do you shoot? You shoot O’malley twice.

Steve C
Steve C
  Fleabaggs
July 24, 2019 10:39 pm

Casey Stengel was called to testify before the Senate in 1958 at their baseball Anti-Trust and Monopoly Subcommittee Hearing.

Casey talked for 20 minutes and nobody understood a single word that he said.

Mickey Mantle was next and the first thing he said was that he was in agreement with everything that Casey said…

Elastic Commensal
Elastic Commensal
  Steve C
July 25, 2019 10:12 am

She has got to be on some meds at times. When she is on, she is on. Other times, she rambles. So what? Don’t tell me you are some politico who can legislate with a .4 blood alcohol. She eventually comes to a point, the last comment I read was just like that, a real surprise and a good one too. OTOH, I have yet to be surprised and delighted by something Homeroom Rapist ever wrote.

Hollywood Rob
Hollywood Rob
  Elastic Commensal
July 25, 2019 11:00 am

Please try and stay on topic ec. I know it’s hard as you beaners really dig on those white chicks, but really you are never going to get a piece of maggie so just give it up.

TampaRed
TampaRed
  llpoh
July 24, 2019 10:18 pm

lay off maggie mr hollywood,pick on some other gal who isn’t in recovery–

Hollywood Rob
Hollywood Rob
  TampaRed
July 25, 2019 9:51 am

Hey, I didn’t even comment. It wasn’t me that asked for comments to keep on subject. And don’t you see, that now you have wandered off topic by simply discussing maggie. Stay on topic. It’s not too hard to do is it? It’s not much to ask as Steve is asking y’all to provide him with some insights from your perspective. So do that.

Steve, nice post. I too grew up in that merika and I have been thinking about this a lot over the past five years as I work out how the plot is going to develop in a book I am working on. I personally have come to the conclusion that it is in fact one certain group of people who seek to rule the world under communism. They invented communism. They have communes (which might be the only ones left in the world), and they promote it all day every day in every way they can. They use capitalism to build up the funds that they use to promote communism.

They are the ones who have suggested that black babies be eliminated through abortion. They are the ones who started planned parenthood. They are the ones who drove the banks into insolvency and they are the ones who handed out hundreds of billions in free money to their buddies. They then took that free money and paid themselves a handsome bonus and bought the entire stock market.

They need to breed down the intelligence of the citizenry and they need to dumb down the academy. It is the only thing that can keep the rabble at bay once the jig is up on their criminal conspiracies. So they work diligently to import low IQ humans into high IQ civilizations breading a race of both physically stronger and stupider workers that will demand little and do their bidding. But these low IQ humans are not stable. They kill each other and occasionally they kill some of the chosen and they can’t have that so they have to create the death squads. You can call them police if you like but they are not the police. They are the enforcement arm for the communists and you have seen them in every communist country for over 100 years. You see them in the brown shirts, the black shirts, the black block, Antifa. They are violent thugs who chose to attack rather than to stand under the shelter in a rainstorm and talk pleasantly with their new friends. They don’t want new friends. They want to usher in the new communist utopia on a wave of batons and guns.

So you ask what has changed. I would suggest that what has changed is that European and mostly British people with a long standing belief in a world made just by the law have been replace by a people who believe that the law is a thing that is meant to serve them, and them alone. If a law does not serve them then they will change it so it does. The rights that you thought were inalienable, were in fact just gifts from your overlords. Your new overlords don’t think that they want you to have these gifts so they took them away.

At least that’s the conclusion that I have come to. I would love to see someone prove me wrong as I hate it just as much as you do.

Donkey Balls
Donkey Balls
  Hollywood Rob
July 25, 2019 11:39 am

HR +

Elastic Commensal
Elastic Commensal
  Donkey Balls
July 25, 2019 1:17 pm

kissass

Donkey Balls
Donkey Balls
  Elastic Commensal
July 25, 2019 10:45 pm

El, HR has very good comments. You have quick wit. Try writing something.

MG
MG
  Hollywood Rob
July 25, 2019 12:06 pm

Ignored

Hollywood Rob
Hollywood Rob
  MG
July 25, 2019 12:28 pm

Who cares if you ignored my comment. I certainly don’t. And by the way, we all know that you read that comment and then you lied about ignoring it.

MG
MG
  Hollywood Rob
July 25, 2019 12:52 pm

Correction…ignored the fag assfucking idiot.

There you go dicklixker.

Hollywood Rob
Hollywood Rob
  MG
July 25, 2019 3:03 pm

Stay on topic maggie. Use your own posts to fling invective. Honestly now, do you use that mouth of yours to kiss your dogs?

Elastic Commensal
Elastic Commensal
  TampaRed
July 25, 2019 10:14 am

Good one, Tenampa! That’s known as TBP pre-emptive fire, or a bomb run to soften up the terrain.

Hollywood Rob
Hollywood Rob
  Elastic Commensal
July 25, 2019 10:57 am

It’s called trolling and you get paid to do it.

Elastic Commensal
Elastic Commensal
  Hollywood Rob
July 25, 2019 11:48 am

Really, Robbo, how much are you getting?

Hollywood Rob
Hollywood Rob
  Elastic Commensal
July 25, 2019 12:26 pm

Stay on topic beaner baby. How has merika changed for you? Well, you would have a hard time with that wouldn’t you. You haven’t been here all that long and for most of that time you have been sucking off the tit of the tax payer. So for you, actually, nothing has changed. It’s all good.

llpoh
llpoh
July 24, 2019 8:18 pm

Some data points re 1960 that goes a long way to explaining this:

1) there were around 180 million people in the US in 1964. Today it is close to 350 million. That is a catastrophic increase, and is bad in too many ways to count.

2) In 1960, the US was 85% white, 3% Hispanic and 10% black. Today the US is approx. 64% European white, 18% Hispanic, and 13% black.

Good luck with that trend.

Hardscrabble Farmer
Hardscrabble Farmer
  llpoh
July 24, 2019 9:07 pm

You left out the Asians, Indians, Middle Easterners and sub-Saharan Africans. There’s got to be close to 20% all together by now. There aren’t anywhere close to 64% European descended Americans left. Maybe 50% tops.

Steve C
Steve C
  Hardscrabble Farmer
July 24, 2019 9:15 pm

But, but, they tell us that diversity is our strength. People should be even nicer and more honest now than we were years ago…

llpoh
llpoh
  Hardscrabble Farmer
July 24, 2019 9:36 pm

64+18+13 = 95%. So the balance is in the neighborhood of 5%. Asians and Indians are probably around that total – quick search says around 6% Asians total, and 1% Indians. Africans count as black I believe. Middle easterners are counted white, I suspect, and there is around 1% Muslims in the US.

So, using these figures, 100 – 18 Hispanic, – 13 black, – 6 Asian, – 1 Indian, – 1 Muslim = 61% white.

That will be pretty close. Whites are not yet down to 50%, but the day is coming. And fast.

Should have picked your own cotton, and should have built the wall in 1960.

Bad decisions have consequences.

Elastic Commensal
Elastic Commensal
  llpoh
July 25, 2019 10:21 am

Europe should have picked her own cotton.

MG
MG
  Elastic Commensal
July 25, 2019 12:55 pm

And left the tobacco alone.

Hardscrabble Farmer
Hardscrabble Farmer
  llpoh
July 25, 2019 4:19 pm

Like 9/11 my perceptions tell a different story than the official narrative. There are far more than 1% Islamics and Indians (sub continent) in this country and at least as many Asians in the USA now as there are African Americans. And the 13% Black figure has been that number my entire life and since 1965 the African floodgates have opened up, much more since ’92, no way that all those additional Africans haven’t added so much as 1%.

The stats say one thing but my eyes see another, like that bullshit 11 million illegals number that hasn’t changed at all in 20 years. There’s at least 50 million illegals here- which is why they desperately do not want the Census to count them.

SeeBee
SeeBee
  Hardscrabble Farmer
July 25, 2019 8:47 pm

The “Eyes” have it!

llpoh
llpoh
  Hardscrabble Farmer
July 24, 2019 9:39 pm

BTW – all things considered, I would generally want two types of immigrants: white Europeans, and educated Asians. I do not consider educated Asians a negative – they are often well educated, thrifty, family oriented business minded, etc. – exactly the traits I would list as positives in any individual. Plus, second and third generations d a pretty goodjob of assimilating, in my experience.

22winmag - Yankee by birth - Southerner by choice
22winmag - Yankee by birth - Southerner by choice
  Hardscrabble Farmer
July 24, 2019 9:54 pm

You’re up late.

Please review that link with the cattle photo in my other comment.

Seriously toxic stuff.

22winmag - Yankee by birth - Southerner by choice
22winmag - Yankee by birth - Southerner by choice
  llpoh
July 24, 2019 9:51 pm

Zip codes

matter
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Coalclinker
Coalclinker

Kentucky is the only state in the Union where the black population today is smaller than it was in 1900.

22winmag - Yankee by birth - Southerner by choice
22winmag - Yankee by birth - Southerner by choice
  Coalclinker
July 25, 2019 12:04 am

May I visit?

Coalclinker
Coalclinker

Sure but you’ll want to stay the hell out of Louisville- too many Kneegrows, and they keep putting (((Yarmuth))) into office. They don’t even talk like the rest of the state.

SeeBee
SeeBee
July 24, 2019 9:28 pm

Simple. You can’t (mustn’t) conflate Tolerance with Acceptance. Once that happens, the formerly Tolerated, become Intolerant. Then the lid is blown off of a simmering pot.

22winmag - Discharged in 1993 those were the days
22winmag - Discharged in 1993 those were the days
July 24, 2019 9:43 pm

I’m going to linkspam the fuck out of this ON TOPIC PAPER until a few people read it.

What kind of thinking and behavior can you expect from HUMANS when PEOPLE are fed this toxic shit?

http://mileswmathis.com/mofo.pdf

Somebody tell Hardscrabble not to miss this.
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SeeBee
SeeBee

Just because you’re being fed, doesn’t mean you have to swallow.

Llpoh
Llpoh

Please post the Mattis paper where he proves Pi = 4. I won’t read that too.

22 – seriously, when you post stuff by someone who is clearly off their fucking rocker, you hurt your credibility.

To random readers – no shit, this guy Mattis stands by his assertion that Pi = 4, and has put together an entire paper, which he proudly posts, to support his contention. He is certifiably loony tunes.

daddysteve
daddysteve
  Llpoh
July 25, 2019 1:13 pm

Why don’t you try reading his fucking paper and then tell us where MATHIS is off his rocker. Mathis clearly states pi=4 in 3-dimensional orbital calculations and NOT plane geometry. That’s the moon going around the earth or the earth going around the sun, for a simpleton such as yourself. There are Jootoob videos of college kids proving it with ball bearings and clear plastic tubes. If you can’t see the matrix by now you are probably part of it.

Hollywood Rob
Hollywood Rob
  daddysteve
July 25, 2019 4:12 pm

No daddy. The definition of Pi has nothing to do with how it is used. It is an irrational number and a transcendental number. Pi does not equal 4 in any know numbering system.

Being an irrational number, π cannot be expressed as a common fraction (equivalently, its decimal representation never ends and never settles into a permanently repeating pattern). Still, fractions such as 22/7 and other rational numbers are commonly used to approximate π. The digits appear to be randomly distributed. In particular, the digit sequence of π is conjectured to satisfy a specific kind of statistical randomness, but to date, no proof of this has been discovered. Also, π is a transcendental number; that is, it is not the root of any polynomial having rational coefficients. This transcendence of π implies that it is impossible to solve the ancient challenge of squaring the circle with a compass and straightedge.

55 Chevy - Mexican by birth - American by coyote
55 Chevy - Mexican by birth - American by coyote
  Hollywood Rob
July 26, 2019 1:23 am

Robbo, Steve is not your daddy.

Hollywood Rob
Hollywood Rob

Perhaps, but he could be your daddy. After all, you really don’t know who your daddy was now do you.

~L
~L
July 24, 2019 9:58 pm

Random thoughts of things that changed our world…in my humble opinion. Been discussed here before.

-financial struggles from the decreasing purchasing power of the money; (Just Ate showed a pic)
it forced many families to require dual incomes of both parents; Day care for kids became acceptable.
Too many parents spent far too little time teaching children right from wrong.

-Single parent households grew exponentially. Too many kids having no father to discipline correctly.

-abandonment of the religion’s good teachings of respecting the Golden Rule.
More simply, far too many people put false gods ahead of Him, as their priorities.
Most typically, Greed, Materialistic things, and passions.

-drugs became easily available and many chose poorly and became regular users;

-The explosive growth of television and movies’ negative effects; in too many ways to count.
Marketing via mass broadcast subconsciously and subliminally swayed minds, (tobacco, alcohol)
Kids became less physically active and desired garbage foods that were advertised;
The comedies taught put downs and insults would win popularity and laughs, so mean people thrived.
Sex sells, and trillions bought into it. Freedom? Yes, but a wide range of problems ensued. (Just ate pic)
Violence and murder slowly became more and more prominent in screenplays. Loss of shock value.
Selling the grandeur of lifestyles of the rich and shameless brought keeping up w/ the Joneses.

Diversity broke up neighborhoods; Pop culture drove divisions in many families.

Racial tension problems were never solved; it’s now fostered and kindled more than ever, for gain.

Flagrant abuse of power and injustice by law enforcement created division and disrespect.
(Again, No Thx. I Just Ate nailed this, and good examples of other causes with a picture…Hat Tip)

Public schools have morphed into PC indoctrination and fostered in victim mentality as a bill of rights,
where now reparations and restitution is believed to be owed.

Corruption at all levels of business, government, religion, in courts and law taught people that doing the right thing was for losers. Crime unpunished pays; so the working stiff was seen by many as a fool.

I could go on, but will stop it here, with one final thought.

Far too many people take far too many things and other people in our lives for granted.
Our standard of living is still far higher than a great percentage of the world’s population.
We have everything the rich have, and it still isn’t enough to make us appreciate the gifts we have on loan.
I try to stop and focus on those, when I’m in the right frame of mind. With Gratitude.

Food, clothing, shelter, reasonably good health, or the care available to restore it.
Family and friends.
Most are able bodied for most of their lives, yet we grumble.
If the invalid can make a go of life, WTF are we bitching about? There’s problems aplenty, for sure.
But, where’s your focus?
Seize the day, and do it with a smile. Give one out, as often as possible.
It’s one small gesture, to push back a bit, against a world gone mad.
~ Cheers.

TampaRed
TampaRed
  ~L
July 24, 2019 10:28 pm

very good comment–

nkit
nkit
  ~L
July 24, 2019 11:28 pm

yes, good comment, Brofessor…

nkit
nkit
  nkit
July 25, 2019 12:55 am

nkit
nkit
  nkit
July 25, 2019 12:59 am
grace country pastor
grace country pastor
  ~L
July 25, 2019 10:16 am

Romans 12 attitude right there, ~L!

Thinking about the root cause of the problem from my POV, it was and still is the mainstreaming of biological and cosmological evolution in .gov indoctrination centers that has removed accountability to ones Creator from the equation. Very simply put, if I am taught that I am nothing more than an accidental insignificant animal with a big brain hurtling through near infinite space on a tiny fragile ball, I am going to behave like the same animal thinking only of my own survival (what benefits me? only live once…); a very dangerous selfish thing.

TampaRed
TampaRed
July 24, 2019 11:20 pm

steve,
you mentioned the obese–late this afternoon i had a trade association meeting in the old latin quarter here,called ybor city–it is mostly tourists,artists,musicians ,etc. who live there now–
being the tightwad that i am,i wouldn’t pay the $10 to park in the garage behind the restaurant so i parked 4 free & walked 3 blocks to the restaurant–
as i walked i kept thinking what an effed up population we are becoming–fat people who have never had any muscle tone & freaks who can’t fit into normal society,it’s a complete clusterf…–

Unreconstructed
Unreconstructed
July 25, 2019 12:25 am

Good article Steve.
I remember telling people back in the early seventies that one day we were going to wake up in a world we wouldn’t recognize. Well needless to say…
I think the term is gradualism.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Unreconstructed
July 25, 2019 12:58 am

Unrecon.
You reminded me of something mom said in the early 70’s. In fifty years there will be a lot of inbred babies from incest due to nobody knowing who their fathers are. Forgot all about that till now. Pretty prophetic.

Persnickety
Persnickety
  Fleabaggs
July 25, 2019 9:56 am

The DNA testing companies would know all this. Funny how it never makes the rounds of Facebook or office gossip like all the other ancestry stuff.

aka.attrition
aka.attrition
July 25, 2019 2:08 am

Steve C

What you write = what’s in my memories too. This is what was but seems no longer is. I think a lot of it has to do with:

1) Loss of stay at home parent, family unit, social bonding,
2) Isolation of people via modern communications options,
3) Loss of interest in religion, philosophy,
4) The rise of the perceived importance of Personality at the expense of Character.

I’m sure there are more reasons.

Hardscrabble Farmer
Hardscrabble Farmer
  aka.attrition
July 25, 2019 4:09 pm

Easy divorce, women in the workforce (putting off family, sexual politics, increase of infidelity), birth control (putting off family formation even if married) and the social nuke, abortion.

Once you’ve done that kind of damage to women, children and families, there’s no coming back.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  aka.attrition
July 25, 2019 5:46 pm

tv

TampaRed
TampaRed
  Anonymous
July 25, 2019 10:05 pm

everything hsf & anon said but imo it’s losing our religion & a lack of social stigma 4 non conforming behavior,plus the inability of authority figures to punish non conforming behavior–

Desertrat
Desertrat
July 25, 2019 8:37 am

Wander through the toy section at WalMart. See how all the little thingummies are in plastic packaging? Harder to shoplift. Back in the WW II era, the five-and-dime stores had toys of that sort and many other items in open bins.

Even us poor kids were more honest, back then.

School-yard fights, even in high school, were one-on-one. Only cowards ganged up, and it was common for them to “get educated” about such behavior.

Go to YouTube and watch videos of dancing in the 1950s. Clean, neat, well-dressed. Pride in one’s appearance.

The Hippie era gave us, “If it feels good, do it!” In today’s world, add, “…no matter how stupid and harmful it is.”

Steve C
Steve C
  Desertrat
July 25, 2019 11:18 am

I too remember the local general store with the squeaky wooden floors and all the items just placed loosely in bins. Toys, fishing weights (sinkers), small and easily pocketed items of every sort that would seem strange today. Just imagine the flash mob looters in such a place.

When I was going through all the old videos after reading LLPOH’s article, what really hit me was Edwin Newman’s remarks about how everyone was behaving at the fair. I referenced it in my article. It is at the nine-minute mark of the second video.

His comments really brought home to me that we as a people have lost something that was very special, something very precious. I mulled it around for a while before writing the essay. Like the death of a loved one, it is a world that is gone, never to be seen again. Always alive in our memories, but no longer of this world.

It’s more than just the lost innocence of youth. Mine are not just the reflections of a man that understands that I have more years behind me than I have in front of me. It’s something that is lost or more probably stolen from us and done with our own consent and participation.

I was hoping to get some thoughts from fellow TBP’ers on how this has happened, why it has happened, and where we are headed. What kind of people will we be?

JIMSKI
JIMSKI
July 25, 2019 11:42 am

DIVERSITY + GOVERNMENT MANDATED CONTACT=CONFLICT

MG
MG
July 25, 2019 12:02 pm

Change is what happens from moment to moment.

It really is just a matter of self-control to ignore..

Even for faggots and birds who flock like vultures.

No meds. Just…

MALICE

Hollywood Rob
Hollywood Rob
  MG
July 25, 2019 3:06 pm

Know meds – know malice.

Anonymous
Anonymous
July 25, 2019 2:08 pm

“How did this happen? When and why did we as a people change?” We let the (((tv))) reprogram us. From our basic social interactions, to all the poisonous obesifying shit that plagues all the aisles of the grocery stores these days.

NoThanksIJustAte
NoThanksIJustAte
July 25, 2019 3:56 pm

“I was twelve years old and living on Long Island at the time and I visited the fair at least a dozen or more times in its two years of existence.”

Ah, that takes me back! Nice article about the 64-65 World’s Fair my friend. I grew up in nearby Forest Hills and used to play with my friends around the fairgrounds and Flushing Meadows Lakes area in the early 70’s. By then only the Hall of Science was still open ..barely. In fact a cop probably saved my life there one winter day when a friend and myself foolishly were trying to walk across the frozen lake when it was already starting to thaw & crack. Thanks for the memories!

Steve C
Steve C
  NoThanksIJustAte
July 25, 2019 5:05 pm

I’m glad that there was at least a taste of the fair for you to play in as kids.

Here’s what you got:

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Here’s what we got:

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Fords new ‘Mustang’ was introduced at the fair.

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New York is a walking city and the New York World’s Fair was a walking fair…

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NoThanksIJustAte
NoThanksIJustAte
  Steve C
July 25, 2019 5:20 pm

” Here’s what you got …Here’s what we got:”

Well go ahead and rub it in, why don’t ya? 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8G3U-MABw

NoThanksIJustAte
NoThanksIJustAte
  NoThanksIJustAte
July 25, 2019 5:30 pm

PS: Actually now that I remember, my parents took me to the Fair when I was 4. Plus I got to see it all from the convenient vantage point of my stroller ….so there !

Steve C
Steve C
  NoThanksIJustAte
July 25, 2019 5:37 pm

I remember seeing you there.

You were the little brat that they had to pull out of the water fountain.

What is it with you and the water anyway?

NoThanksIJustAte
NoThanksIJustAte
  Steve C
July 25, 2019 8:58 pm

So for ONCE I wrote a comment that was appreciative, polite and even friendly ..I even thru in a smiley face & couple of nice video links too!. What do I get in return? Grumpy sarcasm & even a mild insult. Thanks for confirming my previous belief that baby boomer Americunts are all a sack of human shit. What is it with me and the water? I’ll tell you: it’s actually NOT “water” my nostalgic transgendered friend ..it’s me URINATING on you and your collapsing shit stain of a country. Fuck you people forever, I’m glad your country is FINISHED. Now fuck off and continue to DIE.

Ah, I’m back to normal again. That feels better.

PS: Isn’t candida a fungal infection?

Steve C
Steve C
  NoThanksIJustAte
July 25, 2019 9:05 pm

PS: Isn’t candida a fungal infection?

Not at the moment, but we do get a bit of mold and mildew down here in the swamp so I’ll keep an eye out for it.

Where are you?

NoThanksIJustAte
NoThanksIJustAte
  Steve C
July 25, 2019 10:15 pm

At this precise moment? Up your mother’s ass.

Steve C
Steve C
  NoThanksIJustAte
July 25, 2019 10:22 pm

You seemed friendly so I was kidding with you.

Why so angry?

Steve C
Steve C
  NoThanksIJustAte
July 25, 2019 5:31 pm

Billy Joel graduated from high school the same year as me – 1970.

He was in Hicksville I think. I grew up in Baldwin.

No, sorry, I didn’t know him…

NoThanksIJustAte
NoThanksIJustAte
  Steve C
July 25, 2019 9:01 pm

I always thought Baldwin was Hicksville. And technically speaking, I don’t think you ever really ‘grew up’ at all

Anonymous
Anonymous
July 25, 2019 5:38 pm

Today I saw a Greyhound Bus. Back in the day, parents put their kids on the bus alone for cross state, and farther, trips to grandparents, etc. Try that today if you can find a Greyhound Bus.

Phil
Phil
July 25, 2019 8:10 pm

“Gee I’m a baby boomer and I wonder what happened and why our country is so effed up…” Baby boomers with their civic nationalism, color blindness and entitlement programs happened and this article epitomizes why everyone hates them and why no other generation in the history of the world has been more deserving of a complete genocide.

NoThanksIJustAte
NoThanksIJustAte
  Phil
July 25, 2019 9:04 pm

Now THAT’S a comment I can upvote with no regrets!

LibertyAcademy
LibertyAcademy
July 25, 2019 8:19 pm

2 main reasons for the radical change:

1 – POLITICAL CORRECTNESS / HATE SPEECH

https://steemit.com/informationwar/@libertyacademy/top-5-mass-mind-control-techniques-used-by-the-elite-part-4-political-correctness-hate-speech

2 – SUBVERSION

NoThanksIJustAte
NoThanksIJustAte
  LibertyAcademy
July 25, 2019 9:16 pm

3 – IMBECILITY OF THE OVERALL POPULATION

NoThanksIJustAte
NoThanksIJustAte
July 25, 2019 9:09 pm

How America Has Changed

It’s retarded baby boomers, who are starting to drop like flies, are slowly being replaced by retarded millennials whose sole purpose in life will be to rinse, lather & repeat. Step aside cunts, here comes RUSSIA!

NoThanksIJustAte
NoThanksIJustAte
  NoThanksIJustAte
July 25, 2019 9:11 pm

PS: Check it out: our beautiful woman DON’T come with a penis!

SeeBee
SeeBee
  NoThanksIJustAte
July 25, 2019 9:25 pm

Cute. But for some reason , this song then came to mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwWRjvwlLKg

NoThanksIJustAte
NoThanksIJustAte
  SeeBee
July 25, 2019 10:22 pm

Que carajo tendrá que ver esto con todo lo anterior solo Dios (y tu siquiatra) lo sabrán. Estás tomando tus medicamentos?

SeeBee
SeeBee
  NoThanksIJustAte
July 25, 2019 10:33 pm

Thank you. And I think you’re swell too.

55 Chevy - Mexican by birth - American by coyote
55 Chevy - Mexican by birth - American by coyote
  NoThanksIJustAte
July 25, 2019 10:37 pm

English please, putos.

55 Chevy - Mexican by birth - American by coyote
55 Chevy - Mexican by birth - American by coyote
  SeeBee
July 26, 2019 1:08 am

This is better than that gypsy song:

55 Chevy - Mexican by birth - American by coyote
55 Chevy - Mexican by birth - American by coyote

One for Montefrio:

NoThanksIJustAte
NoThanksIJustAte
July 25, 2019 9:17 pm

How America Has Changed
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55 Chevy - Mexican by birth - American by coyote
55 Chevy - Mexican by birth - American by coyote
July 26, 2019 1:14 am
55 Chevy - Mexican by birth - American by coyote
55 Chevy - Mexican by birth - American by coyote
July 26, 2019 1:18 am
Hardscrabble Farmer
Hardscrabble Farmer
July 26, 2019 8:24 am

They put this up on ZH.

Way to go.