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Dr. Clyde N. Wilson

My, How the World Has Changed, continued

2/26/2019

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At 77 I am remembering things that used to be commonplace but that my children and grandchildren have never seen.

If you were really sick the doctor would come to your house for $10.

A boy who went to school without a pocket knife was lacking in status.  Displaying a new knife was an occasion.

Cap pistols

Push mowers, which required real effort but no gasoline or constant adjustment.

Howdy-Doody

Tex Ritter and  Gene Autry  (but not Roy Rogers who was from Iowa and not a real cowboy).

Saturday serials

Sleeping on a pallet  on the floor with cousins when families visited

Buttermilk

Ironing boards and the smell of freshly ironed stuff

Ice cream that you had to crank a handle for

Kids allowed to ride the fire trucks on holidays

German lugers and Jap bayonets brought back by veterans

Atomic bomb drills in school.  We did not realise how stupid they were.

10 cent bus fare

Honour system newspaper racks

Polio patients and iron lungs.  We engaged in massive battles of fly-swatting on the theory that flies had something to do with the epidemic.
 
A real barber shop instead of a unisex beauty parlor.

The sweet singing from a country Southern Methodist church.

When there was only one family of immigrants in town and they were refugees from Communism, pleasant and interesting, and thankful to be here.
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    Clyde Wilson is a distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of South Carolina He is the author or editor of over thirty books and published over 600 articles, essays and reviews

    Dr. Wilson is also is co-publisher of Shotwell Publishing, a source  for unreconstructed Southern books. 

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