They were the best of times

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    Marine1 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    A fellow sent me a video of life back in the 1950's and early 1960's and it brought back so many memories. A time when service was king. Before long hair and drugs. Before gangs and cars that were all one color and looked alike. When you could hear the words to the music and the band didn't drown them out. They were such good times. Enjoy

    http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=sDc0ID6PJeg&feature=youtu.be
     
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    'It was in the early 'fifties tedium knew its finest hours -
    you could feel the great world shrinking, feel the way life's pulses slowed,
    while the dominating husbandmen spread platitudes like dung,
    while the corn grew high and heavy, and the clichés bloomed like flowers,
    and in all that dry nigh-harvest time, that heyday of the bores,
    we were weeds outside the windows where the idiot's lantern glowed
    corpse-blue on the hero faces and the cheap consumer goods,
    as the Island of the Mighty wilted, wearied out with wars.
    As I grappled with the brassiere-hooks up round the Candy Woods
    the voices bleated, "How time goes! Youth's wasted on the young!"'


    My own view, that. People see times differently! :)
     

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