That image makes a very good point. In 1960, my comfortably middle-class family had one black-and white television, no air-conditioning of any type (and certainly not in our car), a telephone on a party line (and the telephone had a dial on it, not buttons – touch-tone telephones didn’t appear until early 1965), no computer, and no iPods. The five of us were living in a house that had a thousand square feet on the main level and an additional thousand feet of basement. The house had one bathroom, plus a toilet and a sink downstairs. That would be considered far below the poverty level today.
For what it’s worth, I thought (and still do) that our life was wonderful.
That image makes a very good point. In 1960, my comfortably middle-class family had one black-and white television, no air-conditioning of any type (and certainly not in our car), a telephone on a party line (and the telephone had a dial on it, not buttons – touch-tone telephones didn’t appear until early 1965), no computer, and no iPods. The five of us were living in a house that had a thousand square feet on the main level and an additional thousand feet of basement. The house had one bathroom, plus a toilet and a sink downstairs. That would be considered far below the poverty level today.
For what it’s worth, I thought (and still do) that our life was wonderful.
@1 – Agreeing with all of that… except I *really* hated not having air conditioning 🙂