Seventy-five years on the planet gives me perspective on the nation’s decline into darkness. I have seen the denigration of almost everything in our society.
Take music. Secular love songs from 60-70 years ago were about the pains and joys of the heart. Now they are of the “lusts of the flesh.”
Economics? Our dollar is worthless. The dollar used to be a 90% silver coin containing about an ounce of silver. It was real money. That same silver dollar is worth $30 in today’s paper currency. That silver dollar would buy 20 candy bars or 20 bottles of Coca-Cola. For my dad a silver dollar would buy three gallons of gasoline with a silver dime in change. My dad paid me one silver dollar for sweeping up hair at his barber shop on Saturdays back in 1955 when I was eight years old. Imagen a little kid running around…
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Music of the 50 & 60’s was good for everybody, songs like Oh mien Papa, Little thing things mean a lot, Smile ,Ghost Riders of the Sky, Zana, Unchained Melody, and others like the Rose and Time to say Good by. The Hit parade for the top 10 songs was a good show to watch, These singers could
really sing but today they scream. They call it rappers
It was time when love songs were beautiful and satisfied when life was simpler !
Gals wore skirts, kerchiefs bobby socks