Remember The Days Of Home Deliveries Before Amazon?

Repost



Remember the 50's when home deliveries were the norm?

To list a few of the 'hucksters': Charlie Chips, Bond Bread, Fuller Brush, Jewel Tea (Hellicks), Ice Cream (Good Humor/Mr. Frostie), Produce (Grim's), Milk (Freeman/LV Dairy), Egg, etc.

Why even in those days, the insurance man would come for your monthly payments. Doctors made home visits. And the paper boy would put the paper inside your door!

Some cynical types point out that today you can now buy drugs outside your front door. :)

I question myself whether this was actually somewhat more fuel efficient in the fact that these 'hucksters' would go only a few feet at a time and shut off their engines. Today we pop in the car and drive a couple of miles for these same items. At any rate, it did provide a decent independent job as a means to make a living for what many may now consider undereducated individuals who lacked other skills. Hey we can't all sing or play sports!

I wonder if someone could provide these kind of services today whether it might work out for them?

Medicare Déjà vu

Reposted From: April 5, 2010
Same ole' same ole' stuff

JFK Madison Square Garden (May 1962)
"A Rally of 3 Generations"

Part 1

Part 2

The same song they're singing against "Healthcare" today.

President John F. Kennedy wanted Medicare, but Dr. Edward Annis opposed single payer health care for the elderly.

The night after JFK held the Medicare rally in Madison Square Garden, the AMA rented the empty Garden for Dr. Annis to deliver his rebuttal, opposing "socialized" medicine for the elderly.

"What we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."
~George Bernard Shaw~

Musical Number From NBC's 2012 Pregame Super Bowl Show

Repost

How many of these NBC star's can you remember?

How many shows can you name each were on?

Putin Must Be Laughing His Ass Off

Repost From January 2018 (Still Applies)

Here you have congress investigating it's own most trusted investigating agencies and each other.

One half of the politicians trying to destroy the other half to get to see who ruins runs the country.

Downsizing the State Department while most times at odds with the President.


The news media poisoning the waters of public opinion better then the Russian news agency TASS could ever hope to achieve in it's wildest dreams.

Government planning on spending trillion$ more then what created our huge deficits each year for decades. This even before slashing taxes.

The U.S. creating new endless wars with other countries Russia can befriend and make a ton of loot selling arms to use against us.

Putin doesn't have to lift a finger creating division. We do a much better job of it on ourselves. He can sit back and watch us cower over illegals, N. Korea, terrorists, endless wars, and people of all stripes fearing one another within for dozens of reasons. To name a few. Things like job losses, ethnic differences, gender, economic inequalities and more importantly the ever increasing distrust of our own government quite possibly more then his.


Wrapping This Up
A lot has happened to people's attitudes since the end of WWII. About the only thing "united" about the United States is it's name only. The thing that unites people is when they feel threatened. Unfortunately power brokers in this country have exploited this to their advantage. Far too many people it's seems are ignorant of the fact they are being used as pawns.

One could lay blame on Putin, Trump, congress, the media or business leaders. In reality fault lies in each individual who refuses to see the whole is made up by the sum of it's parts. Continuing not to accept our commonality means soon we'll be left with none.


Like it or not...
We're all stuck here together in the fishbowl we all call Earth

What we make of it is up to us.

Kristin Chenoweth - I Didn't (AOL Sessions)

2011

Amateur Hour - Sparks | The Midnight Special

November 15, 1974

I saw these guys at the 'Roxy Theater' in Northampton way back when.