50s family

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all packed up for a mid century family vacation

The 1950s nuclear family.

In contrast with Americans’ romanticized historical memory of the postwar period, the cultural history of the 1950s was complex. Today, the most common popular vision of the American family during…

Nostalgia, most, if not all of us, experience it, whether only occasionally or as an almost constant underlying longing. A return to the “good old days” seems to me to be the theme of the Republican campaign for president. That message resonates with distinct groups of people, which isn’t altogether surprising during a time of economic uncertainty, high unemployment rates and an unpredictable future. For many, what they imagine lies ahead and/or the future is not what they expected…

young 60's family, takes me back to those days...

You’re probably familiar with the article published in Housekeeping Monthly in May of 1955 on how to be a good wife. It was called, “The Good Wife’s Guide,” and it detailed all the ways that a wife should act and how best she can be a partner to her husband and a mother to her

Don't know the exact location of this picture, but apparently in or around the home where we lived in Florida... ********************************** All of the photos in this album are “originals” from the period when I was an infant in the mid-1940s — i.e., the period before I lived in Omaha, Riverside, Roswell, New York, Ft. Worth, and Denver (photos of which you may have seen already in my Flickr archives). Before I get into the details, let me make a strong request — if you’re looking at…

These 14 parenting tips definitely belong in the past.

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