Remember when people were NICE

The good old days when people knew how to laugh and civil to each other

they smoking cigs inside the shop!!!

I'm probably way older lady than you.
People were absolutely sweet during the 60s.

I can remember our family getting our first off base home in a charming little suburb in Greenville, Alabama.
We were a family of 5, mom, dad and 3 kids, we were white.

The 2nd day of unpacking we kids noticed a rather large group of well dressed black women coming up the sidewalk, the all had cooked food, covered dishes,cakes and pies!

They turned onto our sidewalk! We kids scurried past them to alert mom.

Mom came to the porch in her house unpacking clothes.

The ladies introduced themselves as being from a local Baptist church.
One by one telling mom their name and shaking her hand deposited what dish they happened to be holding into moms hand.
We kids kept running the food into the kitchen.

The ladies didnt want to come in as they knew mom was busy unpacking with 3 girls to watch.

The ladies left, we were overwhelmed at all the food and kind of stunned at the kindness of the Welcoming committee.

I wish people would be that kind still.
The young people of today have no idea what it really was like in small communities before all the hate started.

When you didn't curse in public. If you did, you were confronted about it, and rightly so.

I prefer those days.

Not really.

Fantastic. Thank you. I'm old enough to recall this, too, that neighbors would in the very least go introduce themselves to the new family moving in.

We used to be able to smoke in hospitals and aircraft too!

Id love to have lived in the 50s/60s. Society then and now are galaxies apart.

Very true - when I first started working in the hospital smoking was allowed. I shard an office with a cardiac surgeon who smoked like a train, I used to go home most days smelling like a tobacco factory

People smoked everywhere and nobody really thought anything about it. Although it is nice to be smoke free in restaurants and airplanes now. But I think it has gone too far.

yeah....and you didn't have to lock your car doors....or house doors, and didn't need car alarms....and didn't NEED to carry a gun just to go to Walmart!! But, but, the dumb *&^^&'s say it hasn't changed....now THAT'S STUPIDITY.

Yup. There really are places people shouldn’t smoke. I worked as a flight attendant in the last days smoking was allowed and even the smokers didn’t want to sit in the smoking section. Lol. Yes it was that bad. And I don’t remember cigarettes smelling so bad like they do today.

our teachers smoked in the classroom

Speaking of which, I spoke awhile back with a black guy in his mid-70s. He said when he was a kid playing out on the street - probably in an all-black neighborhood - when other kids acted up and became rowdy, the older women sitting on their front porches would stick their heads out and scold the kids. They'd then simmer down and sheepishly go back into their homes.

He said that nowadays if the grandmothers on a street tried to do that, they'd run the risk of being punched or shot.

Liberalism has made much of America go from being a "Bedford Falls" to a "Potterville." A place referred to in the movie "It's a Wonderful Life."

Hillary/Barack are analogous to Henry Potter, Donald Trump is analogous to George Bailey.



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The 80's were a blast, I was fortunate to have my childhood during that era..from music, clothing style to electronics..it was just pure fun.

the best part was probably the freedom kids had, to go anywhere, play ball all day if you wanted to, even work to make money.

Smoking on planes with real food, and getting paid to travel was about as good as it ever got.
There was a period in 80s-90s where you could not smoke on Amtrak coach, but you could in your private sleeper.

I am getting older and I do miss the time when people seemed to be more responsible and connected to and for each other.

This age favors anonymity at the expense of family and community.

Disposable existence, getting lost rather than accept responsibility....

People were nicer because more people overall behaved responsibly.

That built community and respect for all.

Now we have thug life.

they actually filtered air on airplanes back then, they do not anymore.

YES..

Someone recreated this at a 7/11 in the past couple of years, with similar results

This is what I did much of my teenage years in Duncan, OK. People were generally alot nicer in the 1990's than they are today. People knew how to initiate and maintain a conversation prior to social media's invention. People wouldn't shy away from you for your efforts to initiate a conversation.

People knew that when you opened a conversation with "Have a nice day!" and/or something similar it was a conversation killer or immediately ended the conversation. Nowadays dang near everyone says similar stuff expecting a long flowing conversation to spring forth from a conversation closer. People just don't know how to talk to anyone anymore for any length of time. Even when they do it's almost over the most vapid of topics.

I graduated HS in 1983, yes people did act different then. Life was simpler, we would spend all day down by the river and hardly see another person, life was good. Sunday's it was church and supper later, usually moms killer fried chicken.

Awww... Thank you for this thread hoping I can get my millennial offspring to read some of it to understand my nostalgia
God bless you

I have come to believe it's the middle class that made America great... and God's grace.

Its always a socialist. They're like tribe with it. Please lord let history repeat itself

Same.

As a kid not really as a man try to do business nothing but liars and theives.

Yes! I wish we could go back to the 80's.

How I wish the world would return to those days.

Remember when you didn't have to listen to "press 1 for English or press 2 for Spanish"?

Remember when nothing at the DMV was written in both English and spanish?

If you don’t have ethnic unity you don’t have a country.

For a society that has supposed to have evolved over time - we really do constantly live in fear of so many things. I know society has always had things to be fearful of but its so battered into us now to fear this and fear that, fear each other, be fearful of what you say in case of offending any snowflakes. I liked the video because the people were so genuinely relaxed and carefree and able laugh and joke with each other without having to walk on egg shells.


People back in the 60s, 70s, and 80s were probably so much healthier than us and its probably because they were so laid back and happier.