On 07/04/2013 11:30 AM, Jim Elbrecht wrote:

>
> Looking back, the thing that seems funniest to me now is that in the
> 70's I was hospitalized for a week for GI testing. My room mate was
> on O2 so I asked for [and got] another room so I, and my visitors,
> could smoke.

Yep. You could smoke in hospitals, in restaurants, in university
hallways, lecture halls and seminar rooms.
>
> We were allowed 2 beers with lunch. We were just driving big trucks,
> working with heavy equipment & running telephone lines around electric
> poles. What could go wrong?

In my truck driving days we usually stopped for liquid lunches.

>
> sexism? Not in Schoharie county. The women knew their place and
> didn't need no sexism to keep them in line.

;-)

And there was no career description that used the term "outside of the
home". Most married women were "homemakers".

> Ahh-- The good old days.

The days when a man could go to work and earn enough to raise a family
with four kids in the same style it takes a working couple to raise two
kids.