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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (95842)	2/10/2005 2:17:59 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Well, I wasn't affluent enough I guess. Nor were my parents. My maternal grandmother was a single mother (widowed). My dad's family were dirt poor and granddad was off doing public works projects afield (such as Hoover Dam) as part of the New Deal WPA and other efforts. This was the Depression and many, many people had it very tough. The last good times before that were the 20's and I suppose there was a window where, in post-Victorian era America, some people had that level of wealth. It wasn't typical though. The Brady's and Please Don't Eat the Daisies! made that point for the post-war affluence. And for the turn of the century, Life with Father. But, again, these don't represent the typical case. At the turn of the century, only a few people were actually considered "professional". Doctors, engineers, executives and lawyers. But these weren't the typical case. When I was a kid, every blue collar guy could have his wife at home, and did.