Stuck in a timewarp

The music, the atmosphere, the culture, the nostalgia of the 50's cannot be found in any other time period. He loves it and wants to relive it. I can sorta relate to that in my own way even though I was born much later than the 50s.

Some people just stay in their comfort zone , it becomes their reality , but unfortunately they never grow...
...xox...

There this town in nz called Napier and its like it like its stuck in the 1930s all the buildings are Art Deco and they have a whole weekend where everyone dresses up in 1930s clothes.
Its kinda fun but I cant imagine living forever like that.

well My dad doesnt always dress in 1950s clothes though he still uses brylcreem. My dad pretty much uses youtube as a jukebox and in the car, its permanently 1950s music with the latest news interrupting every now and then. He has a job at the museum where it could be permanently the 1950s, driving the tram.

I suppose its like the amish people!

is Napier a place for tourists ?

nah its where supposedly normal people live

rotorua and queenstown are the tourist towns in nz.

Napier had an earthquake in 1935 which is why it got rebuilt in art deco style. Hastings too but Napier was more affected.
Christchurch did have an earthquake in 2011 but I dont think much of its being rebuilt as there is a risk it would just fall to bits again thanks to really slack building standards nowadays.

on art deco, I actually do like the style of clothes as I think it kinda suits my figure. But I think I would just get a bit bored of all the luxury, hedonism and decadence!

ha ha "normal".
Who the heck is normal ?
Oh no, days of our lives 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆

I have never been normal....

can I second that ?

you may.

Jesus wasnt normal either. I think people just didnt like he was from Nazareth. Weird because we all have to be from somewhere, and most of us have two legs which means we get around.

He had the biggest timewarp thing going...eternity

hmm but my mum doesnt, so it might not be true for everyone.
I suppose poverty and stuff isnt that much fun to remember.

I do notice that old people still want to read Enid Blyton stories but young people arent really into her because she was from 50 years ago. Yet shes placed in the childrens section.

However, something that has come back from my tween years is the Babysitters club series. Which was over 30 years ago. However the books have been kinda repackaged in graphic format. Its kinda like Disney stealing fairy tales I suppose.

the 1950 sounds ok if you were a young man, but pretty much hell on earth if you were a young woman.

Just reading about it in this book called 'The Barbizon, the New York Hotel that set women free'.
Sylvia Plath was 19 years old in 1953 and it was her first suicide attempt, I remember reading her novel The Bell Jar based on her nervous breakdown where she did a guest editing stint in a kind of 'Devil is called Prada' environment in 1950s NYC.

Imagine being educated to have a full life only to give up all your brains and intellect to become a housewife (which she did) though she couldnt handle it and put her was in the oven after having two children with a philandering husband. Who was a superstar poet. But it was really Ok for men to lead double lives but women had to be as pure as driven snow and not think for themselves.

Also the ridiculous fashions they wore, if the latest version of West Side Story would have you believe, the men could slum it in jeans and t shirt or dress up in a tux but women had to dress to the nines all the time, walk around in tottering high heels, and get plastered in makeup just to go outside.

WWII had a very strong influence in the liberation of women. This was due to the absolute need of woman in aircraft manufacture, arms manufacture, and everyday jobs ordinarily having had been occupied by men.

After the war was over women did go back to what had been considered women's work, but not all, and it was not considered out of the ordinary for women to work anywhere, in spite of the general depiction of women in the world by Hollywood production.

Women I knw in the 1950-s were quite independent. One of my aunts was, of fall things, a barber. She and my uncle also had properties which they both maintained. It was normal. I could go on but I will not for this opinions of others tend to outweigh the reality of the facts.

apparently in the US. I read, dont know if its true, married women were actually barred from working in the 1950s. Maybe if they had their own business (like a mom and pop one) it was ok but everywhere else they could not. states banned them - there were laws against it.
They were told to stay home and raise children (that was the reason for the baby boom) after all, half the population had died in the war.

My mother worked during the 50's. Rumors and tales do not replace the facts.

maybe it was only white, middle class women

Most women are not white or middle class, so...maybe it was only a thing for the priveliged, since their husbands supoosedly earned enought to 'keep them' eg keep them unpaid.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_bar

I do know that there really was a thing if you were a school teacher you could not be married. You had to look after your own children first. That was in the early twentieth century though, I dont know when they did away with that rule.

We were a poor faimily migrated from the midwast to the west coast. Our landlord, bless his heart, was a black preacher.. Most of our neighbors were also black, no problem for this little one.
People, even the blacks women, were already quite visible in the work force. Women worked in factories, primarily canning, but in just about every venue, thouth there were not many women truck drivers.. You would not want to tangle with the womaen who were though..

If a person outside the country were hooked on family sit-coms, they jsut may be put under the impression that all women were hjpisewoves pm;u. mpt sp/

if the husbands were wealthy enough to afford nannies to look after the children, then maybe those white priveliged housewives were just bored. I dunno.

In a real American (US) family, the men always did what was necessary for the household along with the women. Now if a man worked in a foundry in gruieling furnace heatg with heavey work all day long, he was not 3expected to do a whole lot aourn the house. It waas common sense mixed with caring.