tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post418049505057964886..comments2024-01-03T01:40:26.911-08:00Comments on Life Drawings: 7 january 195550sgalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09250940806307766624noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-29197885631529616232015-10-14T23:05:55.383-07:002015-10-14T23:05:55.383-07:00Melancholy was a word used for depression in the 3...Melancholy was a word used for depression in the 30s. Mental illnesses were hushed as it could bring shame to your whole family line. Back then they thought many mental problems were inherited and so if there was mental illnesses a family it might mean people would shy away from marrying into your family. Remember back then people kept family business inside the family. You did not go about gossiping about your people. You honored your church, family, school, town etc you did not put it down in public. what happened inside your house stayed in that house. It was no one's business People did not say how much they made at work or paid for things etc. They did not brag. You had good work ethics and everyone worked hard..at home or at the work place. Things were slower then as we did not have so much to interfere with our time. Even the new gadgets that came after the war ended start to make even the homemaker work harder. She bought the latest ,.. an electric mixer!!..then started making more complicated recipes and such making her work even longer! I know you wrote these post so long ago but I am having a lot of fun reading them now... SarahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-60262489125918729332009-04-20T10:04:00.000-07:002009-04-20T10:04:00.000-07:00Does coffee have to be ground differently for perc...Does coffee have to be ground differently for percolator pots?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-1101445732533313402009-01-09T17:51:00.000-08:002009-01-09T17:51:00.000-08:00I know many coffee snobs feel this way. Actually, ...I know many coffee snobs feel this way. Actually, I also have a vintage vacuum pot, which I know Starbuck made a modern version of a few years back, and this is suppose to make the best coffee and it is fun to watch the coffee 'explode' upwards and then redrain into the carafe. I, however, enjoy the drip pot. It make a nice taste and I like the look of it at the breakfast table. My husbands only complaint is it takes longer than a drip, but he enjoys the taste more. My waffle iron and my clothes iron BOTH have cloth cords.50sgalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09250940806307766624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-4695696372751996082009-01-08T19:36:00.000-08:002009-01-08T19:36:00.000-08:00Do you find that percolator coffee tastes better t...Do you find that percolator coffee tastes better than drip? I know some snobs shun the percolator, but my father still has his parents' one (with cloth-covered cord) and it makes some of the best coffee I've had.Teruhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03572270900311752419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-7036591607946239142009-01-08T02:05:00.000-08:002009-01-08T02:05:00.000-08:00Hey, I am loving your blog, what a fascinating ide...Hey, I am loving your blog, what a fascinating idea! On the topic of depression and mental illness in the 50s, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar is a good insight into how people were treated. Although it was published in 1963, it was based on events in Plath's own life in the early 50s, her attempted suicide and subsequent time in a mental hospital.<BR/>By the way, I love looking through 50s women's magazines on microfich, and came across a great article which might be of interest to you. It was the winning entry in a competition where you had to say what you would buy if you had to buy a whole wardrobe of clothes for 100 pounds (about $3300 in today's money). It's from 1951 so a littl out of date for you, but it gives a good idea of what the average woman would have had in her wardrobe. I can email it to you if you like, my address is sophiekollo(at)gmail.comPiroskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06665411493895439079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-56810562714502088542009-01-07T13:43:00.000-08:002009-01-07T13:43:00.000-08:00I wanted to comment about your mention of depressi...I wanted to comment about your mention of depression; there is an interesting article written by the granddaughter of Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of the Anne of Green Gables books, talking about LMM's lifelong battle with depression and her subsequent suicide in 1942 (which was hushed up by the family). It sheds a light on how depression was viewed back then. Indeed, people were expected to suck it up and deal...and either recover, be eternally miserable, or institutionalized. By the 1950's I think more inroads were being made in the mental health field, but it would take decades for the concept of "getting in touch with your feelings" to be seen as acceptable. Actually, I wonder if today we have a tendency to over-analyze everything and create more problems for ourselves. ;)<BR/><BR/>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080919.wmhmontgomery0920/BNStory/mentalhealthIBetsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06961949757283263982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-18900458852427179272009-01-07T09:39:00.000-08:002009-01-07T09:39:00.000-08:00i fixed the gap tee hee.i fixed the gap tee hee.50sgalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09250940806307766624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-86548439847932044802009-01-07T07:58:00.000-08:002009-01-07T07:58:00.000-08:00I posted this information in my response to your c...I posted this information in my response to your comment on my blog, but I thought I'd post it here, too, for anyone looking for the titles:<BR/><BR/>The book I gave away is actually part of a SERIES. (I loves series.) The whole thing is called, "The Homemaker's Encyclopedia." A link to someone's post showing the titles is here:<BR/><BR/>http://pleasantviewschoolhouse.blogspot.com/2007/01/vintage-heaven.html<BR/><BR/>RoxanneRoxannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05633120497088511282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6960946442922071473.post-64947927175161763382009-01-07T07:38:00.000-08:002009-01-07T07:38:00.000-08:00I apologize for the big gap at the end of the post...I apologize for the big gap at the end of the post. I don't know what happened. Maybe 1955 is becomeing more real and I am losing my computer savvy. Perhaps I will have to replace it with a giant wall sized comuter that whirs and spins and flashes lights and spits out punch cards!50sgalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09250940806307766624noreply@blogger.com