Today I was speaking to our painter about how our society is go, go, go and he started talking about how life was in the 1950′s.
It may sound like a bit of nostalgic but ne did make some interesting points.

Supermarkets didn’t exist so you purchased your fruit from the green grocer who often delivered freshly ripened fruit, so fresh and tasty that the peaches left an pleasant aroma in the air as he passed you in the street on his deliveries.
Even such things as Rock melons were apparently totally different to the variety we have today with the need for greater shelf life and transporation logistics requirring a more sophisticated fruit product when compared to this bygone era.

Bread wasn’t like eating a sponge covered in plastic wrap, it came striaght from the baker with less modified grains and different milling to the varieties we use today.

The average household comfortable paid off the house on a single income, no forms of instant communication so working outside the office just didn’t happen.

Less traffic on the road meant less pollution, less congestion and a safer environment for kids to get out on there bikes without the fear of being run over. With the advent of TV our painter remembers his older brother (12 years old) not getting home until 9.00pm as he was watching this new thing called TV from the window of a shop front, did the parents get stressed and worried, mmm, not really as kids often stayed out playing after dinner, no where to be seen.

Maybe just a case of nostalgia, or is there something to be said for living in the fifties.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 10:51 am by Andrew Talati and is filed under Health in general.

Tags: Health, Relaxation, Work/Life Balance

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