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Remember having to go to the post office to get an income tax form that you just discovered you needed?

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a lot of things like what is mentioned in the above 3 posts are better today
but imo not everything about the modern world is better
I've lived in the burbs a very long time now
I used to feel the burbs were a safe and calm and pleasant place to live
not anymore, not by a longshot
lots of crime, lots of homeless here - I wouldn't want my wife to walk around alone at night here
the burbs in the DC area now are so congested it's kinna ridiculous to think of them as burbs - they're really small cities

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It's hard to imagine there weren't still predators snatching kids out of quiet neighborhoods just as much as today. At least as long as decent running cars have existed. I'm not sure why there would be fewer then. Not so easily publicized instantly as today. Your picture went on a milk carton. And maybe you were never heard from again.
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well, that's true
but the population of the burb I live in has probably quadrupled in the last 40
I would guess maybe 6 times as many bad actors - there used to be ZERO homeless here

and the square footage of the burb has not increased




I remember - 1975 - 2 little girls ages 10 and 12 - the Lyons sisters - disappeared from Kensington, Maryland

I was one of hundreds who went searching for them

it was front page news for weeks - everybody was talking about it - everywhere

today, if 2 little girls disappeared from Kensington, MD - it would make the news but only back pages

the news Gods - The Masters of the Universe - would not consider it to be a big story

it would disappear from view very quickly
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I used to think there were safer times in America, but after I saw the movie "Changeling" starring Angelina Jolie, I realized that horrific crimes like the Wineville Chicken Coop murders have been going on for a long time.

There used to be a lot more bowling on television. Not just pro bowlers, but a bowling game show: Bowling for Dollars! That show was compelling because the participants weren't professionals, so you never knew how'd they do. It was exciting when they had a good run of strikes.

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There used to be a lot more bowling on television. Not just pro bowlers, but a bowling game show: Bowling for Dollars! That show was compelling because the participants weren't professionals, so you never knew how'd they do. It was exciting when they had a good run of strikes.
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The host of the one in Pittsburgh fixed the daily lottery number.

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The other chore with early black & white TV's is regular trips to steady the vertical hold button or horizontal hold. Or maybe we just had the cheapest TVs in my house.
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The ending of The Sopranos would have been great if a couple of horizontal problems popped up a few minutes in and progressively got worse.

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there wasn't a lot of sports events on TV back in the day...MLB iirc - there was very little until the World Series came - I don't ever remember watching my team - the Washington Senators on TV you had to physically go to the game to see them.

Interesting; I was raised in northern NJ, not far from NYC, and I recall many, many nights my dad would watch the Yankees on the tube.

Not sure which channel broadcast them, could have been channel 9, WOR (?), but perhaps because the market was bigger we got games during midweek, IIRC.

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there wasn't a lot of sports events on TV back in the day...MLB iirc - there was very little until the World Series came - I don't ever remember watching my team - the Washington Senators on TV you had to physically go to the game to see them.

Interesting; I was raised in northern NJ, not far from NYC, and I recall many, many nights my dad would watch the Yankees on the tube.

Not sure which channel broadcast them, could have been channel 9, WOR (?), but perhaps because the market was bigger we got games during midweek, IIRC.
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The Yankees used to broadcast about half their home games and less of their road games in the early 1960s. In the late 60s to the 80s, Channel 11 showed the Yankees and Channel 9 had the Mets. By 1976, most Yankee games were televised except West Coast night games.
NBC had the Saturday afternoon Game of the Week, and the All-Star Game, and World Series. The first WS game at night wasn't until the early 1970s

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The other chore with early black & white TV's is regular trips to steady the vertical hold button or horizontal hold. Or maybe we just had the cheapest TVs in my house.
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Growing up in a TV repair shop, a ridiculous number of problems were solved by washing dust and cigarette tar out of the control innards with electronics cleaner spray.

Tuned circuits are prone to misbehave when afflicted by certain common contaminants. Modern circuits are sealed to prevent them from getting in.

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Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury -


# of violent crimes in the U.S. per 100,000 people - per Wiki:


1960________160.9

2018________368.9


Your Honor_______________I rest my case.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#:~:text=The%20homicide%20rate%20has%20been,and%20its%20peak%20in%201991.


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