If someone from the 1950s suddenly appeared, what would be the mot difficult thing to explain?

[Cleita]

154. I was born in 1940 and lived through WWII, post war, the Korean war and I was

ages 11 to 19 in the fifties, in other words I would have fit into the Anderson family, (Father Knows Best) if my family had been such a generic fifties family. They weren't. Actually very few were but it was an ideal that white fifties families believed they could achieve. I started noticing things going awry around 1970 economically, not war wise and civil rights wise, so I would have him die by 1975. We were still five years away from institutionalized and accepted homelessness then too. That actually was my very first real shock that things were going bad. It's when I walked out the door one day to find ragged people walking around with shopping bags, talking and screaming to themselves and sleeping on the streets. I remember saying to my husband, "Have we become Calcutta?" Then, I thought this situation would be fixed soon enough. I'm still waiting 33 years later.