To those DU'ers who lived through the "Golden Age of Capitalism" (1940s to 1970s)-some questions...

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31. If a person thinks it is golden they are probably white, middle class

I recall the family getting a second car. That was big in the early 70s. Mom stayed at home was very common; mine did though she did some part time or temp work. Dad had a job with the same company and promotions and longer vacations the more years he had. I remember him talking about taking his vacation time. It got up to 6 weeks! He retired from the same company.

We walked to school - all schools were close enough. There the students were all white, except one African American family, one or two Asian families and one Jewish family. We went to school with the same people, who lived in our neighborhood. We belonged to the pool swim club in summer, a place we could walk to.

After I left school, the area had busing for school desegregation. The state was found guilty of de facto segregation.

We thought we were not wealthy, because we knew of other people who had more. Now I look back on it, we were very lucky indeed. We had braces, dancing lessons, etc. The public schools were good. We were sent to college, which was not unduly expensive, though I had student loans, but they were low interest and in the end only $2500 for college that I had to pay off.