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In reply to the discussion: Best rant on PC I have seen for awhile...long, but worth it. [View all]SheilaT
(23,156 posts)Elevators have been around well over a hundred years, and other than in NYC where 5 or 8 story walk-ups are apparently common, not many buildings over 4 floors are without elevators.
Even fifty or sixty years ago not very many jobs involved a lot of manual labor, and women were "protected" from a lot of these by discriminatory laws and regulations.
I started grade school in 1955, and by the time I was using a pen in fourth grade or so, NO ONE was using a fountain pen any more. By the mid-1950's street cars and trolley lines were being torn out in most cities, forcing people into cars. Kids could ride their bikes to school so long as school wasn't more than a mile or so away. I attended a rural central school in Northern New York State. I don't think it would be practical to ride a bike thirty or more miles to school each day.
A lot of schools were segregated, and everyone understood that "separate but equal" was total hogwash. Women often were denied jobs just because they were female, and would someday get married and get pregnant. As if all men stayed in their jobs from the day of hire to retirement some forty years later.
I really get tired of this sort of crap that implies people were somehow better back then, because they weren't. They were just as much a mix of good and bad as they are now.
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