There was a time...

I was going through Youtube videos of the 1950's TV show "What's My Line". One of the segments on the show involved the panel being blindfolded and having to play 20 questions to guest the identity of the celebrity guest. It made me think about how different popular culture is today.....

There was a time when to be a movie star you had to be versatile and have real talent beyond your physical appearance... The Golden age of Hollywood produced some of the most iconic actors and actresses ever...Clark Gable, James Cagney, Robert Mitchum, Lauren Bacall, Bette Davis, Jane Russell and the list goes on...When one of these artists gave you a peek into their private lives, it was an honour and a privilege, not a right and expected. I think the fact that their personal lives were kept hidden helped to add to the mystique...This also extended into the music world of the Jazz and Big Band greats.....

There was a time when folks would never have dreamed of walking out of their houses poorly dressed. Grace and etiquette were the watchwords of the day. Politeness and respect were demanded and expected. Where did that concept go? A time when Vegas and burlesque were the only places that dealt in the vulgar and the risqué. A time when women were ok with being referred to as Mrs. and saw it as a show of respect instead of an insult.

Not to say that the world of the early 20th century was all rainbows and lollipops but there was a decency that is sorely missing from the world of the 21 century.  Although we have made great strides in science, technology and human rights, we as a society lost something along the way and we didn't know it was leaving until it was already gone.

Because There Was a Time.....

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Coming Back to this Blog

I think I may have started and stopped working on this blog 3 maybe 4 times. Life gets hectic. Sometimes too hectic. So the blog gets relegated to the backburner. Then you rediscover it and read your posts and think wow! Did I write that? It gives you inspiration, hope that maybe with a little time you could make this work.

It is armed with this hope I will resurrect this blog and see if I can make something useful and entertaining from it.