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watching this as a kid long ago, i always envisioned an alternate variation of this 1st series intro where that wooden see saw would SNAP ! as they played on it...
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grandma was an ape...
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I wonder if they ever fucked each other in that house.
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Of course it wasn't a golden time. It was the Depression. My parents were born shortly before it and they certainly didn't live idyllic lives. But this is a TV show. No need to get all worked up about it. And I have to add, my grandparents and parents made it through the Depression just fine, by pulling together and never losing hope. Just like on the TV show.
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Miss Michael Learned is SO beautiful at 0:57.
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back then, people stuck together no matter how hard things were in the depression. Today, FORGET IT!!!!! nobody helps you. even family doesnt stick with you. Even in this recession, noone will help you.
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@catchersmitt0 I would agree with most of what you say, but take exception to the music comment. Big Band was mostly a 1940's thing -the 1930's had some of the greatest jazz legends ever who were polishing their craft that they'd begun in the 1920's. This music has stood the test of time - really amazing stuff. I wasn't raised during either era, but I'd rather listen to 30's jazz than today's music. No hardship there -It was after all, the backbone of modern rock :)



My history teacher, who happened to be an atheist, in high school stated that if we ever had a depression as great as the one in the 1930's we would suffer a'lot more because back then people had morals and families stuck together through hard times unlike today. remember, this was coming from an atheist.
Mikeyboy609 2 years ago 26
It wasn't a golden time... there was no TV. No antibiotics. Polio was a great summer terror. People had to listen to big band music. There was still Jim Crow laws with racism and lynchings. On the other hand, the US government hadn't yet sold us out to lobbyists, corporations, pollution, the military, drugs. People ad guns because they actually needed them, not as surrogates for patience, maturity, success.
catchersmitt0 1 year ago 10