He Reveals What 1950s Men Thought & Did

so young and when I see people just go with the flow of their lives, just letting things go, it gets to me, I guess you know. and that's why those guys showed up to me in those days, they just didn't care, you know, they

thought

they were going to live off someone else and God forbid you ever give in to them and give them something and then you'll never get rid of them . - they just cling on, you know

what

I mean, like leeches and I just couldn't understand it. I guess, like I say, I was born in a different time when things were different, people were different and even from that time, the '60s to today, people have changed a lot more than they did in the '60s.

I feel like they haven't. HE. I see this on the street all day with those who drive the taxi and all the people are not considerate that day. they used to be and that's another thing those kids in the '60s they didn't they weren't considered in a long time in many cases they didn't care

what

happened to you it seemed to me that they were some of them they were so real so sweet that I couldn't believe them. I didn't know if it was an act or what you know, but the moment you crossed him, I discovered one thing the moment you crossed their minds with something like they were acting ultra sweet. something you know, oh poor man, or something, you know they would come if you did something to disrupt their routine, you could see the ugliness in some of them, you know it was amazing, but it's not like I'm a great judge of people, but somewhere in their mind they had a lot of ugliness, not all of it, but a lot of it, and I don't know if they were different, it just affected me, as I say, because me and all my friends were working hard, people younger than me at that time, In fact, relatives and friends and we were like they say we were busting our hump trying to keep up with things, you know, keeping the rent paid, food on the table, clothes on the kids' backs, sending them to school the He sends on his projects, his excursions and has money for all these things, then he has a little money left over at the end of the week to take his wife to a club or to the movies or something he knows, so that his life is not like that . really disappointing, at least you got something out of it you know, but you had to work.

I mean, there was just no way around it, but I remember one incident at Georgetown, they told the kids that they were back in the '60s too. They didn't like the way they dressed, they were sloppy and everything, so they told him they were going to have to wear jackets and ties to class, a sport coat or a suit or something, so the kids wanted to rebel but they didn't know. as. to do it, so he did it, they dressed very well and what they did they didn't wear socks. I

thought

it was funny to me in a way, I thought it was funny, that was his way of rebelling, but that was a general way of rebelling.

I can agree with that because it had some humor and they weren't bad kids, you know, they were pretty decent kids, but they had to find a way to make a statement and that was not wearing socks and I don't know what happened to that regulation as it was, but I think when you get older you become a little more cautious anyway, more so than when you're young, because when you're young you know that you don't think about a lot of things that do it, you know, it's spontaneous, but When you get older, you think about things a little more, you become a little cautious and you're not going to jump into something very quickly without thinking about it.

I guess that made me that way. I mean, I became a little more conservative as time went on and I think everyone does, everyone goes from being a Democrat to being a Republican when you get older, it always seems like that, who everyone talked to When I was young, everyone was a Democrat, now they find out that half the people I know now are Republicans, I don't know why, but that's how things work now. My father once told me: I will never forget this as long as I live. He doesn't like reformers or what he used to call them.

He is a benefactor in office, he is calm, benefactors, I said why daddy, he is because every time they take office it seems that all business goes, nothing that happens in business makes it difficult for a man to operate and do business, then he would lie and you know, add something else. He said: I just want a man in office that he can get to. He said that's the American system, he says he, and that system works and it's good to poop. What I would say, you can't be. Seriously, you know he was for ideals, yeah he was going to fix the world now since you can't be serious.

When you are older, you will understand what I am saying, and as I grew older, I began to understand what my father had said. and it kinda made sense, I mean, I still can't stand a guy saying he'd just be stealing, you know, I mean a politician and all that, but it seems to work in a sense, that system of yours. Take care of me, I will take care of you and I will miss that in each other, like in New York, many years ago. I used to have what they used to call the neighborhood healer.

In every neighborhood in New York City there was a guy I used to go to. With all his problems, he would get them jobs, he would get their health care, he would get their food and everything was fine. When Lindsay became mayor there and many years ago she eliminated that whole system and now what happened was they all fell. to City Hall to get what they needed and City Hall couldn't handle it so they cleaned it up, you know, they cut off their left arm saying what's the older version, they cut off their nose despite their face and that's what happens, I just don't like it. to be really liberal I don't like to be really conservative I like a dead end in the middle you know moderate I guess that's the best word to use I don't like crowds in the first place I mean after working on the street all day For a long time time smelling these gas fumes and arguing with people about the fair and the taxi and the spoiled children breathing my face with colds and give me the cold I have things like it is when I get home at night, believe me, I close the door and stay .

There the only way to know anything about the outside world today is what I see on television with the news programs and the documentaries that I watch.