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I watched "Apollo 10 1/2" recently. It's about what life in America was like in the late 1960s.

One thing is that mom cooked all the meals. People rarely ate out. I know that was true in my family at the time. Eating out was a major, major treat. Entertainment was going out the door and joining up with the neighborhood kids. The house was tiny.

It all was perfectly normal.

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People rarely ate out because most people were single income families and there was one adult that had time for food preparation. Today prepared foods and eating out are a necessity rather then a convenience for most couples.

Food has also gotten much cheaper relative to what it was in the 1970’s. Some would argue that it has also reduced in quality.

Yeah, I rode in the back of a pickup with my friends on the freeway, too. No seats, no seatbelts. Nobody thought anything of it. It was fun, too.

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