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Re: Why Cant things be the way they used to be???
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Posted by john d on March 27, 2004 at 19:21:30 from (152.163.252.227):
In Reply to: Why Cant things be the way they used to be??? posted by Tommy H on March 26, 2004 at 22:15:30:
Some of the problems you mention with the newer stuff is because things are engineered to last only for as long as the typical user will want them. If most people only keep a lawnmower for 5 years or so, that's about what they are built to last. Home construction? You likely couldn't afford to pay for a home built to today's codes using 1960's methods and materials. The labor costs would be staggering.
Having been in a couple of car wrecks when "men were men and bumpers were made of steel," well...I don't want another one, but if I have to, I'll take the plastic bumper and the air bag, thank you! If you ever had the pleasure of trying to stop a '56 Olds in a hurry from 70 mph before the brakes completely cooled off from a previous stop, you'd be happy to ride in today's cars. By the way, that Olds was a real cruiser, but 20 mpg was out of reach.
Somebody down the page mentioned POLIO. That and a bunch of other childhood diseases are no longer the threat they used to be. I was born in 1944. If antibiotics hadn't come along for my childhood, I certainly wouldn't be here.
Not everything new is an improvement, but I lived through the 60s. They weren't that much fun.
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