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Kathy Salkin <[log in to unmask]>
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St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
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Mon, 23 Sep 2002 09:52:41 -0400
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I think they were from Tenn, I can't remember.  I do remember they were a
couple who'd been married before and this was the second (or so) marriage for
both of them.  The Brady Bunch they weren't.

No, I didn't see the "attack" in Dayton.  Did they get (or scare) any innocent
victims?

Kat

On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 09:45:20 -0400 "Cleveland, Kyle E."
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I think the series ran twice.  We watched the
> entire run the first time
> around (about a year ago, I think).  I was
> surprised that the California
> "yuppies" had such a major transformation,
> while the family from Tenn. (whom
> I thought would do the best) really came
> unravelled.  Kat, are they the
> folks that split?  I remember the lady in that
> family as being fairly petty
> and mean-spirited toward her husband.
>
> -Kyle
>
> (Good to be back in the "world" after a week's
> worth of simulations and
> exercises.  Anybody see the Marines "attack"
> Dayton, OH on CNN?  I heard CNN
> were covering the "festivities", but we didn't
> have access to regular
> media.)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kathy Salkin
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 9:37 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: To Put Things in Perspective...A
> Hundred Years Ago...
>
>
> Saw an episode at a friend's house one evening,
> it was rather interesting.
> Of
> course, it wasn't "really real," but it was as
> close as one could get to
> history in this day and age.  However, I found
> it doubly interesting when I
> heard later that the stress of living without
> modern conveniences drove one
> couple to separate. Which is an option our
> ancestors didn't have, or chose
> not
> to take because of society's censure.
>
> Kat
>
> On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 08:16:52 -0400 "Barber,
> Kenneth L."
> wrote:
>
> > Never heard of it.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Elizabeth H. Thiers
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 7:13 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: To Put Things in Perspective...A
> > Hundred Years Ago...
> >
> > Finally got to this.  Has anyone watched the
> > PBS shows Frontier House or
> > 1900 House.  It's where they take people and
> > place them in the world of the
> > turn of the last century.  Frontier House is
> > set in the American Frontier
> > time and 1900 House is set in 1900 England.
> If
> > you ever hear of people
> > talking about the good old days, have them
> > watch those shows.
> >
> > beth T. the OT
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: St. John's University Cerebral Palsy
> List
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf
> > Of Kathy Salkin
> > Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 3:15 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: To Put Things in Perspective...A
> > Hundred Years Ago...
> >
> >
> > A Hundred Years Ago..
> >
> > ..The average life expectancy in the United
> > States was forty-seven.
> >
> > ..Only 14 percent of the homes in the United
> > States had a bathtub.
> >
> > ..Only 8 percent of the homes had a
> telephone.
> > A three-minute call from
> > Denver
> > to New York City cost eleven dollars.
> >
> > ..There were only 8,000 cars in the US and
> only
> > 144 miles of paved roads.
> > The
> > maximum speed limit in most cities was ten
> mph.
> >
> > ..Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee
> > were each more heavily populated
> > than California. With a mere 1.4 million
> > residents, California was only the
> > twenty-first most populous state in the
> Union.
> >
> > ..The tallest structure in the world was the
> > Eiffel Tower.
> >
> > ..The average wage in the US was twenty-two
> > cents an hour. The average US
> > worker made between $200 and $400 per year.
> >
> > ..A competent accountant could expect to earn
> > $2000 per year, a dentist
> > $2500
> > per year, a veterinarian between $1500 and
> > $4000 per year, and a mechanical
> > engineer about $5000 per year.
> >
> > ..More than 95 percent of all births in the
> > United States took place at
> > home.
> >
> > ..Ninety percent of all US physicians had no
> > college education. Instead,
> > they
> > attended medical schools, many of which were
> > condemned in the press and by
> > the
> > government as "substandard."
> >
> > ..Sugar cost four cents a pound. Eggs were
> > fourteen cents a dozen. Coffee
> > cost
> > fifteen cents a pound.
> >
> > ..Most women only washed their hair once a
> > month and used borax or egg yolks
> > for shampoo.
> >
> > ..Canada passed a law prohibiting poor people
> > from entering the country for
> > any reason, either as travelers or
> immigrants.
> >
> > ..The five leading causes of death in the US
> > were: 1. Pneumonia and
> > influenza,
> > 2. Tuberculosis, 3. Diarrhea, 4. Heart
> disease,
> > 5. Stroke.
> >
> > ..The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona,
> > Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii and
> > Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet.
> >
> > ..Drive-by shootings -- in which teenage boys
> > galloped down the street on
> > horses and started randomly shooting at
> houses,
> > carriages, or anything else
> > that caught their fancy -- were an
> > ongoing problem in Denver and other cities in
> > the West.
> >
> > ..The population of Las Vegas, Nevada was
> > thirty. The remote desert
> > community
> > was inhabited by only a handful of ranchers
> and
> > their families.
> >
> > ..Plutonium, insulin, and antibiotics hadn't
> > been discovered yet. Scotch
> > tape,
> > crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea
> > hadn't been invented.
> >
> > ..There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
> >
> > ..One in ten US adults couldn't read or
> write.
> > Only 6 percent of all
> > Americans
> > had graduated from high school.
> >
> > ..Some medical authorities warned that
> > professional seamstresses were apt to
> > become sexually aroused by the steady rhythm,
> > hour after hour, of the sewing
> > machine's foot pedals. They recommended
> > slipping bromide-which was thought
> > to
> > diminish sexual desire-into the women's
> > drinking water.
> >
> > ..Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all
> > available over the counter at
> > corner drugstores. According to one
> pharmacist,
> > "Heroin clears the
> > complexion,
> > gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the
> > stomach and the bowels, and is, in
> > fact, a
> > perfect guardian of health."
> >
> > ..Coca-Cola contained cocaine instead of
> > caffeine.
> >
> > ..Punch-card data processing had recently
> been
> > developed, and early
> > predecessors of the modern computer were used
> > for the first time by the
> > government to help compile the 1900 census.
> >
> > ..Eighteen percent of households in the
> United
> > States had at least one
> > full-time servant or domestic.
> >
> > ..There were about 230 reported murders in
> the
> > US
> > annually.
> >
> >
> > NOTE:  Upon reflection, I'm glad I'm living
> now
> > and not a hundred years ago.
> >
>

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