Much as I like Mike Cox’s books, I can’t resist skewering his paean to the 1950s:
“…so many of us who were there tend to look back at the 1950s as an idyllic time. You know. Safe streets. No TAKS tests or whatever they’re called now. Homemade Halloween candy. Life in the suburbs, at least in Austin, Texas, USA was generally good.”
Yep. Back when women, the minorities, the gays and the disabled knew their place. And it wasn’t in your face. And the bums that now stand begging on every street corner were rousted and told to move along.
But even some of us white males felt stultified and repressed.
Via Texas BookShelf.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 