To all the folks for whom RU-vid has painted an idyllic picture of the past - I'm sure there were people in 1950 claiming that 1880 was the good old days and there will be people in 2090 claiming 2020 was the good old days.
This is as close as weee gonna get to time traveling. So interesting to see what what they were seeing 70 years life was completely different back then. Would love to explore that world
Except for the film of the General deboarding the plane and the references to him you'd NEVER know this NEWSCAST was reporting at the height of the KOREAN WAR, where hostilities wouldn't cease until a year later in 1953.
"Rocket Ride Time...time to get aboard an Oldsmobile." Can you imagine one of today's newscasters cutting to a commercial like that? Oh, and did you notice the pack of Pall Mall cigarettes directly in front of the microphone?
$12000 homes but you needed 50% down! GI Bill covered 30% of mortgage so you might need about $2400 to get into a house (about 1/2 a yr avg income then.) I was born in 1952 and later as an adult my first home cost $110,000 in 1990. To keep up with that inflation homes today would have to cost around 1.2 million avg! so dont complain too much please!
Interesting to watch. I used to listen to Douglas Edwards report the evening news on CBS Radio in the 70s. Seeing this it makes me think how much a corporation like General Motors would have held sway over how things were reported. He even said the name Oldsmobile almost seamlessly with the news. Paul Harvey used to do that. That music. All I can say is I’m glad rock n roll came along a few years later.
US television was miles ahead with TV news than in Britain - in 1950 there was no British television news program as such, just a Television Newsreel which was non topical. Radio was where the British got their news each day in 1952. Eventually a British TV news program launched in 1954, but in vision newscasters wasn't seen until 1955
