having been born in 1948 i never knew about that part of it. only that i always preferd 7-up to the taste of colas. (spell check refuses to give me a past tense for prefer. is that weird or what?)
I have no photos obviously but remember the milkman and the coal man delivering with horse drawn vehicles. Late 50's probably. All the gardeners were ready with shovel and bucket on delivery days, my father included.
i worry about "conservatives" believing the lie, that rejecting civil rights and industrial safety, will bring back fifty cents hamburgers and fifty cents gallons of gas. it won't. those horses left the barn when their grand parents and great grand parents got back from world war two and started breeding like rabbits and created my generation by doing so. who are old enough to be grand parents and great grand parents now. and the few things that actually were good about the fifties, abundant public transportation and non-universality of building codes in rural areas, they don't seem to be even interested in at all. there is another thing, there were more places more rural simply because there were fewer people. and the only way to put that horse back in the barn is to lower the human birth rate. everyone does NOT have to breed another 'mini-me". oh i remember when there were "hobo jungles", where no one stopped the homeless from camping, instead of herding them into "shelters" to keep them out of sight and out of mind of the working poor. when real hippies built their own domes and zomes and tar paper shacks. and the houseboat colonies hadn't been confiscated and swept away either.
My Sanyo amp finally died, I think it's Sanyo. It won't hold a constant volume anymore, goes in and out. Really nice unit but It's old and back in the '80s my house got hit by ball lightening and blew it out. So I went to some electronics store and got a SAM data sheet for it and found it had a separate IC chip for each stereo amp. Ordered one amp, soldered it in and it worked for about another 36 years.