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Originally Posted by AlvaroLegido
CaliNative : If I remember well the posts on "Double indemnity", the Stanwyck house is still there in Glendale.
BTW, I was born too in 1952. I appreciated your wide comments.
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Thanks. We 1952 club members are special.
As kids we remember "Ike", Howdy Doody, the Davy Crockett coonskin cap mania, the Zorro mania, the hula hoop mania, the big tail fins on new cars mania, Edsels, Marilyn Monroe mania, the first frisbees which weren't called frisbees at the time, but "flying saucers", when our rockets almost always failed to launch and blew up, nuclear drop drills in school, monster and flying saucer movies with cheap special effects (except "Forbidden Planet" which still holds up), summer polio outbreaks that put kids in iron lungs and gave us nightmares until the Salk/Sabin vaccines came along, Khrushchev banging his shoes at the U.N. The ol' cold war.
Looks like we are going back to that era, with some extra horrific hot war in Ukraine (what would "Ike" do with Putin?). Return to noirish land, but with seemingly unending pandemics, homelessness, the internet, social media, texting and email, ipads with billions of times more computing power than anything in the '50s in our pocket. Noir2.0 Dystopia. Noir1.0 had more predictability and rules to it. This noirish era is more chaotic, without rules and thus scary. In WW2, we were united as one. Now we are cleaved into countless factions.