Originally Posted by pookie ookie
Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
It was before my time, and apparently the author's as well, but polio shut everything down.
I'm 48 and remember it well. When something is before your time, you really don't understand. Polio did NOT shut everything down (were you watching the Walton's on TV?). We were vaccinated. They lined everyone up in schools. Most of us also had smallpox vaccinations, were tested for TB, etc.
Oh yeah, party-line telephones (my MIL was still on a party-line into the early 1990's), only 3 TV stations, imaginative playing outside... the list goes on. Some pro some con.