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It takes all kinds...and that would be just the type of people I would go out of my way to shock a little.
posted by
adnohr
on January 31, 2015 at 2:22 AM
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That sounds a bit nostalgic. That's why I moved from my hometown, it lost the charm.
posted by
Vermont01
on January 30, 2015 at 6:33 PM
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I remember my mom would always dress the five girls in identical outfits. I don't think she ever bought any outfits if she could that didn't have all five sizes. It was rare especially with one of my younger sisters being so frigging skinny.
posted by
Annicita
on January 30, 2015 at 5:12 PM
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speaking of foundation garments...This post makes me think of my (deaf) grandmother (thinking she is) whispering to me upon seeing a chubby girl with her chub showing in rolls under her shirt, "look that, she should wear corset."
posted by
Gheeghee
on January 30, 2015 at 3:31 PM
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This placce here where i actually have never found a local woman that I want to talk to is suspicious of strangers to the 5th generation.
I grew up in a snooty are. There were farmers and then there were "Those" who worked for a farmer and then therre were people who worked at the port...!!!! They were the bottom feeders. BUT amongst the farmers there were good... and the others ....AND then there were the Germans. Usually very successful and wealthy BUT never reaslly socially acceptable....Funny isn't it all. We all get up and go to the toilet!
posted by
Kabu
on January 30, 2015 at 1:31 PM
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Aah, nostalgia! What would we do without it? And the only thing I remember from 1960 is being born. At least, I think I remember it . . . 
posted by
JimmyA
on January 30, 2015 at 12:30 PM
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Pat_B
All small towns everywhere are like that, just like the new kid in a small school will still be the new kid when the class graduates even when that kid arrived when they were all in the third grade.....it's group dynamic/mentality at work. I've experienced and observed it so many times. My mom moved to this town I live in now after my dad died, she was 54; she's really always been an outsider even after 33 years. It's a small German town that is only slowly opening up to change.
We have a great laundromat in a town about 20 miles from here....I take rugs and comfortors there for the commercial machines. It was a wonder to me the first time I went there. It is bright and shiny....clean bathrooms, an attendant on duty who can give you change or help you with folding, etc....amenities, snack machines...green plants. And there are lots of cowboys, winter Texans, and vacationers so the clientele is quite diverse and people-watching there is very entertaining!
posted by
Krisles
on January 30, 2015 at 9:32 AM
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Pat
Remembering the 'olden days' fondly and looking with mild disdain on the ones 'from away' appears to be a more or less universal phenomenon! And I too have never thought of MacD's or Burger King as an improvement of any cityscape...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 30, 2015 at 7:18 AM
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laundromats are a dying breed.....
The closest one to me is over 10 miles away......when I gutted the interior of the house I bought next door....i had to go several times until my laundry room was finished. They have really changed.
The signs are printed with Spanish being the top printing and English is in smaller letters underneath. The second largest segment of the clientele is obviously divorced men......It was an experience....I'm sure I was stereotyped in with the divorced men.....being a widower and all. 
The other oddity.....almost zero kids running about.....
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on January 30, 2015 at 7:10 AM
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