Funny! And this certainly IS the "talking age". When I was little - not yet 10, probably - I wanted to be a telephone operator when I grew up. My dad, who at that time was still with the phone company, ruffled my hair and told me that when I grew up they probably wouldn't even HAVE operators. That was in the late 40s. (I was born in '42.)
Interesting: the machine age 30s, in the midst of world wide depression, along come new style glamour and the futurists both positive and downright scary. I wonder what they'd make of us.
P.S. to Lady Anne: I wanted to be a milliner and/or costumer. My grandfather said women don't wear hats any more, and my mother had fits over 'theatre people'.
Funny! And this certainly IS the "talking age". When I was little - not yet 10, probably - I wanted to be a telephone operator when I grew up. My dad, who at that time was still with the phone company, ruffled my hair and told me that when I grew up they probably wouldn't even HAVE operators. That was in the late 40s. (I was born in '42.)
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ReplyDeleteInteresting: the machine age 30s, in the midst of world wide depression, along come new style glamour and the futurists both positive and downright scary. I wonder what they'd make of us.
ReplyDeleteP.S. to Lady Anne: I wanted to be a milliner and/or costumer. My grandfather said women don't wear hats any more, and my mother had fits over 'theatre people'.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what jobs we take for granted today will no longer exist by 2031?
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