Haddonfield Today 147_2024May10

#147 • MAY 10 TO 31, 2024
The Word on the Street
A skirmish between reenactors
portraying British and Colonial
soldiers will take place on Kings
Highway on Sat Jun 1.
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Which period of American
history do you find most
interesting? And why?
This is a reprise of a previously
published Word on the Street.
FLORENCE WARNER
of Haddonfield
remembers the
1950s fondly. “It was
a prosperous time,”
she says. “People
were buying homes,
establishing families,
and listening to
Sinatra and Tony
Bennett on the radio.
As a country, we were
happier then.”
The music and movies
of the 1970s make
that period special for
ANTONNE JONES.
“It doesn’t get any
better than Motown
and ‘The Wiz’ with MJ,
Diana Ross, Nipsey
Russell, and Richard
Pryor,” he says.
Haddonfield’s
ERNIE VAN METER
wishes that “families
would still eat dinner
together and watch
TV together,” as in
the 1970s. “That’s
why family values
were stronger then,”
he says.
MITCH SPECTOR of
Cherry Hill looks back
nostagically at the 50s
“when a man dressed
in a suit and wore a
fedora as a matter of
course.” Unlike today,
Mitch says, “people
took pride in the way
they dressed.”
Cherry Hill’s
JOE AKINSKAS
has always been
intrigued by the way
the world was in the
late 1930s and early
40s. “A small number
of individuals made
critical decisions
that affected the
world order,” he says.
“Fortunately, the good
guys made good
decisions.”
“I agree with Oprah
Winfrey that, for
women, the second
half of the 20th
century was the best
time to live,” says
SUSAN BALTAKE
of Haddonfield.
“Before the late
60s, women had
hardly any rights
at all, especially
in property and
financial matters.”