Jack7
First Post
A couple of months back my youngest daughter was in a church play. Part of the play involved a scene concerning a mention of the Lone Ranger. Most of the kids didn't know who that was. I was shocked, but it was true.
This got me to thinking. When I was a kid almost everyone (in my country anyways) watched and read and listened to the same things. So we all "shared" a basic cultural education. As a result I decided to get some old TV shows and some old music and share it with my kids. So during breakfast and lunch we've been watching old shows and listening to music I either already have or can rent or borrow from the library. We've been watching Kung Fu and Daniel Boone and Wild, Wild West and Star Trek. And in the future I plan to have them watch Emergency and Mission Impossible and Dragnet and the Lone Ranger and Monty Python and Gunsmoke and stuff like that. But I'm sure there's a lot I have forgotten too.
So if you guys have some suggestions for what they should watch and listen to and read to have the same basic cultural education I had growing up I'd be glad to hear your suggestions.
I'm primarily interested in Old TV shows, Movies, Music, Radio Programs and Books we read as kids from the fifties, sixties, seventies, and maybe some from the eighties. So they can see what the basic culture of TV, cartoons, radio, books, and movies were like in those time periods.
So if you have some suggestions then let em fly.
I'll listen.
This got me to thinking. When I was a kid almost everyone (in my country anyways) watched and read and listened to the same things. So we all "shared" a basic cultural education. As a result I decided to get some old TV shows and some old music and share it with my kids. So during breakfast and lunch we've been watching old shows and listening to music I either already have or can rent or borrow from the library. We've been watching Kung Fu and Daniel Boone and Wild, Wild West and Star Trek. And in the future I plan to have them watch Emergency and Mission Impossible and Dragnet and the Lone Ranger and Monty Python and Gunsmoke and stuff like that. But I'm sure there's a lot I have forgotten too.
So if you guys have some suggestions for what they should watch and listen to and read to have the same basic cultural education I had growing up I'd be glad to hear your suggestions.
I'm primarily interested in Old TV shows, Movies, Music, Radio Programs and Books we read as kids from the fifties, sixties, seventies, and maybe some from the eighties. So they can see what the basic culture of TV, cartoons, radio, books, and movies were like in those time periods.
So if you have some suggestions then let em fly.
I'll listen.
