Is There Anything From 100 Years Ago In The United States That You Would Want To See Return Today?

[Sunrising]

One hundred years ago daily life in the United States included several laws, social norms, and technologies that have completed disappeared or changed.

National Prohibition Enforcement made the selling or transporting alcoholic beverages completely illegal nationwide.

There was a Speakeasy Culture to drink alcohol people had to visit hidden underground bars called speakeasies often disguised behind bookstores or bakery fronts, where patrons had to whisper or "speak easy" to gain entry.

People Watched Silent and Black and White Cinema with title cards for dialogue and live piano or organ.

Mail and medicine and long distance communication and urgent packages relied on trains, trucks, or primitive open-cockpit airmail planes, rather than modern freight networks.

Gasoline was bought in cans from drugstores, pharmacies, or general stores.

Smoking indoors was unregulated and coal stoves were used for cooking.

Primitive vehicles lacked safety equipment, and medical care operated with limited antibiotics, and high surgical risks.

The American population nearly half lived in rural areas, and a massive portion of homes still lacked indoor plumbing or electrical power.

Is there anything you would like to see return?

What is your opinion?

A. There was nothing better 100 years ago in the United States.

B. There were somethings better 100 years ago in the United States.

C. Something else.

Updates

5 d

Are you amazed we have come so far in a relatively short period of time?

Would you want to go back in time to this period?

I certainly would not!

[Miristheiss]

The decency laws we had. Porn and degeneracy everywhere, women walking around in thongs, mostly naked, most films have people acting out sex scenes.

I would like to go back to not having over the counter birth control. The total degeneracy of todays society is destroying the west.

Not having total suffrage. People that vote need to have stake in the country, be a producer, contribute. Teens who do not know shit and are entitled, selfish, produce nothing shouldn't vote. Parasites who produce nothing but taking services shouldn't be voting to take more for themselves from the producing class. Voting should be at 25 or one must work and pay taxes 5 years before they start voting. If you do not work, no taxes or you are 18 living at home you shouldn't direct the geopolitical direction of society.

[Miristheiss]

One more, the USA was a more homogeneous society and culture. The nation was more unified. This nation and culture was built here by Europeans and after European cultures and Enlightenment Ideals.

• (Johnson-Reed Act) drastically cut total arrivals by setting strict national-origin quotas (capped at 2% of each nationality's U. S. population as of the 1890 census).
• This law nearly halted mass immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe and completely banned Asian immigration.
• As a result, the foreign-born share of the U. S. population dropped from roughly 13%–15% down to under 5% by 1970.

The 1965 Immigration Act that opened the USA to mass immigration to the entire world and greatly shifted how much of our population is foreign born is a disaster.

Many have been believed propaganda that "diversity is our strength", which is a platitude that is ridiculous.

It is impossible to take a unified society and dump millions with different languages, cultures, values, faiths and traditions together without division and tribalism ensuing. Common sense.

[OlderAndWiser]

Many of those "primitive" cars are still in existence and traversing our streets. I'm not so sure that any of the contemporary cars will survive and be in use 100 years from now.

[Paige2006]

Many people from 100 years ago (the mid-1920s) experienced a slower pace of community life, distinct art and music scenes, and simpler daily interactions that some might welcome back today.//

[Kelley1]

We have 80% less freedom and 20 times more taxes than we did 100 years ago.

[NathanDavis]

I was going to say better, healthier food...

but then I remembered that back in the 1920's they used lead and arsenic on the crops... lmao

[MrChinaski]

And radium in their energy drinks.

[NathanDavis]

@MrChinaski which... were cocaine drinks already

[KostasKouvalis]

Job searching methods, because there's too much competition now. I miss the old days before internet when you had to walk around to find a job and it was first come first serve and there were no bullshit applications, resumes, interviews or degrees

[DonaldDarko]

Love of freedom , small government respect for property rights love of our country our original demographic groups. Legacy Americans only.

[lightbulb27]

I'd like to see a return to coffee shop conversations.

[exitseven]

prices were a lot lower back then. Other than that, it was a barbaric era.

[Anonymous]

Women's freedom has come a long way since. Let's not go turning back the clock there. Very little was better back then in any aspect.

[queenofcardio]

Nothing comes to mind

[Anonymous]

Spanish Flu.