I do this a lot with graveyards, too.

[chocolatepot]

The thing that always gets me with Mad Men - and a lot of historical fiction - is thinking about the everyday differences between the characters' childhoods and the present of the show. From the end of WWII to now there's obviously been a lot of social and technological change, but I cannot even imagine going from the '20s and '30s to the '50s. Completely different worlds and standards of living.

Especially with the older characters. Like Burt Cooper says about Ida Blankenship when she dies - "She was born in 1898 in a barn. She died on the 37th floor of a skyscraper. She was an astronaut." CANNOT IMAGINE.

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[lliira]

It's continually weird to me that our society has changed so little in the past thirty years. When I was a kid and teenager, I simply took it for granted that each decade would be substantially different from the previous one.

[chocolatepot]

I sometimes wonder if it's because we have so much documentation, especially film documentation, from recent decades. We're completely steeped in it, we can't get away from it.