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Podcast: The Strange History Podcast
Episode: Totally Normal in the 1960s: 25 Outrageous Everyday Things That Would Shock Us Now
Description: Step back into the rotary phone days with The Strange History Podcast as host Amy unpacks 25 things that were totally normal in the 1960s—but would raise serious eyebrows (and maybe legal action) today. From teachers with paddles and nuclear bomb drills in school, to doctors lighting cigarettes during house calls, this episode dives into the everyday absurdities of a decade where no one locked their doors and kids played on ten-foot steel slides over concrete. We’re talking silent home movies, community spankings, charm school, unpasteurized parenting, and enough cigarette smoke to form its own weather system. If you love...