Hard to imagine this was just 5 years after WWII ended. Interesting glimpse into post-war life.

Scrolling down the list I checked this one out. Episode featuring Chester A's invention of the Rileyburger.
https://archive.org/download/life_of_riley_-_1x14_-_rileys_business_venture_agk/life_of_riley_-_1x14_-_rileys_business_venture_agk_512kb.mp4

A guy working in a shoe store was an expert in fitting shoes to growing kids feet, and could support a family on his wages.

I think the loss of being able to work a simple job and easily support oneself is at the root of so much unhappiness today. I enjoy seeing how it used to/should work.

When I was a kid most all the men in our neighborhood had factory jobs. The dads went to work and the moms were mostly at home. A guy two doors down sold vacuum cleaners at Sears and he was able to buy a nice modest home for his wife and son.everyone had a 3 bedroom ranch home less than 5 years old, there were other kids to play with too. But those days are long gone.

"days-in-a-daze". I was thinking of such things earlier when I stumbled upon a remark by Senator Mark Kelly in an interview —
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220716233
in which Kelly said "I'm an optimist.You know, I'm a guy who flew a spaceship built by the lowest bidder".

Made me feel a little better about things.

Billionaires hate income equality. They love to see a nation of haves and have nots.

What was once ordinary has become rare. A simple job done well can be personally rewarding; however, occupations that require skills and knowledge beyond the reach of people trying just to get by are more the norm anymore.

How it used to work indeed should still be attainable, affordable. The guy who was expert at helping kids have appropriate footwear could have confidence that his labor bore fruit.

for his hideous portrayal of Babe Ruth in The Babe Ruth Story (1948). For that matter, I can't forgive anyone associated with the movie or with Enterprise Studios, especially Bob Consodine, a well-known hack with Hearst Newspapers,who wrote the screenplay.

I'd wager the main reason Bendix was chosen for the role was his resemblance to the rotund Ruth of the 1930s and beyond, and his baseball fandom. (In WWII movies, he was always the guy who wondered how the Brooklyn Dodgers were doing as he sat in a foxhole somewhere in the southwest Pacific.)

review at IMDb —

"In Claire Hodgeson Ruth's fascinating book, "The Babe and I," about her famous husband, she is openly critical of the biopic, "The Babe Ruth Story." The film, according The Babe's widow, was rushed into production and on to the public in mid-1948, while Babe was still alive, although he was less than three months from death. It's easier to exploit a live man's life than a dead one's, Mrs. Ruth suggests. That's a primary reason why the production and everything associated with it was hurried. In the book, she also stated that she would forgo all royalties from the film's showings...if it were to be permanently shelved. It wasn't...but should have been. In fact, it never should have been done, if speed, indeed, were the primary motivation.

Babe Ruth was the greatest American sports hero ever...including those who followed him during the second half of the twentieth century. Babe deserved a much grander---and accurate---portrayal than this '48 laugher.

There were only two positive elements to the story..and both involved casting. Claire Trevor as the Babe's second wife, Claire, and Charles Bickford as Brother Matthias, were excellent choices. But selecting comic William Bendix for the title role was more than a case of poor casting; it was one that completely undermined both the film and its title character.

Through Bendix's portrayal, audiences see the "Sultan of Swat" as a buffoonish character. Someone who belongs in a cartoon. Not that Bendix didn't try his best. But he was miserably mis-cast. Mrs. Ruth, in her book, stated that she would like to have seen Paul Douglas portray her husband. Not only was Douglas an excellent actor, she said, but he had been an athlete in his youth. He easily could have handled the baseball scenes.

The whole tone of "The Babe Ruth Ruth" story was embarrassingly melodramatic. Again, The Babe deserved much better.

Haste makes waste, the saying goes. It certainly is true here."

Thank You for your reply.

At least, those who know sonething about Ruth, just to see how unbelievably bad it is. It's like a horror film buff should see Manos --the Hands of Fate or Plan 9 From Outer Space so they'll know how bad "bad" can be.

Funny, though, that Claire Ruth (his second wife) mentioned Paul Douglas for the lead. I had the same thought, but I've seen him in only a couple of things -- notably, It Happens Every Spring, a baseball comedy starring Ray Milland -- so I don't know much aboutt his acting chops, just that he could pull it off appearance-wise.

And glossed over all kinds of “stuff”.

I was given a copy for my Bar Mitzvah by a friend.

the guy who ghosted Ty Cobb's autobiography, My Life in Baseball -- the True Record, followed by Cobb, which was a bunch of bullshit to make a few bucks, and led to the movie with Tommy Lee Jones that was just as sensationalized. Stump, like Consodine, was a prolific writer unencumbered by facts.

No one has mentioned his name for decades in my circle of acquaintances.

and also an analysis of Stump's book, which had background information on him as a writer. I've seen the movie a few times, too.