The fifties dad

Elvis on a valve wireless, an FJ Holden on the gravel, and Meccano spread across the kitchen table.

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The silent generation · born mid-1930s to mid-1940s · a teenager in the 1950s · in his eighty or ninety now

Or by how old Dad is now: dads in their eighties

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