Timeline 191 - Patman Addresses Joint Session of Texas Congress
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I'm afraid that you got me on that one?
Anyway, I'm afraid that writing an outline concerning what life in the 191 version of the United States would be like during the 1950s, 60s, 70s & 80s is a little more entailed than I originally thought, but should have something completed within the next week or so.
BTW, did you ever happen to see a BBC documentary series titled "The World at War" (OTL)? In my opinion it is probably the best documentary series on WWII ever made, and it is kind of what I was envisioning when I posted my earlier topic "The Third Mexican Republic & the Repatriation of Sonora and Chihuahua". Anyway, I was imagining a narrator describing various historical events as old newsreel footage is being shown on the television screen.
Wouldn't it be cool if someone with a lot of video editing skills made a historical documentary set in the 191 universe during the postwar period? Anyway, it won't be me because I have zero video editing skills, and the best I can do is to post a bunch of random gibberish and then ask people to use their imaginations to picture it in their own heads. Ah well, maybe it's more fun that way.
I'm now writing about US latch key-children of the early 1950s who are raised in an unsupervised manner, due to the fact that both parents are working, or perhaps their father was killed in the war. Later on in the 1950s these children become teenage juvenile delinquents (think of the 1950s movies in OTL Rock Around The Clock, and so on). But in the 191 universe the US government clamps down hard on Rock and Roll, and the 191 analogue of Elvis Presley gets drafted into the US Army, and then after he is discharged he spends the rest of his career playing county fairs, because his fans have forgotten him. Well, since I'm only in the 1950s right now, I've gotta lot of typing ahead of me......
Which side of the road did CSA drivers use?
Here's a silly question I need to have answered for an idea I'm working on: What side of the road did CSA drivers use? I'm thinking that they might have driven on the left side of the road like most former British colonies do today, but not sure if this was clearly spelled out anywhere in the 191 novels? - I seem to recall that there was one scene in which Anne Colleton was forced to drive a Ford Model A, but the steering wheel was on the opposite side of most CS cars, so that when she stopped next to another car at a stop sign, she was more or less cheek to cheek with the drive in the other car next to her. Was that actually in one of the books, or did I just imagine it later on?