When I was working at the Quincy, Mass., Dairy Queen across from the Fore River Shipyard in the late 1960s making a buck and a quarter an hour I distinctly remember to this day just how affordable life was back then. And I’m sure everyone who grew up in the 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s all recall the same pleasant memories of how easy it was to get a great-paying job, find a reasonably-priced apartment or a starter home and live the American dream. I mean back then life was so idyllic, it wa...
