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Originally Posted by ericr
the story I heard in years past, was that with the growth of life in suburbia, had the result of children not intermingling as much as in previous times and therefore lost some acquired immunity to polio. I don't know if that is accurate or not.
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ericr,
Another factor was that the size of the towns was smaller in the ‘50’s. My home town of Redlands was 14,000 people, not unlike the other towns in inland Southern California. There were more orange trees than people and only about 400 kids in our High School. We never interacted with more than a few other kids mostly in our neighborhoods.
In addition, most people worked in and around their town with almost no commuting out side of a 30 mile radius. Plus there were no malls or restaurants, just small local stores and a couple of small chain stores like J.C. Penny and Woolworth. Our town wasn’t big enough for Sears or Montgomery Ward.
David Serrano