Detective Deft Defector (npub1n7p…9qu4) truther (npub10f9…kvfk)
>. Highschoolers in the 40s and 50s were whole ass men.
While there is probably something similar going on to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication_syndrome#In_animals [but note: since 2020 there's been advances in this area] in humans, the 40s and 50s also saw *serious hardship* and something like half of highschoolers expected to grow up to live on/work on a farm. That changes you, physically. But chances are pretty good that if you asked the old men of the time, they would have told the highschoolers that 'they looked like a kid' to them -- this is something that changes as you grow older. But generally, not being out in the sun all day in an open farm field and baking your skin with UV rays and not going through periods (like the early 1940s) where food isn't necessarily really available to everyone can help keep you looking young.