[ip26]

Peculiar artifact? Are you forgetting all the people who retired from mining coal, building cars, or running plumbing? It's not weird that seventy year olds would prefer to stop doing those things. I don't know that many people who would claim blasting ore underground is their enjoyment.

[satvikpendem]

Why are you arguing a strawman? No one brought up coal miners, not sure what that has to do with the 1950s anyway in specific.