I was born in 1956 so was compos mentis all through the sixties. I've only watched a couple of short clips of Mad Men, to find out who Christine Hendricks was, and some of the things said in it are cringeworthy but I remember hearing similar. For instance "don't worry, the man who designed this made it simple enough for a woman to use". My mother STILL twitches nervously and says, "don't you think we ought to find a man to do it" if she sees me doing anything with electrics or power tools. So I suspect that the attitudes are pretty much spot on, though exaggerated for effect as everything is on TV.
The littering now - I think that depends on where you live. In town there were street cleaners who, notionally, cleared up after you so townsfolk picnicing in the country wouldn't even consider picking up after themselves. But I was brought up in deepest rural Herefordshire and there you did not litter! YOU were responsible for your mess and if you left rubbish and particularly glass bottles farmer's stock and machinery could be damaged. There was no anonymity either. You'd be spotted and if you left trash someone would wave at you from a couple of fields across and send you back for it, or if they couldn't catch you they'd have a 'word' with your parents next time they saw them.
As for the townies, in the early 60s there was a very scary public information film played on TV and in cinemas about keeping the 'countryside code' that was hoped might raise their awareness of the damage that could be done by leaving rubbish, gates open, trampling crops etc. Who knows? It might have helped a bit.
I can't find that one but here's the one from 1971
The modern version is a lot more jokey and not nearly as effective I think.
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The littering now - I think that depends on where you live. In town there were street cleaners who, notionally, cleared up after you so townsfolk picnicing in the country wouldn't even consider picking up after themselves. But I was brought up in deepest rural Herefordshire and there you did not litter! YOU were responsible for your mess and if you left rubbish and particularly glass bottles farmer's stock and machinery could be damaged. There was no anonymity either. You'd be spotted and if you left trash someone would wave at you from a couple of fields across and send you back for it, or if they couldn't catch you they'd have a 'word' with your parents next time they saw them.
As for the townies, in the early 60s there was a very scary public information film played on TV and in cinemas about keeping the 'countryside code' that was hoped might raise their awareness of the damage that could be done by leaving rubbish, gates open, trampling crops etc. Who knows? It might have helped a bit.
I can't find that one but here's the one from 1971
The modern version is a lot more jokey and not nearly as effective I think.