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Post by Beemermom on Jan 11, 2011 14:38:53 GMT -5
We thought we had died & gone to heaven once or twice a month when our parents would take us to the store for a bottle of soda and a candy bar.
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Post by MN-Investor on Jan 11, 2011 15:25:39 GMT -5
Remember the smell of freshly mimeographed worksheets in grade school?
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Post by MN-Investor on Jan 11, 2011 15:28:59 GMT -5
Almost all businesses were closed on Sundays.
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Post by BeenThere...DoneThat... on Jan 11, 2011 16:22:54 GMT -5
<<< Remember the smell of freshly mimeographed worksheets in grade school? >>>
...and can sometimes feel a phantom ache in my arm from the memories...
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Post by Jake 48 on Jan 11, 2011 16:32:50 GMT -5
Phone #s were giving out as COLumbia-2345, or DECatuar etc..
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Jan 11, 2011 16:33:35 GMT -5
[And the fumes were a cheap (legal) high].
You attached a piece of cardboard to your bike next to the wheel spokes with a wooden clothespin to make 'motor' noises. You saved your allowance to spend at the corner store to buy penny-candy and jawbreakers that only cost a penny.
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Post by 973beachbum on Jan 12, 2011 16:28:49 GMT -5
Was I the only one whose house had rabbit ears on top of the tV? Then when you adjusted the rabbit ears it would only have a clear picture while I was touching it. So eventually everyone would insist that I just hold it so they can watch the show.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Jan 12, 2011 16:32:53 GMT -5
Add tin foil to the rabbit ears and that was my parent's TV until they got cable.
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Post by BeenThere...DoneThat... on Jan 12, 2011 16:35:34 GMT -5
...I still listen to the BeeGees...
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Post by MB-NY on Jan 12, 2011 16:49:05 GMT -5
This will age you. Who remembers when AM radio was the place to find all the current popular music, and FM was mostly classical, religious, "dentist office" music, etc.?
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Jan 12, 2011 16:53:48 GMT -5
MB, I THOUGHT we were the same age... <<POM realizes one of us may be fibbing>>
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Post by MB-NY on Jan 12, 2011 17:04:03 GMT -5
MB, I THOUGHT we were the same age... <<POM realizes one of us may be fibbing>> Well, that's how I remember it. Most cars only had AM radios, and that's what I listened to. FM was on the big ass stereos at home, for those that had them.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Jan 12, 2011 17:08:44 GMT -5
I remember that when I was at my best friend's house she always had the AM station because they didn't have FM on their radio. LOL!! But I remembered that station playing the top 40 with Kasey Kasem. Am I mistaken? I don't think I started drinking until about 14.
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Post by MB-NY on Jan 12, 2011 17:15:23 GMT -5
That's exactly what I mean. All the top 40 stations were on AM, and usually on the lower part of the dial. The least listened to stations were on the high end; 1400 and up. Back in Florida, I remember that's where most of the Latin stations were. They didn't have a lot of money by comparison, and those frequencies were easier to get.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Jan 12, 2011 17:18:33 GMT -5
Gotcha. And I was in Florida then too. I guess we just never tuned in to the religious stations.
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Post by MB-NY on Jan 12, 2011 17:20:51 GMT -5
Me neither, unless it was related to my church. In high school, I briefly dated the pastor's daughter and ended up being involved in some church functions.
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Post by 973beachbum on Jan 12, 2011 17:30:05 GMT -5
Do you guys remember when the stations started to play rock on FM? It was like 6 stations nation wide and they were all underground types the way people talked about them. I think the one in NYC was WNEW and Phila was WMMR, I think.
Can you remember better MB?
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Jan 12, 2011 18:48:07 GMT -5
97 - I think he left for the evening. My group of friends were into boys by then so I don't remember. But ask me about how Curt kissed and I can give you details! <<he was awful at it btw>> LOL!!
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Post by deziloooooo on Jan 13, 2011 14:34:31 GMT -5
over 40 under XX..HA No credit cards except possible a department store no debit card three channels no cable aerial only radio shows instead of TV , none of that at all till the 50's to speak of No big box stores No discount chains no franchises Mcdonalds one of the first, Hamberger .10/cheezburger .12 / FF .12/Milk shake .25...no Big Mack/no fish sandwich..sales in the millions Movies Saturday matenee .20 1st run down town $1.25 Trollies gas teens .19 to a bit per gallon Four room cape cod home , NE..$5000.00 1946 Fountain Pens only, with real ink, no ball point pens first simple hand held adding machines//over a $100.00 Small retail neighborhood stores, groceries, would run book on customer purchases..no interest either. new car $2000..a bit more ..a buick /4 door automatic shift finally in the late 40's auto air conditioners , rare home air conditioners, also very rare, fans were in kids , boys, wore knickers, usually corderoy, went swish , swish when one walked, ran..{knickers? google} why? Lasted forever, took forever to growe out of, just wore longer socks. sneaks , were keds, hi tops, black mostly. Dad always wore a brimmed hat, allways..possible even when he and Mom would get together. Mom , went out, many times gloves, hat, even veils... Girdles Woman, in pants? not really if I can remember. Woman working..after marriage once had children , not many unless in family business Girls in jeans..don't think so..little hazy on that one. Lots of dresses there girls poodle skirts in high school..look it up saddle shoes DA haircuts blue suade shoes pegged pants, some so pegged had zippers on the legs. and on and on.......
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Post by quotequeen on Jan 13, 2011 15:17:17 GMT -5
There were no microwave ovens to cook our food 40 yrs ago There were 40,000 microwaves sold in 1970.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Jan 13, 2011 15:26:26 GMT -5
Geeze, I am so old I don't even remember what I should remember But I do miss the days when you saw someone talking to themselves that you thought they were "daffy" Now they are talking to the thingy stuck in their ear. Can't tell the crazies from the Type A that can't go two steps without talking to someone...
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Post by Dallas on Jan 13, 2011 18:39:53 GMT -5
Between 70- 75... banging on the side of a tv/stereo to make it work..and all kids came running home when the "Porch Light" came on. and a real adventure with a gal/guy meant tongue.
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Post by MN-Investor on Jan 13, 2011 19:07:41 GMT -5
The TV tube testers in stores (I forgot which stores, though). TVs had tubes, and if one burned out, you could either call the TV repairman, or, apparently, try to figure it out yourself.
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Post by ysi on Jan 13, 2011 19:40:07 GMT -5
I remember allowances were dispensed on Sat morning. I couldn't wait to get on my bike, ride a mile downtown, crossing one highway no less, and buy the latest hardcover book at the dime store for 25cents, and then get a cherry coke at the drugstore, before riding home again. Try buying any book today for 25cents!
I remember that every classmate knew exactly what clothing was for sale where. Thus began trips once a year with Mom to other towns to school clothes shop.
We had Penneys Sears and Wards-and they were all old brick buildings downtown-no malls yet.
Today, everyone wants us to "watch" the news. I can't stand all the videos of talking heads on news websites. I still want my news the old fashioned way-I like to read it. However, with internet, no longer having dirty inky hands from newsprint is an improvement.
I miss full service gas stations-the older I get the easier it is to slip and fall on the ice. I wonder if there is a way to apply that senior discount option and bring back a full service pump? (We need a long in the tooth icon)
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Post by deziloooooo on Jan 13, 2011 19:47:14 GMT -5
Geeze, I am so old I don't even remember what I should remember But I do miss the days when you saw someone talking to themselves that you thought they were "daffy" Now they are talking to the thingy stuck in their ear. Can't tell the crazies from the Type A that can't go two steps without talking to someone... good one , like it , and so true.
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Post by verrip1 on Jan 13, 2011 19:50:30 GMT -5
...I still have a tape deck in my car... I got that beat. I've got a reverb in my truck.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Jan 13, 2011 21:07:57 GMT -5
You guys are kids. I'm 64 and 10 months old! We had party lines and crank phones. I still have the wooden phone we had, our number was R-36-D, or 3 long rings. Used a wringer washer, wash tubs, pants stretchers, hung out clothes that froze on the line in the winter. Had a laundry stove for the smoke house. Heated the house with coal, used wall paper cleaner on the wall paper to clean off the smoke from the stove. We would take it out in the summer and put a metal fastener over the stove pipe hole. You had a stove and it sat on a stove board so the floor wouldn't catch on fire, it was metal. Chamber pots or combinets you had to take out to the outhouse and empty. Had to put lime down the hole in the summer to kill the smell and the flies. Dressing out chickens, butchering hogs, canning meat, vegetables, and things you grew yourself. Used a mowin' scythe for the weeds in the ditches unless a neighbor had a brush scythe to mow with. I still remember a few guys that had horses and a plow and plowed peoples gardens in the spring. It was a 2 or 1 blade plow. Mom had rabbit boxes to catch them, we cleaned and ate them, we caught fish, dad sometimes killed squirrels and we were forever picking the buckshoot out. She soaked in salt water to take out the wild taste. Hunting morel mushrooms, soaking in salt water to kill the bugs, washed many times. Dipped in flour, fried in real butter, delicious. Dad would somtimes catch a turtle and clean it the result was wonderful cooked in a pressure cooker. He also went frog giggin' and we had frog legs, another good thing to eat. My great aunt made light rolls on her old cook stove, always had a batch rising. They would get 6 inches tall and kept for days, not like our current stuff. The house smelled good like fresh yeast. She always wore an apron and in summer a bonnet. She would make a new one about once a summer. She would sew it from memory, each pocket had a piece of cardboard in it to keep the brim stiff. She picked doc and greens in the woods and they were good for constipation. When she got pretty old mom was afraid to eat them, afraid she couldn't see good enough, but it didn't kill her or uncle they lived into their 90's. She used snuff, he smoked a pipe. They lived on everything cooked in lard or bacon grease. But lard back then was good. It was fresh and had no smell at all just a clean smell, bacon did not contain water, chicken bones weren't red. The chicken and meat did not taste like what we eat now. We all ate heavy, potatoes, gravies, cakes, cookies, candy, biscuits, rolls veggies, fruits, real soda, I only knew 2 kids in our class that was fat. Comic books 10 for $1.00. I read all the time, we didn't have TV till I was older. I remember looking in a window at a neighbors in 1952 and Dwight Eisenhower was on it. Had never seen one before. Pitcher pumps in the kitchen sink, screen doors, pot menders, things you guys have never seen or heard of. My great aunts mom was a little girl in the civil war, she said she was always talking about those yank soldiers they hid their one $5 gold piece from. She said she told her it was real muddy and they put it under a board they walked on to get in the house. I am older than you and except for the $1.00 comics I can't relate to anything else. Oh, and didn't get TV till I was 10. But I grew up in a city with hot and cold running water and indoor plumbing and food came from the supermarket.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2011 22:05:02 GMT -5
We lived pretty much the same way except for butchering hogs, shooting squirrels, catching rabbits, gigging frogs, caching turtles. We kept chickens and ducks, fished in the river behind our house or in the lake at my grandparents' cottage. Red meat in the winter was venison hunted in the fall.
We had a Blackstone wringer washer, and I remember the day it was delivered...we thought we were really stylin'! A washer and two galvanized tubs for rinsing was a big step up from a copper boiler on the wood stove for boiling sheets and towels and using the blankety-blank washboard for everything else.
We canned vegetables from the garden, apples from our trees, rhubarb, berries we picked in the woods behind our house, even chickens and ducks, and made sauerkraut in a crock. Flour came in 50- or 100-lb cloth sacks, and the cloth was used for tablecloths and napkins, dish towels and play clothes. If the pattern was particularly nice, sometimes I could con my mother into making it into a school dress for me.
We didn't live that way because we were poor; we lived that way because that's just the way people lived in rural America at the time. It's not likely that people who lived in Manhattan had chickens and ducks or fished in a river that was practically out the back door!
Comic books for a dime, candy bars for a nickel, 11 cents for a movie (actually nine cents and two cents tax), milk was delivered to the door two or three times a week, and the dry cleaner picked up the cleaning and delivered it a few days later.
In the evenings we sat around the radio and listened to Fulton Lewis, Jr. read the news, and Vincent Price as The Shadow.
We wrote letters on paper using a fountain pen and sent them via the US Mail for three cents. Our mail was delivered twice a day Monday through Friday, with only one delivery on Saturday, except during December, when there were two deliveries on Saturday and one on Sunday. We made lots of predictions about the future and just taking food pills instead of having to cook, using jet packs to get around, and having phones that showed a picture of the person we were talking to.
That was back in the olden days, when we were all much younger...
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Post by MN-Investor on Jan 14, 2011 0:21:21 GMT -5
My DH's grandmother, who was a fantastic cook, cooked on a wood stove until her death in the late '70s. My neighbor, who is in her early 60s, learned to cook from her grandmother on a wood stove. I don't know how they did it - I don't see how they could control the heat that precisely, but obviously they knew what they were doing.
My cousins went to a one room grade school in rural Wisconsin in the 1960s.
My sister was a tomboy, her three best friends were boys. Back in the 1960s Ford dealers sponsored Punt, Pass, and Kick contests open to boys from 8 to 13 years of age. Because one of her best friend's dad was the Ford dealer, they let her try her hand at the contest. She would have won second prize if she had been a boy.
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Post by deziloooooo on Jan 14, 2011 1:04:06 GMT -5
Neither my great aunt nor uncle could read or write. They grew up in the kaintuck hills and he was a miner. One before they had unions and he crawled in holes you couldn't beleive. He was "retired" when I was little, retirement for people like them that had worked hard all their lives was welfare. They didn't pay them enough for anything extra. He said by the time you bought what you needed at the company store, there was nothing left, they were little more then endentured servants. You read the old papers back home in that time span or before and almost daily some man was getting hurt or killed in slate falls, many were mere kids, 12 years old and such. Or they would lose a leg, arm, or whatever and could never work again. About all the women could do was take in washings, make their place a boarding house, remarry, or turn to prostitution. There were few if any jobs for women. and old poor people went to the county "poor farm". It was everybodies fear that family wouldn't take them in and they had to live there. It was a horrible drab looking place that survived up to the 60's or so. If we are not very careful these times could return. So many have no idea that good politicians tried to help the poor and the unions helped create a middle class, don't be fooled, big business would love to see it again. No health care, little dental care, just poor. Really enjoyed your reminising....sounds like your family was quite a wonderful thing. Your correct on the unions and big businesses but these kids won't believe you..till it's to late.
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