Been there, done that
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Yep!😮
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That ain't old. I prefer to call myself historically experienced. 😁 Bob
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Heck, I was born in the late Holocene Epoch. I have used a party line, driven a Hudson and a DeSoto, and bought gasoline for 19 cents a gallon. Phone numbers used words (my first one was Mercury 2-5062) and $8,000 a year was a respectable income.
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There was a rotary pay phone in the gym lobby that was a nickel a call. Most were a dime then. We didn't have a phone in the house until I was 12. We often had two televisions, one would get a picture but no sound and the other sound but no picture so we played both on the same channel. The tv's were given to us. We only got two channels in our area that was channels 3 and 11.
An eight track tape player is a luxury I never enjoyed, we simply didn't have the money to get one. But then I didn't live in a house with running water until I was 19.
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Never had a TV until I was 8. The phone was down at the general store where they even had a pickle barrel.
The styles for women were girdles, red lipstick, and their nylon stockings had those black lines down the backside. Most wore open toed shoes and silly hats and hair pins were common.
Men wore hats outdoors and usually all wore neck ties or bow ties out in public. One of the most popular clubs in school was the FFA (Future Farmers of America) and many older kids in my school wore their special coats with the FFA logo. Younger men mostly teen agers slicked their hair back and used Brillcream, tucked their smokes up in their T shirt sleeve and always cuffed their pant legs.
Of coarse, I'm not that old compared to trees and rocks, but I did grow up in the sticks and I do remember some of the 50's. 😎
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Don't forget the pegged pants and poodle skirts, bw! "Slicked back hair" was called a duck tail. The alternative was a flattop with Butch wax.
I still have a tube of Sen-Sen, believe it or not.
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I'm so old...when I was a kid we used dirt for money.
The 1st lier does not stand a chance.
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Im so old, my social security number is 2
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Drove the Studebaker to the Sinclair station for an oil change and lube.
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I was born during Harry Truman's first term. I remember having to tell the operator what number I wanted. We didn't have a TV until 1957, and it only went up to channel 13, no UHF.
I had to support the family with my paper route money. 😂
Joe
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Mom sent you to the store with 50 cents, to get her a pack of cigarettes, you get a pop and candy bar, but you better bring home the change.
The store clerk knew the smokes were for mom (she had talked to him) so no trouble from him.
Made it easy for me to get them for myself when I started smoking, but I had to smoke her brand - L&M.
Didn't take me long to figure out that smoking was NO fun.
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The corner gas station had a chest type pop machine. You slid open the lid, ran the bottle of pop that you wanted down a maze like chute to the gate, put your dime in the slot and pulled the bottle up and out! Bottles were 10 oz. long necks.
Almost forgot about the girls liked to wear Saddle Shoes and pony tails were very fashionable. I had a pair of penny loafers that I kept dimes in the slots for emergencies.
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Those "maze" soda machines used a water bath to keep the bottles cold. If it was a Coca-Cola machine, the bottles were 6-ounce and they cost a nickel. (I still think that is about the right amount of soda for a serving.)
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Yes remember tv station going off at midnight. Starting up with national anthem. Phone numbers started with letters. Pay phones on almost all streets. Pull boxes for the fire department on electrical polls. When you pumped gas an added oil to the customer car, you put the bottle upside down in to drain tank. That mixed oil went into your car.
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I remember that too, except sadly, I also remember the same scene BEFORE 8 tracks.
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Good old days: Just to name a few
Ice Boxes
Outdoor toilets, Sears and Roebuck Catalog, even at school.
Water well and everyone drank from the same dipper.
No Phones
No Tv
Going to the swimming hole with friends and swimming in the birthday suit. Creeks were crystal clear and drank same water. Now days same creeks just looks like mud, even turtles and mud cats can't live in the polluted water. Too many turds floating downstream now days.
No electric nor no electric appliance, such as washing machine, clothes dryer.
Milked cows, gathered eggs, had big garden, lots of hunting dogs, (not so nice is some dogs got rabies easily and had to be shot)
Mom and Dad did the doctoring.
Peach tree and elm limbs switches plus wide leather belt laid to a buttocks quite often, also big oak paddles with holes drilled in them as to respect for teachers at school. (need to bring these back NOW)
Good old days and did not even realize such then.
But do not want to go back.
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Had a crank telephone with a local switchboard, no TV, no running water, no inside plumbing, some folks didn't have electricity, no school buses(everyone walked to school), and an automatic transmission car was a rarity. Many farmers were still using hand cranked machinery and several(my Dad included) were still using horses. Heck, it was even acceptable to correct your kids(or wife) with a good spanking now and then.
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LOL!! The concept of giving your wife a good spanking and not getting in trouble for it!! I wonder if that made the ladies a little easier to live with?? 😂
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Neighbor had a Delco electric lighting system that ran on kerosene. Grandparents had a well with a bucket and a windlass to haul the bucket up. Everyone had kerosene lamps, but my aunt had an Aladdin Lamp that was REALLY bright. Most kitchens had a wood cookstove, with an iron "match safe" that held a box of strike anywhere matches. Most of the older local farmers still had horse drawn machinery- hay mowers, rakes, etc. We had the Watkins salesman that came around in a station wagon- baking stuff, patent medicines- Mom swore by their vanilla extract. Kids thought the world of their teachers, and the teachers liked kids.
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Substitute Victrola for 8-track and will talk !
Grandma had one in her parlor. 8-track was in the car 😆
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chme: 31514152676379/comments/31514215700379
Neighbor had a Delco electric lighting system that ran on kerosene. Grandparents had a well with a bucket and a windlass to haul the bucket up. Everyone had kerosene lamps, but my aunt had an Aladdin Lamp that was REALLY bright. Most kitchens had a wood cookstove, with an iron "match safe" that held a box of strike anywhere matches. Most of the older local farmers still had horse drawn machinery- hay mowers, rakes, etc. We had the Watkins salesman that came around in a station wagon- baking stuff, patent medicines- Mom swore by their vanilla extract. Kids thought the world of their teachers, and the teachers liked kids.
"Aladdin Lamp ... REALLY bright" was due a VERY fragile Mantle over the wick !
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chme: 31514152676379/comments/31514215700379
Neighbor had a Delco electric lighting system that ran on kerosene. Grandparents had a well with a bucket and a windlass to haul the bucket up. Everyone had kerosene lamps, but my aunt had an Aladdin Lamp that was REALLY bright. Most kitchens had a wood cookstove, with an iron "match safe" that held a box of strike anywhere matches. Most of the older local farmers still had horse drawn machinery- hay mowers, rakes, etc. We had the Watkins salesman that came around in a station wagon- baking stuff, patent medicines- Mom swore by their vanilla extract. Kids thought the world of their teachers, and the teachers liked kids.
My dad sold Watkins products as a side job, and you are right their vanilla extract was the best.
the menthol camphor was great too. It would open up a congested head in a minute
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and the remote control to the black and white Philco tv was my father saying” boy get up and change channels and see what else is on “
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OK :
19" black n white tv on a wiggley tv stand (on wheels) w- rabbit ears (covered in foil) : 3 and sometimes a lucky #4 ch. out of St. Louis ) !!! up early on Sat. Mornings for cartoons ! had to kee the volume down not to wake the folks !
Thanks !!!
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