Posted on 11/26/2021 5:17:57 AM PST by sodpoodle
Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favourite 'fast food' when you were growing up?' 'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him. 'All the food was slow.' 'C'mon, seriously.. Where did you eat?' 'It was a place called 'home,'' I explained. ! 'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'
By this time, the lad was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.
But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I'd figured his system could have handled it:
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans, set foot on a golf course, travelled out of the country or had a credit card.
My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed (slow).
We didn't have a television in our house until I was 10. It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 10 PM, after playing the national anthem and epilogue; it came back on the air at about 6 a.m. And there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people...
Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk was.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers --My brother delivered a newspaper, seven days a week. He had to get up at 6AM every morning.
Film stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the films. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or almost anything offensive.
If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
MEMORIES from a friend: My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Lemonade bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it.. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.
How many do you remember?
Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators. > Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom
1. Sweet cigarettes 2. Coffee shops with juke boxes 3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles 4. Party lines on the telephone 5. Newsreels before the movie 6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning.. (There were only 2 channels [if you were fortunate]) 7. Peashooters 8. 33 rpm records 9. 45 RPM records 10. Hi-if's 11. Metal ice trays with levers 12. Blue flashbulb 13. Cork popguns 14. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-3 = You’re still young If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age If you remembered 11-14 = You're positively ancient!
I must be 'positively ancient' but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.
Don't forget to pass this along!! Especially to all your really OLD friends....I just did!!!!!!!!!
(PS. I used a large type face so you could read it easily)
When interactive card games and board games were the rage... :)
Grew up in the 60’s and 70’s.. I remember McDonald’s had a hamburger, fries and a coke and you got change back from a buck. I think you could get a cheeseburger and still get change back.. Saturday matinees were 45 cents, we always snuck candy in from the drug store across the street. You could get popcorn but not a coke, or coke but not popcorn. 55 cents didn’t go far at the movie candy counter. A box of good n plenty or junior mints was 50 cents..
Car radios only received AM
And if thanksgiving morning you went duck hunting with the uncles and cousins and one person (my brother) decided to go back and sit in the car and listen to that AM radio, the car battery would/did died in 30 minutes.
Attending church EVERY Sunday, no matter what, unless extremely ill. I just found my “Sunday School pin” with a bar hanging down for each year of perfect attendance. Mine is 10 years.
Sex Education
I should have expanded on that. There was no “sex education” in school in the 1950s as it was considered the parents job ( and what you could learn on the street).
Now if you're lucky you can get one of those and a little change back from your $10.
This weekend always reminds me of JFKs funeral, I was 6 and recall riding my bike 2 miles to the convenience store for some candy and the guy had the funeral on TV, maybe the first time I saw an adult cry.
Rode my bike 2 miles on city streets at 6, unbelievable these days.
We had an “ice box” when I was growing up. I tried to explain this to my grand kids one day. They couldn’t understand. They still think we used an igloo cooler.
We had Jack-in-the-Box not too far from the house but it was a rare treat - and I mean rare - when Dad would surprise us with a bag of burgers. As I grew older once in a great while it was KFC.
They did eventually open an A&W Root Beer drive in down the street too, complete with car hops on roller skates! Man, I loved their chili dogs!
Now my fifteen year old gets Post Mates deliveries of McDonalds and Firehouse subs.
We would have thought we were living like kings! (Not that we could have afforded Post Mates when we were kids).
What a different world it was…
McDonald’s was kind of as treat for us, we only got it when we were traveling out of town.
Walking through town with guns to go out plinking.
Saturday matinees
Yeah, I member.
“(my brother) decided to go back and sit in the car and listen to that AM radio, the car battery would/did died in 30 minutes.”
Lol, Been there...
Sock hops
Junior and Senior high. Sock hops (because they were held in the gym and you had to take off your shoes) were dances (by record, seldom a live band).
Not many places for a teen to go to socialize.
Of course you had to watch Dick Clark’s Bandstand to learn all the new dances.
1) Sweet cigarettes...In my neck of the woods it was Camels or Lucky Strike. Except for my dad’s Raleighs.
2) No coffee shops but there was a small restaurant that had a juke box in the corner. That restaurant had one side for working folks and another side for the well dressed town folks.
There was a pick up window in the back for blacks.
3) Having milk cows and 100 laying hens we delivered milk in quart jars, eggs by the dozen and home made butter by the pound. You ever candled eggs or churned butter?
4) Was it just us or did every party line have two women who stayed on the phone from sun up to sun down?
5) TV station sign off would be announced by a playing of My Country Tis Of Thee and sign on was announced by The Star Spangled Banner. The first show in our area was sponsored by the local Dr Pepper bottler. It was a farm show with weather and local news.
Yeah, I remember most of those things.
12 out of 14. I feel about 3 days older than dirt.
“In the early 1950s it was 25 cents for two movies...”
in the summers we could get in for 6 Pepsi caps off of the bottle on Thursday afternoon
I remember! I remember playing outside on the Martian Colony surface with pressure suits and air-supplies. Remember how your intake hose always got kinked up and you’d be gasping for breath in seconds?
I remember when China was named the world governance nation, after they soundly defeated America and Russia in the Battle for Alaska and Siberia.
I remember when people actually were concerned about global warming! That was before the Maunder Minimum froze most northern regions solid. What fools they were!
I remember back when there were actually only two sexes, before genetic engineering created 10,178 sexes. Reproduction got tough!
Yeah, things were better way back in 2078.
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