What is this? A ray gun?
Posted on 12/28/2018 10:42:48 AM PST by sodpoodle
Remember Slow Food?
'Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite 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 'at Home,'' I explained. !
'Mom 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 kid 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 figured his system could have handled it :
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, never wore Levis, or sneakers , never set foot on a golf course, never traveled out of the country or had a credit card.
In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears & Roebuck. Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.
My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer.
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 11.
It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; 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.
I was 19 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called 'pizza pie.' When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.
I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
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, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which he got to keep 2 cents. He had to get up at 6 AM every morning.
On Saturday, he had to collect the 42 cents from his customers. His favorite customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the change. His least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most 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 Royal Crown Cola 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?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
Older Than Dirt Quiz :
Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom.
1. Blackjack chewing gum 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water 3. Candy cigarettes 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles 5. Coffee shops or diners with table side jukeboxes 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers 7. Party lines on the telephone 8 Newsreels before the movie 9. P.F. Flyers 10. Butch wax (that was our hair product) 11. 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 3 channels... [if you were fortunate ) 12. Peashooters 13. Howdy Doody 14. 45 RPM records 15.S&H green stamps 16. Hi-fi's 17. Metal ice trays with lever 18. Mimeograph paper 19. Blue flashbulb 20. Packards 21. Roller skate keys 22. Cork popguns 23. Drive-ins 24. Studebakers 25. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age, If you remembered 16-25 = You' re older than dirt!
I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.
Don't forget to pass this along!! Especially to all your really good
O L D FRIENDS
You’d think the feel of burnt skin and the smell of burning flesh would be a person’s first clue that that’s not the handle..................
We had the Zenith remote control that changed the channel. It activated a motor and you still got the thunk-thunk sound as the channels changed. Only 13 VHF channels and only 5 or 6 channels actually came in and only about three were clear signals. The mechanical remote was considered rather fancy at the time. We also had to constantly fuss with the v-hold setting to keep the picture from flipping. That was a knob in the back of the TV.
I put a double in my 70 Dodge charger. Give me a couple days and I will remember the brand
LOL Max. I remember doing the same thing with my first girlfriend. She was gorgeous. Later became a fashion model and did a lot of TV. Lovely woman today.
We found a bed (somewhere... I’m still not telling) and I met her there.
She had taken ALL her clothes off and something (maybe from a movie) prompted her to say to me: “come to mama.”
Well, I was utterly shocked...
And I told her to put her clothes back on.
We went for a walk.
One of my worst decisions... Or one of my best?
If it were plugged in, yeah. I can tell it's not plugged in by the fact that she's calmly sitting there misusing it rather than running screaming with one hand held in the other toward the break room to get some ice on it.
Unless....she's actually contemplating a crime and wants to remove prints.....
Um
What is this? A ray gun?
Ah, I always wondered if that was an official product from the TV manufacturer or something he home-brewed himself. Thanks!
Yeah, I remember having to futz with the vertical hold, and occasionally even the horizontal. Today’s equivalent to needing adjust that is when the digital picture blocks up, except now there’s no knob to adjust to fix it.
Timing is everything.
Ah. Timing.
Those were the days...…..
Arrrrr, arrrrrh, arrrrh
I remember working on a UPX-23 IFF/SIF interrogator in my Radar days.
Elaborate set-up working with an engineer. We were looking for a mode-4 issue.
The base paper came in to do a story on a young woman in our squadron newly assigned. They had me get my ass up and take her picture with equipment she had no clue about.
Looked impressive for the progs.
But don’t dwell on it too long
1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2.
Mallory dual point distributer. It never ran as good as the original.
This is a
When I was 16 I put the distributor in my Pinto wagon backwards.
Car caught on fire after the impending back-fire released the fuel line from carb. Lame.
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