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Remembering
email from a friend | 12/28/2018 | unkown

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


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To: firebrand

Not dirt old times but does anyone remember when you could listen in on those new fangled cell phones on the scanner? Yowzer! Some of the things we heard!


141 posted on 12/28/2018 3:50:49 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: sodpoodle

Perfect score, unfortunately. On the other hand, I’m still on my feet and covering ground.


142 posted on 12/28/2018 3:53:06 PM PST by Stentor
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To: central_va

I confirmed a guess on Google, but I did not have any actionable knowledge of that sequence of explosive events beforehand. I helped an uncle fix the timing on a Plymouth Wagon once. The timing light was cool.


143 posted on 12/28/2018 3:57:41 PM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.)
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To: FrankR

Great story and well told!!


144 posted on 12/28/2018 4:00:29 PM PST by SFConservative
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To: Big Red Badger
Never laid my hands on a Peashooter

We used to have running peashooter battles that went across our section of town. My mother would give me a couple of slices of bread before I went out and I would form them into a ball and take bites all morning until the Campbell's condensed chicken noodle soup lunch.

145 posted on 12/28/2018 4:03:08 PM PST by Stentor
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To: sodpoodle

Anybody remember going to the store to the metal cabinet to get a replacement 5U4GT?


146 posted on 12/28/2018 4:07:29 PM PST by Stentor
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To: Still Thinking

Ha!
I’ve heard of a Hot Foot,,
But That’s Funny right there!3


147 posted on 12/28/2018 4:35:12 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman

I was terrified of that ringer! My sister and I had to do the laundry most of the time, and I would put a corner of a piece of wet clothing in it, then jump back, for fear it would be too thick, and the safety too on the ringer would pop off.


148 posted on 12/28/2018 4:36:29 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: golux

To laugh
Or
CRY,,,?
I could ask a Question,
But I don’t want to Know.


149 posted on 12/28/2018 4:41:47 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: bgill

We always bought our meat at the store. I’m in my 60’s, and even in the 1970’s, meat, especially chicken, was so much more delicious. And turkey? Every single one I buy, no matter what brand, tastes the same. They must all use the same feed. The flavor is gone.


150 posted on 12/28/2018 4:48:18 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: sodpoodle
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

I'm 65 years young, and I remember all but one of the things on that list. I've heard of Butch Wax, but we never had it in our house.

151 posted on 12/28/2018 5:08:47 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Still Thinking
After some searching, I was able to find the remote control my father had that I remember from my childhood. I haven't laid eyes on this gadget since the 1960s!


152 posted on 12/28/2018 5:14:32 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

SamAdams76, you should change your handle to PackRat! I don’t even have my yearbooks from the ‘60s.


153 posted on 12/28/2018 5:22:04 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: oh8eleven

I remember the news reels before the Saturday movie show.


154 posted on 12/28/2018 5:33:46 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: bgill

Peashooters,,,
Perhaps Spit Wads?


155 posted on 12/28/2018 5:37:23 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: Stentor

Radio or TV?


156 posted on 12/28/2018 5:49:04 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: Billthedrill

We had cloak rooms and our coats boots and lunches went there, if we brought a lunch.

Most of us went home for lunch.


157 posted on 12/28/2018 5:50:05 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: SamAdams76

That Is you Dads’ Remote?

I’d get it back to his spot
Before You get in Trouble!

Haha!


158 posted on 12/28/2018 5:51:34 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: sodpoodle; TheConservativeParty

I remember ALL of them! I lived near South Bend, Indiana in 50’s. The Studebaker proving grounds were about 2 miles from my house. Since we owned airplanes, we could read “Studebaker” spelled out in evergreen trees on edge of test track from the air.

No such thing as fast food places. Yes you ate what Mother put on the table.


159 posted on 12/28/2018 6:01:43 PM PST by WaterWeWaitinFor ("We will be one people under one God, saluting one American flag". DJT 9/12/16)
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To: Windflier

Butchwax... ah yes my three brothers used it. Everyone of the boys had a bunch haircut.


160 posted on 12/28/2018 6:06:47 PM PST by WaterWeWaitinFor ("We will be one people under one God, saluting one American flag". DJT 9/12/16)
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