Posted on 12/28/2018 10:42:48 AM PST by sodpoodle
Butch haircut.
Not me. I was a late adopter. I didn’t get a cellphone till I started running protests and rallies for FR. Even now I still have an old flip phone with no camera.
It’s been a long long time, but yeah. I know what those are. Replaced many a set when I was a youngster.
Yep, midwestern. Soda pop.
I used like tuning up my car and adjusting the carb. Not sure why. I just liked it.
My father was a mechanical genius who could do anything with his hands. A little of that wore off on me and he had one of those heat with a blowtorch soldering irons. You could also heat them in the wood stove. Our first electricity was 25 cycle so even though electric products were available not a lot of choices for 25 cycle users.(Courtesy of Eagle Pitcher Mining Co.)
Ahh....no wonder we never had it in our house. We were all curly headed boys.
Me.
I enjoyed the sense of accomplishment whenever I successfully repaired my first cars, but wrenching was never more than a necessary evil to me.
None of us youngsters could afford a real mechanic, so we learned to do it ourselves. Back then, cars were still simple enough, that any reasonably bright kid with a bit of mechanical aptitude could do it.
Funny thing is, even after I got old enough to afford professional labor, I still chose to do a lot of the basic wrenching myself.
Brake job? You gotta be kidding me. At those rates, I'll do it myself! LOL
It didn’t do me any good when my mom would tell me if I held on to long the wringer would pull me in and take my arm off. I remember the top of the wringer would raise up if you let a too thick piece of cloth feed into it. One thing about it,those old machines didn’t ever seem to wear out.
we were kids in love dude and u know that too. I was grounded and I have 2 older brothers who told me I did it wrong hahaha
They told me that whenever Mom or Dad went to the bathroom or washed the dishes, that’s when I should have used the phone. XD
We all ate good didn’t we! My dad still gets to eat Mom’s great cooking everyday. He’s so spoiled, and he knows it.
Oh, yeah! I was so afraid the thing would take my arm off!
We had a Zenith remote that had four buttons on it - IDK, but maybe one for on/off, and the others for volume and channels. It had three rods inside that would get struck by the “clicker”, and I guess operated the T.V. by sound. He got the TV from some rich guy that he had sold a new house to. Big console thing. Great for watching Hogan’s Hero’s on!
I sort of recall they had a TV that had a screen that was a small circle - but inside of narrow and tall wood console. With the console seeming to take up a lot more room fro such a small screen.
I had to look it up. I see that Zenith had a circular TV with a large stand in 1950 to 51. That may have been it. My old man said he used to make a lot of money on building and selling homes after the war when he got back.
“It used to be I could buy a new Cadillac with the profit from a single home. Now it would be a down-payment on a Chevy.” (The Jimmy Carter years).
TV. FADA.
TV tube?
I guess I’m older than dirt......remember them all.
People today are so afraid of marbling in beef that every piece of beef I buy is like shoe leather. Ok, so I do buy cheap cuts but even looking at the high priced stuff, there is no marbling or fat around the steaks. The few times I’ve bought expensive steaks, they were just as tough as the cheap stuff. Never again.
Our home raised beef was always tender and juicy. What’s this “grass fed” trend today? That’s why they have no fat, grass doesn’t fatten them up. It takes grain feeding.
I know what you mean.I knew a couple, the husband of which was a retired veterinarian. He raised a few cattle for a hobby, only, not for the meat. They were pastured, and not grain fed. His wife said that occasionally, if an animal got too old, they would have it butchered and ground into hamburger, that it would have been too tough for anything else. When I remarked that I thought grass fed beef was supposed to be tender, she told me that beef that was sold as grass fed, are fed grasses that are grown especially as high quality feed, as opposed to theirs, which ate whatever grew wild out in the field. But maybe the main reason was their age, because cattle are often raised on whatever grows wild, and I doubt it was “finished off” with grain, before modern times.
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