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
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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