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
I remember these things and I’m 42.
Our area STILL has much of these things listed. Like our diner has the radios at each table. They haven’t been updated in 20 years but they work.
I’m in the “old as dirt” category for my memory/use of those various items. On the list above that, I never saw a true “ice box” in use and my knowledge of a soldering iron heated in a flame was at a commercial sheet metal shop that my employer used as a vendor but I never personally used one. My mother’s washing machine when I was growing up was a Maytag wringer washer and it wasn’t until the mid-60s that was upgraded to an automatic washer plus a dryer.
Cars without seat belts, or radial tires.
Rotary dial phones.
The burning barrel out back behind the house.
I remember them all! Except in my town we had private phone lines with 5-digit phone numbers. My rural Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins still had party lines. In fact, a few of them were only recently electrified. (Who else rememberers the “Ready Kilowatt” character?)
Pop. =;^) hehehe <snort>
You must have grown up in the Midwest somewheres. I grew up in Ohio and everyone called it 'pop'.
There were no 'package stores' or 'liquor stores'. They were called 'Pony Kegs'.
Older than dirt here - I remember all of these. I also remember our first private phone number that began with letters to make it easier to remember. Hanging my coat in a “cloak room” when I went to school. Draping my jeans over a steam radiator when I went to bed in the wintertime so they’d be warm in the morning. Rabbit-ear antennas. Transistor radios. And patriotism.
That’s the way we brought our kids up in the 80’s and 90’s. Lived in a country town with only one Pizza bar and that was it. So glad we had the time to do that for our kids. Well TBH I had to work lots of hours to do that. Sadly two people working is now a necessity. I blame women’s Lib. Housing is usually the most expensive purchase and when fewer women worked full time houses were more in line with the wage of an adult male. Now they are in line with two people working. Thank the lefties for that ladies. More of their broken ideals!
LOL
I’m Older Than Dirt, and I’m only 62!!!
“Transistor radios”
Yup. And making crystal-tuned radios? I made one. It was the first time I had ever heard a AM radio station that was not a local one. We lived in NW Minnesota and I could pick up WLS in Chicago on a clear night. It was cool!
Weird.
I remember 23 of them and I’m only 55...
Still good looking though....
Older than dirt. Way older.
And a choke on the dashboard?
I remember everything on that post.
the combine from the department of agriculture which was the first thing on tv in the morning...
I remember a burn pit out behind the grandparent’s barn. Fill it up, bury it, dig a new pit.
Dirt?! That’s young! You have to be older than rocks to qualify as old, you know, before they eroded into dirt.
Oh, the sweet smell of mimeographs... And heaters inside the firewall? I drove a VW bug that had no heat that was in any way perceptible. The only one I missed was the Studebaker, more from being poor than from being old.
You would have got more credit if you had used a kerosene powered flat iron.
Yep!...................
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