Remembering

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

[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

[Big Red Badger]

How about that “Air Conditioner”
that attached to the passengers
window? A big cylinder that
dripped water into the cab?
A Canvas water bag that hung
in front of the Radiator?
I grew up in the Desert.

[Grimmy]

Heh.

I remember TV “remotes” that were a knob dial fixed to the front of the TV.

You turned and twiddled the knob until the channel you wanted came in clear, more or less.

And the TV had a loud high pitch sequel when it was on.

[firebrand]

And when it was below freezing, a cylinder of frozen milk would poke through the cardboard, an early science lesson.

[Red Badger]

I was stationed in the desert.....................29 Palms...............

[Red Badger]

As I remember, there was only one you weren’t supposed to see.

And that ONE was?......................

[Big Red Badger]

Berdoo was my town,
29 palms was always
A get away with the
“Old Man”,,,
and I don’t remember why.

[firebrand]

My two sisters had part-time jobs at the phone company. On holidays, they were needed there because of the heavy phone use. They told funny stories when they got back to the family celebration. A guy wanted Tweemont twee twee twee twee twee. I think they made that one up. “I had a disconnection.” They would try not to laugh.

[Still Thinking]

Have you used one like this? (The iron, not the girl)

[firebrand]

I was going to mention it but I decided not to.

[HandyDandy]

6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers

We would make a shooting weapon out of the round cardboard stoppers and the round waxy paper that they used to seal the glass bottles.

[MayflowerMadam]

“TV had a knob to get up and turn.”

I read somewhere: “When I was a kid we had to trudge through seven feet of shag carpet just to turn the channel.”

[RushCrush]

I’m 47 and I remember the party line telephone at my grandmother’s house.

We didn’t have cable tv. We had 3 channels for ABC, NBC, CBS and then the public television channel. We never once had pizza delivered to our home. We never drank soda and never went out for meals.

The older I get, the more I revert back to the old ways when possible.

[oldvirginian]

“I miss windwings....”

The precursor to air conditioning!
I haven’t thought about them in a coons age. Been longer since I’ve seen them.
They really were cool weren’t they. :)

[Red Badger]

I rode my Motorcycle all over, Berdoo, Big Bear, Joshua Tree National Park, Salton Sea, Palm Springs, San Diego, TJ...even went to Vegas.....................

[JBW1949]

Of the 25, I remembered seeing or using 25...

[Red Badger]

LOL!..................

[Big Red Badger]

People still have That!
I think It’s called Amish.,

[GOPJ]

Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.

I remember it all - but the above was most annoying when it was raining...

[JBW1949]

East Tennessee we called most all soft drinks “Coke”...You’d say, “I wanna coke...” Dad would answer, “What kind?”....

[susannah59]

I remember most of those, not quite all.

I think I was 12 or so when I first went to a restaurant (with the exception of the rare Dairy Queen ice cream cone) and to a movie. I went with a church youth group. We rarely traveled, then only to visit family; we stayed with family and stopped to eat lunch on the side of the road somewhere, lunch Mama packed.