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 have to add my comments to this wonderful post! It sounds so like I remember life to be. And a life all the younguns could gain a lot if they had a little time in that era.
A few differences however... I didn’t have a tv till I was married. Didn’t have a radio until 12 and didn’t have electricity until I was 10. The TV was black and white and the first programs were 15 min news at 6 pm and then a few shows. . signing off at 10 pm.
We had no bathroom and no running water in the house. We had a pump outside. We had an outhouse outside.
We fished in the creek.. we took walks in the woods and learned the kind of weeds and trees ... we walked home from church on Sunday night and Wednesday nights and learned what the big dipper and little dipper was.. what the northern lights are.. what the north star is... what the moon forecasts about the weather..
The grocery store closed at 5 or some at 6 pm. If you ran out of something for supper, you had to make do. Stores all closed on Sundays.
There were no drive in food places. We all ate at home around the table. If asked what I was preparing, the answer was always “food”. We had a prayer before we ate and one of the children would be the one blessing. One son at the age of 2 prayed “Thank you for this food, cept I don’t like it. Amen”. (it was lasagna and he did eat.)
I remember the bikes, chain, cardboard on the spokes... I remember all the writer wrote about.. it was wonderful!!!
If we were to have to ever go it without electricity and all the conveniences... I know how to do that... would not like it... but there are ways and we learned them.
BTW.. my idea of roughing it is black and white TV.. but I lived it another way.. when I was a kid. I could go on for another page... but the writer already did.. Thank him or her for this piece!!
Then you’d be sand.
“And that ONE was?......................”
Only one I remember being on the C list (condemned; a mortal sin if you saw it) was “And God Created Woman” starring Brigitte Bardot who was already notorious as the French bikini girl.
Saw it on the old movie channel; sex only implied, nudity suggested but not displayed, just a twenty year old teasing several different men. Dullsville.
Then that would make you sand. lol. Me too.
I was thinking ‘Behind the Green Door’....................
“...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.”
There’s no Sears anymore, either. All gone.
Pasteurized and bottled right at the dairy which is about 2 miles from me.
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Pasteurized, but is it homogenized? I remember the plug of cream that pushed the cardboard lid up if you waited too long to get the milk in. Used to drain most of that off for my Dad’s coffee. Made in a percolator.
Waited for the milkman in the summer to get a big sliver of ice. He’d carry in a block with these huge tongs for the icebox. And he had a horse!
As one of six children we never ate out as a family. My parents celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in a restaurant with all of us and we kids picked up the tab. That was in the early 80’s. The first and only time we ate out as a family. Even now I’m not big on fast food or restaurants.
18 out of 25 My mom held onto her Maytag wringer was until 1979, though. It failed only when the porcelain tub wore through from decades of use. Others like the juke boxes are still in service in some pizza joints and luncheonettes. Blackjack and the wax bottles are also still available, though hard to find.
Remember, Mears, I’m even older than you-that says it all. I grew up in the early 30s. I was married before I lived in a house with running water, a bathroom, a telephone or television. Gram and Gramp were the only one on our rural road with a telephone and all the neighbors depended on it in an emergency. Gramp also harvested chunks of ice from a nearby river every winter and packed them in layers with lots of sawdust between layers and about a foot of sawdust all around the outside of the layers. We kids loved to take an icepick , sneak out to the icehouse in the summer and chip off an “icicle’ to suck on.
Loved to visit Gram and churn butter in her big butterchurn. It seemed like magic to see that heavy cream turn into a huge slab of butter.
When I was quite young U.S Rt 1 near our home was still a dirt road and I remember when we used a detour while concrete slabs were laid with seams between the slabs that thunked when you drove over them. We all thought we were quite privileged to have this modern improvement.
When I was a kid he was still black and white.
Except the teevee test pattern wasn’t up all night. The transmitter shut down, there was “dead air” for many hours. Live air with test pattern at 5:30 am maybe, I don’t remember the exact time. But before that, -nothing-.
Heck, I remember when dirt was invented!
OWWWWW!
Remember all of those plus putting lumps coal in furnace, the ice man with his ice tongs, and the junk man with his wagon and mule.
How’s that for old?
On Sunday morning, I was at church with my father. After the Gospel was read, The priest shouted from the pulpit, “You shall not see this movie! It is from the devil! Itis a mortal sin!”
That night the whole town showed up at the local theater for the movie. I was in grade school. I snuck in thru the front behind an adult. I stood at the back near the separation wall between the lobby and the seats.I was short and it was very dark. I raised myself up to glimpse over the wall and bumped into the adult standing next to me. It was my father.
You’d think the burnt color of the metal would be a person’s first clue that that’s not the handle. Prolly a Democrat.
The milk is homogenized and has aplastic cap.
Back when;
The ash man pulled several ash wagons through the alley with a farm tractor.
The metal recycler used a horse drawn wagon
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