God bless, my Senior FRiends.
I remember EVERYTHING that he mentioned.
That says it all about me.
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Guess I am older than dirt.
Once you get to a certain age, this posting will seem new. Thank you my FRiend!
Well I’m not actually older than dirt, but because I grew up in a really small town I score as such because we were still using a lot of those things till they fell apart and we didn’t have any other choice....THEN the real stuggle began trying to find out how to work the “new fangled” thing.
“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.”
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LOl yes, I did remember that. My very first GF, I told her not to call certain hours because there were 6 people in the house and they all want to use the phone, and they might listen to our sweet somethings
I even got busted by my Mom one time escaping out the window to go to her house and she heard the plan from the phone haha
Paper boy route rang true here, had 2 one at 5AM and one aft school 3/4 PM.
Collecting was a trip. Still have a few of those little paper tabs you tore off and gave to the customer and the “tippers” were always remembered.
Usta take my dog in the AM but was made to stop cause he raised to much AM hell with the other dogs and cats on my rural route
Thanks
That’s great!
Anybody remember TV remotes that used audio, not infrared light?
Red/amber/green lights you put in the back of the car. It shone red when you were braking, green when you were rolling along, and amber when you slowed down.
I still make my own meals 99% of the time. Learned how to cook by helping my mother-the best cook I know.
We raised our own veggies, meat (chicken, pork, beef) and the eggs were awesome , much better than store bought.
We do eat out now, but at trusted places and there are not many.
We rarely had soda pop in the house when I was a kid. It was a treat to have a pop on occasion.
Phone hung on the wall. TV had a knob to get up and turn. TV was not vile filth like today, hard to find anything of worth now. Ready to shoot the dang thing.
Americans were proud of America, and if not that person was shunned.
We have 6 more years, God willing, to steer this ship in the right direction.
May God have mercy and show His Grace to us.
Just barely got in with 16 of the 25. But do I get extra credit for having used the soldering irons mentioned above?
Never laid my hands on a
Peashooter but
Hula-Hoops were Mine!
How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
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I remember Starter Switches on the floor...............
Favorite is #6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.
Our local dairy that delivered the milk to our galvanized milk box on the front steps put red cellophane wrapper over the mouth of the bottle with the cardboard stopper. We used to love using the cellophane to make red glasses out of bits of wire and Elmer's Glue (Hi Elsie!)
Yep, Older then Dirt, do to my Husbands collectors fever still have many of those articles on a shelf in Living Room. Grandchildren know what they all are including the small jukeboxes that sit in the Booths. Life has been good,
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.
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!!!
Weird.
I remember 23 of them and I’m only 55...
Still good looking though....