Posted on 11/26/2021 5:17:57 AM PST by sodpoodle
Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favourite '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 'home,'' I explained. ! 'Mum 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 lad 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'd figured his system could have handled it:
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans, set foot on a golf course, travelled out of the country or had a credit card.
My parents never drove me to school. 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 10. It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 10 PM, after playing the national anthem and epilogue; 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...
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, seven days a week. He had to get up at 6AM every morning.
Film stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the films. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or almost 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 Lemonade 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?
Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators. > Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom
1. Sweet cigarettes 2. Coffee shops with juke boxes 3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles 4. Party lines on the telephone 5. Newsreels before the movie 6. 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 2 channels [if you were fortunate]) 7. Peashooters 8. 33 rpm records 9. 45 RPM records 10. Hi-if's 11. Metal ice trays with levers 12. Blue flashbulb 13. Cork popguns 14. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-3 = You’re still young If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age If you remembered 11-14 = You're positively ancient!
I must be 'positively ancient' but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.
Don't forget to pass this along!! Especially to all your really OLD friends....I just did!!!!!!!!!
(PS. I used a large type face so you could read it easily)
I remember we got keys to lock the house in the 60’s.
And there is the thing that all of us had said on so many occasions for so many incidents/memories/mistakes;
"If I knew then what I know now. Oh boy."
For certain musicians and audiophiles, those things go for big bux. They use tubes in their amplifiers and are constantly on the look out for NOS (New Old Stock) tubes and reliable testers.
“The same sort of vacuum tubes that make a Stratocaster sound the way it does through a Fender Twin Reverb amplifier worked to automatically drop the high beams until the approaching car passed.”
https://www.hagerty.com/media/archived/photonic-technology/
I know a guy here in Indiana who repairs/rebuilds these for old Caddys and Buicks.
I remember we never had to lock our house, and could leave the keys in the car, and no one needed bike locks.
Sure are!
How about “rumble seats” in the back of cars?
Metal ice trays with levers! Forgot all about those!!
Actually, my point was that I’d probably still do stupid stuff. You’ve heard the expression young and dumb and full of...energy, yeah that’s it, energy. I suspect that two of those conditions are enough, even if one isn’t quite as dumb as before.
How about “rumble seats” in the back of cars?
I am not THAT old :-)
Lol. I think I might be the oldest Freeper here, but I’m not telling.
“Oh yes, party lines and phones with no dials.”
Dang it, showing my age is no fun at all. How about you?
With age comes wisdom. :)
😀👍
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