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 going with my Dad to test tubes back in the 50s. He worked for the phone company so he was handy with electrical repairs.
Tube TVs.
I was the one that did all the tube checking. I loved Radio Shack and Tandy’s. I miss them a lot.
Good memories... :)
Last year I had a chip go bad in my 10 yr old Sony tv (no replacement parts available).
I actually found an outfit in Cincinnati via eBay that replaced the failed chip on the board for 40 bucks. Apparently this is a well known common failure for these sets.
Brought back memories.
We still deal with tubes in the musical world. Tube amps are still popular with guitarists who do the classic rock sound. So even new tube amps and of course replacement tubes for old amps are still available. I think it is one of the only niche uses for tubes still around.
My result: You’re positively ancient!
My result: You’re positively ancient!
Awesome. I would have thought the tooling and skills to manufacture tubes was long gone.
I recall that at one time, Russia was the largest supplier of vacuum tubes. I’m not sure if that has changed.
There are certain sounds they want to reproduce and it can only be done with tube amps. Example would be... You can do Hendrix leads, but they are just not right on the money unless it is done through a tube amp like he did. The same feedback is hard to reproduce any other way. :)
Yeah, me too.
Kind of like carburetors on engines these days.
I couldn’t get a carburetor for my 67 Chevy that worked right, then I learned that about 40% of all rebuilt carbs have errors.
So I got the documentation and ground through it and eventually made a good one.
Yep, Electro-Harmonics is one of the major brands made in Russia.
Looks exactly like the one that I gave Mom for Christmas one year so I could listen to KILT-FM Houston’s Rock and Roll Station.
“40% of all rebuilt carbs have errors.”
Because they disassemble them and throw like kind parts in bins. Then reconstruct them from out of the bins. When they should keep all the carb parts together as a set.
You are now one of the few left who actually understands how a Quadrajet works... Even back in the day very few wanted to tackle a Quadrajet or Thermoquad. lol :)
I always just rebuild them myself like you did. Up and until the butterfly shaft is so worn out through the base/body that it becomes a vacuum leak issue. Then I find another with a tight base/body and rebuild it.
:)
It suxs getting old.
I still have the ice tongs my dad used to transport the block of ice from the ice house to our house. I still call convenience stores ice houses.Old habits die hard.
Yeah, I missed a lot of chances to die young. Now it’s too late.
I used to think it would be good to have my body rejuvenated to 18 or so, but only if I could retain whatever I had learned since that age, because I sure wouldn’t want to have to do all that stupid stuff again. I have since realized that if I were to be that young, even knowing what I do now, I would STILL do all kinds of stupid stuff despite knowing better. It just goes with being young, with all that energy.
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