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To: HungarianGypsy

I was born in the late 50s, so I was a young kid in the 60s, teen in the 70s. Another post mentioned families eating together, as did ours. We only had one car (without air-conditioning) and for a while, one bathroom. If the weather was nice, we were outside, playing with neighbor kids and riding bikes (usually hand-me-downs from older cousins). My mother made remarks every evening about how dirty we got while playing outside. Our family "vacations" were spent visiting my mother's sisters and their families in Niagara Falls, NY. Most of my classmates had at least 2 siblings; most had 3 or 4, some had 5 or more. Most of my elementary school (public) classes had more than 30 students. We walked to and from school. Potato chips and coke were a treat that we had in the evening when we stayed up "late" on Friday nights. Our milk and other dairy products were delivered (Twin Pines). The milk was in glass bottles and we gave the empty bottles back. Everyone's house had a "milk chute". I remember my younger sister shimmying through one because we forgot our key.


165 posted on 01/09/2007 10:07:16 AM PST by OldBlondBabe
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To: OldBlondBabe

Children's car seats (if you even had one) were metal frames w/canvas seats (no seat belts) and hooked over the car's FRONT seat.


173 posted on 01/09/2007 10:10:06 AM PST by Carolinamom (Thank God that Mary and Joseph were not pro-choicers.)
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To: OldBlondBabe

Anyone else have only three pairs of shoes: church shoes, school schools and play shoes. And they would rotate as such, usually by the time shoes became play shoes they really did not fit anymore.


175 posted on 01/09/2007 10:10:11 AM PST by svcw (There is no plan B.)
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To: OldBlondBabe

We didn't have a "milk chute", just an aluminum, insulated box that stood outside the back door.


182 posted on 01/09/2007 10:12:31 AM PST by linda_22003
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To: OldBlondBabe

Remember the cream pushing the cardboard cap out the top of the bottle if it was delivered in freezing weather? Sometimes the pillar was 2 inches high out of the top of the bottle . Then they moved to crimped foil tops .


357 posted on 01/09/2007 11:18:18 AM PST by Renegade
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