Posted on 02/21/2007 10:07:19 AM PST by Incorrigible
Popular Science only beat her by a copule years
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/computerselec/43c1d4d03cb84010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html
Back in the 1950's airline travel was a luxury and people used to get dressed up to go to the airport.
There were no malls. Stores were closed on Sunday.
Contrary to what many people here think, my moniker is based on my love of radio, not the rock group (tho they're great). I listen to a lot of radio shows online. There's http://radio.macinmind.com/ and the BBCs radio 7 which plays a lot of old British radio shows, as well as new productions, and www.radiospirits.com, just to name a few sources of good listening.
That's what I have thought. Pretty soon it will be politically incorrect to make any reference to them at all. Old photographs will have to be photoshopped to put bermuda shorts and an Izod on Sitting Bull.
There were drive-in restaurants, even drive-in movies!
I would've had a tough time. I need ATMs because I'm never off work when the banks are open, and can only shop on Sundays, usually.
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Maybe you would not need to work such long hours.
Color film was only for special shots. My Dad had two cameras. One had b&w, the other held color and would go many months before the roll was used up and developed.
Hey, before email, people were addicted to the phone.
THAT would be an even better project. No phone, no car, no appliances, no electricity, no gas. Just give her an axe, a bow and some arrows, a knife, and a log cabin.
"Antique rotary phone." Oh, the horror of it! So hard to use.
We had cable TV in the 1960's in my small town in central IL. Color TV, too - 'bout 1967 or so. The midnight signoffs went on for some time. I remember them going on up into the 70's.
Banks are open 9 - 4, even then most people worked 9 - 5 but I imagine stay at home wives did a lot of that stuff.
You've never heard of the Baby Boom, I take it. :)
Small market and independent stations did it into the '80s.
You mean students actually have to go to class and oh, let me guess...take notes with a, a...writing instrument of some kind? Shocking!
LOL...
She looks rather like Condoleeza Rice- plays piano, too.
My job didn't exist in the 50s in it's current form. I would have worked AT a bank, actually, so it would've worked out.
I did mine that way; I'm sure many of us here did. As I said to a much younger colleague, "When I was in graduate school, 'cut and paste' involved scissors, paste, and the entire living room floor of your apartment."
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