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On 3/11/2011 8:06 PM, Janet Wilder wrote:



I had just turned 1, so I don't remember that, but I do remember more
than 50% of what was in the link.
 
Janet Wilder wrote:



I don't remember much but, I remember eating raw hamburger. Tasted
great. We couldn't wait for it to turn into something else.

Andy
 
I was born in 1964, but remember a lot of these things. I also
remember when I was a kid in the summer, Mom would tell us to make
sure we were home by 6 for supper, and we would be gone all day,
playing ball or riding bikes or building forts in the woods or hanging
out at the Boy's Club or library. We used to play baseball or
kickball on the streets, where a car bumper might be first base, and a
manhole cover second base; if you play ball out on the street today
somebody will call the cops on you.

BTW, they still make candy cigarettes and those little wax soda
bottles. They make wax lips too, remember those?. I remember the gum
cigarettes with the wax wrapping over them to look like a cigarette,
and there was cinnamon in the business end and if you blew hard on it,
a small puff of smoke would come out.
 
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:09:49 -0500, "BigBadBubbas"
wrote:


Nope, DON'T remember most of those.

I'm OLD ENOUGH to have such memories, IF those events were accurate.

They aren't.
 
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Gah! That music made me wish I was hard of hearing! And my daughter
cranked my speaker up as well.

I do remember some of those things but only some. I guess I'm not that old.
 
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:09:49 -0500, "BigBadBubbas"
wrote:


I remember a lot of that stuff too. It's fun to remember. But there
were a lot of less gooder stuff too. :)

The gas wars drove the price down to 27 cents/gal around 1970 in
central PA. Even so, we generally get more miles per
(adjusted-for-inflation) dollar today than we got back then.

The old Pontiac's 283 V-8 engine delivered fewer horsepower than a
well-constructed 4-cylinder today. And if you got 100K miles from a
car, you were doing very well.

I didn't care for the 1970 model outhouse we used, but you do what you
gotta do. :)

To play music at parties my sister would bring her scratchy portable
record player and a huge stack of scratchy 45s (69 cents each in 1970
money). Today you can bring thirty times as much music (99 cents per
song in 2011 dollars) on a device the size of a matchbox.

Typed a 105-page MS thesis on a typewriter in 1980. Fixing all the
mistakes and retyping some pages. And did it three times. :( Today...
word processor.

Books and magazines printed with huge amounts of color and beautifully
sharp and clear.

Air conditioning! (Yes, it was available back then but most people
used fans.)

When the wife was in school, one of the assignments was to tell during
what time she'd like to have lived. She said "today". She may not
have done well on the assignment but she's a smart gal. :)
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Best -- Terry
 
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We ate out a lot. My dad who is obviously older than me ate out a lot. His
dad died when he was 8. My grandma went to work and wasn't home to cook
dinner. My husband's one grandma (older than my dad) didn't like to cook
so she took the kids out to dinner. In her later years she didn't even have
to do that! The local restaurants used to send people out to bring her
food. They didn't even charge her for it. She was well liked in the
community.
 
On 11/03/2011 11:59 PM, Jim Elbrecht wrote:
Some of the items were things applicable only to Americans.


Single spinner Fords were a popular item here in Aus.

We were never "given" a car. We had to work until we had saved enough to
buy our own.


Sounds like the magic worked on him!

Yep, remember newsreels!. The double feature put paid to them.

I was into cars and women on the 60's so I missed the 101 Dalmations.
Might have watched it on TV in later years however.

Only the people out in the country had party lines. We cityfolk had our
own numbers, those of us who had phones that is...

Used to get a lot of candy for a penny when I was a lad! That was the
forties however.


I remember a lot of us having a small knife of some sort but we NEVER
EVER thought of them as weapons. Had a little folder on my locker key
chain and never had a problem with it.

Peashooters were cool. Got the teacher in the forehead once... and he
got me with the cane!

Indeed!

Krypsis
 
On 13/03/2011 11:42 AM, Terry wrote:

I bought a used car when I was a student and it was all I could afford,
but once I was in the work force I always got new cars. It didn't make
much sense to buy a car with 60-70,000 miles on it because it was on
it's last legs. If the motor didn't die the bodies rusted out. Now that
I am retired nd less concerned abotu reliability I buy used cars. The
last one I bought was a Honda Civic I bought 4 years ago. It had over
100,000 miles on it, and it is still going strong.




The only problem there is onscreen editing. As you can see from my
posts, I am not very good at it. I can check a document on the monitor
and see no problems but when I print it out it is suddenly full of errors.

Math was never my forte and in my first yer of university I had to take
probability and statistics. Some of the statistical analyses required
working with squares and square roots. I still can't do square roots. It
took a lot of help and hours of work to do one simple analysis test. In
my second year the school provided a room with a bunch of desk top Wang
calculators and what used to take hours could now be done in minutes.
You could buy a pocket calculator that would add, subtract, multiply and
divide, but they were expensive, $150-200, two weeks pay for my high
paying summer job. Now you can get better calculators in the cover of a
binder for under $10.






They were cheap to run but expensive to buy. Now they are cheaper to buy
but prohibitively expensive to run.

Until the recent change in technology and incredibly improved picture,
colour TVs were cheaper than back in the 50s and 60s. Every convenience
store and hardware store used to have a tube tester machine and you when
you TV started screwing up you could bring some tubes in to the in the
machine and get replacements.




Things don't look good for he future, but if you are living in the right
place these days you would probably never find it any better in the past
or the future.
 
On 2011-03-11, Jim Elbrecht wrote:


It wasn't mine. I had a friend with a stock '55 Chevy. Rode like a
truck. I'd much rather have my '62 Impala or even "60 Chevy P/U.


I liked the one:
"All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had
their hair done every day and wore high heels?"


When I was going to college part time, had an old-school lady teacher.
She always wore tight blouses with open callar w/ necklace and full
skirts to the knees, hose, and high heels. Judging by her face and
neck, she was in her late 40s or early 50s (sun damage). Judging by
her legs, she was a hot 20-something. Regardless, she was very
elegant in a casual way and quite sexy.

Anyway, had a classmate who loved music and one day I was at his apt
checking out his monster LP collection (this still in record days). I
was in my mid 30s and he in his early 20s. The subject changed to
school and I asked him what he thought about our teacher, the one I
describe above. He replied, "The one who wears the funny shoes?"

nb
 
On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:06:10 -0400, Dave Smith
wrote:


A Civic is fine if you're no more than 5' 9" X 160 lbs, never drive
distances greater than 100 miles or 2 hours, never drive in inclement
weather, and have no friends.
 
On 11/03/2011 9:35 AM, Krypsis wrote:

Which are those? I didn't grow up in the US and I remember all but two.
We didn't lock car doors but keys were not usually left. Pure bred
dogs were more common than mutts in my neighbourhood. Farm dogs were
often mutts, but the local pets..... all pure bred.

There was always Ford fans and GM fans. Maybe they should have asked
about DeSotos and Studebakers.



I knew people who were given cars. I had to buy mine.




I remember them too. They were black and white, as were most of the
movies. Colour was still a big deal in movies, and there were darned few
colour TVs, and mot much tv programming in colour.



I had grown up in a small town and we had a party line. It was a PITA.
We finally got a private line around 1960. When we moved to a city in
1964 there was no problem getting a private line, but when I moved to
this rural property in 1977 I had to fight like hell for a private line.




We had a Trap and Skeet club at our high and once a week we took our
shotguns to school. They had to be left in our lockers.
 
On 2011-03-13, Brooklyn1 wrote:




That's cuz a Honda is jes been broken in a 100K. I sold mine w/ 240K
and motor was still purring.


Ever since early 90s, cars have become some sorta compressed cocoon.
My '87 Honda Civic hatchback had more body and legroom than a '96
Lincoln Mk VIII or any other US car I sat in. Nothing has changed
since. Everything from the early 90s on will kneecap you for life in
a 6mph accident.

nb
 
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:59:35 -0500, Jim Elbrecht wrote:


Yes, didn't he hang with Dale Evans? There were three, only two I can remember
is Smiley Burnette and Gabby Hayes.
 
Dave Smith wrote:

At my high school there was a rifle club and a varsity rifle team. Same
deal, different type of long gun. Had I known what would happen over
the years with attitudes towards guns I would have switched from the
rifle club to the rifle team and lettered in it. A letterman jacket in
rifle would make a fun museum piece today.
 
On 2011-03-11, Doug Freyburger wrote:


Back in the 60s, I attended HS as senior in rural E WA state, a major
migratory flyway. It was common to see the Jr and Sr students come to
class in their hunting clothes after hunting before school. They all
left their shotguns in their vehicle gun racks. No biggie.

nb
 
On 3/13/2011 3:03 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:

We love our Honda Civic. It's a 2005 with 77,000 miles. It's made it
to the northeast and back 3 times. To go anywhere from here )(getting
out of the Lower Rio Grande Valley) you have to go more than 100 miles.
We have had friends ride with us to local things. One guy is 6'6" and
about 300 pounds and he fits into the back seat just fine, if I pull the
seat up real close in the front.

We really are due for a new car, but that Civic is not about to give up
the ghost any time soon so we'll just keep it and continue to drive it.

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
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