[arachne] Re: The beginning of the end? Comcast issurelytrying....

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On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 15:51:20 -0400 (EDT), ewalt@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> I may not remember morning and afternoon mail delivery, but I do
> remember horse drawn dairy wagons which lasted until about 1957 in
> my hometown

I remember them in the 1940's, then motorised milk waggons, where the
milk was ladelled from a large can into the small can we hung on the
gate post (the money was left in the can for the milkman to remove
before he put the milk in).

> black rotary dial telephones, long distance operators,

Wooden box telephones with crank on the side that you turned to call the
local operator.

> going places by passenger trains which were not Amtrak and the penny
> postcard. I also remember that girls had to wear skirts to school and
> boys had to wear pants with a crease (not blue jeans) and a shirt with
> a collar that had to be ironed to get the wrinkles out.

And a tie!!!

> And you couldn't wear sneakers anywhere except gym class and on the
> playground at recess.

And the shoes had to properly polished every day or you got a demerit.

> Mothers smoked, nobody had seat belts or air conditioners in their
> cars, and kids rode bikes without helmets. I could go on, but perhaps
> I've waxed nostalgic long enough.

Yeah... I remember....

> Oh, and football players would never wear gloves. Hell, I think it was
> golfers that started to wear gloves first. And real men didn't wear
> short pants or sandels.

Except on the beach!

    
    Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
    and remember what peace there may be in silence.
        "Desiderata", Max Ehrmann, copyright 1952.

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