[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: remembering
- From: "Lynn I" <lynnskyi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:37:48 -0600
Hi Bob,
So you did that too? I remember crying my eyes out because I had stayed up
all night typing. When my mom looked at the pages, she almost started crying
herself. She had a hard time telling me they were blank. Guess we've all
come a very long way since those days. *smile*
Blessings.
Lynnsky
Happy moments, praise God.
Difficult moments, seek God.
Quiet moments, worship God.
Painful moments, trust God.
Every moment, thank God.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 9:49 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: remembering
I once typed an eight page term paper with no ribbon in my typewriter.
Fortunately my professor was understanding and gave me some extra time,
after he quit laughing.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy Rosenthal" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 3:58 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT: remembering
>I don't normally post emails that I get but given the
> recent conversations about age and remembering, I'm
> going to post parts of a recent one I received
> entitled Older than Dirt. I think it will bring back
> fond memories for some and be a bit of history of
> those of you too young to remember.
>
> The main part that I'm going to include is a quiz. The
> friend who sent it to me said she was Older than Dirt.
> If I include both the place where we spent out summers
> for a while as well as my regular home, then I'm older
> than dirt, too. If I exclude that I'm just a little
> younger. grin
>
> Enjoy. BTW, speaking of salaries, by first job as a
> high school teacher was in 1958-59 and I made what I
> thought was a great annual salary--$4800. When I left
> teaching, by next job pad $225 a month. Of course food
> and gas and everything else were way cheaper.
>
> Cindy
>
>> For those of you too young to remember, consider it
>> part of your parents'
>> personal history!
>>
>>
>> 'Someone asked the other day, 'What was your
>> favorite 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 'at home,'' I explained. !
>>
>> 'Mom 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 kid 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
>> figured his system could have handled it :
>>
>> Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis
>> , set foot on a golf
>> course, traveled out of the country or had a credit
>> card.
>>
>> In their later years they had something called a
>> revolving charge card. The
>> card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was
>> Sears & Roebuck.
>>
>> Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he
>> died.
>>
>>
>> My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This
>> was mostly because we
>> never had heard of soccer. 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
>> 5.
>>
>> It was, of course, black and white, and the station
>> went off the air at
>> midnight, after playing the national anthem and a
>> poem about God; 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.
>>
>>
>> I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was
>> called 'pizza pie.'
>>
>> When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth
>> and the cheese slid off,
>> swu ng down, plastered itself against my chin and
>> burned that, too. It's
>> still the best pizza Iever had.
>>
>>
>> We didn't have a car until I was 4. It was an old
>> black Dodge.
>>
>>
>> I never had a telephone in my room.
>>
>> The only phone in the house was in the living room
>> and it was on a party
>> line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and
>> make sure some people you
>> didn't know weren't already using the line.
>>
>> 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, six days a week. It
>> cost 7 cents a paper, of
>> which he got to keep 2 cents. He had to get up at
>> 6AM
>>
>> every morning.
>>
>> On Saturday, he had to collect the 42 cents from his
>> customers. His favorite
>> customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and
>> told him to keep the
>> change. His least favorite customers were the ones
>> who seemed to never be
>> home on collection day.
>>
>> Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least,
>> they did in the movies.
>> There were no movie ratings because all movies were
>> responsibly produced for
>> everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or
>> violence or most 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 Royal Crown Cola 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?
>>
>> Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
>> Ignition switches on the dashboard.
>> Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
>> Real ice boxes.
>> Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
>> Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
>> Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
>>
>> Older Than Dirt Quiz :
>>
>> Count all the ones that you remember not the ones
>> you were told about
>>
>> Ratings at the bottom.
>>
>> 1 Blackjack chewing gum
>> 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
>> 3. Candy cigarettes
>> 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
>> 5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
>> 6 . Home milk delivery in glass bottles with
>> cardboard stoppers
>> 7. Party lines on the telephone
>> 8. Newsreels before the movie
>> 9. P.F. Flyers
>> 10. Butch wax
>> 11. 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 3
>> channels [if you were fortunate])
>> 12. Peashooters
>> 13. Howdy Doody
>> 14. 45 RPM records
>> 15. S& H greenstamps
>> 16 Hi-fi's
>> 17. Metal ice trays with lever
>> 18. Mimeograph paper
>> 19 Blue flashbulb
>> 20. Packards
>> 21. Roller skate keys
>> 22. Cork popguns
>> 23. Drive-ins
>> 24. Studebakers
>> 25. Wash tub wringers
>>
>> If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
>> If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
>> If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
>> If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
>>
> This list doesn't mention the cream on the top of the
> bottle of milk. I hated that and Dad syphoned it off
> for me. Personally, I never saw a peashooter, I don't
> know what Butch Wax is, and I didn't have or see a
> wringer washing machine until I rented a house that
> had one in it.
>
> This person is younger than I. We never had a TV set
> until my parents got one when I was in college. And
> before there were 45's there were 78s (records).
>>
>
>
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>
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>
>
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