Are you this old?

[metalbender]

The horse pulling the milk delivery wagon would stop and go as required while the delivery man would would do his route. The road apples were moved around with hockey sticks.

 

[Alan W.]

I was too poor to use money so I used a rock on my phono arm.
Remember hauling coal and water for cisterns with my grandpa to customers on the weekend. He was gone during the week working in the signal dept of Southern Railway. They phased out the lines just before he retired.
Drinking from the water bucket on the kitchen counter.
No kid today would use a bootjack to pull his air jordans or whoever is signing them now off.
In our first house the wind would cause the linoleum to lift.
I remember the tinctures were phased out due to mercury, but we would play with mercury in school on the tables and what we couldnt get back together in the bottle we would wipe off onto the floor.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Drinking from the water bucket indeed. Pumping the water from a pump outside the house; having to walk to the creek to fetch priming water if you didn't fill up the priming can; heating water so you could have a bath in the wash tub on Saturday night; waking up in the morning to see ice crystals floating on top of the water bucket.

 

[beowulf]

A high school friend sent this to me yesterday:

One evening a grandson was talking to his grandfather about current events.

The grandson asked his grandfather what he thought about the shootings at schools, the computer age, and just things in general.

The Grandfather replied, "Well, let me think a minute, I was born before:
' television
' penicillin
' polio shots
' frozen foods
' Xerox
' contact lenses
' Frisbees and
' the pill

There were no:
' credit cards
' laser beams or
' ball-point pens

Man had not invented :
' pantyhose
' air conditioners
' dishwashers
' clothes dryers
' and the clothes were hung out to dry in the fresh air and
' space travel was only in Flash Gordon books.

Your Grandmother and I got married first,... and then lived together..

Every family had a father and a mother. Until I was 25, I called every woman older than me, "mam". And after I turned 25, I still called policemen and every man with a title, "Sir".

We were before gay-rights, computer-dating, dual careers, daycare centers, and group therapy.

Our lives were governed by the Bible, good judgment, and common sense. We were taught to know the difference between right and wrong and to stand up and take responsibility for our actions.

Serving your country was a privilege; living in this country was a bigger privilege... We thought fast food was eating half a biscuit while running to catch the school bus.

Having a meaningful relationship meant getting along with your cousins.

Draft dodgers were those who closed front doors as the evening breeze started.

Time-sharing meant time the family spent together in the evenings and weekends-not purchasing condominiums.

We never heard of FM radios, tape decks, CDs, electric typewriters, yogurt, or guys wearing earrings.

We listened to Big Bands, Jack Benny, and the President's speeches on our radios. And I don't ever remember any kid blowing his brains out listening to Tommy Dorsey.

If you saw anything with 'Made in Japan' on it, it was junk.

The term 'making out' referred to how you did on your school exam....

Pizza Hut, McDonald's, and instant coffee were unheard of.

We had 5 &10-cent stores where you could actually buy things for 5 and 10 cents. Ice-cream cones, phone calls, rides on a streetcar, and a Pepsi were all a nickel. And if you didn't want to splurge, you could spend your nickel on enough stamps to mail 1 letter and 2 postcards.

You could buy a new Ford Coupe for $600, but who could afford one? Too bad, because gas was 11 cents a gallon.

In my day:
' "grass" was mowed,
' "coke" was a cold drink,
' "pot" was something your mother cooked in and
' "rock music" was your grandmother's lullaby.
' "Aids" were helpers in the Principal's office,
' "chip" meant a piece of wood,
' "hardware" was found in a hardware store and
' "software" wasn't even a word.

And we were the last generation to actually believe that a lady needed a husband to have a baby.

How old do you think I am?

I bet you have this old man in mind...you are in for a shock!

Read on to see -- pretty scary if you think about it and pretty sad at the same time .

Are you ready ?????

This man would be 74 years old today.(2021)

 

[ovrszd]

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SEE, EVEN THEN NOBODY WANTED TO WORK!!!!!

 

[workinonit]

My grands lived in an old fat lighter wood frame house. In the spring everything inside went in the yard and the inside of the house was washed down with lye soap, bleach and hot water heated on the wood stove. Grandma did that for years.

 

[etpm]

Are you old enough to remember the connection?

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Yes.

 

[beowulf]

Listening to the Lone Ranger and Sky King on the radio. And for whatever reason, always sitting right on top of the radio.

 

[Pixguy]

Just some interesting pics

 

[turnkey4099]

Are you old enough to remember the connection?

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Oh, yeah.

 

[turnkey4099]

OLD Enough to remember milk being delivered in bottles to the BACK DOOR!

Old enough to remember the Watkins guy coming by in a horse and delivery wagon. Quite a custom wagon with drawers, shelfs, etc. Big est new thing was seeing the REA bringing electricity out to the boonies after WWII

 

[turnkey4099]

Old enough to remember milking cows so we had milk to drink!

I was squeezing those teats on 6 cows from teh time I was big enough to sit on the old 1 legged milkstool until I went in the AF at age 18.

 

[turnkey4099]

Two long and one short ring for us, if I remember right (and I wouldn't bet on that). Funny how we remember certain things from our early days. My mother was on the phone with someone when the guy down the road came on and asked her to hang up because he had an emergency call to make. She hung up, but said she got to wondering if someone was hurt and she might be able to help, so she picked up the phone again. That neighbor was telling a friend about his new calf that was born during the night. Mother said she'd never hang up for him again.

On our party line, one broke into the conversation to request that favor.

 

[Oaktree]

A high school friend sent this to me yesterday:

The original author of that piece must have been from a time much longer ago...to be 74 today he would have been born in 1947, I'm 71 and a good part of that was ancient history in my lifetime. Maybe some of it when I was a small child, but not during any meaningful part of my life. Maybe when my mother was growing up...

Much as we sometimes think the good old days were so much better, I wouldn't want to live in a time when most of that was true.

 

[Thomas]

Nope don't remember any of the 3 pictures.

 

[beowulf]

The original author of that piece must have been from a time much longer ago...to be 74 today he would have been born in 1947, I'm 71 and a good part of that was ancient history in my lifetime. Maybe some of it when I was a small child, but not during any meaningful part of my life. Maybe when my mother was growing up...

Much as we sometimes think the good old days were so much better, I wouldn't want to live in a time when most of that was true.

You are correct - I re-read it and clearly a good bit of that - but not all - was around in some way. I am soon to be 78.

 

[Molalla1]

You are correct - I re-read it and clearly a good bit of that - but not all - was around in some way. I am soon to be 78.

Very soon to be 79 myself . . .

 

[GeneV]

Well, me being high school class of '91, I'm old enough to remember life before cellphones and the internet.

 

[Bird]

Aaah to be a youngster like you guys. Just one more month and I'll be 82.

 

[JasperFrank]

I would put the penny on the back of the tone arm, cause our cheap GE turn table had no counter weight and the styis would just wallow through the grooves. Some folk would put them on the needle end to keep the needle from skipping. My dad had 78s, and had a turn table that used what looked like sewing needles. That was MONO. And I remember the explosion of tech to dual channel sound and how amazing that was.