Are you this old?

[Pixguy]

My mom at 84yo just sold her home of 50 yrs and the kitchen still had the black hard spin wall phone on the wall.

 

[Pixguy]

 

[Pixguy]

 

[JasperFrank]

Early Saturday mornings my brothers and I would pull the large channel knob on the living room color TV and wait. First there would be a single white dot in the screen for a good minute or two. Then the dot would expand to a horizontal line and then quickly expand to show a full screen of static snow and white noise. Too early. We would then look at the kitchen clock for 6 AM to tick off. Right at Six the Reference Target would flash on, the Indian head one with all the spokes and circles, and there would be a low audio tone.
We learned that you could adjust the clarity of the picture using the larger clear dial behind the channel knob. Almost time. Then the booming announcement with scrolling text, "WBAL beings another Broadcasting Day,......." And then the first show was a live broadcast called "Romper Room," followed by "Captain Kangaroo."

 

[Pixguy]

 

[mapper]

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As I recall, iodine was the one that really hurt, Mecurochrome not as much, it did contain mercury which has been found to be at least somewhat bad for you. I found out as a teenager that it did a pretty good job of getting rid of jock itch, thanks to someone who "borrowed " my gym clothes - without my knowledge. My mom did question me about why my tighty whiteys were red.

 

[beowulf]

77, 84, 79. .. . that explains why there is such wisdom and common sense on this forum.

 

[PILOON]

Well, I've known these:

Candlestick phone (205-R-31)
Coal chutes
Horse drawn milk wagons
Milk delivered via that door in the wall
Horse drawn snow removal in city (and roller compacting snow in rural areas)
Men shoveling city snow
Rope tows on ski hills
Winter ice cutting and ice houses

But then I was born in '38
and forget what I did yesterday ---but remember all sorts of bygone, (and many in detail)

Still have vague recollection of Japan victory parades and what I was doing that day.

Ha, golden years, yuck!

 

[LD48750]

77, 84, 79. .. . that explains why there is such wisdom and common sense on this forum.

You nice people make me feel young.

 

[mapper]

A high school friend sent this to me yesterday:

According to the last line he would have been born in 1947, and been graduated around 1965. Alot of the stuff that he said hadn't been invented was and was in wide spread use.

 

[Root Cause]

Well, I've known these:

Candlestick phone (205-R-31)
Coal chutes
Horse drawn milk wagons
Milk delivered via that door in the wall
Horse drawn snow removal in city (and roller compacting snow in rural areas)
Men shoveling city snow
Rope tows on ski hills
Winter ice cutting and ice houses

But then I was born in '38
and forget what I did yesterday ---but remember all sorts of bygone, (and many in detail)

Still have vague recollection of Japan victory parades and what I was doing that day.

Ha, golden years, yuck!

I "WELL" remember my Dad pushing me through the milk door, hanging me by my ankles, and dropping me on my head after us being locked out of the house. (age 3 or 4)
That seems like a remote and insignificant detail of my childhood yet may be the key that would explain many of my decisions as an adult.

 

[PILOON]

Could add a few more:

Churning milk at my granpa's place, stomping the hay in the wagon, compacting hay in the loft.
LEO's actually walking a beat!
Street cars and electric trolly buses.
Free skiing as long as U packed the hills for the tourists.
Big weekly fist fights at the local ski lodges. (no shooting back then).
LOL, one ski lodge would get a 'tip' and they'd quickly hide the one arm bandits.
Car timer starters that warmed your motor oil every 3 hours all night long.

 

[turnkey4099]

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

86 here, I sstill remember the announcement about Pearl Harbor. Also a few scattered memories of life on the farm back to about 1938.

 

[turnkey4099]

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.

our 'turntable was a wind up, First TV ia saw had a screen about 5" square.

 

[turnkey4099]

In my area, a beer home delivery buisiness would make a killing. I live in a dry County. Gotta go to the next County over to buy booze. 20 minute drive one way for me. But some areas are closer to an hour drive one way.

Heck, a tractor trailer could set up in an vacant parking lot in town and I bet he would be empty within an hour.

I had a 3 year tour in Germany (Hof) 1968-71. had a a walk-up apartment on the third floor. Free beer delivery, full case of the large German bottles once a week packed up all three floors.

 

[turnkey4099]

we;;, I am 60, but I remember having a wringer washer, a wood cookstove in the kitchen, taken bathes in a round tub on the kitchen floor with water heated on the wood stove

Same here plus add: Every bit a water packed about 60 ft from the hand pump spring. First had running water in about 1948 when the REA came through. Prior to that one neighbor had "running water" in the kitchen. Hand pump drew from a spring under the house.

 

[PILOON]

our 'turntable was a wind up, First TV ia saw had a screen about 5" square.

LOL, had an RCA wind up that I sold on EBay probably for 2-3X the original cost!

As a tot I'd cut Lilacs and sell them by the roadside come Sunday as the tourist drove home from a ski day in the Laurentians.
25 cents a bunch!--- LOL, introduction to Marketing 101!
Traffic was bumper to bumper on a 2 lane with usually 2-3 wrecks every Sunday.
Saw some gory results caused by head ons due to impatient drivers.

 

[Jstpssng]

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It scratched the """" out of the records, too!

 

[GeneV]

Same graduating class
Same state
Same memories

we thought gas was expensive when it went over $1 per gallon!

Ha yeh cool, what town?

 

[Gem99ultra]

Yep, we had wringer washing machine that stayed on the back porch, was rolled into the kitchen to do the laundry. Three stools (made by my pateranl grandfather) set around the washing machine, so clothes could be taken from the washer, run through the wringer into the first and then into second rinse tub, and then some into the third "bluing" tub. And yep, we sure bathed in one of those same round wash tubs in the middle of the kitchen. But I guess we were ahead of you, Moxie; we had a genuine Butane cookstove from the time I was big enough to remember.

Remember when homes for sale or rent used to be advertised as so many rooms and baths, as "4 rooms and a bath". Well, my parents said we had 5 rooms and a path. The outhouse was probably 150 feet from the house.

You guys are making me jealous, talking about wringer washing machines, 3 tubs, etc.. Heck - our washing machine was "me" with a single #2 wash tub.
Dad worked as a carpenter and always had mud caked on his Carpenter Overalls. Having only 2 pair, that meant washing every day, plus the bed sheets, clothes for the family, etc.. And then, of course, all of those had to be hung out on the clothesline to dry. Mom did the ironing, which back then included everything from clothes to bed sheets, so I figured that I got off light.
Baths were always in the #2 wash tub. Hot water bath was a luxury which we didn't normally experience. Don't even start to mention mowing the grass with a push-type real mower, and trimming the sidewalk with either a hatchet or scissors...