Are you this old?

[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.