Just for us old guys !

[donsrods]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjj9VKKSV2g

How much of these do you remember ?

Don

 

[zzrodder]

Jeez, I feel old..... born in the middle of it... Technology has moved a long way but still no flying cars like the Jetsons - at least we have one thing predicted for the future, the time machine (also known as the camera), however it only goes back in time, not forward. Probably a good thing tho....

 

[AZRodDave]

I remember all of it! Simpler times...

 

[kenny c]

Was born in 64 but still recognize and remember a lot of it.

 

[Bamamav]

Remember a lot of it from TV and magazine pics. The row of phone booths is one I remember for sure, when I started trucking back in 1985, every truckstop had a phone room with at least 4 phones in it, most had 15-20 or more. Every morning the phones would all be full with guys waiting for one to become available. Now try to find a pay phone.......cell phones have made them obsolete.

 

[I-R-POPS]

Dang X-ray glasses didn't work. And I'm still mad about it!!!
Thanks Don for the trip down memory lane.

 

[donsrods]

Yep, I remember it all too. $1.10 car load at the drive in theater, trying to scrape enough money together for my date on Saturday night, 5 cent container of milk at school lunch, lovers lane cool, and the best time of the year.....Summer vacation !! [cl

Whenever I run into a young person today I tell them to enjoy it as much as you can now, because before too long you will be older and looking at videos of your youth for memories..........the years fly by way too fast.

Don

 

[Tripper]

Yep... back then we never locked our house, always left the keys in our cars & played outside until our parents forced us to come inside!

BoB

 

[earthman]

Bring them on i remember it all. Can anyone beat these? I rode on a train pulled by a steam locomotive still in regular service. First home when i was born had no plumbing other than one cold water faucet. Baths were taken in a galvinized tub placed in the kitchen with water heated on the stove once a week. The iceman brought a block of ice and put it in the top of the icebox. The milkman brought milk in glass bottles and put them in the icebox. The kitchen stove burned kerosene. Rolled a wringer washer into the kitchen with two big rinse tubs once a week. A Doctor made a house call once. When we made an out of town phone call we had to ask for the long distance operator and wait for an available line, then hope it was a good connection. I was "nervous" about using the telephone until i was about 12. My sister worked for Western Union and sent me a telegram. The mailman walked the whole route carrying a big leather bag. He got dog bit frequently. Women were referred to and treated as ladies until proved otherwise.

 

[AZRodDave]

You win, e-man! AI remember about half of that, and there are probably others who have similar stories as yours. I think Grandpa and Grandma in Indiana were just a little more update with [ahem] modern conveniences. But just barely!

 

[soltz]

Ya All Of It

Eman you must have lived way out there, I think i'm older but we did have indoor plumbing, but only one john for five of us. But we did have to walk to school 2 miles each way up hill in the snow [cl

Thanks Don i needed to remember how old i'm getting.

When you can see the green side of the lawn and not the dirt side when you wake up it's a good day. [cl

 

[donsrods]

Haha, our phone was on a party line, that we shared with 2 other families. When it rang 3 times it was for us, and when it rang once or twice it was for the other two families. Every once in a while you would be talking and you would hear someone quietly pick up the phone and start listening, and you would say "Get off the phone !" [cl

I still remember our first phone number..........4991-J3. I can't remember my current number , but I still remember that one !

Don

 

[bruno]

I remember about 95% of it. I remember my mom teaching me how to pick up the phone and tell the operator the number I wanted to call.

 

[Skip]

Dang, All of it. And I'm not even old.

First phone number 4203, and there were like nine others on the party line. Kids didn't make phone calls in our house unless it was an emergency.

Didn't have TV until the early 60s. Then it died and we went several more years.

We did have indoor plumbing, but it was an add-on long after the house was built.

On the bright side, I bought a rust free, non running '38 Ford tudor for $35 hard earned, in '65.

 

[forbigpicture]

I remember most of this, it reminded me of my pre-teen yrs when I spent
most summers with my grandparents on their farm because I thought
it was the greatest thing...no tv, no phone, hand pump for water and a
2 hole out house (never did understand that one)
when we weren't milking cows, setting tobacco, putting up hay, fixing
fence...etc. for entertainment we would swing off grapevines into the creek
swim, dirt clod battles, jumping out of the hay loft on to a pile of hay
wearing out our overalls sliding down sand stone rock, jumping on the horses
back and taking a ride. I thought i was the best life to live, but of course
I wasn't the one trying to make a living at it.....good day's

 

[donsrods]

Remember taking the tubes out of your TV and going to a 5 and 10 cent store to use their tester ? Also, how many of you had two TV's.......one on the bottom with picture and another one on top of it for the sound ? My Sons were just reminding me that we did that one time, the picture went out on one and the sound went out on the other !

Don

 

[Bamamav]

We had a black and white TV until about 1973, then we finally got a color one. My old man was tight, if it wasn't broke, why change? Had all of 4 channels back then, ABC, CBS, NBC, and a part time PBS station. No cable, we lived too far out in the country and he wouldn't have had it anyway, Mom finally got cable after he died in 2007.

I remember my first transistor radio, about twice as big as a pack of smokes, ran off of a 9 volt battery. AM only of course, didn't know about FM back then. After one of my Uncles died, my Aunt gave me one of his portable radios, a AM/FM/Shortwave. I was in heaven! I could listen to stations around the world, was always thrilled when I found one that was broadcasting in English like the BBC, even if they did talk funny! That started my love of radio.

 

[kenny c]

We had a black and white TV until about 1973, then we finally got a color one. My old man was tight, if it wasn't broke, why change? Had all of 4 channels back then, ABC, CBS, NBC, and a part time PBS station. No cable, we lived too far out in the country and he wouldn't have had it anyway, Mom finally got cable after he died in 2007.

I remember my first transistor radio, about twice as big as a pack of smokes, ran off of a 9 volt battery. AM only of course, didn't know about FM back then. After one of my Uncles died, my Aunt gave me one of his portable radios, a AM/FM/Shortwave. I was in heaven! I could listen to stations around the world, was always thrilled when I found one that was broadcasting in English like the BBC, even if they did talk funny! That started my love of radio.

All the same as your story eccept my dad was a tv and radio repair man. We we got the same channels an 2 uhf channels 38 and 56 but real fuzzy. If we wanted to watch the bruins play hockey we had to go a mile down the road to my grandmother's to be able to see the puck because her reception was a little better. Oh and my mom just got cable last year but only so that her 86 year old boy freind could have internet.

 

[Yankee Transplant]

We always had cable ,, and we were not rich ,,, but Ive had cable as long as I can remember .. we moved down here in 75 and we only got 3 channels on the TV, (That was odd to us ) we couldnt get cable where we lived .... did any one have a colored screen that you put in front of your black and white TV to make it a colored TV ? My Granpap did and he also had a automatic channel changer this was in the early 70s I dont know if it was home made or store bought, I do remember it would make a heck of a noise when he changed the channel ker-plunk and it was on the next channel and you could watch the knob click over

 

[Bonehead]

I have decided, I don't know what any of this means. I must be too young. Or so old I have forgotten.
Okay, I remember Howdy Doody, which ended in 1960, I must have seen the re-runs because I would have been pretty young, they say it was in color, but I wouldn't know.