A Friend sent me this email. I though that it would be fun to share.
I will say that I don't remember all of these, but some of them sound familiar!
We did have a party line and when my mom and dad moved to Montana in 1978 they used a crank telephone out on the ranch! In 1978!
"Hey Dad," one of my kids 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. "Grandma cooked every
> day and when Grandpa 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 AND 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 11, but my grandparents had one before that. It was,
> of course, black and white, but they bought a piece of colored plastic
> to cover the screen. The top third was blue, like the sky, and the
> bottom third was green, like grass. The middle third was red. It was
> perfect for programs that had scenes of fire trucks riding across
> someone's lawn on a sunny day. Some people had a lens taped to the front
> of the TV to make the picture look larger.
>
> 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, swung down, plastered itself against
> my chin and burned that, too. It's still
> the best pizza I ever had.
>
> We didn't have a car until I was 15. Before that, the only car in our
> family was my grandfather's Ford. He called it a "machine."
>
> 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.
> I delivered a newspaper, six
> days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I got
> to keep 2 cents. I had to get up at 4 AM every morning.
> On Saturday, I had to collect the 42 cents from my customers. My
> favorite customers were the ones who
> gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change. My
> 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. Touching someone else's tongue with yours was
> called French kissing and they didn't do that in movies. I don't know
> what they did in French movies. French movies were dirty and we weren't
> allowed to see them.
>
> 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
> water 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 are 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
> 8. Newsreels before the movie
> 9. P.F. Flyers
> 10. Butch wax
> 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (OLive-6933)
> 12. Peashooters
> 13. Howdy Doody
> 14. 45 RPM records
> 15. S&H Green Stamps
> 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
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