Posted on 03/26/2016 11:08:59 AM PDT by V K Lee
How's This For Nostalgia? All the girls had ugly gym uniforms
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When we moved to our present location in the beginning of the Reagan years, party lines was all we could get; that and the promise of a soon to be installed private line. We waited for the private line which came, at last, sometime during the following year or two. My great grandmother and great aunts lived on a Texas farm. They had party lines all their life. Never understanding the rings and how one would know when the call was actually theirs, was one of life’s mysteries for me, personally.
Before moving to the city, my family had a party line, but being a small tyke and living there before the teen age years rarely used Mr. Graham’s device.
When I traveled from Western Ohio to Eastern Pa to visit family I always drove the backroads rather than fly or go interstate. You get to see soooo much traveling thru the communities and “wilderness” along the way. I took plenty enough time to enjoy stopping often whenever I wanted.
I’m now here in Pa. close to family again....but those trips will always be fond memories.
When we first moved here - we did the same. NOW, it’s lock ‘em up at all times, even when home.
Progress ain’t much, is it?
We had a movie theater for a time.....always found gum stuck to the seats! LOLOL...nasty!
Another 1950’s institution was bakery trucks. Panel trucks from the Helms and Golden Crust bakery would cruise residential neighborhoods during weekday mornings. We were Helms customers, so the truck would stop in front of our house and toot its whistle. Then the driver would open the tailgate and we would purchase bread or other fresh baked goods. Even after six decades, I still remember how much I liked Dutch Crunch, a variety of white bread.
The Helms bakery’s huge facility in Culver City, Calif. closed in 1969.
Rabbit ears...
I barely recall my mother using a wooden ring phone that you cranked......she was late getting a dial phone but I recall it being a huge event for her. We were celebrating this new arrival though i wasn’t of age to understand...all I knew was I had candy!
We rejoiced when we got our first private phone line in 1960. No longer would we have to share the phone with the chatterbox housewife a couple doors down.
Yes, even the incidents when one traveled through the night attempting to find open gas stations on the roads (no Interstates back then) There were times when we would literally pull into a station, lock the doors and await the owners morning return to open. We’d attempt to sleep, if the chickens around the place were quiet. Some of those chickens could get noisy. And the roosters would always be vocal if an alarm should be needed.
I had a 1959 dial phone in my home until around 2000, although I also kept a modern phone so as to handle voicemail. The dial phone had a good sound and was ergonomically pleasant to hold.
That’s easy....call waiting is the worst of all.
Yep! And bent at all crazy angles with various items hanging off of the tops for
‘fine’ tuning!
Curtis Mathis...
Brother Dave, is that you?
I do enjoy being able to travel to Las Vegas from Orange County, Calif. in three-and-a-half hours in air-conditioned comfort--a far cry from our first trip there in 1961 in a 1958 Edsel Villager station wagon over two-lane roads, a trip that took about six hours.
Motorists in those days often drove through the desert at night to avoid the heat, as we did in August, 1963, when we left the LA area at around eight PM on a trip to Blythe, Calif., which we reached well after midnight.
A friend of our family owned a small grocery store in our neighborhood. Do you remember the little cardboard barrels of salted peanuts that would randomly have coins in them?
Well, this guy would weigh the little barrels one by one and keep the heavier ones with coins for himself and sell the rest. What an a-hole.
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Now that I think about it, I HOPE the sticky floors
were only from soda...
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