Posted on 05/30/2017 5:00:59 AM PDT by sodpoodle
Thanks for that! I loved cherry phosphates too! Might have to try to recreate the experience. :)
Oh Geez louise!
When I was closing out my aunt’s estate, att actually asked me for the phones - they were STILL on lease in 2003! I mentioned that they had been paid at least 100 times over the actual cost and that I had no idea where the 2nd phone they were looking for was... They finally saw the wisdom of just writing it off.
Put a nickle in and let the buffalo push!
The phone is ringing off the hook! (No hook anymore.)
We took “mad money” with us on dates. We kept it in our “pocketbooks” so we had “carfare” to get home in case our dates got “fresh.”
In Catholic school, the place where we hung up our coats was called the “cloakroom.” That must date back to the days when people actually wore cloaks! The bathroom was called the “lavatory.”
I guess everything is ‘minimalist’ now, which I can appreciate as a concept, but wouldn’t want to live with.
Eventually there’ll be a swing back, as people desire things with more character. Style always goes back and forth.
“And what ever happened to doohickey bobbers?”
They were on the fritz. Along with the thingamajig.
I agree the term ‘FU’ has been around a long, long time as has the traditional Celtic one-finger salute. Unfortunately it has been extremely over used by the current generation of “heathens” to the extent “nobody gives two sh*ts” anymore.
I, myself, prefer to remain “couth (kooth)” and use the term “Screw U” which is softer to the ear. The former just sounds too “crude” to be used in the presence of women and children. It should be reserved for “getting your point across” to politicians, lawyers, felons, and media skunk liberals.
If we do not resolve our differences in a “gentlemanly fashion” it will soon be time to “go native” or “ape sh*t” (if you prefer something a little more racial). Anyway, by that time it will be too late for “Katy to bar the door” and the “horse will be out of the barn”.
P.S. Hope nobody gets “ticked off”. I have tried to inject some degree of “levity” in my response. /S?
When a ‘strike’ was a good thing. Haven’t bowled in years, but did enjoy it.
“What in the Sam Hill?”
My Dad was a real “Iceman”! :^}
And my dad probably bought from yours.
“When we last had a land-line, about 6 years ago, it still worked. I wonder if it would work today?”
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If it’s Western Electric made it will work forever. :-)
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Yep, I talked to a buddy this morning who is familiar with antiques and I asked him if it was worth anything. He said no and that he has a friend who converted one into a barbecue grill with a motorized spit.........LOL!
I don’t know, it’s packed away.
When they installed FIOS, they ‘killed’ the land line outlets where we are. I want to be sure we have one when we move.
Wow.
I’ve been in telecom since 1984 after the breakup of Ma Bell and didn’t know about this resource.
Thank you...
My dad was Chief Engineer at City Ice & Fuel then Royal Palm Ice Co, in Miami & Miami Beach, 1929-1962.
Provided ice for the hotels on the ‘Beach’ (WW2) that housed military and others. Also provided for small PT boats and other Navy ships that did not have ice makers.
If you had ice in Miami/ Dade then, he probably, was making it.
One day, you may be able to call from a payphone and turn off your oven or even turn on your air conditioner...or even call to water the lawn when you are away on vacation....
LOL!!!!!
So damn funny how all this “New Technology” was invented or thought of before I was born.
OMG this is too funny!
Century 21 Worlds Fair, Seattle....
http://techchannel.att.com/play-video.cfm/2013/7/10/AA11167-Century-21-Calling
I refuse to be a geezer.
Hu’s on first?
I don’t know...
5.56mm
My response....yeh...right...
I also remember in 1961....that the cashier teaching me said they would scan the prices and we wouldn't have to memorize them.
At age 17, I was offered a job at Shuron Optical as a computer programmer. I had gone through training at IBM....the days of the punch cards.
I turned it down and took the job at Gleason works which paid 10 cents more an hour.
And I was a young girl...there was no job discrimination.
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