Graytop
02-02-2012, 02:27 PM
My brother from Ohio and I were e-mailing,.. remembering how different things were when we were growing up....he wrote this note to me....
When :
Half of the roads in Ohio were gravel and clay.
If you owned a TV you were one of the privileged elite.
If you wanted to use the phone you had to check the line to see if the
neighbors were finished talking yet.
The Health department didn�t concern themselves with shutting down
church and fire department ice cream socials because a fly was spotted on one of the pies.
Also the Health inspector was on the Church council, the town council and the volunteer fire department.
( When was the last time you heard of an all volunteer fire department?)
If you wanted to buy meat at the local grocery it had to be Tuesday, Thursday, or Saturday.
If you were disobedient at school the principal and or teacher would whip you before you went home to see what your mom and dad were going to require of you.
On the other hand if a boy brought a shotgun to school no body panicked because he probably was hunting before school and planned
to go out again after school, or else the shotgun his grandfather gave him needed re-blued and the shop teacher had promised to help him blue
it and refinish the stock. The principal might sight down the barrel and reminisce about the .22 his grandpa gave him When he was 8,
and then compliment the young man on his shotgun, where after it went back into the pick-up truck without any other special notice taken.
Mom�s roasted everything for a couple of hours before you could chew it because all the chickens were free range,..all the beef was grass fed and game meat wasn�t much tougher than what was being raised on the farms then.
More than half of the dad�s in town suffered from post traumatic stress syndrome from WW II or Korea, but nobody knew what PTSD was back then.
People tolerated Hobos and gave them work and meals because they were usually just men who never quite adjusted to normal life after the war.
Everyone knew it, and understood it and just treated them as members of the community.
The oak floor boards in the hardware, grocery, barber shop, post office, and millinery creaked a comforting kind of creak when anyone came it.
Noone knew when or if those oak floor boards were finished. Hard tellin� from looks. If this recession lasts long enough we may get back there.
The local Willys mechanic used a block and tackle hung from an apple tree for an engine hoist.
The local banker would tell you how much you had to save up before he�d loan you the balance for a new car. Used cars you could usually just pay cash for.
When :
Half of the roads in Ohio were gravel and clay.
If you owned a TV you were one of the privileged elite.
If you wanted to use the phone you had to check the line to see if the
neighbors were finished talking yet.
The Health department didn�t concern themselves with shutting down
church and fire department ice cream socials because a fly was spotted on one of the pies.
Also the Health inspector was on the Church council, the town council and the volunteer fire department.
( When was the last time you heard of an all volunteer fire department?)
If you wanted to buy meat at the local grocery it had to be Tuesday, Thursday, or Saturday.
If you were disobedient at school the principal and or teacher would whip you before you went home to see what your mom and dad were going to require of you.
On the other hand if a boy brought a shotgun to school no body panicked because he probably was hunting before school and planned
to go out again after school, or else the shotgun his grandfather gave him needed re-blued and the shop teacher had promised to help him blue
it and refinish the stock. The principal might sight down the barrel and reminisce about the .22 his grandpa gave him When he was 8,
and then compliment the young man on his shotgun, where after it went back into the pick-up truck without any other special notice taken.
Mom�s roasted everything for a couple of hours before you could chew it because all the chickens were free range,..all the beef was grass fed and game meat wasn�t much tougher than what was being raised on the farms then.
More than half of the dad�s in town suffered from post traumatic stress syndrome from WW II or Korea, but nobody knew what PTSD was back then.
People tolerated Hobos and gave them work and meals because they were usually just men who never quite adjusted to normal life after the war.
Everyone knew it, and understood it and just treated them as members of the community.
The oak floor boards in the hardware, grocery, barber shop, post office, and millinery creaked a comforting kind of creak when anyone came it.
Noone knew when or if those oak floor boards were finished. Hard tellin� from looks. If this recession lasts long enough we may get back there.
The local Willys mechanic used a block and tackle hung from an apple tree for an engine hoist.
The local banker would tell you how much you had to save up before he�d loan you the balance for a new car. Used cars you could usually just pay cash for.