[lightworker888]

Just got this and thought it might be enjoyed by others.

LW888



Black and White


Black and White (Under age 40? You won't understand.)You could hardly see for all the snow,
Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.
Pull a chair up to the TV set,

'Good Night, David.
Good Night, Chet.'

My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.

My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter and I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting e.coli.

Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.

The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.

We all took gym, not PE...and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.
Flunking gym was not an option.... even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.

Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.

We must have had horribly damaged psyches.What an archaic health system we had school nurses? Ours wore a hat and everything.

I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.

I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.

Oh yeah... and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!

We played 'king of the castle' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of mercurochrome or oxygen peroxide (kids liked those better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked.


Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.

We didn't act up at the neighbour's house either; because if we did we got our butt spanked there and then again when we got home.


I recall Jimmy White from down the street coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off.
Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house.
Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighbourhood run amuck.


To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family.
How could we possibly have known that
we needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes.

We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac!

How did we ever survive?

LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA; AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T, SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED. I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR ANYTHING!

Most simple pleasures are very often the best.

[jgbama]

Our first TV set had about a 6" screen, but the box itself was large enough to accommodate a 20"!

The variety shows were my favorite, Gary Moore, Ed Sullivan, and some I forget. Must be a "senior moment"!!

Thanks for the journey down memory lane.

[pivo]

We also had a 6 inch screen and believe the nightime show
was Herb shriner

[2BNTV]

LW888:

Thanks for the trip down memeory lane.

The first thing I remember seeing on a 6" Philco black and white television was Joe Dimaggio sauntering under a fly ball as l was playing with a truck on the floor and looked up for a while. My uncle had has buddies over for some beer and to enjoy the World Series. That was when they played the World Series in the afternnoon.

Times were sure different. I once mentioned to a young person that I remembered the days before there was air conditioning and refrigerators and her response was, "what do you mean there were no air conditioners or refrigerators?"

[redwitch]

World Series on TV? We used to bring our transistors to school and use the earjack (can't remember what we called them then). The smart teachers gave up and would play the game on a radio in class and we would have assignments based around the game.

My brother and I would have to take turns holding the rabbit ears just so for Ed Sullivan. He'd hold 'em for one act, me the other. It was the only way to tune it in properly. Dad would wrap tin foil around them for Disney but holding them got the better picture.

Was talking to my daughter not too long ago about princess phones and what a big deal they were when they came out. We also discussed party lines and how the teacher would call all of her students at once and give them their assignments on snow days.

Not sure why, but I still miss those days and wish our kids and grandkids could have lived them, too.

[2BNTV]

Red:

I wish I was lucky enough to have teachers that would let us listen to the World Series. Earplugs or no earplugs.

Being a sports nut, I would have been in seventh heaven if my assignments were based on the World Series. It might have given me the idea to beome a sports writer?

Welcome back Red. I missed you.

LW888, I think I came along right after you but I remember Dad bringing home a Zenith B&W portable tv and watching all weekend when Pres Kennedy was assassinated. We used to walk everywhere, no parents driving us around but of course, most everything was within walking distance. We had brick streets..loved the sound made when a car would go by. Loved the ball-bearing wheeled roller skates that you wore with your shoes on; kept the key on a ribbon around my neck. Playing outside all the time; ollie, ollie, oxen free(sp?), especially after dark. A special treat for me was taking the electric trolley bus downtown with my Mom to go to Rike's Dept Store & then have a hamburger & fries across the st at Frisch's--I can still remember how good it smelled when we walked in. I loved my blue Princess phone, wish I would have kept it but back then they belonged to the phone company. I feel sorry for kids today but I guess each generation feels that way about the younger ones.

[BnCinME]

There were no worries about losing the TV remote. We got up to change channels (all four of them).

We played dodgeball in gym. And they didn't hand out trophies just for showing up.

[Mikeod]

Originally Posted by BnCinME

There were no worries about losing the TV remote. We got up to change channels (all four of them).

We played dodgeball in gym. And they didn't hand out trophies just for showing up.

Reminds me of the time my son went to Vegas for the first time and stayed at the Imperial Palace. When we asked him how the trip went, all he could talk about was that they had to get out of bed to change channels on the TV. Poor baby!

[hedoman]

We rode in the back of pick up trucks
We drank water from a spring not out of plastic bottles
We had 1 car and glad of it, when we got a 2nd car we were sure we had made it to the big time
We went on dates not flash mobs
We walked or took a bus to school not lobbying for a parking spot
Mom stayed home to take care of us
Not going to Sunday School was NOT an option
We stepped out of line and WHAM we got the belt
We cut the brass tips off our woven belts because they left a mark
We played outside with sticks and old tennis balls
My brothers and I were the "remote control" for 4 channels and 2 on UHF
Wonderfull World of Disney was the only show in color
Our dogs kissed us on the face
We waited 1/2 hour to swim after eating
New clothes were special, hand me downs the norm
We earned our 25 cent allowance by cutting grass, doing dishes, cleaning our rooms
Movies were a quarter, popcorn 15 cents. We used our allowance.....
We were in bed by 9 and up at 6, homework checked, teeth brushed and jammies on

and the list goes on.......................