[graciegirl]

Add some things that happened back then that you remember that your grandkids haven't any idea about.

A time before Pizza? I had my first taste in high school.

Our Miss Brooks?

The Land of Let's Pretend.

A time before TV...meaning TELEVISION?

Well water.

Victory Gardens.

Wacs and Waves were my heroines and solders and sailors my heros...the second world war when I was very little.

Cowgirl outfits and Dale Evans.

Writing for and receiving movie star pictures in the mail.

Don't leave me dangling here showing my age...join in please.



What do you remember that your grandkids wouldn't know about???

[BigMike]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

Add some things that happened back then that you remember that your grandkids haven't any idea about.

A time before Pizza? I had my first taste in high school.

Our Miss Brooks?

The Land of Let's Pretend.

A time before TV...meaning TELEVISION?

Well water.

Victory Gardens.

Wacs and Waves were my heroines and solders and sailors my heros...the second world war when I was very little.

Cowgirl outfits and Dale Evans.

Writing for and receiving movie star pictures in the mail.

Don't leave me dangling here showing my age...join in please.



What do you remember that your grandkids wouldn't know about???

Party line telephones I think our co user always listened in

[wendyquat]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

Add some things that happened back then that you remember that your grandkids haven't any idea about.

A time before Pizza? I had my first taste in high school.

Our Miss Brooks?

The Land of Let's Pretend.

A time before TV...meaning TELEVISION?

Well water.

Victory Gardens.

Wacs and Waves were my heroines and solders and sailors my heros...the second world war when I was very little.

Cowgirl outfits and Dale Evans.

Writing for and receiving movie star pictures in the mail.

Don't leave me dangling here showing my age...join in please.



What do you remember that your grandkids wouldn't know about???

Howdy Doody

Winky Dink

Nickel Cokes

Peanuts in those Cokes

Having 2 pair of shoes, one for school and one for church!

[chuckinca]

Spending the summer at grandma's at the lake in Indiana and not wearing shoes.

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[jblum315]

What do you remember that your grandkids wouldn't know about???[/QUOTE]

Movie magazines, True Love/Confessions magazines, fountain Cokes, ration books (WW II), 25-cent gas and cigarettes, radio shows (Green Hornet, The Creaking Door, Amos & Andy, The First-Nighters), typewriters, mimeo machines

[JimPete]

Drive-in movies

[getdul981]

"I know nothing!" per Sgt. Shultz.

Burma Shave signs.

"A little dab'l do ya" - Brylcreme (sp?) (Been so long I don't even remember how to spell it)

"See the USA in your Chevrolet" per Dinah Shore.

I guess I watched too much Television.

[marennorge]

...rotary phones, 3-digit phone numbers, nickel draft beers, SERVICE gas stations, 25 cents a gallon gas...

[Jim 9922]

Squirt Soda with real pieces of grapefruit in each bottle
Drug Store soda fountains
S&H Green Stamps
5 cent parking meters
Horse drawn milk & garbage wagons
Crystal set radios
Lunch counters in department stores
Hand cranked cash registers
The blizzard of 1947 (if you lived in Wisconsin)
Toys without batteries
"Scrubs" baseball games

[Happinow]

Remember when.....

Couldn't even say anything related to sex on tv and now you can say the "f" word and have love scenes in bed?

You had to get up turn the channel on the tv?

Only AM radio

Had to actually wait to get home to answer the phone that was plugged into the wall and had an answering machine?

When kids were respectful?

When kids wore their pants on their hips instead of down to their knees?

When your mom bought you 3 outfits for school and you were thrilled?

When the whole family sat down to dinner together?

When mom stayed home to raise the kids?

When dad had a job?

When families were able to make ends meet on one paycheck?

When owning a home was the "American Dream"?

When a pair of sneakers costs 12.99 not 120.99?

When you didn't have to lock your house doors and windows and car doors?

When you felt safe walking anywhere?

When what was yours was yours and not everyone elses?

I could go on and on.

[Bill-n-Brillo]

- New car designs changed every year or two (and every manufacturer's cars looked unique)

- There was no interstate freeway system

- Local transit buses were actually trolleys, with the overhead electric lines and tracks laid in the streets

- Mailing in cereal box tops to get prizes sent to you

- Top Value savings stamps

- Getting coffee mugs, etc. with a fill-up at the gas station

- There were no 'self-serve' gas stations - and the attendants who filled your car up always checked the oil and washed the windshield

- Getting each successive volume of Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia at the grocery store

- Only 'expensive' cars had air conditioning, power windows, and door locks


Bill

[Posh 08]

Brooklyn Dodgers and the Washington Senators.
Nash Rambler
No stores open on Sunday or Christmas Day.

[cappyjon431]

45 & 33 rpm records
8 track tapes
cassette tapes

Mom or Dad calling (yelling )you home from the front porch because it was getting dark!

Pickup games of stickball,baseball,basketball after school in the neighborhood!

[mac9]

Roller skates that fit onto your shoes and were tightened with a skate key!
Flavor-straws.
Dots candy on a strip of paper.
Lunchmeat and cheese sliced on a hand-turned slicing machine.
Cars without automatic turn signals.
Hand pushed lawn mowers.
Lawn trimmers that looked like big scissors(no weed whackers)