[2BNTV]

I remember my grandmother using a washing board to wash clothes and then ringing them out on a roller type device. Then she hung them up on the clothes line by the back porch.

This was before washing and drying machines were invented.

Darn, I'm feeling old.

[jblum315]

Originally Posted by Posh 08

Do you remember the RF&P Railroad?

Of course I do. Loved the Richmond train station.

[eweissenbach]

Lived in a small town of about 700 in rural Missouri. Every Saturday nite in the summer we had a free movie in the city park. I would walk 1 mile to town and buy a quart Vess cola for $.15 at Sterle and Myrtle's Jot-em-down store, and watch a tarzan or other semi-current flick, then walk back home, sometimes alone, sometimes with my cousin, at 11 PM. That was the forerunner to nightly entertainment at the squares!

[Barefoot]

Do you remember the first time you ever watched TV? My father brought home a new television, no colour of course, and we watched I Love Lucy!

[eweissenbach]

Originally Posted by Barefoot

Do you remember the first time you ever watched TV? My father brought home a new television, no colour of course, and we watched I Love Lucy!

Actually I don't remember NOT having a television. My dad owned a bar and grill and bought a TV for it when they first began broadcasting in Omaha, and bought one for our home at the same time, 1947/48 when I was either one or two years old.

[2BNTV]

Originally Posted by Barefoot

Do you remember the first time you ever watched TV? My father brought home a new television, no colour of course, and we watched I Love Lucy!

I first saw a 6 inch Philco television when my uncle had his buddies over for a beer to watch the World Series and I remember looking up from playing with a truck on the floor and seeing Joe DiMaggio saunter under a fly ball.

Color came a while later and the big thing was watching the map of Bonanza burning up and The Wonderful World of Disney.

Who would thunk disneyland for adults was in our future.

[rblammon]

I remember going to Tidkeys department store in downtown Toledo, Ohio. I would go over to the elavator and push the button on the wall. Soon the doors would open up and a man would ask me, What floor please. Also the two hole outhouse.

[Mikeod]

The drug store in the center of town had cokes for $0.05. If you wanted a vanilla coke or cherry coke, it was an extra nickel.

Remember getting an encyclopedia one volume a week at the grocery store?

Of course, don't try to explain to a current grandchild about using 78 or 45 rpm records or stacking 33's on a turntable spindle. All you'll get is a strange look.

[JimPete]

Originally Posted by Barefoot

Do you remember the first time you ever watched TV? My father brought home a new television, no colour of course, and we watched I Love Lucy!

Yes. A friend's father brought one home and we stood and looked through their window while they got it going. It was a while before my parents got one. But even then, we spent far more time outside than setting in front of the tube.

The big thing for us was when dad took us all to the drive-in movies.

[JimPete]

Originally Posted by rblammon

I remember going to Tidkeys department store in downtown Toledo, Ohio. I would go over to the elavator and push the button on the wall. Soon the doors would open up and a man would ask me, What floor please. Also the two hole outhouse.

I've used an out house. We always had indoor facilities but a few of my relatives didn't.

[tippyclubb]

I miss the smell of burning leaves.

Every fall we go out and rake up 30 or more bags of leaves and it always reminds me of being a child. Way back then we would rake them to the street ( after jumping in the huge piles first ) and set them on fire. I would love to smell burning leaves again.

[deanna1950]

I remember, brother Mom knew we could hear that dinner bell where ever we were and we better get home

[chuckinca]

Stevenson's Bowling Alley with two lanes in the basement of the Kresge's five and dime on 79th St near Cottage Grove on the Chicago South Side.


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[mrfixit]

Originally Posted by tippyclubb

I miss the smell of burning leaves.

Every fall we go out and rake up 30 or more bags of leaves and it always reminds me of being a child. Way back then we would RAKE THEM TO THE STREET and SET THEM ON FIRE. I would love to smell burning leaves again.

...DANG.....so that is what I was supposed to do with them.....HECK...I would use my HIGH-PRESSURE washer and blow them over to the edge of the tree farm........no mess, no dust, no air pollution..the lawn looked like it had just been gone over with a carpet cleaner and then vacuumed........ the leaves turned into topsoil the next year....Of course, where we lived you'd get a $ 400. fine if you burned them.

[redwitch]

Flying from Europe (Germany, I think) to the U.S. and having to stop in Ireland and, I believe, Greenland to refuel. There was no way for the planes to make it across the Atlantic non-stop. And, of course, the entire flight took over 14 hours.

My Kentucky hills grandmother was, to put it mildly, very frugal. Rather than buying coal all of the grandkids would go out very early on Saturday morning and grab the coal on the railroad tracks, put it in buckets and lug it to her house.

My favorite memory as a child was making a lunch, taking it out in a paper bag and just goofing around in the woods or with friends. I'd come home when the sun was starting to set, eat dinner and then back outside to play kick the can or hide n seek (except on Sunday night when Wonderful World of Disney and The Ed Sullivan Show was on).

How about sneaking transistor radios into school to listen to the world series?