[hedoman]

Originally Posted by 2BNTV

Having to physically get up to change the television station.

My brothers and I were the "remote control" for dad and the television

Penny candy stores

Walking to school

The old station wagon (NO SUVs) When we got a 2nd car we had "arrived" and we were "somebody"

When the only color tv show was Walt Disney's Wonderfull Wrold of Color

TV soaps that actually were sponsored by a soap company

Mom blowing the boat whistle and we had better come running

Rope swing over the river

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

[jblum315]

Originally Posted by JimPete

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

We had an outhouse. It was completely surrounded by crepe myrtle and I once walked into a hornets nest outside it. Needless to say I never made it inside.

[CaptJohn]

Originally Posted by Bill-n-Brillo

Gasoline at 19.9 cents/gal. I could fill up my VW Bug for $2!

Bill

Same here. Good ole gas wars! Regular price 25 cents a gallon.
Also my country aunt's double seater outhouse, mules and chicken house complete with wood stump for cutting off their heads. Oh yeah, and that pie safe in her kitchen corner full of fresh baked from scratch pies!
Then there was playing behind the fogger truck spraying for mosquitos, probably using DDT which killed the bald eagles.

[mgjim]

Penny candy...the outhouse in sub-zero weather...Saturday baths (we had to carry our own water).

And I'm young.

[JimPete]

This time of year we checked the mail every day looking for the Sears toy catalog and then spent days studying every page while we made our Christmas wish list.

[KYWildcat]

How about the sand lot baseball games that we would play all day.

[2BNTV]

How about stick ball in the streets using a broom handle and a Spaulding type ball.

They say Willie Mays was a three sewer man.

[islandgal]

jblum315-
I grew up in Richmond too and remember frequently going to the beautiful and opulent Byrd theater
that was initially built in the 20's for silent movies. (Hey, I don't remember them!!)
Remember the huge Wurlitzer Organ that was, and still is, played before each film?

[jblum315]

Originally Posted by islandgal

jblum315-
I grew up in Richmond too and remember frequently going to the beautiful and opulent Byrd theater
that was initially built in the 20's for silent movies. (Hey, I don't remember them!!)
Remember the huge Wurlitzer Organ that was, and still is, played before each film?

Do you remember the Mosque theater? They had live performances, magicians, operas, wonderful stuff. Loved the Byrd Theater too.

[mac9]

We had a "rag" man that would drive his horse-drawn wagon around the neighborhood yelling "rag-man." My mother would go out with old clothes and sheets. He would weigh them and pay a penny a pound for them. He was kind of creepy and my mother would threaten to sell us to the rag man when we misbehaved. Mom had such a sense of humor!

[Posh 08]

For you ladies from Richmond. Remember Thalhimers and Miller & Rhoads. The Tea Room. Christmas time at those stores were really special.

[islandgal]

It is so nice to hear from people from Richmond - haven't met anyone from there in the five years I have been here in TV.
jblum315 - my high school (TJ) graduation was at the Mosque.
Posho8 - Happy memories of lunch in the Tea Room and visiting Santa at Miller & Rhoads.
M&R is now a lovely hotel I have been told.

[2BNTV]

I remember playing with an empty box. Making a quasi fort out of it.

Today's kids would be looking to see if anything is in the box and if it is empty say, "where's the toy".

[PennBF]

- Building an ice sail boat out of old skates and going pretty fast across the
lake.
- Going to bed with an oil lamp (farm house)
- Gathering wood for my grandmother to cook on the stove. Great fresh
breakfast. Would go down by the barn and get fat back from the barrels.
- Going to the out house in the winter when it was freezing.
- Planting veg, (e.g.patotes, etc.) with a team of horses when very young.
- Pitching hay and playing in the hay in the barns.
- Milking the cows and drinking fresh milk directly from the cows.
- Going to the movies once a week and getting excited with the weekly western serials..
- Picking cherries and always trying to get the sweet trees as opposed to the sour cherries..
- Slopping the pigs
- Listening to "Mr District Attorney" or the "Green Hornet" on the radio
And so forth..

It was a great life as are the Villages with a little different twist. In those days vicks was a major medical treatments with the Doctor coming out and saying no problem it will pass and it did.
Hope we all know how lucky we are to have made it this far and enjoying as the movie title said "The Wonderful Life".

[Walt.]

Eating Shredded Wheat just to get the Straight Arrow cards in each box.
Getting pictures of movie stars on dixie cup lids.
Hearing the annoying "Melrose 5 5 three hundred " jingle being sung for years on the radio. It was the phone number of a furniture store in the Bronx.