Old Codgers' Thread

[filosofer]

You have probably seen this in email form, but never hurts to see how many you remember:

1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P. F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Packard's
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers

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Scoring

If you remembered:
0- 05 = You're still young
6-10 = You are getting older
11-15 = Don't tell your age,
16-25 = You're older than dirt!

[theologia crucis]

Seven...

[pastel]

Hey, I was just thinking about this one today! You MUST have read my mind. Think it's time to send that email around again? hehe... Yeah, I remember most of those. I'm older than dirt. :):hug:

[KagomeShuko]

1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water (still have them. . .)
3. Candy cigarettes (still have them. . .)
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle (yeah, I actually do remember using these. . .)
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P. F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records (er, I grew up listening to records)
15. S&H Green Stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper (stupid purple ink! I don't know how many years of school. . .)
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Packard's
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns (yeah, we had these when I was young, unfortunately. . .)
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers If you remembered
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Hey, that's 6 things at least. . .I guess you guys don't have to feel so bad when I post here. . .

Stein Auf!
Bridget

[filosofer]

Not only did I score 25, but on several of them, I remember the predecessors of those things!

[pastel]

1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water (still have them. . .)
3. Candy cigarettes (still have them. . .)
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle (yeah, I actually do remember using these. . .)
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P. F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records (er, I grew up listening to records)
15. S&H Green Stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper (stupid purple ink! I don't know how many years of school. . .)
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Packard's
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns (yeah, we had these when I was young, unfortunately. . .)
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers If you remembered
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Hey, that's 6 things at least. . .I guess you guys don't have to feel so bad when I post here. . .

Stein Auf!
Bridget

Well, except I have shoes that are older than you. :P :priest:

[KagomeShuko]

Well, except I have shoes that are older than you. :P :priest:
By now, I probably own shoes that are older than me! LOL

Stein Auf!
Bridget

[filosofer]

Well, except I have shoes that are older than you. :P :priest:

Even worse, I've got SOCKS older than that! :D

[pastel]

Even worse, I've got SOCKS older than that! :D

My socks have never lasted that long! What brand are they? They wear like iron! ;)

[pastel]

By now, I probably own shoes that are older than me! LOL

Stein Auf!
Bridget

Oh my! :doh:

[KagomeShuko]

Oh my! :doh:
LOL. . .I'm not a person who is very fancy. I've been given all kinds of hand-me-downs. I'm sure I've got a least one pair of shoes, one item of clothing, and one item of jewelry that is older than I am.

Stein Auf!
Bridget

[ByzantineDixie]

:mad: I hate this quiz......


;) Rose

[theologia crucis]

Oops, I forgot one, so make it eight! I must be getting old...

[pastel]

Not only did I score 25, but on several of them, I remember the predecessors of those things!


Do you remember meeting Noah? If not, you need not worry. :priest:

heehee... :angel:

[III John]

Fourteen for me:

1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P. F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Packard's
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers

[pastel]

LOL. . .I'm not a person who is very fancy. I've been given all kinds of hand-me-downs. I'm sure I've got a least one pair of shoes, one item of clothing, and one item of jewelry that is older than I am.

Stein Auf!
Bridget

Actually, by having these older things you are now into very "with it" crowd for the "shabby chic" style. I am impressed! ;)

[filosofer]

6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers

We milked our own cows, so didn't have "home delivery" unless you consider delivery from the barn to the basement for our cream separator. :)

16. Hi-Fi We had the one before Hi-Fi, an old portable record player that only played 78s. And my grandmother had a hollow cylindrical phongraph, with the grooves on the outside. I remember listening to an Al Jolson record that way.

25. Wash tub wringers

We didn't have indoor plumbing until I was in late grade school - in Northern Minnesota that was tough!! We had a hand wringer for our washer.

[pastel]

6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers

We milked our own cows, so didn't have "home delivery" unless you consider delivery from the barn to the basement for our cream separator. :)

16. Hi-Fi We had the one before Hi-Fi, an old portable record player that only played 78s. And my grandmother had a hollow cylindrical phongraph, with the grooves on the outside. I remember listening to an Al Jolson record that way.

25. Wash tub wringers

We didn't have indoor plumbing until I was in late grade school - in Northern Minnesota that was tough!! We had a hand wringer for our washer.

No indoor plumbing? oh nooo... I could NEVER live without that! :eek:

[KagomeShuko]

Actually, by having these older things you are now into very "with it" crowd for the "shabby chic" style. I am impressed! ;)
*snicker* I don't fit anywhere, I'm just ME!

Oh wait, I found I DO fit into the category of "youth minister" at NYWC.

Stein Auf!
Bridget

[pastel]

*snicker* I don't fit anywhere, I'm just ME!

Oh wait, I found I DO fit into the category of "youth minister" at NYWC.

Stein Auf!
Bridget

Same here. My favorite way of dressing (other than for church) are bluejeans, teeshirt, and jogging shoes. That is my "dress uniform" so to speak. :sorry:

[Jim47]

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8. Newsreels before the movie
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Scoring

If you remembered:
0- 05 = You're still young
6-10 = You are getting older
11-15 = Don't tell your age,
16-25 = You're older than dirt!

I must score around a 30 making me much older than dirt, cause I remember in my little home town, we had picture shows that were displayed at night on the back wall of the local grocery store. This was the very first place I ever saw anything of a moving picture and even before I had seen TV or heard of it.

I also remember getting up from the supper table when I 6-7 years old and turning on our floor model radio and listening to "The Lone Ranger". That was actually my very first introduction to any kind of Holly Wood entertainment.

I also remember my amazement of the old table model adding machines that were larger than a TV set and our phone for the first 7 years of my life was the old hanging crank phone where you simply dialed an operator that was always on duty, I think our number was 24 Blue, a few other things not mentioned here were outhouses and wells with hand pumps which I also had. My local school was a 2 room school house and we had an out house and an in-house toilet (not the flush type) I was also 8 years old before we had a bath tub and of course with that also came an inside bathroom. Before that our bathes were taken in a 30 gallon wash tub in the middle of the kitchen floor. Oh, and I never heard of a school bus till I was 8, did a lot of walking back then. :)

[KagomeShuko]

Same here. My favorite way of dressing (other than for church) are bluejeans, teeshirt, and jogging shoes. That is my "dress uniform" so to speak. :sorry:
Mine's similar - T-shirt, jeans, keds (or keds type) tennies. Of course, often times now with slinky on arm. No makeup or only light lipstick.

Oooh. . I'm writing and I'm finally remembering something LAF was singing in the sound check, so now I gotta write it. . .

Let me life be - a reflection - of the love that - You have shown.

I don't remember the rest. . .'tis okay. I have the part I remembered now :)

Stein Auf!
Bridget

[KagomeShuko]

Things I remember from when I was a child/growing up. . .

Punky Brewster
high tops
windbreaker jackets (not suits, just jackets)
Full House
Boy Meets World
Cheers
New Kids on the Block (I was not a fan, but in first grade I had a classmate who was)
Mismatching colors of socks, shoes, and hair accessories, but coordinating the mismatched colors.
Swapping one shoe with a friend.
Tommy Hilfiger
snap bracelets
miniature golf (or Putt-Putt)
Lick-a-Sticks
Pixie Sticks
Monchichis
Get-Along Gang
Smurfs
Teen Age Mutant Ninja Turtles (and the FIRST live-action TMNT movie)

Such nostalgic memories for me. . .LOL

Stein Auf!
Bridget

[Phoebe]

18
I'm older than dirt. I really am 73 years old. ;)

[ChiRho]

1. Blackjack chewing gum (My mom has forever dragged us to "rustic" pioneer type festivals and historic sites. This nasty gum was the standard "treat"! Bleh! :sick:
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water (I think they still make these.)
3. Candy cigarettes(Definitely still in production...the real ones are way better!)
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle(plastic or glass? This is important!)
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes (Ate at one the other day...I think, though, it is being re-introduced as "nostalgia" probably doesnt count.)
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers(No freakin way! You are way old if you remember this. ;) )
7. Party lines (These really suck...especially when you really have to go and there are nothing but girls in front of you. This is when being a man comes in handy! The world is our urinal! :D )
8. Newsreels before the movie(I long for this...look what we have now!)
9. P. F. Flyers(Is this a wagon or tennis shoes? I honestly dont know.)
10. Butch wax(Your local lesbian day spa?)
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)(No idea)
12. Peashooters(Is this really for peas...or just spitwads?)
13. Howdy Doody (annoying wooden doll!)
14. 45 RPM records (Everyone knows what records are...what does 45 mean?)
15. S&H Green Stamps ( :scratch: )
16. Hi-fi's ( :scratch: )
17. Metal ice trays with lever (we have been Barbie-ized...everything today is plastic...)
18. Mimeograph paper (no clue)
19. Blue flashbulb (never seen one in real life, but I know what it is)
20. Packard's(My Grandfather is a car guy...Ive ridden in these before)
21. Roller skate keys (I probably can infer what this is...but I am not completely sure)
22. Cork popguns(classic...will not die...ever!)
23. Drive-ins (still have some around...very cool!)
24. Studebakers(Again, ridden in one)
25. Wash tub wringers (I think I remember what it looks like...from those fantastic trips to Amish country)

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Scoring

If you remembered:
0- 05 = You're still young
6-10 = You are getting older
11-15 = Don't tell your age,
16-25 = You're older than dirt!

[SPALATIN]

1. Blackjack chewing gum (My mom has forever dragged us to "rustic" pioneer type festivals and historic sites. This nasty gum was the standard "treat"! Bleh! :sick:
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water (I think they still make these.)
3. Candy cigarettes(Definitely still in production...the real ones are way better!)
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle(plastic or glass? This is important!)
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes (Ate at one the other day...I think, though, it is being re-introduced as "nostalgia" probably doesnt count.)
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers(No freakin way! You are way old if you remember this. ;) )
7. Party lines (These really suck...especially when you really have to go and there are nothing but girls in front of you. This is when being a man comes in handy! The world is our urinal! :D )
8. Newsreels before the movie(I long for this...look what we have now!)
9. P. F. Flyers(Is this a wagon or tennis shoes? I honestly dont know.)
10. Butch wax(Your local lesbian day spa?)
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)(No idea)
12. Peashooters(Is this really for peas...or just spitwads?)
13. Howdy Doody (annoying wooden doll!)
14. 45 RPM records (Everyone knows what records are...what does 45 mean?)
15. S&H Green Stamps ( :scratch: )
16. Hi-fi's ( :scratch: )
17. Metal ice trays with lever (we have been Barbie-ized...everything today is plastic...)
18. Mimeograph paper (no clue)
19. Blue flashbulb (never seen one in real life, but I know what it is)
20. Packard's(My Grandfather is a car guy...Ive ridden in these before)
21. Roller skate keys (I probably can infer what this is...but I am not completely sure)
22. Cork popguns(classic...will not die...ever!)
23. Drive-ins (still have some around...very cool!)
24. Studebakers(Again, ridden in one)
25. Wash tub wringers (I think I remember what it looks like...from those fantastic trips to Amish country)

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Scoring

If you remembered:
0- 05 = You're still young
6-10 = You are getting older
11-15 = Don't tell your age,
16-25 = You're older than dirt!

Let's just say I am at least as old as dirt and leave it at that.

[Jim47]

How many know what an "ice man" or an "ice box" is.

We had an ice box, but I think we had to goffer our own ice.

Pure Gasoline?
Leanard Gasoline?

Free glass sets when you filled up your tank with gas, and having an attentant pump your gas, wash your windshield, and check your oil, took your money while you waited in your car and brought back your change, and all for 23 cents a gallon!

Soda shop where you were served sodas at a bar

Pedal pushers?

Koolats? (probably not spelled right)

Ban Lon shirts (these aren't all that old)

[cenimo]

Anybody remember what a "church key" is?

[pastel]

1. Blackjack chewing gum (My mom has forever dragged us to "rustic" pioneer type festivals and historic sites. This nasty gum was the standard "treat"! Bleh! :sick:
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water (I think they still make these.)
3. Candy cigarettes(Definitely still in production...the real ones are way better!)
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottle(plastic or glass? This is important!)
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes (Ate at one the other day...I think, though, it is being re-introduced as "nostalgia" probably doesnt count.)
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers(No freakin way! You are way old if you remember this. ;) )
7. Party lines (These really suck...especially when you really have to go and there are nothing but girls in front of you. This is when being a man comes in handy! The world is our urinal! :D )
8. Newsreels before the movie(I long for this...look what we have now!)
9. P. F. Flyers(Is this a wagon or tennis shoes? I honestly dont know.)
10. Butch wax(Your local lesbian day spa?)
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)(No idea)
12. Peashooters(Is this really for peas...or just spitwads?)
13. Howdy Doody (annoying wooden doll!)
14. 45 RPM records (Everyone knows what records are...what does 45 mean?)
15. S&H Green Stamps ( :scratch: )
16. Hi-fi's ( :scratch: )
17. Metal ice trays with lever (we have been Barbie-ized...everything today is plastic...)
18. Mimeograph paper (no clue)
19. Blue flashbulb (never seen one in real life, but I know what it is)
20. Packard's(My Grandfather is a car guy...Ive ridden in these before)
21. Roller skate keys (I probably can infer what this is...but I am not completely sure)
22. Cork popguns(classic...will not die...ever!)
23. Drive-ins (still have some around...very cool!)
24. Studebakers(Again, ridden in one)
25. Wash tub wringers (I think I remember what it looks like...from those fantastic trips to Amish country)

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Scoring

If you remembered:
0- 05 = You're still young
6-10 = You are getting older
11-15 = Don't tell your age,
16-25 = You're older than dirt!


20. arghhhhh, I'm not only older than dirt, I'm way over the hill!!! :eek:

[filosofer]

Anybody remember what a "church key" is?

Opened a few Schlitz, Grainbelt, Schmidt and Hamms with one! :)

[ByzantineDixie]

How many know what an "ice man" or an "ice box" is.

We had an ice box, but I think we had to goffer our own ice.

Pure Gasoline?
Leanard Gasoline?

Free glass sets when you filled up your tank with gas, and having an attentant pump your gas, wash your windshield, and check your oil, took your money while you waited in your car and brought back your change, and all for 23 cents a gallon!

Soda shop where you were served sodas at a bar

Pedal pushers?

Koolats? (probably not spelled right)

Ban Lon shirts (these aren't all that old)



:kiss: :hug:
Jim...bless you for making me feel young again!

;) Rose

[pastel]

How many know what an "ice man" or an "ice box" is.

Never heard of that.

We had an ice box, but I think we had to goffer our own ice.

We didn't have to do that.


Pure Gasoline?

That doesn't sound familiar to me.


Leanard Gasoline?

Never heard of this, either.



Free glass sets when you filled up your tank with gas, and having an attentant pump your gas, wash your windshield, and check your oil, took your money while you waited in your car and brought back your change, and all for 23 cents a gallon!

This my mother used to do/have done, when she filled up our 1951 Mercury.


Soda shop where you were served sodas at a bar

Did this in Junior High.



Pedal pushers?

I wore these in the 50s. I was just a child!


Koolats? (probably not spelled right)

Wore these too!


Ban Lon shirts (these aren't all that old)

I have heard of these, probably have seen them, too. Just do not remember them exactly (poor memory).

:cool:

[Phoebe]

Pull tabs on beer and pop cans. People used to pull them off and drop it in their drink. (some ended up choking on them, or cutting their mouth)

We had a grill and soda fountain in a neighborhood pharmacy when I was little. Kresgee's (sp?) also had this. Remember Woolworth's/ Woolco?

Who exercised with Jack Lelaine? (sp?)

[Jim47]

Phoebe . Kresgee's (sp?) also had this. Remember Woolworth's/ Woolco?

That and Pennys & Sears & Roebuck were about the only dept stores back then. And the only places open on Sundays were a few gas stations and resturants, and there weren't very many resturants back then.

Who exercised with Jack Lelaine? (sp?)

Me, I really liked old Jack, he's still around and selling some special juice drink he makes, and he still looks healthy too.

I miss some of the good old shows on TV too, like George Burns and Gracie Allen, Red Skelton, SkyKing, Zoro, I Love Lucy, My 3 Sons and a whole bunch more, and there were a lot of good clean cowboy shows back then too.

I hardly watch TV anymore, even the news is too liberal :o

[SPALATIN]

That and Pennys & Sears & Roebuck were about the only dept stores back then. And the only places open on Sundays were a few gas stations and resturants, and there weren't very many resturants back then.



Me, I really liked old Jack, he's still around and selling some special juice drink he makes, and he still looks healthy too.

I miss some of the good old shows on TV too, like George Burns and Gracie Allen, Red Skelton, SkyKing, Zoro, I Love Lucy, My 3 Sons and a whole bunch more, and there were a lot of good clean cowboy shows back then too.

I hardly watch TV anymore, even the news is too liberal :o

The Big Valley, Bonanza, Wild Wild West, Wagon Train, The Rifleman, Death Valley Days to name a few.

[Treestand]

Hey, I must be old too! I got a 25. I remember fondly all of those items.(my brother and I used to swipe ice chips from the back of the milkmans truck!)

[pastel]

18
I'm older than dirt. I really am 73 years old. ;)

If I try to reverse the numbers in my age, I come up with the same one! 55

:P

[Dr. Martin Luther]

I'm so old, I know none of these! ;)

[Jim47]

The Big Valley, Bonanza, Wild Wild West, Wagon Train, The Rifleman, Death Valley Days to name a few.

Those were all favorites of mine and I completely forgot "Gunsmoke" I think that was the longest running western ever.

[pastel]

Those were all favorites of mine and I completely forgot "Gunsmoke" I think that was the longest running western ever.

What about "The Mickey Mouse Club" ?? M-I-C-K-E-Y-M-O-U-S-EEEEE!!! yea.... ^_^

[filosofer]

Well most of those shows were in the 1960's. How about going back to the 1950's:

My Friend Flicka
Fury
Hopalong Cassidy (yes, I had the plate and cup from 1955)
You Bet Your Life (w/Groucho Marx)

[pastel]

Well most of those shows were in the 1960's. How about going back to the 1950's:

My Friend Flicka
Fury
Hopalong Cassidy (yes, I had the plate and cup from 1955)
You Bet Your Life (w/Groucho Marx)

Mickey Mouse Club... was from the 50s. Yes, I saw those you have listed here too. ;)

My first lunch box was Roy Rogers and Dale Evans with Trigger. Now I see them on eBay going for huge $$$ if they are in decent condition. I don't know what happened to mine, but it was in pristine condition when I retired it. :sigh:

[SPALATIN]

Mickey Mouse Club... was from the 50s. Yes, I saw those you have listed here too. ;)

My first lunch box was Roy Rogers and Dale Evans with Trigger. Now I see them on eBay going for huge $$$ if they are in decent condition. I don't know what happened to mine, but it was in pristine condition when I retired it. :sigh:

The Mickey Mouse club premiered in the 50s and had revivals in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Stars from the 50s were of course Annette Funicello and a few others that were on the Lawrence Welk show later on. One of the stars of the 70s MMclub was Lisa Welchel who went on to fame as Blair in "Facts of Life" The 90s version spawned Britney Spears, Christina Aguilar and Jessica Simpson and Justin Timberlake.

My mom was a huge Roy Rogers/Dale Evans fan. She once sat through a whole 3 1/2 showings of one of their movies (her father dragged her out during the fourth showing and she was grounded from the movies for 2 weeks).

[pastel]

The Mickey Mouse club premiered in the 50s and had revivals in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Stars from the 50s were of course Annette Funicello and a few others that were on the Lawrence Welk show later on. One of the stars of the 70s MMclub was Lisa Welchel who went on to fame as Blair in "Facts of Life" The 90s version spawned Britney Spears, Christina Aguilar and Jessica Simpson and Justin Timberlake.

My mom was a huge Roy Rogers/Dale Evans fan. She once sat through a whole 3 1/2 showings of one of their movies (her father dragged her out during the fourth showing and she was grounded from the movies for 2 weeks).

I was speaking of the original Mickey Mouse Club, Annette Funicello and Bobby What's-His-Face (poor memory :blush:) . Of course there was the grand old "Howdy Doody" show.

[Phoebe]

I remember watching Laugh In with the family, Watergate pre-empting my morning TV, then there was Sonny and Cher... (relatively newer stuff) Love, American Style...

Did anyone else have the original Atari Game System? The one with the black and white "graphics"? (Pre- Space- Invaders)

[ChiRho]

Does anyone remember when phones actually had cords?

[Phoebe]

Does anyone remember when phones actually had cords?

We had rotary phones, no such thing as redial or speed dialing.

[Jim47]

Well most of those shows were in the 1960's. How about going back to the 1950's:

My Friend Flicka
Fury
Hopalong Cassidy (yes, I had the plate and cup from 1955)
You Bet Your Life (w/Groucho Marx)

Yep, I remember all of those, except I only remember Fury by the name. Who could ever forget old Groucho? ^_^

[Jim47]

I was speaking of the original Mickey Mouse Club, Annette Funicello and Bobby What's-His-Face (poor memory :blush:) . Of course there was the grand old "Howdy Doody" show.

Uhh? Bobby Vee? I know I just saw him on one of those paid commercials selling old record collections.

[SPALATIN]

Uhh? Bobby Vee? I know I just saw him on one of those paid commercials selling old record collections.

I don't believe that Bobby Vee was a Mouseketeer. He was the performer who stood in for Buddy Holly when his plane went down in 58. The Bobby who was a mouseketeer was one of the Lawrence Welk dancers.

[KagomeShuko]

Does anyone remember when phones actually had cords?
Chi, we've still got phones that have cords! In fact, the majority of our phones have chords! We have one cordless (Well, and it's pretty aweful) and my mom, dad, and I have cell phones. Yes, I pay for my own cell phone, so that's why my sister doesn't have her own.

I also remember using rotary phones when I was small. . .

Stein Auf!
Bridget

[pastel]

Uhh? Bobby Vee? I know I just saw him on one of those paid commercials selling old record collections.

Annette Funicello and Bobby Burgess - on the Mickey Mouse Club. The light clicks!! :idea:

[pastel]

Some immortal words...

*



Mickey Mouse Club! Mickey Mouse Club!
Who's the leader of the club
That's made for you and me?
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!

Hey, there! Hi, there! Ho, there!
You're as welcome as can be!
M--I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

Mickey Mouse! Donald Duck!
Mickey Mouse! Donald Duck!
Forever let us hold our banners high!
High! High! High!

Come along and sing a song
And join the jamboree
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

And, the ending...

(Softly)
Now's the time to say goodbye
To all our company
Through the years we'll all be friends
Wherever we may be
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E
Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse
Forever let us hold our banner high
M-I-C - See ya real soon!
K-E-Y - Why? Because we like you!
M-O-U-S-E!!

[pastel]

I remember watching Laugh In with the family, Watergate pre-empting my morning TV, then there was Sonny and Cher... (relatively newer stuff) Love, American Style...

Did anyone else have the original Atari Game System? The one with the black and white "graphics"? (Pre- Space- Invaders)

Does anyone remember the POW who came home from the Viet Nam War after being a prisoner for years and years, and when he was told the news that Sonny and Cher had divorced, he almost couldn't handle it?

[KagomeShuko]

Some immortal words...

*



Mickey Mouse Club! Mickey Mouse Club!
Who's the leader of the club
That's made for you and me?
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E!

Hey, there! Hi, there! Ho, there!
You're as welcome as can be!
M--I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

Mickey Mouse! Donald Duck!
Mickey Mouse! Donald Duck!
Forever let us hold our banners high!
High! High! High!

Come along and sing a song
And join the jamboree
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

And, the ending...

(Softly)
Now's the time to say goodbye
To all our company
Through the years we'll all be friends
Wherever we may be
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E
Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse
Forever let us hold our banner high
M-I-C - See ya real soon!
K-E-Y - Why? Because we like you!
M-O-U-S-E!!
And it was included in every remake of it, too. I would actually watch the 90s version of the Mickey Mouse club! I'm wondering when they'll make one for the 2000s!

Stein Auf!
Bridget

[BigNorsk]

Hi,

Bobby Vee still performs, he has been back to "Finn Fest" (unofficial name) every summer in Perth, ND the last few years.

I surprised the list doesn't mention,
Outhouses,
slide rules,
manual chokes,
cars without seatbelts,
no tv after the Tonight Show,
nuclear attack drills,

The list just goes on and on...wonder what the old people remember?

Marv

[SPALATIN]

Hi,

Bobby Vee still performs, he has been back to "Finn Fest" (unofficial name) every summer in Perth, ND the last few years.

I surprised the list doesn't mention,
Outhouses,
slide rules,
manual chokes,
cars without seatbelts,
no tv after the Tonight Show,
nuclear attack drills,

The list just goes on and on...wonder what the old people remember?

Marv

Hey Marv,

they had him on a radio show interview about 2 months ago. A lot of people called in to reminisce w/ him.

[filosofer]

Hi,
I surprised the list doesn't mention,
Outhouses,
slide rules,
manual chokes,
cars without seatbelts,
no tv after the Tonight Show,
nuclear attack drills,


Hi, Marv. I guess it was implied in one of my responses that we didn't get indoor plumbing until I was in upper elementary grades. We had our outhouse all the way through college.

I graduated as a math major (85 hours) and physics minor (35 hours) before the hand-held calculator, but I had never learned to use the slide rule. I did everything in my head, and wrote down about every 4th step on scratch paper. The next year I was teaching high school math and had to learn how to use the slide rule so that I could teach the high schoolers how to use it. :)

Manual chokes - and we had one that had the starter under the gas pedal. You started the car by pushing the gas pedal all the way to the floor, and so it acted as a choke. We also had actual fans for each front window to keep the window from fogging. And then we had little wipers that were operated by flipping the switch above the window, then flipping it off when it was cleaned.

Our "family vehicle" until I was in school was a 1939 Ford truck that had an over-the-cab winch for loading pulp wood on the bed of the truck so we could haul 10 ft logs into the paper mill in town.

[Jim47]

Manual chokes - and we had one that had the starter under the gas pedal. You started the car by pushing the gas pedal all the way to the floor, and so it acted as a choke. We also had actual fans for each front window to keep the window from fogging. And then we had little wipers that were operated by flipping the switch above the window, then flipping it off when it was cleaned.

Our "family vehicle" until I was in school was a 1939 Ford truck that had an over-the-cab winch for loading pulp wood on the bed of the truck so we could haul 10 ft logs into the paper mill in town.


I'm guessing you must have about 10 years on me. I learned to drive on a 49 Ford sedan, stick shift, no turn signals and not much else. I think it had wipers and heater, but we didn't have it long cause the thing kinda died on us and my Dad wasn't to mechanicly inclined.

I well remember the predacessor to our modern alternators and when you would step on the brakes your lights would get so dim you couldn't see the road. We also had those neat vacum operated wipers that would wipe a 1000 MPH when you stepped on the brake and then quit running all together when you stepped on the gas.

I don't think too many of us would give up our modern conveniences for those old "Golden days" although the stress was sure a lot less. :eek:

[Flipper]

Seven...

I'm only a year older and I remember 13 of them. :scratch:

[Flipper]

:mad: I hate this quiz......


;) Rose

Rose, what was it like before dirt?

...ducking...

[ByzantineDixie]

Rose, what was it like before dirt?

...ducking...

Well, for one thing, kids were more respectful of their elders than they are today!!! ;)

Speaking of manual chokes...my 1972 Little Red Simca had a manual choke and a semi automatic transmission.

When I took engineering physics I and II in college they made us use a slide rule...no calculators allowed, even though calculators had become fairly common. I couldn't use a slide rule now if my life depended on it...never liked them.

:clap: Yay for calculators...particularly Hewlett Packard calculators with Reverse Polish Notation (RPN)

Feeble Granny Rose signing out......:D

[1580]

Does anyone remember when phones actually had cords?
Thats a myth, phones never had cords

[pastel]

Well, for one thing, kids were more respectful of their elders than they are today!!! ;)

Speaking of manual chokes...my 1972 Little Red Simca had a manual choke and a semi automatic transmission.

When I took engineering physics I and II in college they made us use a slide rule...no calculators allowed, even though calculators had become fairly common. I couldn't use a slide rule now if my life depended on it...never liked them.

:clap: Yay for calculators...particularly Hewlett Packard calculators with Reverse Polish Notation (RPN)

Feeble Granny Rose signing out......:D


Remembering using slide rules isn't all that bad. What is bad is if you remember using an abacus, and being good at it. :P

[Phoebe]

I remember when we used sun dials to tells time.

[pastel]

I remember when we used sun dials to tells time.

That ...and projectile points. ;)

[Flipper]

Does anyone remember when phones actually had cords?

Mom and dad had a rotary phone with a long cord up until about 8 years ago.

[Phoebe]

Even cordless phone have cords. Cell phones recharge with electricity...

[KagomeShuko]

Even cordless phone have cords. Cell phones recharge with electricity...
Very true. . .I always gotta plug my cell phone back in so it charges. . .

I've used it all of one time since after the day of the concert. . .and that's because somebody called me!

Stein Auf!
Bridget

[pastel]

Very true. . .I always gotta plug my cell phone back in so it charges. . .

I've used it all of one time since after the day of the concert. . .and that's because somebody called me!

Stein Auf!
Bridget

We just got new cell phones. Now if I can just figure out how to use the thing. At least I got the voice messages thing set up. :clap:

[filosofer]

Just to clarify: there is a difference between cordless phones and wireless phones. Cordless phones are short-distance (50-100 ft) devices that need the base station at the home/office; cordless phones have been around for 25-30 years. Wireless phones (i.e. Sprint, Nextel, etc.) are more recent (last 10-12 years) and do not need a base station, and can work anywhere there is a tower in the US (or around the world for that matter). There are two standards of wireless phones (GSM - Cingular/T-Mobile, half of Europe and Asia; and CMDA - Verizon, Sprint, and Europe and Asia).

[SPALATIN]

Just to clarify: there is a difference between cordless phones and wireless phones. Cordless phones are short-distance (50-100 ft) devices that need the base station at the home/office; cordless phones have been around for 25-30 years. Wireless phones (i.e. Sprint, Nextel, etc.) are more recent (last 10-12 years) and do not need a base station, and can work anywhere there is a tower in the US (or around the world for that matter). There are two standards of wireless phones (GSM - Cingular/T-Mobile, half of Europe and Asia; and CMDA - Verizon, Sprint, and Europe and Asia).


Actually, the cell phone has been around since 1984. The first ones cost so much money that the average person could not afford it. They became more inexpensive around 1990-91 and now just about everyone has one.

[filosofer]

1991 - US Digital Cellular phone system introduced

[pastel]

Actually, the cell phone has been around since 1984. The first ones cost so much money that the average person could not afford it. They became more inexpensive around 1990-91 and now just about everyone has one.

It's still new-fangled stuff for us old codgers. Still not used to the 'puter yet, and they keep coming up with all new stuff for that which cannot be figured out without a manual the size of Strong's Concordance. :eek:

[theologia crucis]

I'm sure everyone has gotten this e-mail recently, but I'll post it anyway...

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, bread and butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms.........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms (only with some tomato sauce for me) and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live in us forever.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

[Jim47]

Ah! Those were the good old days. I sure miss the stories my Grand Dad used to tell me, and Grandma letting me win at checkers. Isn't it amazing that mental health problems were almost non exhistant then?

[Phoebe]

Yeah, Theo, I can relate to all of that.

Remember those headphones with the radios built into the earpieces? The big heavy stereo size headphones? LOL I had some of those. That was just before walkmans were available.

[SPALATIN]

Walking to school in 15 inches of snow uphill both ways. I think you forgot that one.
LOL I certainly can remember much of that and now our kids have to have gated yards in order to play safely. We have to arrange play dates for our kids so that they can play with their friends.

Has technology made this world safer or has it made us more aware of the danger that is out there.

[pastel]

Walking to school in 15 inches of snow uphill both ways. I think you forgot that one.
LOL I certainly can remember much of that and now our kids have to have gated yards in order to play safely. We have to arrange play dates for our kids so that they can play with their friends.

Has technology made this world safer or has it made us more aware of the danger that is out there.

I believe kids have it very rough nowadays, though I'm sure they don't believe, or realize it themselves. Just looking at the differences in play toys will tell them WE had it rough....but they don't realize the culture, the times, or the attitudes are a lot different today. I do not envy my kids having to raise little ones in this world. :sigh:

[KagomeShuko]

I believe kids have it very rough nowadays, though I'm sure they don't believe, or realize it themselves. Just looking at the differences in play toys will tell them WE had it rough....but they don't realize the culture, the times, or the attitudes are a lot different today. I do not envy my kids having to raise little ones in this world. :sigh:
I know, it's sad for lots of little ones these days. Even when I was young, growing up in Louisiana often meant spending a day going up and down the street where I lived, knocking on friends doors and seeing if they could play. We'd get together in a group and play at one house for awhile or for that day and sometimes, after awhile, we'd go down to another friend's house. There were always at least four houses and we'd do all kinds of stuff like play with the sprinkler or make play dough, sometimes even go to the mall with one of the parents, walk around the mall, and meet at a certain location at a specified time.

At church, it was even running around the church outside, playing on an old swingset, and running through the old trees in the lot that used to be behind the church. (It's since been sold and Cox Cable has an office there now).

Now, it's so much protection. . .

Stein Auf!
Bridget

[Phoebe]

Yeah, I don't think I could let my child go off with just one other friend at the State Fair anymore. Especially after dark.

[pastel]

Yeah, I don't think I could let my child go off with just one other friend at the State Fair anymore. Especially after dark.

Well, my kids are 22 years old now, and I don't want them out wandering around after dark! Right...as though they would listen. :sorry:

But it makes me nervous. Of course, the one is still in Afghanistan. :( Allan called us yesterday, and he's not getting very much sleep with no heater in his bungalow. He's working 15 hours a day.

:(

[pastel]

Subject: Fw: WORDS SOON TO BE EXTINCT


WORDS SOON TO BE EXTINCT.....WORDS FROM THE OLD DAYS-2004

Thinking about "fender skirts" started me thinking about other words
that quietly disappear from our language with hardly a notice.

Like "curb feelers" and "steering knobs." Since I'd been thinking of
cars, my mind naturally went that direction first. Any kids will
probably have to find some elderly person over 50 to explain some of
these terms to them.

Remember "Continental kits?" They were rear bumper extenders and spare
tire covers that were supposed to make any car as cool as a Lincoln
Continental.

When did we quit calling them "emergency brakes?" At some point
"parking brake" became the proper term. *But I miss the hint of drama
that went with "emergency brake."

I'm sad, too, that almost all the old folks are gone who would call the
accelerator the "foot feed."

Didn't you ever wait at the street for your daddy to come home so you
could ride the "running board" up to the house?

Here's a phrase I heard all the time in my youth but never anymore -
"store-bought." Of course, just about everything is store-bought these
days. *But once it was bragging material to have a store-bought dress or
a store-bought bag of candy.

"Coast to coast" is a phrase that once held all sorts of excitement and
now means almost nothing. *Now we take the term "worldwide" for
granted. *This floors me.

On a smaller scale, "wall-to-wall" was once a magical term in our
homes. *In the '50s, everyone covered his or her hardwood floors with,
wow, wall-to-wall carpeting! Today, everyone replaces their
wall-to-wall carpeting with hardwood floors. *Go figure!

When's the last time you heard the quaint phrase "in a family way?"
It's hard to imagine that the word "pregnant" was once considered a
little too graphic, a little too clinical for use in polite company. So
we had all that talk about stork visits and "being in a family way" or
simply "expecting."

Apparently "brassiere" is a word no longer in use. *I said it the other
day and my daughter cracked up. I guess it's just "bra" now.
"Unmentionables" probably wouldn't be understood at all.

It's hard to recall that this word was once said in a whisper
-"divorce." And no one is called a "divorcee" anymore. Certainly not a
"gay divorcee." *Come to think of it, "confirmed bachelors" and "career
girls" are long gone, too.

I always loved going to the "picture show," but I considered "movie" an
affectation.

Most of these words go back to the '50s, but here's a pure-'60s word I
came across the other day - "rat fink." Ooh, what a nasty put-down!

Here's a word I miss - "percolator." *That was just a fun word to say.
blame you for this.

Here's a word I miss - "percolator." *That was just a fun word to say. *
And what was it replaced with? *"Coffeemaker." *How dull. *Mr. Coffee, I
blame you for this.

I miss those made-up marketing words that were meant to
sound so modern and now sound so retro. *Words like "DynaFlow" and "Electrolux."
Introducing the 1963 Admiral TV, now with "SpectraVision!"

Food for thought - Was there a telethon that wiped out lumbago? Nobody
complains of that anymore. *Maybe that's what castor oil cured, because
I never hear mothers threatening their kids with castor oil anymore.

Some words aren't gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The
one that grieves me most - "supper." Now everybody says "dinner." Save
a great word. Invite someone to supper. *Discuss fender skirts.

I thought some of us of a "certain age" might remember these.

[KagomeShuko]

I would know what is meant by "emergency brakes." People call them both. In Louisiana, it's confusing if you are having the noontime meal or the evening meal with some people. . .is the noon "lunch" or "dinner" and is the evening "dinner" or "supper"? My family uses the first ones.

We still use "store-bought" mainly with food. Homemade food is a big deal, or of course "home-made" clothes are a big deal when people like them.

I still hear "wall-to-wall" even if it is for hard wood floors. I know of "rat fink" and some people would still consider it a horrible insult.

I know an Electrolux is a vacuum. . ."nothing sucks like an electrolux!"

There was a silly song we'd sing on field trips that went

"I'm a little hunk of tin, nobody knows what shape I'm in. Got four wheels and a running board, I'm a Ford, a Ford, a Ford." Honk, Honk, Rattle, Rattle, Shake, Shake, Beep, Beep."

Here percolator is often used for a TYPE of coffee pot rather than those automatic ones, but the big metal canister ones. . .those are still called percolators.

For the rest. . .I've got nothing. ..

Stein Auf!
Bridget

[pastel]

I would know what is meant by "emergency brakes." People call them both. In Louisiana, it's confusing if you are having the noontime meal or the evening meal with some people. . .is the noon "lunch" or "dinner" and is the evening "dinner" or "supper"? My family uses the first ones.

We still use "store-bought" mainly with food. Homemade food is a big deal, or of course "home-made" clothes are a big deal when people like them.

I still hear "wall-to-wall" even if it is for hard wood floors. I know of "rat fink" and some people would still consider it a horrible insult.

I know an Electrolux is a vacuum. . ."nothing sucks like an electrolux!"

There was a silly song we'd sing on field trips that went

"I'm a little hunk of tin, nobody knows what shape I'm in. Got four wheels and a running board, I'm a Ford, a Ford, a Ford." Honk, Honk, Rattle, Rattle, Shake, Shake, Beep, Beep."

Here percolator is often used for a TYPE of coffee pot rather than those automatic ones, but the big metal canister ones. . .those are still called percolators.

For the rest. . .I've got nothing. ..

Stein Auf!
Bridget

I'm so old that I remember when they had regular and ethyl gasoline. Something like 4¢ difference. :P

And yes, I certainly remember that saying about the Electrolux, in fact, my mother had one. :eek:

[Jim47]

Subject: Fw: WORDS SOON TO BE EXTINCT


WORDS SOON TO BE EXTINCT.....WORDS FROM THE OLD DAYS-2004

Thinking about "fender skirts" started me thinking about other words
that quietly disappear from our language with hardly a notice.

Like "curb feelers" and "steering knobs." Since I'd been thinking of
cars, my mind naturally went that direction first. Any kids will
probably have to find some elderly person over 50 to explain some of
these terms to them.

Remember "Continental kits?" They were rear bumper extenders and spare
tire covers that were supposed to make any car as cool as a Lincoln
Continental.

When did we quit calling them "emergency brakes?" At some point
"parking brake" became the proper term. *But I miss the hint of drama
that went with "emergency brake."

I'm sad, too, that almost all the old folks are gone who would call the
accelerator the "foot feed."

Didn't you ever wait at the street for your daddy to come home so you
could ride the "running board" up to the house?

Here's a phrase I heard all the time in my youth but never anymore -
"store-bought." Of course, just about everything is store-bought these
days. *But once it was bragging material to have a store-bought dress or
a store-bought bag of candy.

"Coast to coast" is a phrase that once held all sorts of excitement and
now means almost nothing. *Now we take the term "worldwide" for
granted. *This floors me.

On a smaller scale, "wall-to-wall" was once a magical term in our
homes. *In the '50s, everyone covered his or her hardwood floors with,
wow, wall-to-wall carpeting! Today, everyone replaces their
wall-to-wall carpeting with hardwood floors. *Go figure!

When's the last time you heard the quaint phrase "in a family way?"
It's hard to imagine that the word "pregnant" was once considered a
little too graphic, a little too clinical for use in polite company. So
we had all that talk about stork visits and "being in a family way" or
simply "expecting."

Apparently "brassiere" is a word no longer in use. *I said it the other
day and my daughter cracked up. I guess it's just "bra" now.
"Unmentionables" probably wouldn't be understood at all.

It's hard to recall that this word was once said in a whisper
-"divorce." And no one is called a "divorcee" anymore. Certainly not a
"gay divorcee." *Come to think of it, "confirmed bachelors" and "career
girls" are long gone, too.

I always loved going to the "picture show," but I considered "movie" an
affectation.

Most of these words go back to the '50s, but here's a pure-'60s word I
came across the other day - "rat fink." Ooh, what a nasty put-down!

Here's a word I miss - "percolator." *That was just a fun word to say.
blame you for this.

Here's a word I miss - "percolator." *That was just a fun word to say. *
And what was it replaced with? *"Coffeemaker." *How dull. *Mr. Coffee, I
blame you for this.

I miss those made-up marketing words that were meant to
sound so modern and now sound so retro. *Words like "DynaFlow" and "Electrolux."
Introducing the 1963 Admiral TV, now with "SpectraVision!"

Food for thought - Was there a telethon that wiped out lumbago? Nobody
complains of that anymore. *Maybe that's what castor oil cured, because
I never hear mothers threatening their kids with castor oil anymore.

Some words aren't gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The
one that grieves me most - "supper." Now everybody says "dinner." Save
a great word. Invite someone to supper. *Discuss fender skirts.

I thought some of us of a "certain age" might remember these.


That deffinitely brings back some memories. I remember the the big tire swing we had hanging from a large old pine tree, going down to the creek to play and try catching fish on a piece of kite string with a safety pin for a hook. When I got over to GrandPa's house, that was really neat, cause he had some ice fishing poles fixed up with real hooks on them, I think I probably broke a few of them catching carp.

I remember eating worms on a dare, and making my little brither eat one of my "milk shakes" made out of mud and water. He never did forgive for that.

The biggest thing in my childhood was my 7th birthday. I got a brand new Dasiy BeeBee gun. It was even more fun than my home made sling shot made out of a piece of rubber inner tube.

The thing that gave me the most fun was going back in the woods and making rafts out of dead half rotten fallen trees. They almost kept you afloat, that was if you didn't get to close to the edge and slip off.

Oh and splitting fire wood with my neighbor was fun too, and we made huge forts out of the wood piles. We would pullout one piece of wood at a time until we had a cave built under the big piles of firewood. I guess The Lord was watching over me back then as I didn't know what danger meant. :holy:

[Phoebe]

When I started driving, we still had regular gasoline. (the leaded variety)

[SPALATIN]

Subject: Fw: WORDS SOON TO BE EXTINCT


WORDS SOON TO BE EXTINCT.....WORDS FROM THE OLD DAYS-2004

Thinking about "fender skirts" started me thinking about other words
that quietly disappear from our language with hardly a notice.

Like "curb feelers" and "steering knobs." Since I'd been thinking of
cars, my mind naturally went that direction first. Any kids will
probably have to find some elderly person over 50 to explain some of
these terms to them.

Remember "Continental kits?" They were rear bumper extenders and spare
tire covers that were supposed to make any car as cool as a Lincoln
Continental.

When did we quit calling them "emergency brakes?" At some point
"parking brake" became the proper term. *But I miss the hint of drama
that went with "emergency brake."

Limosine drivers are trained to use them as emergency brakes in the even that the suspect a possible kidnapping.

I'm sad, too, that almost all the old folks are gone who would call the
accelerator the "foot feed."

Didn't you ever wait at the street for your daddy to come home so you
could ride the "running board" up to the house?

Here's a phrase I heard all the time in my youth but never anymore -
"store-bought." Of course, just about everything is store-bought these
days. *But once it was bragging material to have a store-bought dress or
a store-bought bag of candy.

"Coast to coast" is a phrase that once held all sorts of excitement and
now means almost nothing. *Now we take the term "worldwide" for
granted. *This floors me.

On a smaller scale, "wall-to-wall" was once a magical term in our
homes. *In the '50s, everyone covered his or her hardwood floors with,
wow, wall-to-wall carpeting! Today, everyone replaces their
wall-to-wall carpeting with hardwood floors. *Go figure!

It only took people 40 years to realize that Hardwood flooring was a good thing.

When's the last time you heard the quaint phrase "in a family way?"
It's hard to imagine that the word "pregnant" was once considered a
little too graphic, a little too clinical for use in polite company. So
we had all that talk about stork visits and "being in a family way" or
simply "expecting."

Apparently "brassiere" is a word no longer in use. *I said it the other
day and my daughter cracked up. I guess it's just "bra" now.
"Unmentionables" probably wouldn't be understood at all.

It's hard to recall that this word was once said in a whisper
-"divorce." And no one is called a "divorcee" anymore. Certainly not a
"gay divorcee." *Come to think of it, "confirmed bachelors" and "career
girls" are long gone, too.

I always loved going to the "picture show," but I considered "movie" an
affectation.

Most of these words go back to the '50s, but here's a pure-'60s word I
came across the other day - "rat fink." Ooh, what a nasty put-down!

Yeah well now Rat Bas*&%$ is the insult of the day.


Here's a word I miss - "percolator." *That was just a fun word to say. *
And what was it replaced with? *"Coffeemaker." *How dull. *Mr. Coffee, I
blame you for this.

Church's still use percolators, but for the average household it is just too lunky and a real chore to clean after using.

I miss those made-up marketing words that were meant to
sound so modern and now sound so retro. *Words like "DynaFlow" and "Electrolux."
Introducing the 1963 Admiral TV, now with "SpectraVision!"

Food for thought - Was there a telethon that wiped out lumbago? Nobody
complains of that anymore. *Maybe that's what castor oil cured, because
I never hear mothers threatening their kids with castor oil anymore.

That's because the generation that got fed castor oil hated it so much that they vowed never to threaten their own children with the stuff.

Some words aren't gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The
one that grieves me most - "supper." Now everybody says "dinner." Save
a great word. Invite someone to supper. *Discuss fender skirts.

I thought some of us of a "certain age" might remember these.

Those were fun. I still call the evening meal supper unless I am going out to a fancy restaurant.

[pastel]

When I started driving, we still had regular gasoline. (the leaded variety)

yes yes... absolutely ... we didn't know any better.... :o

[filosofer]

We had a 300 gal Gas Tank at the farm, and the truck would come once a month to fill it up. We got it for 17 cents/gal. That was a lot of money in those days.

I learned to drive tractor (1939 Minneapolis Moline R) when I was 6, and then by the time I could start driving a car, I did it on a brand new VW Vanagon - 1st generation (before the hippies appropriated!) - four speed, with reverse "Down and Back". Then also drove 1949 Chrysler with Dynaflow - two speed, semi-automatic. You started by treating as stick-shift, then once you got it to high, even if you came to a stop, you drove it like an automatic. But if you put it in reverse, then you had to start over with manual shifting, until you got to High.

[pastel]

We had a 300 gal Gas Tank at the farm, and the truck would come once a month to fill it up. We got it for 17 cents/gal. That was a lot of money in those days.

I learned to drive tractor (1939 Minneapolis Moline R) when I was 6, and then by the time I could start driving a car, I did it on a brand new VW Vanagon - 1st generation (before the hippies appropriated!) - four speed, with reverse "Down and Back". Then also drove 1949 Chrysler with Dynaflow - two speed, semi-automatic. You started by treating as stick-shift, then once you got it to high, even if you came to a stop, you drove it like an automatic. But if you put it in reverse, then you had to start over with manual shifting, until you got to High.

Since I only drive automatics, my hubby calls me "shiftless" ;) ....

[Jim47]

Yeah, I don't think I could let my child go off with just one other friend at the State Fair anymore. Especially after dark.


Happy Birthday Phoebe! :clap: Sorry I'm a little late.

[SPALATIN]

All of this nostalgia just makes one realize how old they really are in this world. Now if someone can remember the days when they hooked up their horse and buggy to go to church on Sunday (we're not talking about any one who is formerly Amish either ;) )

[ChiRho]

All of this nostalgia just makes one realize how old they really are in this world. Now if someone can remember the days when they hooked up their horse and buggy to go to church on Sunday (we're not talking about any one who is formerly Amish either ;) )

Close...I remember when vans had sliding doors on only ONE side.

[pastel]

All of this nostalgia just makes one realize how old they really are in this world. Now if someone can remember the days when they hooked up their horse and buggy to go to church on Sunday (we're not talking about any one who is formerly Amish either ;) )

I'm afraid I've never done that, nor seen it. ;) But, I'd love to do it!! That would be wonderful.

[SPALATIN]

Close...I remember when vans had sliding doors on only ONE side.

Honestly that isn't that difficult to remember since car manufacturers didn't start doing the 4-door vans until 1995 (Dodge Caravan). So that means you were 14 at the time. How about the original VW Bug. They were phased out in the mid 70s to concentrate on production of the VW Rabbit, Jetta and Cirocco. Even the Vanagon was phased out for a spell, but their popularity waxed again in the mid 90s along with the Beetle.

[pastel]

Yep, I remember all of those, except I only remember Fury by the name. Who could ever forget old Groucho? ^_^

Do you remember "What's Your Line?"

[filosofer]

Regarding Horse & Buggy
I'm afraid I've never done that, nor seen it. But, I'd love to do it!! That would be wonderful.

Ah, no. My parents grew up that way, especially my father, until he was 16 and bought a 1931 Chrysler. Neither of them, nor any of my grandparents ever described "horse & buggy" as "wonderful"; "necessary" yes, "wonderful", no.:P

[filosofer]

Do you remember "What's Your Line?"

Actually the show was called "What's My Line?" and was hosted by Garry Moore.

[SPALATIN]

What about 21 or the Original Truth or Consequences or Price is Right. One of my favorites was "To Tell the Truth" also hosted by Garry Moore. I think that this is one show that should make a comeback. It involves a bit of sleuthing, but to ask questions that would make one of the three contestants reveal themselves is kind of fun.

I am still looking in stores for the Late Night home version of "Will it Float?" ;)

[pastel]

Ah, no. My parents grew up that way, especially my father, until he was 16 and bought a 1931 Chrysler. Neither of them, nor any of my grandparents ever described "horse & buggy" as "wonderful"; "necessary" yes, "wonderful", no.:P



I have riden in horse drawn buggies, a stagecoach, and such. It is wonderful fun, the horse drawn buggy was much nicer. I'm sure doing it in all kinds of weather is not as much fun. It would have to be done on very nice days. ;)

[pastel]

Yep yep yep... remember all of those too. My son was watching "Guys and Dolls" on TV yesterday, and I told him we had more musicals "back in those days" than now. He said since "Moulon Rouge" and a couple of others that musicals seem to be making a comeback.

[filosofer]

I have riden in horse drawn buggies, a stagecoach, and such. It is wonderful fun, the horse drawn buggy was much nicer. I'm sure doing it in all kinds of weather is not as much fun. It would have to be done on very nice days. ;)

yep - once a month, 75 degrees, low humidty, horse always downwind, no flies, no manure, no snakes to scare the horse, no yipping dogs to spook them, no crazy drivers honking the horn, no tail swatting you on the side of the head, ....

Ah, yes, a nice day... ;)

[filosofer]

How about the original VW Bug.

My brother had a 1958 VW Bug, that I also drove for a while. Different experience - in those days.

[SPALATIN]

My brother had a 1958 VW Bug, that I also drove for a while. Different experience - in those days.

Was that before College students tried to pack as many people as they could in one?

[pastel]

yep - once a month, 75 degrees, low humidty, horse always downwind, no flies, no manure, no snakes to scare the horse, no yipping dogs to spook them, no crazy drivers honking the horn, no tail swatting you on the side of the head, ....

Ah, yes, a nice day... ;)

You have the right idea!! :thumbsup: