You know you are getting older when..............
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Yes, I have several. Before I left home in 1963, I had original Tom Swift books; onewas his electric car (Toyota just thinks they were first) and his airplane. Wish I had them now.
I remember the little portable reel to reel recorders I took to class to record lectures. I still have two 7 1/2" reel to reel recorders.
Instamatic camera that used 126 film cassettes; wind up film advance
... click, click, click.
8mm home movies: use one side then turn it over and take the other side. Wind up the camera. I've got de eral thousand feet of 8mm I'd like to digitize but it costs so much to send out.
jds holler
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You're gettin old if you remember when you knew bunches of family, friends, neighbors, bosses, etc, who had served in World War II.
You ARE old, if you are one of those vets. And God bless you. jd
You ARE old, if you are one of those vets. And God bless you. jd
KMart
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Feed sacks that came in patterns that could be saved so your mom could make clothes.
Towels that came in washing powder.
My grandmother had a glass rolling pin that originally sold containing vinegar.
Selling the hide at the hardware store after butchering a calf.
Storing meat in a locker plant in the days before home freezers.
Towels that came in washing powder.
My grandmother had a glass rolling pin that originally sold containing vinegar.
Selling the hide at the hardware store after butchering a calf.
Storing meat in a locker plant in the days before home freezers.
butchlambert
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You beat me to it on my feed sack shirts. I remember the iceman delivering ice for our icebox.
D Coots
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Uphill both ways to school. I was in a big class....9. About 6-7 grade we got hot lunch twice a week. We had a crank record player until I was in 8th grade.
In 7th grade I stayed after school to sweep floors and clean chalkboards. I was paid $1.00 per week. The next year I asked for a quarter a week raise. They hired someone else. I should have been union.
Got caught smoking on the tackle tag field in the 8th grade. Don't know how I got by with it, but my parents never saw the report card that said "David has been smoking in school, this is not allowed." Some things you just don't forget.
In 7th grade I stayed after school to sweep floors and clean chalkboards. I was paid $1.00 per week. The next year I asked for a quarter a week raise. They hired someone else. I should have been union.
Got caught smoking on the tackle tag field in the 8th grade. Don't know how I got by with it, but my parents never saw the report card that said "David has been smoking in school, this is not allowed." Some things you just don't forget.
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butchlambert
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Dave, I may have mentioned before that I went one year to a school in Francis, Oklahoma that had 4 grades in one class. The local ladies cooked our lunches and WOW they were great. It would probably be not allowed today as it may be unhealthy. We didn't get obese because of it as we were never in the house and were very active.
My wife had 3 grades in one room, O think thats why kids seemed smarter because they were exposed to more onformation, definately not ondoctrinated like today.
I had feed sack shirts in grade school, small enough for 1 sack = 1 shirt.
We lived in OK City and on a weekend drive out to grand parents in Yukon and visit our locker for meat. Locker was owned by Ed Workenten. Route 66 was (still is) the mainstreet, now I 40 bypasses to the south.
I have a dish from my grand mother's wedding gift (1906) that I believe came from the flour sacks.
Quilting frames set up on chair backs in my grandmother's living room on the farm, where all the women would come together to gossip and make thieir quilts. My daughter still has the one made for me.
I had feed sack shirts in grade school, small enough for 1 sack = 1 shirt.
We lived in OK City and on a weekend drive out to grand parents in Yukon and visit our locker for meat. Locker was owned by Ed Workenten. Route 66 was (still is) the mainstreet, now I 40 bypasses to the south.
I have a dish from my grand mother's wedding gift (1906) that I believe came from the flour sacks.
Quilting frames set up on chair backs in my grandmother's living room on the farm, where all the women would come together to gossip and make thieir quilts. My daughter still has the one made for me.
okie
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Im not that old, but remember party lines, drawing water from the well, outhouses, butchering hogs when it got cold, open range cattle, seeing hogs and dogs through cracks in the floor of an old sawmill house, corn cribs, taters in the cellar, granny canning everything imaginable, whiskey stills, working ground and skidding logs with mules and horses because you could, carbide lights for coon hunting, filing the tips off of GI 06 ammo so it wouldnt pencil through a deer, making sure the "signs are right" when cutting a hog or calf, great grandpa milking his jersey and great grandma churning for butter, knowing which neighbors wouldnt make it to church when the river got up, drinking out of snuff jars, gigging with a lantern tied on the front of a cypress flatbottom, not going anywhere after it rained because the roads fell apart, feeding my pony extra when i really worked him hard, patches on clothes, hauling livestock in the back of trucks, working in the garden, seeing the first round baler in the county, pet coons and deer, getting lost night hunting and letting the reins down to get home, weevils getting in the flour, blackstrap in metal paint cans, barefoot almost always...the good old days.
KMart
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Cute is ok, how about your daughter is drop dead gorgeous
D Coots
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For true....the on her back problem.
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I'm not old at all and a lot of these things listed still happen around here. Planning on "killing hogs" next month. Just opened a jar of homemade apple butter from the apple tree in the yard along with a jar of jelly. There are few smoke houses and corn cribs around with a couple of outhouses still. Just hauled a load of cattle to the sale in an early 80's model ton truck lasted week.
I've always said we are 30 years behind things around here. But its home and I dont think I would have it any other way.
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