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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #25 on: June 13, 2011, 10:50:04 AM »
In which state do you reside?

MO.  Also, we are still allowed to pump our own gas here. 

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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #26 on: June 13, 2011, 11:04:55 AM »
screwing up at school. facing my parents was a fate worse than death

In my case, the nuns ratting you out with a note and a courtesy phone call didn't help.

Other than that, I caught the tail end of most of the items. Especially phone numbers. Party line in the 50's, Exchange names (like ORleans 5-2155 when the operators and party line systems were phased out) to electro-mechanical switching and the exchange name changed to numbers when area codes and zip codes were introduced in the 60's (which has been eclipsed by digital swiching when touch tones phones were introduced in the 70's). And milk delivery at my ancestrial home was by cow, direct. Took me a couple of years to get used to the taste of store-bought milk. Now fresh milk tastes sour to me.

Studebacker was absorbed into American Motors before I new anything about cars, but an uncle had one.

Newsreels were already a thing of the past when I went to see my first movie, "Old Yeller".

Heck, who had a Nike-Hercules base nearby? I don't remember when it was built, but I do remember seeing staff airmen around the town by the base when we got to go with my dad to his cousin's bar near the base.
I remember that draft beer was 10 cents a glas then and Dad would give me some dimes and tell me to get him and his buddies some beer from the bar. I had to stand on the brass bar just to get the dimes on top the bar and squeak "Chet, my Dad wants 4 beers, please". Got kidded from the bar flies about checking my drivers license cause I looked young, but I might be a midget.

And "Duck and Cover" drills in school?
Fall out shelters?

Ahhh, good times, good times.

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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #27 on: June 13, 2011, 11:47:16 AM »
MO.  Also, we are still allowed to pump our own gas here. 

I was just thinking the other day about our full service gas stations.  My hometown had one.  My grandma went there all the time.  It's not that I am lazy, but I hate having to pump my own gas when we have wind gusts up to 50 mph or when it's 115 degrees out.  I have no problem paying an extra fee to have someone else pump my gas.
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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #28 on: June 13, 2011, 01:02:42 PM »
I remembered 13, with one caveat:  the washtub wringer was my grandmother's and she still used it.  I was a tiny child.   :-)

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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #29 on: June 13, 2011, 01:10:46 PM »
Got a chuckle out of this one:

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Hell.....I remember my grandmother collecting "Eagle Stamps"......

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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #30 on: June 13, 2011, 01:56:59 PM »
I got 13. :o :whatever:
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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #31 on: June 14, 2011, 06:52:26 AM »
Got a chuckle out of this one:

Hell.....I remember my grandmother collecting "Eagle Stamps"......

doc

Well, you're REALLY old, DOC!! What would one expect?? You probably had outhouses in your youth........  :tongue:
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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #32 on: June 14, 2011, 07:40:30 AM »
Well, you're REALLY old, DOC!! What would one expect?? You probably had outhouses in your youth........  :tongue:

Thor, some places in the country's in the 1960's still had outhouses,   The smell of pine wood and a bag of lime is a nostalgic event for me.

Bathing caps for woman to keep their hair dry,  a new kind of hair product called Spools that made pin curls,  Buying a kotex from a machine that included a safety pin to attach it to the panty----or the waist strap with hooks on each end to keep them in place.

Pantie hose came in when I was about 10 but I do remember for that time in a school play having to wear nylons and garters and trying to keep my seams straight.      Oh heck remember when woman worried about their slip showing???

Late 50's the starched slips that girls wore under their skirts to make them stand out.   

Bras that made a females boobs look like torpedo's, wasn't there an auto at that time that had a front fender that looked like a torpedo, perhaps a Packard????

Woman over 50 when hair was turning gray that had their hair died blue. 

Men that wore men's hats, not the ball caps of today that one sees on woman and children.

Kids toys that needed imagination to operate, the paddel with the string and a ball, anyone remember the monkey between two sticks one could make do tricks.   

Much more but it boggles the mind when I remember in the 1970's buying my daughter those ceramic balls on a small rope called Clicker balls to be swung and met and click-------Off market some of the balls shattered or boinked the kids in face or head---A fore runner I believe of Numb Chucks.

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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #33 on: June 14, 2011, 07:50:40 AM »
Thor, some places in the country's in the 1960's still had outhouses,   The smell of pine wood and a bag of lime is a nostalgic event for me.

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Several people I know are forced by circumstance to have outhouses. I mean the old drop-it-in-the-hole outhouses too.

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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #34 on: June 14, 2011, 08:13:46 AM »
one seat or two???  :-) using that in the winter was a pain. unless you liked frozen ass.  i was glad when indoor plumbing came.

maybe they are still around


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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #35 on: June 14, 2011, 09:14:16 PM »
We had an outhouse at our hunting shack in SW Minnesota. I preferred to use a 5 gallon bucket with a garbage bag. Suffice it to say that if one wasn't first into the outhouse, they really didn't want to go in there. It wasn't too bad when it was really cold, but there were several hunting seasons that it was in the 70s during the day. The lime helped, but not that much.
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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #36 on: June 14, 2011, 09:17:20 PM »
We had an outhouse at our hunting shack in SW Minnesota. I preferred to use a 5 gallon bucket with a garbage bag. Suffice it to say that if one wasn't first into the outhouse, they really didn't want to go in there. It wasn't too bad when it was really cold, but there were several hunting seasons that it was in the 70s during the day. The lime helped, but not that much.

I prefer to go for a walk with a roll and a spade.

Imagine if you will - outhouses in summer, in a place where the shade temperature is 40C and it's humid enough to wring out the air for a drink.

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Re: The Age Barometer
« Reply #37 on: June 15, 2011, 09:45:41 PM »
I prefer to go for a walk with a roll and a spade.

Imagine if you will - outhouses in summer, in a place where the shade temperature is 40C and it's humid enough to wring out the air for a drink.

Nice sensory description, LC EFA..........  :puke:
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