"I remember when..."

[churchmouse]

Telephone party lines..... What a pain they were.

Bakelite rotary wall phone and a 4 party line.........

 

[poppy]

Mattel shootin shells for the fanner 50. Plastic bullets that would actually separate from the cartridge. Put a greenie stickum cap on the cartridge and you were gtg.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

I can remember.........when all of this was just farmland.

My wife started this one time--"I remember when this was all fields...." then I added in -- ".......and the wooly mammoth roamed the earth". The kids and I thought it was funny as all get out. My wife did not.

 

[Gluemanz28]

Wait, your dad's name isn't [STRIKE]Bruce[/STRIKE] Kaitlyn is it??

I don't know this Kaitlyn you speak of. I only know Bruce and refuse to ever call him anything else.

 

[Gluemanz28]

I remember when I had to get my gun knowledge from Gun Magazines and books instead of INGO

 

[pudly]

I remember when I had to get my gun knowledge from Gun Magazines and books instead of INGO

I hear the lifetime LTCH is going away soon...

 

[mdemetz]

You had to get up and walk across the room to change the TV channel.

Not if you had this universal remote I saw in a store once. A motor do hicky that fit over the tuner knob held on by a strap around the TV. Connected to a wired remote.

 

[HoughMade]

The matchbook cover was obviously the most important car maintenance tool

What's your point(s)?

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

Going to the drug store to test the tubes from the TV on their TV tube tester to see which one was bad, rummaging thru the inventory to find a new one, then being shocked to have to pay more than $5 for it.

I had a job at Hooks Drugs when I was in high school, and it was my job to run the tube-testing machine. Some guy would bring in a paper bag with all the tubes from his TV and we'd plug them in the tester and figure out which one(s) was(were) bad. Then he'd buy a new one and go home happy. On some occasions, he'd be back a short time later in a slightly less happy mood with the bag and the tubes because the new tube didn't fix the TV, and we'd go through them all again and, hopefully, find the bad one.

 

[olhorseman]

I remember our parent's car that had vacuum powered windshield wipers. Wipers would stop when you sped up to pass someone. That was not what I consider an advancement in automobile safety.

 

[Mgderf]

Photo-mat booths.
Where did those folks go to the bathroom?

 

[target64]

I remember when running water meant you had to run out to get it.

 

[Bigtanker]

Having to lug around one of these to every family holiday/birthday/anniversary get together. When the battery went dead, you were stuck to a chair no more than 5 feet from an outlet.

 

[olhorseman]

Houses with no central heat. Sleeping on cold winter nights required thick stacks of comforters and one of these at the foot of the bed.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

When wood warmed you several times a year. When you cut it. When you split it. When you hauled it. When you burned it. I remember the first time I saw a hydraulic log splitter. Holy crap! You can sit on your backside and split wood?

Throwing hay for $4/hr. Cutting corn for a share of the corn. Ol' Buzzard (no idea his real name) lost his hand to some farm implement or other and wouldn't buy new equipment. He'd drive a tractor with a bang-board wagon and you'd cut and throw walking down the rows.

Using a gas pump to pull creek water into 55g drums at the corner of the house, and then an electric pump to pull water into the house. The toilet flushed with a bucket. When my grandma was filling the washing machine and the water in a barrel was below the hose she'd holler for me to go out and change the water barrel hose over.

Repairing the driveway meant an order of rock and a lot of shoveling.

When the county used to oil the road to keep dust down.

When the phone company ran lines by the house, but you had to rent the physical phone from the phone company.

When changing channels on TV might require you to go outside and spin the antennae while someone yelled "better...better...worse" from inside.

When visitors was a big deal.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

When wood warmed you several times a year. When you cut it. When you split it. When you hauled it. When you burned it. I remember the first time I saw a hydraulic log splitter. Holy crap! You can sit on your backside and split wood?

Throwing hay for $4/hr. Cutting corn for a share of the corn. Ol' Buzzard (no idea his real name) lost his hand to some farm implement or other and wouldn't buy new equipment. He'd drive a tractor with a bang-board wagon and you'd cut and throw walking down the rows.

Using a gas pump to pull creek water into 55g drums at the corner of the house, and then an electric pump to pull water into the house. The toilet flushed with a bucket. When my grandma was filling the washing machine and the water in a barrel was below the hose she'd holler for me to go out and change the water barrel hose over.

Repairing the driveway meant an order of rock and a lot of shoveling.

When the county used to oil the road to keep dust down.

When the phone company ran lines by the house, but you had to rent the physical phone from the phone company.

When changing channels on TV might require you to go outside and spin the antennae while someone yelled "better...better...worse" from inside.

When visitors was a big deal.

Those of us with gravel driveways still do this...of course the shoveling part is done with a tractor now.

The father of my best friend in high school can remember when they brought electricity out to their farm, when he was a kid.

 

[1DOWN4UP]

Going to my great grandmas house.She did not have electricity,or plumbing.The well was on the back porch.It was fun to drop the bucket down the well pipe,get it full,and pull it up the pipe.She kept a pale,onthe kitchen counter,and everyone drank from the same ladle.Her kitchen stove burnt kindlin. The outhouse was down a path,and she said to not mess with that old black snake which hung around there.Her neighbor drove a wagon pulled by a old white mule.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Going to my great grandmas house.She did not have electricity,or plumbing.The well was on the back porch.It was fun to drop the bucket down the well pipe,get it full,and pull it up the pipe.She kept a pale,onthe kitchen counter,and everyone drank from the same ladle.Her kitchen stove burnt kindlin. The outhouse was down a path,and she said to not mess with that old black snake which hung around there.Her neighbor drove a wagon pulled by a old white mule.

This reminds me...

We had relatives that lived in North Carolina. Their neighbors had an old, ante-bellem (sp?) farm/plantation that they would take us to for picnics and stuff. I remember it had an outhouse and still had, what they told me, the old slaves quarters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnside_Plantation_House

 

[RockCreekRelics]

Does anyone remember the Teepee restaurants? My grandparents met at the one on 38th shortly after WWII. I haven't thought of that place in years. Wow I am really starting to get old.

 

[Archbishop]

I remember, my parents never locked the front door of our house unless we were going out of town. They also left the keys in the ignition of the cars in the driveway too.
Remember many times after church service hearing my Mom tell friends to just let themselves in while dropped by the local grocery store for lunch.