Those were the daze

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The grey Olivetti is exactly the same design as the Underwood we learned on at school... horribly difficult machines to have to type on... and this was in the late 60's.. not 1920...

We did have electric typewriters but for some reason our Sadist Business Economics teachers only allowed their favourites to use the electric machines..
 
We had an Underwood typewriter at my house which mom used a lot. Our TVs were all RCAs. Was there anything else at that time? Maybe Zenith? There were a LOT of payphones but we never had an ice cream man in my neighborhood. We had to go to the ice cream parlor or to a mom and pop store for that. I liked it though.
 

 
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I can remember being required to take a half-semester typing course on old, well-worn manual machines, some of which you really had to pound the keys to operate. I was sent off to college with a portable electric typewriter, the high-tech of its day! Common when I started working, many offices don’t even have traditional typewriters these days.

I can also remember my father pushing a “reel”-type lawnmower before upgrading to a gasoline-powered model…not self-propelled, of course!

I also knew the location of every pay phone so that I could place a call without my mother listening in to the single rotary dial land line phone centrally placed in my parent’s house. She’d often interrupt my calls to offer commentary. Kids today with cell phones enjoy a level of freedom and privacy unthinkable in my day…
 
Did anyone have an old fridge like this ?... we lived in a prefab built after the war after we lost most of our housing stock in the blitz.. and in these prefabs which were supposed to be only temporary housing but in fact many survived for 60 years or more ( we moved out to a tenement house after a few years).. they had integral fridges under the counter which had metal ice cube holders..
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This was our actual kitchen , the fridge is on the far right..

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chic said:
My gran had a fridge like that one. It brings back happy memories. :)
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My gran didn't have a fridge at all. She lived in a one bedroom tenement flat.. She lived in the South of the city in one type of tenement,, she had an indoor Bathroom and toilet.. and a small (tiny) kitchen.. no room for a fridge

( all the tenement houses were different)

..After we moved from the prefab when I was about 10 years old , we lived in a tenement in a very upmarket area in the West side of the city... big kitchen, long lobby.. big rooms high ceilings etc... indoor bathroom and toilet...

My granddad lived in a 3 bed tenement in the East side of the city, and had an indoor toilet, but he was the only one who had that... but no Bathroom..... and all his neighbours in the same building had to share a toilet on each landing..some families had 10 kids.. can you imagine that ?...he had a HUGE kitchen... there was even an alcove with a double bed in it..but he had no fridge ..
 
hollydolly said:
My gran didn't have a fridge at all. She lived in a one bedroom tenement flat.. She lived in the South of the city in one type of tenement,, she had an indoor Bathroom and toilet.. and a small (tiny) kitchen.. no room for a fridge

( all the tenement houses were different)

..After we moved from the prefab when I was about 10 years old , we lived in a tenement in a very upmarket area in the West side of the city... big kitchen, long lobby.. big rooms high ceilings etc... indoor bathroom and toilet...

My granddad lived in a 3 bed tenement in the East side of the city, and had an indoor toilet, but he was the only one who had that... but no Bathroom..... and all his neighbours in the same building had to share a toilet on each landing..some families had 10 kids.. can you imagine that ?...he had a HUGE kitchen... there was even an alcove with a double bed in it..but he had no fridge ..
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Not even room for an icebox? My grandparents had an old one from the days of the depression that they no longer used. It didn't take up much space at all and was better than nothing when it came to keeping things cold from the way they explained it to me.
 
chic said:
Not even room for an icebox? My grandparents had an old one from the days of the depression that they no longer used. It didn't take up much space at all and was better than nothing when it came to keeping things cold from the way they explained it to me.
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you mean in my grandparents flats ?... there was no room in my granny's flat..her kitchen was so tiny you couldn't close the door, just space for a stove,, and the kitchen sink..not even a washer...

My granda OTOH..had a Very large kitchen, but he used it as a secondary livingroom..in fact it was used almost solely as a livingroom and he had a flat where everybody and his cousin were welcome and would come and go all day....so 2/3rd of it was made over as a living space.. and one third had a large table and chairs, a sink, a cooker... and that was it.. I don't think he could have afforded to buy a fridge.. tbh..and he didn't buy much food anyway that needed refrigerating . He shot rabbits and made rabbit stew and pretty much lived on that all week..
 
 
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We had a Sylvania color TV for about 2 months. Dad had to have the repairman come out about 4 or 5 times during the first 2 months. The last time the repairman came out, he said he would have to take it back to the shop. My dad said not to bring it back. The next day when I got home from school, I saw a new RCA sitting in the living room. No problems after that.
 
hollydolly said:
Did anyone have an old fridge like this ?... we lived in a prefab built after the war after we lost most of our housing stock in the blitz.. and in these prefabs which were supposed to be only temporary housing but in fact many survived for 60 years or more ( we moved out to a tenement house after a few years).. they had integral fridges under the counter which had metal ice cube holders..
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My grandparents had a fridge like this, and they were happy to stay with this sort of model, as long as it continued to function.
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But I suppose our family was spoiled, with newer technology.
 
 
One of my grandfathers ran a small dairy farm and worked nights as a railroad conductor.

Something today reminded me of the old milk cans they used on the farm to load up for the dairy truck that took them away. At some point people started painting those and turning them into planters and such, which always seemed weird to me.
 
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There is some ambiguity about these buses. We call them Trolley Buses,
they were road going electric buses picking up their power from overhead cables.
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A road going bus on rails with it's overhead power source we called trams.
 

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