Wealth As A Kid ……

I would save up my change until I could turn the coins in for Morgan silver dollars.
But I remember how heavy they were in my pockets when I went to the Saturday matinee.
We had a bathtub but no shower in it. Washed my hair in the sink.
We got a TV when I was 14. Before that, we would huddle around the radio.
Listen to the Walston-Purina pig prices.
 

I did dabble with some wealthy young ladies at one time, so I had a pretty good idea what wealth looked like.
First one had an uncle who was a mucky muck with "Ma Bell" that owned or leased the entire top floor and roof of a Manhattan building. Complete with a rooftop garden and pool. :)
Another was some distant kin of Grover Cleveland and lived in a huge Mansion on Dune Road in Southampton Long Island. I mean huge... Horseshoe shaped, with 8 garage's with servants quarters above them. Main house had 15-18 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms, big banquet hall, and you walked out the back straight into the Atlantic ocean.
I remember having dinner there one night, and someone broke into the other side of the house and stole some paintings. (pre securtiy camera's).
The third was daughter of Charles Berlitz, (writer of the Bermuda Triangle) and good friend of former governor of Connecticut Abraham Ribicoff. (got to fly in his seaplane. what a blast)
 
hollydolly said:
Good Lord.. that whole paragraph would have been like a complete foreign language to me when I was a kid..

Phones, in bedrooms ?..POOLS ?.... car for graduation.?.. parents out of town ? snow skiing ?... ... just beyond any comprehension when I was young..
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how about a NEW car when you turned 16!?
 
wcwbf said:
how about a NEW car when you turned 16!?
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yes just beyond our comprehension... .. altho' in our school, there was 2 18 year old 6th form prefects who had cars.. but they were not new, and equally they were from well off families, so we didn't even think of them as being in the same world as us..:LOL:..we thought of them as being a different species entirely from us
 
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