Things you won't find anymore...

RadishRose said:
OMG, at first I thought you wrote "trombone". Then I looked again!
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My grandmother went through life a lot like the old Woody Guthrie song Dollar Down.😉🤭😂

Friend of mine bought an automobile,
At a dollar down and a dollar a week.
Every time he turned the wheel,
It was a dollar down and a dollar a week.

He went riding down the road,
And kissed this gal upon her cheek.
Speed cop took him to the judge,
He got a dollar down and a dollar a week.

Sixty days he laid in jail,
At a dollar down and a dollar a week.
Another man was a-lovin' his gal,
At a dollar down and a dollar a week.

When he got out he shot the man,
And he laid him in the graveyard six foot deep.
And when he bought the graveyard spot,
It was a dollar down and a dollar a week.
 

Aunt Bea said:
I remember going to the Sears lawn and garden annex with my grandmother to buy her tombstone.
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As in "off the rack" tombstones? I've never heard of that.

I was with my Gramps when he went to order his brother's headstone. We went to this old man's shop that was an open Quonset hut with a yard full of precut headstones of various types. You'd choose the stone you liked, marble, granite, or cement, rectangular, obelisk, cross-shaped, etc., and he'd jot down how you wanted it to read and any extras you wanted him to carve on it...cherubs, seagulls, roses, etc. You paid for the stone, so-much per letter, and the extras.

Two things I remember that really stuck out to me were the old guy saying his grandson would deliver, and the ones he had for baby's graves. One of those was a stone baby crib with a separate little stone pillow to put in it. Assembly required.

I don't know why the delivery thing sticks with me, but I think the cribs do because they seemed so cold, hard, and dead. You just don't associate that with a baby.
 
When I was small, Our phone did not have a dial. You picked it up and told the operator the number that you wanted. There were no area codes. You told the operator what town you wanted and the number. You didn't own your phone, the phone company did.

There were 6 houses on my street, 3 had phones, 3 owned cars. We were the only ones with both.
 
Manatee said:
When I was small, Our phone did not have a dial. You picked it up and told the operator the number that you wanted. There were no area codes. You told the operator what town you wanted and the number. You didn't own your phone, the phone company did.

There were 6 houses on my street, 3 had phones, 3 owned cars. We were the only ones with both.
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The first phone number I remember in Anchorage was 24, later it was changed to 2424, then 52424, then Broadway 52424, then 272-something.
 
MarkinPhx said:
Do any states still have Blue Laws ?

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When we lived in Florida back in the early 1960's, they had blue laws. The only one I was aware of was that my father couldn't buy beer in a store until after 12 pm on Sundays. The theory was if you sold beer in the mornings on Sunday, a person might just stay home and drink beer, instead of going to church. My father eventually caught on and didn't drink all of his beer on Saturdays. He would save a few cans for Sunday mornings. :giggle:
 
I can remember those archaic “Blue Laws” from my 1960’s childhood in New Jersey! Stores open on Sunday would actually have clothing sections roped off. I could never figure out what Biblical injunctions forbid the purchasing of clothing on Sundays…🤔
 
Fyrefox said:
I can remember those archaic “Blue Laws” from my 1960’s childhood in New Jersey! Stores open on Sunday would actually have clothing sections roped off. I could never figure out what Biblical injunctions forbid the purchasing of clothing on Sundays…🤔
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We had them in Central New York when I was a kid.

I always thought the blue laws were to prevent people from working on Sunday, to observe the sabbath.

I still hate to see people working on holidays and Sundays but for many an extra shift is more important than a day off.

I suppose if it’s voluntary it shouldn’t matter to anyone but the worker and their god.
 
Woman with her cat in her marijuana garden 1910

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Paladin1950 said:
When we lived in Florida back in the early 1960's, they had blue laws. The only one I was aware of was that my father couldn't buy beer in a store until after 12 pm on Sundays. The theory was if you sold beer in the mornings on Sunday, a person might just stay home and drink beer, instead of going to church. My father eventually caught on and didn't drink all of his beer on Saturdays. He would save a few cans for Sunday mornings. :giggle:
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When I was a kid we lived in McLean Virginia for a year. I do have a memory of the first day we moved into the house. My dad needed a screwdriver so I went with him to some store to get one and he was told he could not buy one on a Sunday. He seemed confused over that.

Arizona used to have the same 12pm liquor laws on Sundays. When the Cardinal's moved here from St. Louis the time moved to 10 am. And when the first Super Bowl was played here the 10 am restriction went away for good.
 
MarkinPhx said:
It's not a thing to find, but when was the last time that anyone experienced a sonic boom ?
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2023..in fact...and jan 2021 before that ....

Two RAF Typhoon jets caused a massive sonic boom that swept across central England when they scrambled to intercept a small plane after the pilot's radio went down.

Hundreds of people heard the sonic boom that shook the ground and rocked homes at around 12.10pm today in counties including Oxfordshire, Leicestershire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

The plane was a small Dash 8 airliner and was flying from Reykjavik in Iceland, to Nairobi, via Southend. Only two people were on board - a pilot and co-pilot - when it when experienced radio failure while flying above St Albans, Hertfordshire.

The plane was escorted to London Stansted by jets from RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire, and landed at 12.45pm.

Essex police said: 'Officers engaged with them and carried out enquiries and are satisfied there was a loss of contact due to an equipment malfunction and nothing of any concern.
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Two RAF Typhoon jets caused a massive sonic boom that swept across central England when they scrambled to intercept a small plane after the pilot's radio went down

the one previous in Jan 2021, was directly over my town and blew some people windows in....
 
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Remember when movie theaters were big, cavernous places? They were kind of like entering a different world or reality. Some of these movie theaters were classy places as well, with velvet draperies and carpeted floors. Some old school theaters had balconies. I’ve been in a theater with an art deco motif! Ushers with flashlights would actually police some theaters to shush unruly children or loud talkers. Boorish people who would put their legs up on the seat row ahead of them would get put in their place pretty quickly back then!

You rarely see theaters like that anymore. Today, the Cineplex concept rules, with numerous small theaters carved out, each one showing a different movie. There’s no more getting a double feature with cartoons or newsreels to kick off the show, either, and no intermissions. What amounts to commercials are sometimes shown before the movie that you’ve paid to see is actually shown.

While movie theaters have downsized, prices sure haven’t! I had a case of sticker shock for my last theater ticket, and that was years ago. It cost more for one ticket than I used to pay for two tickets on a date plus popcorn and drinks!

I miss the big old classy theaters, and that whole experience! *sighs* 😌

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Churches in the days before air conditioning often had hand fans in the pews to help parishioners get through those long summer sermons. I’ve used a few myself! The fans often had religious art on them, with the name of the fan’s sponsor…which was often a funeral home! I found this kind of a memento mori… 🎚️

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…and wouldn’t you like to call some funeral home run by a guy who was a Creep?! Service with a smile, right? 🙀
 

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