Who remembers these things back in the day ?...come and add your own memories..

[rgp]

Not just seen the lawn mower, used one weekly for some years when I was a teenager.

A women [50?] just up the street, still cuts her grass with one. It is a more modern version [made by John Deere] but she says it cuts great, and she doesn't need to go to a gym. Granted, her yard is small-medium ..... but I admire her for it.

 

[Pepper]

I remember my sister booby trapping our door with a pail of toys. My mother opened the door and all the toys fell on her head. We all laughed. I wish I had had a better relationship with my sister. She is dead now.

 

[hollydolly]

We used to call it glycerin if I'm not mistaken. I still use it, buy it from a Turkish shop.

She was blessed. Not all mothers had so much luck.

for sure... we know that more than most in the UK

 

[rgp]

that's soooo spot on... that's exactly how it happened in our house...The phone was always in the hall on the little wrought iron phone table attached to the wall..

If you had money you had something similar to this...instead of the cheap wrought iron one...

...and then the phone was the 706 or 746 ( excuse the nerd in me, I collect vintage phones)... They were rented in those days and the cheapest colour was pea green... like this..

so we had green while my friends had red...swooon... and or white, or black...

I remember those and ...... we had a crank-phone in our house in Michigan [50's]

I also remember "party" lines When we had one, my sister hated it. I was young and didn't really use the phone much, [if at all]

 

[rgp]

Radiogram

Stereo...

remember these ?

I still have a 'component' stereo , do not have the dedicated stack cabinet though.

 

[rgp]

Many things here that I do remember. Walking to school, no matter the weather, I do remember 'colored' entrances , and the last local surviving 'sun-down' town.

Candy cigarettes ! Today that would be child abuse. I think cap-pistols have fallen into that category as well ? I wish we still shot 'film' . I still have my quality and expensive Minolta 35mm SLR camera, but it has been in a drawer for years.

The list is endless, because I'm old and ...... still have a decent memory .

 

[Pepper]

Many things here that I do remember. Walking to school, no matter the weather, I do remember 'colored' entrances , and the last local surviving 'sun-down' town.

Were you a child in Ohio? Where did you see this?

 

[Llynn]

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This photo takes me back. My afternoon classes were all in the science room which was across the hall from the home ec room. We male science students became the test audience for whatever the girls cooked. My first taste of pizza came from home ec. Perhaps that's why to this day, I don't like pizza.

 

[chic]

Did any of you own a fortune telling 8 ball when you were kids? I did have one. You shook them up and turned them upside down and there would be a fortune for you when you read it. It was kind of fun and all the kids in my neighborhood had one.

 

[RadishRose]

 

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[Timewise 60+]

I remember my sister booby trapping our door with a pail of toys. My mother opened the door and all the toys fell on her head. We all laughed. I wish I had had a better relationship with my sister. She is dead now.

Pepper...same for me! My sister was four years older than me. She passed 3 years ago. We were never real close, but we did talk off and on. I spoke with her a few weeks before she passed. At that time, she was not ill. Her family did not call me when she got sick and died. I got a call a few weeks after she died.

 

[Timewise 60+]

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My late sister actually earned a scholarship to Colorado State University in 1964. Her expertise & grades in Home Economics earned this four-year scholarship. Sounds crazy today. We lived in a small town and the high school did not have a lot of scholarships to give out, but she got one of them. She went to CSU but dropped out and got married before completing her first year.

 

[rgp]

Were you a child in Ohio? Where did you see this?

Yes, it was a town within Cincinnati . By the time I was an adult, or late teen, all the signs had been taken down.

 

[rgp]

I have several pieces of my mothers old Corning ware ........ It all seems to cook well. No tattoo though.

 

[timoc]

Last year one of the older blokes (not me) taught some of the kids around here how to play 'conkers', and it warmed my heart to see some kids today having a 'conker contest'.

 

[ChiroDoc]

Yes, it was a town within Cincinnati . By the time I was an adult, or late teen, all the signs had been taken down.

I was born in Athens, Ohio. Spent 5 years in Cincinnati at the Conservatory. Have many relations in the eastern Columbus area. Great state!

 

[ChiroDoc]

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This is a class that definitely needs to be brought back!

 

[hollydolly]

This is a class that definitely needs to be brought back!

I absolutely agree.. Altho' tbf we only ever got taught how to make scones and apple pie...

Even when my daughter who was taking homecraft classes in the 90's, they asked them to bring in ready made pastry.. & canned stewed apples.. and they had to take money in to pay for the extra ingredients.. certainly not teaching them how to cook...
..fortunately she learned from me and she is a good cook as an adult..
However, I do agree that today there's a dire need for people to learn to cook and not live off health destroying processed food

 

[Llynn]

Last year one of the older blokes (not me) taught some of the kids around here how to play 'conkers', and it warmed my heart to see some kids today having a 'conker contest'.

Does conkers involve whacking a horse chestnut around with a stick?

 

[hollydolly]

Does conkers involve whacking a horse chestnut around with a stick?

Nope it involves a horse chestnut ( conker) on a string, and being hit by your opponents conker, in an attempt to break it.. look here.. it's a kids game that even eccentric adults play to championship level..

 

[Inept]

Yes, it was a town within Cincinnati . By the time I was an adult, or late teen, all the signs had been taken down.

Were they replaced with the name Cincinnata?

 

[Inept]

Bowler:

 

[timoc]

Nope it involves a horse chestnut ( conker) on a string, and being hit by your opponents conker, in an attempt to break it.. look here.. it's a kids game that even eccentric adults play to championship level..

Thanks, Holly, I enjoyed that.