Did your parents let you make long distance phone calls? Growing up rural our school district probably had four or five different area codes, each being long distance from the other. I was never friends with kids in other area codes because I wasn't allowed to call long distance.lol
Can you remember ?
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stretch5881
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Biggest improvement ever was the indoor can. The outhouse stunk in the summer and was terrible to use when it was below 0 degrees. Cringe, shudder, cringe.
When I was a teen, my folks bought a store with pumps. Pumping gas was one of my jobs. It was better than baling hay and picking pickles.
When I was a teen, my folks bought a store with pumps. Pumping gas was one of my jobs. It was better than baling hay and picking pickles.
squatting dog
We don't have as far to go, as we've already been
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- Arkansas, and also Florida
Marie5656
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- Batavia, NY
Timewise 60+
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Wow, those are some really good looking (mini's) "ooppps, I meant Grandmas...SMILE!
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As a young boy my family moved to a small mountain town in Colorado. I recall when I went to make a phone call, you would pick up the phone and the operator would come on the line and ask "number please" you would tell her the three-digit number, ours was 392 and they would connect you, while making that phone ring. After three/ four rings they would say sorry no answer and disconnect you. We did not have TV in town yet. A couple of years after we moved in, they got three TV stations that were available for a few hours every day.
GAlady
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hawkdon
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- Liberty MO
Remember the typing classe's but ours were I think the
old black smith corona I believe...took the class and it
set me up for my Navy job of communications.....
old black smith corona I believe...took the class and it
set me up for my Navy job of communications.....
We used the underwood and imperial typewriters ….
but used the Ele trick ones , when I became an audio typist …
CinnamonSugar
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I’ve never had a coal furnace, but my ex’s grandparents did and he tells a funny story about it…
grandpa wanted to clean out the coal furnace ducts/tubing/pipes (dint know the right term)
anyway, he went down into the cellar and detached a section of pipe to empty it but the pipe buckled and dumped coal dust all over the cellar floor
so he goes upstairs and gets Grandma’s *new* Electrolux vacuum cleaner (I can hear the groans now), and proceeds to vacuum up the dust
said dust clogs up the holes in the vacuum bag and *BANG* Now there is coal dust everywhere
not to be outdone, grandpa meticulously sweeps up all the dust into a bushel basket, comes up from the cellar and goes out the back door to empty the basket.
Corner of concrete step gives way as he steps on it, basket flips upside down as he sits precipitously and dumps coal dust all over him
the end
grandpa wanted to clean out the coal furnace ducts/tubing/pipes (dint know the right term)
anyway, he went down into the cellar and detached a section of pipe to empty it but the pipe buckled and dumped coal dust all over the cellar floor
so he goes upstairs and gets Grandma’s *new* Electrolux vacuum cleaner (I can hear the groans now), and proceeds to vacuum up the dust
said dust clogs up the holes in the vacuum bag and *BANG* Now there is coal dust everywhere
not to be outdone, grandpa meticulously sweeps up all the dust into a bushel basket, comes up from the cellar and goes out the back door to empty the basket.
Corner of concrete step gives way as he steps on it, basket flips upside down as he sits precipitously and dumps coal dust all over him
the end
GAlady
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- Georgia USA
GAlady
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- Georgia USA
There was a Drive In Movie right down the block from my home in Middle Georgia.
GAlady
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Pappy
Living the Dream
Making home made ice cream in the winter down in the old cellar. Fill the gap around the container with icicles off the house, pour on the rock salt, add the ingredients and crank handle til your arm ached. But boy was it good.
GAlady
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Alligatorob
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Absolutely, both were the cheapest form of sugar treat available. I don't consume either any more, but often smile when I see them in the store.
squatting dog
We don't have as far to go, as we've already been
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- Arkansas, and also Florida
Living large in the 50's.
horseless carriage
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Richard Tompkins, following a business trip to the US and seeing how popular trading stamps were founded Green Shield Trading Stamp Co in 1958, along similar lines to S&H Green Stamps.
In a curious irony the UK supermarket company, Sainsburys, who branded Green Shield a blight on the retail trade now own, what's left of Green Shield. Intrigued? Read the story here.
In a curious irony the UK supermarket company, Sainsburys, who branded Green Shield a blight on the retail trade now own, what's left of Green Shield. Intrigued? Read the story here.
jujube
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That was the famous "Ten-Cent Lunch" of the Depression.
dilettante
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- Michigan
Capt Lightning
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- Historic Buchan, Scotland
Great story.
A lot of people here still have coal / wood stoves and for heating and hot water, we use a boiler. We also still have chimney sweeps. They still use a sweep's brush, but cover the fire / stove with a shield and use a vacuum cleaner with a dust trap to collect the soot without any mess.
Note that in the UK 'furnace' generally means an industrial device often for melting metal.
