Remember When...

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Woolworth's lunch menu from the 60's, just the prices have a calming effect. :sentimental:

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Memories of years ago...

How did we survive 50 years ago? We drank water from the tap not a bottle and nobody knew about the dangers of lead poisoning so even cribs were painted with brightly colored lead based paint. Medicine and Bottles with tablets did not have child proof lids

No seat belts or air bags in cars, nobody knew or if they did told our parents smoking and drinking was bad for the baby, kids shared coke from one bottle, soda had masses of sugar and we ate real white bread and butter and everything else including full fat milk that we are now told is bad for you

Parents couldn't reach us ( no mobiles ) and most of the day we would be out playing with friends and parents knew we would be safe with hardly any weirdos wandering the streets. If we got caught doing stuff we shouldn't the cops would take us home and we may well have a got a hiding for breaking the law ( but no do gooders saying mustn't smack children ). And if we played up in school the same applied.

While playing we got cuts and bruises and the occasional tear in jeans but it was just part of being a kid and no visit to the hospital.

We had no fancy games but could play for hours making a Go cart or a new tree swing and for other games most times we would find a ball and whatever we could use as a bat. or in the summer all jump into the nearest place we could find and if the water wasn't that clean we just didn't swallow it.

We rode our bikes with no helmets and doing whatever stunts we could ( bikes were so much heavier and hard waring ) and always had punctures to repair or get dad to help with.

If we didn't get in the team we were not good enough and that was that.

But most of all we were allowed to be kids

To dream, to invent and to play.

It's no wonder that the generation that grew up then created some of the most innovative and exciting technology we have today

Thanks for those years and all those "BAD THINGS" that is why we are who we are today
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Wow, that Woolworth's menu brings me back to the early '60's - Mom used to take me to their lunch counter and we'd have lunch, obviously for a buck or two. The only difference in OUR neighborhood was that a "pressed ham sandwich" was just a regular sandwich that the waitress sat on ...

I also notice there's no hamburgers, hot dogs or pizza on that menu. I kind of remember them having at least triple-decker or club sandwiches, but maybe that's just a regional thing.
 
Yep - gas was 20¢ per gallon, and they washed the windshield (and usually the mirrors), checked the oil and water, aired the tires if you asked, then after they gave you change from your $5 bill, they gave you two pages of S&H Green Stamps, a free glass, and then actually thanked you! Where have we gone wrong since?!

That link showed ol' Red Skelton as a Fuller Brush man. My grandkids never heard of such a thing. I was one for two years in the early 70s. I went door to door in Red Bluff, CA daily and made 40% of everything I sold. It was a good job - all I had to do was talk to the ladies all day. Nowadays, I think such a job would be impossible and someone would likely call the cops on me!

Great memories.
 
FishWisher said:
Yep - gas was 20¢ per gallon, and they washed the windshield (and usually the mirrors), checked the oil and water, aired the tires if you asked, then after they gave you change from your $5 bill, they gave you two pages of S&H Green Stamps, a free glass, and then actually thanked you! Where have we gone wrong since?!
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:drive:...and the air for your tires was free. :dollar: Nowadays, it's me that's saying thank you, and wishing the clerks a nice day...many times with no response from them...sorry, some of us were taught to be courteous as young children...not really a work rule or requirement! :rolleyes:
 
Those were the days, party lines on our house phones, Radio station went off at midnight and TV stations too. Book stores, video stores going away, land line phones, phone books, paper maps, flashlights, address books, what's next?
Times they are a changing and yes, I do my best to keep up.:rolleyes:
 
Ditto all of the above.

My maternal grandmother kept the dairy farm til the end. She lived in a more remote area than we did and I remember when she had to ring up the operator to make a call and the operator listened in on everything you said - lollol

One of my cousins and I would occasionally ring the operator to ask if "her refrigerator was running" and other "better go catch it" jokes that I can't remember - lol lol

Grandma also had a big seat style heater in the living room from the old coal furnace days. They never took it out when the coal furnace got replaced with the fancy modern fuel oil furnace. Us kids would put towels on top of the metal seat and sit there to keep warm.

We are losing our humanity, I think; I'm glad I'm old - lol lol lol
 
Remember when there were no remote controls for the TV or stereo, we had vinyl records 33 1/3 or 45s, there were not answering machines or voice mail, we had an ice box instead of a refrigerator, all stoves were wood or gas. I don't remember those days when we had to ring the operator and she would listen to what you said, TWH, but we never had any phone then, and I only saw stuff like that on TV shows like Lassie, when Timmy was the son. :sentimental:

I agree we're losing our humanity. I can say one thing for sure, I feel I was blessed to be born in the 50's, and grew up in the 60s and so on...best times I think. It doesn't look like the future years will be any better or more rewarding...such a shame, really.
 
Technology has changed everything. Our children will look back on the days now and say "remember the days". Just think though.....here we all are chatting it up when in the "old days" that wouldn't have been possible!
 
I was born in November 1942 when the world was at war. I can't even fathom what that must have been like for the adults in my life.

The world is far more complicated than it was when I was a kid. I'm glad we didn't have to live with the mess that has been created by social media and other invasive technology, some of which has value but definitely not all of it. If a kid bullied another kid, the nun got out her ruler and the promise of bloodshed meant it was over. I grew up in a very small town in Southern Illinois so there weren't that many of us and we had to learn to live together.

People didn't go around with their noses buried in their phones although for me it's more likely to be my Kindle.
 
OMG, C'est Moi, those two are the most favorites of my life. Back more than 30 years ago, I joined the Columbia House where I subscribed to the "I Love Lucy" series, getting one VHs tape every six weeks with three episodes on each tape. Now, of course, we can purchase the whole series all at once on DVD's. But no way would I have given up all the years of VHS tapes, having enjoyed all those at the time. My mom was also a big fan, so we watched them together. I still have them and they take up two books shelves full.

And "The Honeymoomers", just hearing and seeing that opening theme, I can't describe the feeling each time. I have all the VHS tapes, as well, But I'm planning to order the DVD's.

For those who have grown up with these kind of shows, nothing even ever compares--at least for me.
 
Guess I'm back to being the only grouch here who thinks the old days weren't necessarily so wonderful. Most of our rose-colored attitudes are nostalgia for our youth. (And I had a happy childhood!) I just don't get all this sentimentalizing of the past, where everything is perceived as being better than it is now. That's what prompts all those jokes about the old folks boasting that they trudged to school in the snow, uphill
both ways. ;)

The Woolworth menu may look wonderful, though I gather it's mostly the prices that everybody loves. But think about what kind of salaries people were earning then. Probably the average American income
was around $5-6K a year.

Some of the old TV shows were fun, but I think that in general, the shows have improved tremendously. We do have lots of electronic appliances, and beyond that, more and more "smart" appliances. Even my car is "smart." If I'm about to crash into something, it automatically stops. If I'm backing up and a person or vehicle is approaching from the side and about to pass in back of me, I get a warning beep. All of our cars have seat belts and air bags. I'll take those safety features over the "good old days" any time!

The world of science and medicine is infinitely better. Obviously, we don't have cures for everything, but people are living much longer and healthier lives than they used to.

Sorry, but I'll take the present over that so-called wonderful past any time!
 
How many people remember Burma-Shave signs along the roadside ?

Car in ditch

Man in tree

the moon was full

And so was he.

Burma-Shave.


Oh and how about old U.S. Hwy Route 66. 2 lane highway from the mid-west to Southern California. And, all those fabulous family owned diners that doted America's highway. Now we're stuck with Denny's

I don't care what anyone says, I'll take those days over these, every time
 
SifuPhil said:
Wow, that Woolworth's menu brings me back to the early '60's - Mom used to take me to their lunch counter and we'd have lunch, obviously for a buck or two. The only difference in OUR neighborhood was that a "pressed ham sandwich" was just a regular sandwich that the waitress sat on ...

I also notice there's no hamburgers, hot dogs or pizza on that menu. I kind of remember them having at least triple-decker or club sandwiches, but maybe that's just a regional thing.
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Phil I remember the burgers too. My girlfriends and I used to go to Woolworths for burgers, fries and cokes. Good eats for cheap. We only had our allowances but we all lived. It beats the $5.00 & sandwiches of today. No wonder so many people are so poor.
 
Sunny said:
Guess I'm back to being the only grouch here who thinks the old days weren't necessarily so wonderful. Most of our rose-colored attitudes are nostalgia for our youth. (And I had a happy childhood!) I just don't get all this sentimentalizing of the past, where everything is perceived as being better than it is now. That's what prompts all those jokes about the old folks boasting that they trudged to school in the snow, uphill
both ways. ;)

The Woolworth menu may look wonderful, though I gather it's mostly the prices that everybody loves. But think about what kind of salaries people were earning then. Probably the average American income
was around $5-6K a year.

Some of the old TV shows were fun, but I think that in general, the shows have improved tremendously. We do have lots of electronic appliances, and beyond that, more and more "smart" appliances. Even my car is "smart." If I'm about to crash into something, it automatically stops. If I'm backing up and a person or vehicle is approaching from the side and about to pass in back of me, I get a warning beep. All of our cars have seat belts and air bags. I'll take those safety features over the "good old days" any time!

The world of science and medicine is infinitely better. Obviously, we don't have cures for everything, but people are living much longer and healthier lives than they used to.

Sorry, but I'll take the present over that so-called wonderful past any time!
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I think it's mixed bag Sunny. One thing we didn't have back then was people killing children in our schools which seems to be an unsolvable problem in the U.S. presently. I love technology, it's saved me many times in many ways. But sometimes during times of incredible distress like we've just experienced over the Parkland massacre, it's completely normal that we tend to wax nostalgic.
 

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