Are you psychic? It was on Grand Avenue.
Tell us your old without telling us you are old......
- Thread starter Sippican
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Not psychic, but have always had an acute sixth sense.
Forget rotary telephones, when I was growing up, a dear aunt of mine had an old-fashioned wall telephone, and no matter how many times I used it, it never failed, I'd start trying to listen in on the wall horn while talking into the microphone, or was it the other way around.
Nevertheless, what interesting telephones they were.
Nevertheless, what interesting telephones they were.
JBR
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TV station "test patterns" broadcast before/after programming hours.
It sure is!
I had the pleasure of operating one just like it as a kid, and there was no selecting a different channel without an adult hearing it, because those darned remotes were so loud.
Outhouses and fetching water from the well, when staying with my grandpa and grandma was all in a day's events/happenings when I was growing up.
Sitting around the kitchen table after dark under the light of a coal-oil lamp, listening to old stories, some spooky, was how evenings were spent.
Sitting around the kitchen table after dark under the light of a coal-oil lamp, listening to old stories, some spooky, was how evenings were spent.
JBR
Senior Member
Oh, they must have made that so you could watch videos and also so the dog could jump into the back and have his nap.What would kids do/think nowadays!
ROFL!
In keeping with your entry, JBR, I recall us as a family going visiting one Christmas, and the family we were visiting had an army of kids ranging from late teens to single digits. I may have been all of 5 or 6 at the time, but remember there was an old gutted black and white television that stood in the corner of one of the upstairs bedrooms, and what fun the family had with it.
The teen daughters would get in behind the empty cavity of the television playing Walter Chronkite and other news anchors, but the crowning glory was when they'd light a cigarette and blow the smoke out the front of the television and through the channel select knobs! I remember us roaring with laughter!
Jules
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In many places they are totally banned; they’re a fast route for a fire to spread. If the fire code even permits them, there‘re really stringent with how they’re built.
Child leashes were in when my baby siblings were little.
My mom used one on my baby brother, because he was an absolute terror while out.
I can only imagine the uproar that would erupt today upon using such a safety apparatus as this. How today's namby-pamby generation would cry.
My mom used one on my baby brother, because he was an absolute terror while out.
I can only imagine the uproar that would erupt today upon using such a safety apparatus as this. How today's namby-pamby generation would cry.
I wasn't aware they are banned now in places.
dobielvr
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Flash back. We had one of those in our main bathroom when I was growing up.Laundry chutes.
While I'm certain there are homeowners today that still have a laundry chute in their home, or homeowners that designed a laundry chute into their home, when I was growing up laundry chutes were in vogue.
It didn't go anywhere, just served as a hamper for us kids. I'd forgotten all about that, till this picture
Our bathroom was pink w/pink tile and black tile accents.
Well, story to share with you, Dob.
Second oldest son made it half-way down inside our old laundry chute when I heard his crying and screams from the kitchen.
His bulky padded little bottom saved him from going down the entire way and ending up on the concrete basement floor below.
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Goodness, I remember my mom and I visiting the laundromat often, that was until she got her first washing machine, an old-fashioned wringer washing machine.
We never had an electric dryer in our house until the late 60's/early 70's, and it wasn't until around 1973 (ish) that mom got her very first electric automatic washing machine.
dobielvr
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Aww poor guy, thank goodness for padded baby bottoms.
So scary all of the dangerous things that are present in typical homes when you have little ones, with some things being oblivious to moms at the start.