Damaged Goods
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"All my men wear English Leather - or they wear nothing at all."
Wasn't that the gorgeous Samantha Eggar?Didn't their ad say, "All my men wear English Leather - or they wear nothing at all."
Things that are nearly gone forever... Days Gone by Items...
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Mat
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This is my Mother and her slightly older modelThis one really brings back memories!
Old-fashioned baby carriages, prams, or what I have always called them... "baby buggies".
The one my mom used for us was nearly identical to the one shown in the picture, and it sat in the garage for several years after baby brother was past his baby buggy days, and one day (with the help of my dad), dear baby brother and dad took the wheels off the buggy to make a go-cart.
Mom was furious!
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grahamg
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Have they all gone over there?
Pappy
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Use to sell these when I was a kid.....
Boy, does that picture of the shifter ever bring back memories for me, Needshave!
tinsel - the "new" stuff is mylar and gets so charged with static electricity that it shoots right off tree onto anything warm-blooded if they walk close enough. turns out the old (good) stuff was made with LEAD!
cursive - personally, i think it should still be taught in school. but kids not knowing it could be helpful to parents... as long as they can write in cursive. when parents want to talk about some things they don't want kids to know about, they start spelling stuff. once kids start to learn how to spell, perfect cursive would serve the same purpose... kids can't read it.
mimeo/ditto - huffing the pages as they got passed back.
Toni home perms - they used to make one for kids... Tonette... just as stinky. i had baby fine, poker straight hair that my grandmother insisted should be Shirley Temple curly. i'd have an Afro (before fashionable) for about 2 days and then back to totally straight.
caps - we'd smack them with a rock on the sidewalk to make them explode.
card catalog - when library was going to computerized card catalog, they sold tickets for a raffle... i didn't win it.
mascara - boy was that messy
45 record adapters - i didn't realize there was such a variety.
Dick & Jane - wasn't really teaching how to read, but presenting a mess of rather odd "sight vocabulary" words. works like "surprise" or "laugh"... words you just have to know on sight.
pocket calculator - was THE Christmas gift (circa 1970 or so) for anyone who did "office" work and carried a briefcase. they cost $40-50 and ONLY operations they could handle were add/subtract/multiply/divide. NO %. NO square root or exponents. NO memory. and that's what dollar store and give-away calculators can do today!
cursive - personally, i think it should still be taught in school. but kids not knowing it could be helpful to parents... as long as they can write in cursive. when parents want to talk about some things they don't want kids to know about, they start spelling stuff. once kids start to learn how to spell, perfect cursive would serve the same purpose... kids can't read it.
mimeo/ditto - huffing the pages as they got passed back.
Toni home perms - they used to make one for kids... Tonette... just as stinky. i had baby fine, poker straight hair that my grandmother insisted should be Shirley Temple curly. i'd have an Afro (before fashionable) for about 2 days and then back to totally straight.
caps - we'd smack them with a rock on the sidewalk to make them explode.
card catalog - when library was going to computerized card catalog, they sold tickets for a raffle... i didn't win it.
mascara - boy was that messy
45 record adapters - i didn't realize there was such a variety.
Dick & Jane - wasn't really teaching how to read, but presenting a mess of rather odd "sight vocabulary" words. works like "surprise" or "laugh"... words you just have to know on sight.
pocket calculator - was THE Christmas gift (circa 1970 or so) for anyone who did "office" work and carried a briefcase. they cost $40-50 and ONLY operations they could handle were add/subtract/multiply/divide. NO %. NO square root or exponents. NO memory. and that's what dollar store and give-away calculators can do today!
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A lovely post, wcwbf!
Marie5656
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Marie5656
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peramangkelder
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@wcwbf huz and I had such a good laugh with your post and I hope you read the next one
peramangkelder
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Pappy
Living the Dream
peramangkelder
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I remember Mum had a Necchi Sewing Machine
Boy, I'll bet she paid a pretty penny for it, Peram, being that they're Italian made.
peramangkelder
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I doubt it @Aunt Marg....Mum bought would have had it on 'the never never' or what we call time payment in Oz and it would have been from her fav. department store John Martins which closed about 20 years ago
A little each month until she owned it, Peram, as in a layaway plan?
Or are you talking a low monthly payment finance plan?
peramangkelder
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@Aunt Marg in Australia if you pay monthly or fortnightly we call it Lay Buy
Mum would not have wanted to wait for her purchase so she would have put it on her store account
Every month she paid the required amount which included interest until it was paid off
This was how Mum got most 'big ticket' items because women's wages were abysmal in the 50s and 60s
She worked 2 jobs to keep our 3 'heads above water'
Mum would not have wanted to wait for her purchase so she would have put it on her store account
Every month she paid the required amount which included interest until it was paid off
This was how Mum got most 'big ticket' items because women's wages were abysmal in the 50s and 60s
She worked 2 jobs to keep our 3 'heads above water'
Such different times they were for sure.
A LOT of mothers today could take lessons from your and my moms generation, and it would do them good.
would be kinda neat to compare that globe from whatever-year to one from today. countries no longer around. countries that didn't exist then.
give a globe to a millennial and a list of countries to find!
not claiming to be a geography expert but think i could at least get to the correct continent right away.i don't think these were good for any kind of "revolving" credit. this metal "charge plate" is from Strawbridge & Clothier... a big department store... at least in the Philly area. it had a cute little real leather case. my grandmother had one. might have also had one for Gimbel's and Lit's... all 3 stores are gone now.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/LAMAAOSwoNpei3s8/s-l64.jpg
and i have NO idea how to make this a reasonable viewing size!
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/LAMAAOSwoNpei3s8/s-l64.jpg
and i have NO idea how to make this a reasonable viewing size!
Marie5656
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Interesting, never thought of that. Would be fun to compare.would be kinda neat to compare that globe from whatever-year to one from today. countries no longer around. countries that didn't exist then.
give a globe to a millennial and a list of countries to find!
