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

I remember when being a redneck (I grew up in the North US) was something older kids in about 1975 called someone who wouldn't smoke weed... There was a guy that rode our school bus who every time he got on, or off the bus, everybody yelled "redneck" at this guy... us younger kids weren't quite into weed yet, and when we joined in yelling, the older kids thought it was hilarious.
 
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Oh hell yes. My grandparents in small town Ohio had an outhouse until they finally moved up to south of Columbus in 1970 or so, which I used nearly every summer growing up. You had to have a strong nose, and hope that a bug wouldn't crawl up onto your backside! Plus one didn't want to spend a lot of time there in the winter.

On the plus side you didn't have to worry about a septic tank or leach field. When she filled up, either pump 'er out or dig another hole and move the shack...šŸ˜„
 
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Jules: My husband actually bought a thick carpet for the bathroom. He was a shocker when he used to take a shower, and we only had a shower curtain over the bath. Needless to say, the carpet had to be taken out and dried in the sun at least once a week. The carpet idea only lasted about 3 months and it was tossed into the garbage can. What a waste of money.!
 
oscash said:
hollydolly: Our bathroom reeked of Old Spice Aftershave. My dad loved it. And my grandmother, who had the most beautiful skin used Ponds Cold Cream on her face daily. I still use it, and I think I have great skin also. I remember using Mum deodorant and VO5 Hair Spray. Now that's going back a very long time.
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Oscash, my grandad used Old spice all the time, apart from soap and his razor strap hanging from his towel rail..his bottle of Old spice was the only other thing in his bathroom. I have to tell you I hate that smell..and I still hate it today.I think it smells of gin...

My mother also used Ponds cold cream... she wasn't pedantic about it like we are today about moisturiser, but there was always a tub on her dressing table...

My auntie Betty who had a Beehive in the 60's used vo5 laquer as they called it back in the day... :ROFLMAO:
 
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hollydolly said:
Oh yes we had Woolworth all over the UK... they first came here in 1924... Woolies as they were affectionally known....

One of my first jobs was as a teen was as a wages clerk in Woolworth (y)

They closed the last of their branches in 2009..... everyone misses them to this day....
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I remember the Woolworths in Charlotte, nc when we lived there. My mom and I would go there to shop and have lunch at the counter. I recall once when I was 4 seeing a sign above a door in the parking lot hat said "colored only" and I knew what it meant but I told my mother I wanted to go in that door. I understood vaguly what it meant but that didn't matter to me.
 
dusty said:
I remember the Woolworths in Charlotte, nc when we lived there. My mom and I would go there to shop and have lunch at the counter. I recall once when I was 4 seeing a sign above a door in the parking lot hat said "colored only" and I knew what it meant but I told my mother I wanted to go in that door. I understood vaguly what it meant but that didn't matter to me.
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Great story, Dusty... we never had 2 of the things you had with Woolworth in the USA here in the uk.. we never had any prejudicial signs barring anyone from using any particular entrance.. and we never had the woolworth diners that we see in the US stores..

Eventually we had restaurants in the bigger stores, but not the same as the lunch counters in the US stores.. :D
 
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Jules said:
As I recall from 2018, Woolworths in Australia was a grocery store, not a five and dime.
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I had a black nanny too --- her name was Rosella and I liked her. All my life I have been drawn to them and when I started genealogy I discovded I had a whole family in Georgia that were slaves on a large cotton plantation so I followed them forward and found there were some of my cousins living here in the north. We got together and now are great friends. Geneology has proven to be very rewarding to me.

Here is a photo of me with my mixed family, I am the one standing next to the guy with the baby...I have silver blond hair
 

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hollydolly said:
Eventually we had restaurants in the bigger stores, but not the same as the lunch counters in the US stores.. :D
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Right you are. Lunch counters were ubiquitous in five and dime stores, in department stores, bus stations, everywhere. Actually we still have a old drugstore in downtown Gulfport, Miss. that has a lunch counter. Can't recommend the food, but I love the idea...;)
 
JBR said:
How about collect calls? 1970s, I once got one (introduced by a low-level, foreign-stationed bureaucrat in the Canadian Ministry of External Affairs). A friend of mine was stuck at the embassy in Istanbul, and was "destitute"... needed a smallish sum of money to get back on a path toward home here in Canada.
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ye we used to ''reverse the charges'' all the time ..lol...the only person who wouldn't accept the charges was my father. My mother was not permitted to answer the phone
 
JBR said:
How about collect calls? 1970s, I once got one (introduced by a low-level, foreign-stationed bureaucrat in the Canadian Ministry of External Affairs). A friend of mine was stuck at the embassy in Istanbul, and was "destitute"... needed a smallish sum of money to get back on a path toward home here in Canada.
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Now that's stepping up to the plate for an urgent call! That guy deserves a cold beer!
 
Oooh these were foul.....

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