I'm So Old That...
Feb 11th, 2005, 02:55 PM
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And anyone my age may remember sliding down the coal shute, and the need to empty out the water from under the ice box. And on a cold winter's night the freezing weather would make the milk freeze and pop out of the bottle with it's little cardboard stopper now a hat. And the sodas would be frozen and licked like a popcicle.
Feb 11th, 2005, 03:40 PM
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I remember attending the movies when a free piece of crockery was given with admission. A collective groan would go up in the theater when a piece was dropped.
I remember flying in 1948 from Boston to London on a Lockheed Constellation and refueling at Gander and stopping at Shannon. I think there was only one class and everyone was dressed in shirts and ties for men (and boys) and dresses for women.
Britain still had rationing and visitors needed ration books. My grandparents still had outdoor plumbing and we washed in the kitchen.
St Pauls was surrounded by bombed buildings and the waterfront in Liverpool was totally destroyed except I do remember the Royal Liver Building being pretty much intact.
It was only two years later when I took my first job working summers in a factory at 75 cents per hour - minimum wage. I was thrilled when it went a few years later to $1.00.
Delivering mail at Christmas while going to college was unbelievable because the hourly rate was so high and provided money for books and spending money the next semester.
My first job was $300 a month with a BS from an ivy league university.
Entitlements were non-existent.
You didn't have to ask what the mannerly thing to do was because your family had taught you. Please, thank you, excuse me were part of everyone's vocabulary and children didn't leave the table withour permission. Adults were always addressed as Mr or Mrs and I know 50/60 years later I'd still address my parents's friends the same way.
I remember flying in 1948 from Boston to London on a Lockheed Constellation and refueling at Gander and stopping at Shannon. I think there was only one class and everyone was dressed in shirts and ties for men (and boys) and dresses for women.
Britain still had rationing and visitors needed ration books. My grandparents still had outdoor plumbing and we washed in the kitchen.
St Pauls was surrounded by bombed buildings and the waterfront in Liverpool was totally destroyed except I do remember the Royal Liver Building being pretty much intact.
It was only two years later when I took my first job working summers in a factory at 75 cents per hour - minimum wage. I was thrilled when it went a few years later to $1.00.
Delivering mail at Christmas while going to college was unbelievable because the hourly rate was so high and provided money for books and spending money the next semester.
My first job was $300 a month with a BS from an ivy league university.
Entitlements were non-existent.
You didn't have to ask what the mannerly thing to do was because your family had taught you. Please, thank you, excuse me were part of everyone's vocabulary and children didn't leave the table withour permission. Adults were always addressed as Mr or Mrs and I know 50/60 years later I'd still address my parents's friends the same way.
Feb 11th, 2005, 03:46 PM
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Wow, I remembr that. My mother sent me to the movies so she could add to her collection of dishes and cups and the soap detergent boxes had dish towels.
My first job I was paid $50 a week and left when the manager of Best & Co. asked me to work for him with a larger salary.
My first job I was paid $50 a week and left when the manager of Best & Co. asked me to work for him with a larger salary.
Feb 11th, 2005, 03:52 PM
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Well, I was born in 1951, so the mild delivery must have continued well past 1950 for me to remember it! Maybe I'm not THAT old!
Anyone remember Green Stamps at the gorcery store? You collected them and then turned them in for dishware, pots and pans, etc. I think I still have some Green Stamp redemptions in my kitchen.
Anyone remember Green Stamps at the gorcery store? You collected them and then turned them in for dishware, pots and pans, etc. I think I still have some Green Stamp redemptions in my kitchen.
Feb 11th, 2005, 04:04 PM
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As a kid I can remember the milkman coming just before dawn to deliver the milk. The sound of the truck would wake me. That was around 1963-1965.
And our grocery store did away with Green Stamps only about 5 years ago. Almost every lamp in my house came from Green Stamps. I sure do miss going to the Redemption Center and choosing my "freebies." Peace.
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Robyn
And our grocery store did away with Green Stamps only about 5 years ago. Almost every lamp in my house came from Green Stamps. I sure do miss going to the Redemption Center and choosing my "freebies." Peace.
>-Robyn
Feb 11th, 2005, 04:08 PM
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For your amusement, since it's Chinese New Year, and you're reminiscing, you might also feel like finding where your birth year fits into the Chinese zodiac: http://www.rainfall.com/horoscop/chinese.htm (At least I didn't start a whole off-topic thread on this.)
Feb 11th, 2005, 04:56 PM
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Uh oh, remember there's no privacy here:
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Feb 11th, 2005, 04:56 PM
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Aah, so old that when I travelled to five different countries in Asia one lovely summer, the entire vacation cost me no more than $2000, including airfare, <i>but I will never sleep in the fleabag hotels that I did EVER again!</i>
So old that when my parents took us to Ireland and all of us kids wore our sneakers we attracted attention wherever we went,
So old that I remember when Mary Quant was the "In" thing in London,
So old that I went somewhere over an ocean, any ocean, in search of adventure, <b>without</b> having obsessively planned every waking moment via the Internet!
So old that when my parents took us to Ireland and all of us kids wore our sneakers we attracted attention wherever we went,
So old that I remember when Mary Quant was the "In" thing in London,
So old that I went somewhere over an ocean, any ocean, in search of adventure, <b>without</b> having obsessively planned every waking moment via the Internet!
