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Subject: A Little Nostalgia.
Thought you guys might enjoy this................SS
>
> > > Hey Dad," one of my kids asked the other day, "What was your favorite
> > > fast food when you were growing up?"
> > >> >
> > > "We didn't have fast food when I was growing up," I informed him. "All
> the food was slow."
> > >
> > > "C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?"
> > > "It was a place called 'at home," I explained. "Grandma cooked every
> >day and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down together at the
> >dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was
> allowed to
> >sit there until I did like it."
> > >
> > > By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going
> > > to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about
> how I had to have permission to leave the table.
> > >
> > >
> > > But here are some other things I would have told him about my
> > > childhood if I figured his system could have handled it:
> > >
> > > Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, set foot on a
> > > golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In
> > > their later years they had something called a revolving charge card.
> > > The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears AND
> > > Roebuck. Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.
> > >
> > > My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because
> >
> > > we never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably
> > > 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow).
> > >
> > >
> > > We didn't have a television in our house until I was 11, but my
> > > grandparents had one before that. It was, of course, black and white,
> >
> > > but they bought a piece of colored plastic to cover the screen. The
> > > top third was blue, like the sky, and the bottom third was green, like
> >grass. The middle third was red. It was perfect for programs that had
> scenes of fire trucks riding across someone's lawn on a sunny day. Some
> people had a lens taped to
> > > the front of the TV to make the picture look larger.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called "pizza pie."
> > > When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid
> > > off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that,
> > > too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.
> > >
> > > We didn't have a car until I was 15. Before that, the only car in our
> > > family was my grandfather's Ford. He called it a "machine."
> > >
> > > I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was
> > > in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial,
> > > you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't
> > > already using the line.
> > >
> > > Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was. All newspapers
> > > were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers. I delivereda
> > > newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I
gotto
> > > keep 2 cents. I had to get up at 4 AM every morning. On Saturday, I
> > > had to collect the 42 cents from my customers. My favorite customers
> > > were the ones who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change. My
> > > least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on
> > > collection day.
> > >> >
> > > Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the
> > > movies. Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called French
> > > kissing and they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they did
> >
> > > in French movies. French movies were dirty and we weren't allowed to
> > > see them.
> > >
> > > If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may
> > > want to share some of these memories with your children or
> > > grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
> > > Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
> > >
> > > MEMORIES from a friend:
> > > My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in
December)and
> he
> > > brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a
> stopper
> > > with a bunch of holes in it.
>
> > > I knew immediately what it was, but Kati had no idea. She thought they
> > > had tried to make it a salt shaker or something.
> > > >
> > > I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to
> > > "sprinkle" clothes with because we didn't have steam irons.
> > >
> Man, I am old.
> > >
> > >
> > > How many do you remember?
> > >
> > > Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
> > > Ignition switches on the dashboard.
> > > Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
> > > Real ice boxes.
> > > Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
> > > Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
> > > Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
> > >
> > > Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember not the
> > > ones you were told about! Ratings at the bottom.
> > >
> > > 1. Blackjack chewing gum
> > > 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
> > > 3. Candy cigarettes
> > > 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
> > > 5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
> > > 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
> > > 7. Party lines
> > > 8. Newsreels before the movie
> > > 9. P.F. Flyers
> > > 10. Butch wax
> > > 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive-6933)
> > > 12. Peashooters
> > > 13. Howdy Doody
> > > 14. 45 RPM records
> > > 15. S&H Green Stamps
> > > 16. Hi-fi's
> > > 17. Metal ice trays with lever
> > > 18. Mimeograph paper
> > > 19. Blue flashbulb
> > > 20. Packards
> > > 21. Roller skate keys
> > > 22. Cork popguns
> > > 23. Drive-ins
> > > 24. Studebakers
> > > 25. Wash tub wringers
> > >
> > > If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
> > > If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
> > > If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
> > >
> > >
> > > If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
Thought you guys might enjoy this................SS
>
> > > Hey Dad," one of my kids asked the other day, "What was your favorite
> > > fast food when you were growing up?"
> > >> >
> > > "We didn't have fast food when I was growing up," I informed him. "All
> the food was slow."
> > >
> > > "C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?"
> > > "It was a place called 'at home," I explained. "Grandma cooked every
> >day and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down together at the
> >dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was
> allowed to
> >sit there until I did like it."
> > >
> > > By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going
> > > to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about
> how I had to have permission to leave the table.
> > >
> > >
> > > But here are some other things I would have told him about my
> > > childhood if I figured his system could have handled it:
> > >
> > > Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore Levis, set foot on a
> > > golf course, traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In
> > > their later years they had something called a revolving charge card.
> > > The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears AND
> > > Roebuck. Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.
> > >
> > > My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because
> >
> > > we never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably
> > > 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow).
> > >
> > >
> > > We didn't have a television in our house until I was 11, but my
> > > grandparents had one before that. It was, of course, black and white,
> >
> > > but they bought a piece of colored plastic to cover the screen. The
> > > top third was blue, like the sky, and the bottom third was green, like
> >grass. The middle third was red. It was perfect for programs that had
> scenes of fire trucks riding across someone's lawn on a sunny day. Some
> people had a lens taped to
> > > the front of the TV to make the picture look larger.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called "pizza pie."
> > > When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid
> > > off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that,
> > > too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.
> > >
> > > We didn't have a car until I was 15. Before that, the only car in our
> > > family was my grandfather's Ford. He called it a "machine."
> > >
> > > I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was
> > > in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial,
> > > you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't
> > > already using the line.
> > >
> > > Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was. All newspapers
> > > were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers. I delivereda
> > > newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I
gotto
> > > keep 2 cents. I had to get up at 4 AM every morning. On Saturday, I
> > > had to collect the 42 cents from my customers. My favorite customers
> > > were the ones who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change. My
> > > least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on
> > > collection day.
> > >> >
> > > Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the
> > > movies. Touching someone else's tongue with yours was called French
> > > kissing and they didn't do that in movies. I don't know what they did
> >
> > > in French movies. French movies were dirty and we weren't allowed to
> > > see them.
> > >
> > > If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may
> > > want to share some of these memories with your children or
> > > grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
> > > Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
> > >
> > > MEMORIES from a friend:
> > > My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in
December)and
> he
> > > brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a
> stopper
> > > with a bunch of holes in it.
>
> > > I knew immediately what it was, but Kati had no idea. She thought they
> > > had tried to make it a salt shaker or something.
> > > >
> > > I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to
> > > "sprinkle" clothes with because we didn't have steam irons.
> > >
> Man, I am old.
> > >
> > >
> > > How many do you remember?
> > >
> > > Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
> > > Ignition switches on the dashboard.
> > > Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
> > > Real ice boxes.
> > > Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
> > > Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
> > > Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
> > >
> > > Older Than Dirt Quiz: Count all the ones that you remember not the
> > > ones you were told about! Ratings at the bottom.
> > >
> > > 1. Blackjack chewing gum
> > > 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
> > > 3. Candy cigarettes
> > > 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
> > > 5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
> > > 6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
> > > 7. Party lines
> > > 8. Newsreels before the movie
> > > 9. P.F. Flyers
> > > 10. Butch wax
> > > 11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive-6933)
> > > 12. Peashooters
> > > 13. Howdy Doody
> > > 14. 45 RPM records
> > > 15. S&H Green Stamps
> > > 16. Hi-fi's
> > > 17. Metal ice trays with lever
> > > 18. Mimeograph paper
> > > 19. Blue flashbulb
> > > 20. Packards
> > > 21. Roller skate keys
> > > 22. Cork popguns
> > > 23. Drive-ins
> > > 24. Studebakers
> > > 25. Wash tub wringers
> > >
> > > If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
> > > If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
> > > If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
> > >
> > >
> > > If you remembered 16-25 = You're older than dirt!
Roy
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