Have you ever...

[Cinder & Smoke]

Have I ever ...

Oh, those were EE-zie ... seems like just yesterday!

How about ...

Used a Party-Line Phone with a *CRANK* to alert the Operator??
* (Star Lake, New York, as a lil kid)

Pumped Gas with a HAND Pump Dispenser ?? - Pre-fill a large glass, overhead bottle
by working a hand lever; then let gravity fill the car's tank.
* (Canada on Fishin trip vacations with the family)

Wore an Aluminum Fire Helmet and wore a Rubber Fire Coat
* (First few years as a Volunteer FF!)

Drove a "CORVAIR" ??

/s/ Wunna the OLD Pharts

[cmayer31]

Used carbon paper. - Yep! Even imprinted credit cards on a swipe machine.

Used a pay phone? - Yep

Dialed a phone? - Yep! Grandma use to have a rotary phone.

Used a dial to change the TV channel? - Yep! First TV that was my own was a hand me down black and white with dials and bunny ears.

Bought Cigarettes from a vending machine? - My grandpa had me buy some at the VFW, but I was really little. I've never smoked a cigarette.

Played a pinball machine? - Still do every now and then.

Drank soda from a glass bottle? - Yep!

[GreyhoundGirl]

I've Drank soda from a glass bottle. Everything else, nope !

[Pembroke_Corgi]

I've done all but buy cigarettes- I've never smoked. They actually still have vending machines for cigarettes here in Colorado.

[lizbud]

Yep, all that you posted Richard. All of what Dorothy posted too. A very
exclusive club we all belong to. Have experience, will enlighten.

[Dorothy39]

How About those "Grease Markers" that the local weather man used

Oh, and, do you remember television stations signing "off", with "The National Anthem?(that Test Pattern )
That sound

[cmayer31]

Drove a "CORVAIR" ??

My dad use to race a corvair in CalClub / SCCA, and I almost bought one when I was looking at "classic" cars.

[Pam]

Drove a "CORVAIR" ??

/s/ Wunna the OLD Pharts

Not just drove one but owned one. Wasn't too happy when Ralph Nader wrote *Unsafe at any Speed.*

[Dorothy39]

Richard, for your amusement, click onto this link.http://www.gatorpress.com/stories/page3.html

[Cinder & Smoke]

Corvair ...
Not just drove one but owned one.
Wasn't too happy when Ralph Nader wrote *Unsafe at Any Speed.*

My First Car!
A '65 ... I LOVED it - drove like a race car, good in the snow (till you packed too much snow
under the belly pan - an the lil wheels couldn't reach the ground! )

As for Ralph ... ... he sure killed the resale value on mine!

[Pam]

My First Car!
A '65 ... I LOVED it - drove like a race car, good in the snow (till you packed too much snow
under the belly pan - an the lil wheels couldn't reach the ground! )

As for Ralph ... ... he sure killed the resale value on mine!

My folks had a snappy little red Corvair with white interior. Boy was that It was a breeze to park which my mom loved as she never quite mastered parallel parking. Hubby liked theirs so much that he bought a snappy little black Corvair with a white interior for our first car after we got married. It was fine except for the smoke that would occasionally come up from under the dashboard and hit us in the face as we rode down the highway. We never did find out the cause of that.

I also learned to type on a manual typewriter. I was so excited when my employer, back in the 60's, brought in all new IBM Selectrics with the changeable little balls. Thought I'd died and gone to heaven.

[RICHARD]

I was so excited when my employer, back in the 60's, brought in all new IBM Selectrics with the changeable little balls. Thought I'd died and gone to heaven.

Yep, it's all in the balls.


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LOL,
Did anyone ever do laundry in a machine that had the wringers aboove the tub?


Randi,

Dot Matrix Printers!

[Pam]

[QUOTE=RICHARD]Yep, it's all in the balls.[/quote=Richard]


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Oh Richard!



Yep I can remember watching my mom feeding clothes through those wringers.


Dot Matrix Printers!
Richard I just convinced hubby to throw ours out last year. (He tends to hang onto stuff. ) Anyway, normally anything in our trash is picked before the morning. No one wanted that printer except the trashmen! LOL!

[Laura's Babies]

Oh, I forgot to mention that I still (to this day) have a bun warmer that I got with S&H Green Stamps!

[cyber-sibes]

Drove a "CORVAIR" ??

/s/ Wunna the OLD Pharts

Hey Phred, that's what I learned to drive with! My brother taught me in his old white Corvair, standard shift, of course. (LOL! The spellcheck highlights "Corvair" I.e. there ain't no such word)

Ever drive a car with a Hydro-glide semi-automatic transmission? You had to shift into first, but it became "automatic" and shifted into 2nd & 3rd on it's own. Had one in the first car I "co-owned" - a '49 Dodge!

I've used all of it - wringer washer, carbon paper, dial phones, party line etc. I was just talking to my older brother (same one that taught me to drive) about S & H stamps a couple weeks ago! Gawd, must be getting old!

But the best thing I recall is having to bathe in the old metal tub, that when I look at it now should be filled with ice and cold drinks, certainly I didn't fit into that!!! Oh yes, and the outhouse. I didn't experience a flush toilet until I was 10 years old - can you imagine???

My grandmother didn't have running hot water till the 70's, so she used to heat kettles & pour it into a tub to bathe in at her house. But, I grew up with the luxury of flushing toilets!