Have you ever...

[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!

[sirrahved]

I have something in common with the mature folks.

I had a party line as a child. It was us and the old maid down the road. I remember picking up and listening a few times, just for fun.

It's hilarious because I went to a museum that had a recording that simulated a party line. I didn't know I was old enough to be in a museum!

My parents also owned a dial telephone, I had a dial tv... Did I grow up in an alternate universe?

[Lizzie]

Yes to all the original questions, except buying cigarettes. Yes, also to:

Played with a wooden top. These always came into the shops around Whitsuntide, when it wasn't so wet in the playground. You are talking about the old whip and top, correct? I loved Jacks also and have a set.

Played a crank-it-up phongraph, Still have one in the garage.
79 PRM albums? We used ours for party games because it was easy to lift up the heavy arm without hurting the record.

How about having a family car that had to be hand-cranked to start? And, no it wasn't bought as a vintage car.

How about using a ration book? I remember being sent to the local shop when I was about four to buy sugar, rationed for years after WWII ended (in England).

How many of you went to a Beatles concert?

Did any of you drive or ride in a bubble car? Talk about unsafe!

I remember the outside lavatory at the bottom of the garden, and being bathed in a tin tub in front of the fire. And I remember my step-mother's relief when we were able to afford a "twin tub" (wash one side, spin the other) to replace the massive washing tub with poncher and the terrifying wringer.

How many of you grew up without central heating? Got dressed for school under the bed covers because the inside of your bedroom windows were covered with ice? I certainly don't miss that.

[mruffruff]

I remember all of the above. My mom brought the frozen sheets in to thaw. We took baths in a big metal tub. We had ice on our windows in the morning and dressed in front of the wood burning cook stove. Those were the mornings for a slop jar instead of a trek to the outhouse. TV was in it's infancy; Dad had the first (home made) TV in town. Party line phones were the only kind. Laundry was scrubbed on a washboard and wrung out by hand. Mom hauled water from the creek in a big milk can on a Radio Flyer wagon.

Much later, I bought my first car for $25.00. It was an old Studebaker that was on it's last legs. The next car was a 65 VW bug.

I still have 78 RPM and 45 RPM records but nothing to play them on. The old crank player disappeared long ago. Anybody remember "Honky Tonk parts 1 & 2"?

Collecting bottles to turn in for MONEY was the kids job. Bought a lot of bread that way.

OK, so I'm old!!! I gladly admit it. And no, I don't want to go back to those times. I like showers, microwaves, remote control TV, more than one station to watch, and a car with an automatic transmission and air conditioning.
Just call me Thoroughly Modern Mary.