Have you ever...

[dukedogsmom]

Don't forget the vinyl chairs!

She's got those, too.

[moosmom]

Laura's Babies,

I still (to this day) have a bun warmer

Which buns are you warming???

[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?

[lvpets2002]

Good one Donna & I was wondering the same.. Lets see if she replys..

Laura's Babies,



Which buns are you warming???

[smokey the elder]

Let's see...had a rotary phone, would use words and numbers (Statexxxxx); I stuck green stamps in books for my grandmother. Learned to type on a manual and thought the Selectric was the bee's knees.

Just a tiny bit too young for duck'n'cover drills, but my school had "fallout shelter" signs in the basement. Yeah, as if that would help!

My grandmother got the first color TV in our family.

I remember when cable first came out.

I used punched cards in my first computer course! , and worked with open flames in chemistry lab (double !!)

[joanofark]

Used carbon paper. yepp

Used a pay phone? yepp

Dialed a phone? yepp

Used a dial to change the TV channel? yes, accually.

Bought Cigarettes from a vending machine? no.. (dont smoke!!)

Played a pinball machine? Yepp!! tons...

Drank soda from a glass bottle? yep, YUMM!

and guess what.... i was only born in 1993

[RICHARD]

I used punched cards in my first computer course! , and worked with open flames in chemistry lab (double !!)

LOL,

PUNCH CARDS!

And real FIRE!

Ah,

Getting real prizes in Cracker Jacks!


Free dinking glasses in boxes of soap!

[Dorothy39]

How about those Advertisements on Television?

Breeze Detergent, with a FREE TOWEL~ INSIDE THE BOX

And, who can forget Audrey Meadows showing off those Playtex Cleaning Gloves.
"They're so flexible, you can pick up a dime" (Whoa, I gotta get a pair of those right away )

Oh yeah, The New Playtex Girdle, WITH HOLD IN POWER , That won't wash out!!!

Go Ahead, Wear it, Wash it, Wear it, Wash it, The Hold in Power Just Won't Wash out!!!! ( hey, it's new, made with Lycra too!! )


I'm still tooooo skinny to know what the heck a girdle is!!

[dukedogsmom]

Speaking of punching cards, I remember punching time cards when I first started my job I have now.

[Suki Wingy]

Used carbon paper- Playing around in my grandma's basement

Used a pay phone?- yup

Dialed a phone?- OH- you mean one of those circle ones? I don't even nkow how you'd go about turning it.

Used a dial to change the TV channel?-Yes, we had an old dial TV for a while we bought at a garage sale

Bought Cigarettes from a vending machine?-NO

Played a pinball machine?- Yes, The Lost World in my grandparents basement, I have highscore!

Drank soda from a glass bottle?- Yes, the Coca Cola noveltie ones, and Jones and Izze sodas

[Dorothy39]

Yes to all of these

"Grease Markers" that the local weather man used ... what?
LOL

Before Doplar Radar and computers~ meteorologists forecasted local weather on the Weather Segment of the News.

It was always a man, of course, and he used a Grease Pencil to show where a cold front , or, a warm front was located. He had to work fast, using his grease pencil for displaying areas of either sun or clouds, rain or snow.


The grease pencil always made a squeaky sound as he proceeded to explain the recent weather pattern .(dots for snow, slashes for rain, etc)

[Husky15]

Used carbon paper? Yes. It was kind of fun.

Used a pay phone? Yes.

Dialed a phone? Yep.

Used a dial to change the TV channel? Yes.

Bought Cigarettes from a vending machine? They have those now?

Played a pinball machine? You bet.

Drank soda from a glass bottle? Sure have.

[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!

[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.