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[Willow Oak]

Does anybody recall an item that we used to call a "typewriter?"

[Randi]

WO, I was learning to type on one of them - a solid green IBM.

[Medusa]

Does anybody recall an item that we used to call a "typewriter?"

Ah yes, learning to curve the fingers in just the right way so the teacher wouldn't smack our hands w/the ruler. Same w/penmanship in grade school. If I held my pen or pencil the way we were expected to, you couldn't read my writing. If I held it my own way, I had beautiful penmanship. That didn't matter, though. Had to do it their way or you'd have to hold out your hands and get them smacked w/the ruler across the knuckles.

[Medusa]

Hey, I actually remember these two things. A phone call being only a dime and the full service at gas stations.
Recently we stopped at a station on the motorcycle and someone came out and told us to move to another pump because we were at a full service pump (which you pay MORE for when they actually have them). Its very rare, but they are still out there.

I sure do remember. No getting out of your car in bad weather. Sigh. More people working, too. Now it seems everything is going the way of DIY.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Does anybody recall an item that we used to call a "typewriter?"

Manual or electric???

[Willow Oak]

Manual or electric???

They came in electric?

[Willow Oak]

Uh oh. I'll just bet there is no one who remembers having to get off the couch, walk across the room, and turn the knob in order to change channels.

[Medusa]

Uh oh. I'll just bet there is no one who remembers having to get off the couch, walk across the room, and turn the knob in order to change channels.

Heh heh heh, of course. Rabbit ears w/tin foil and all. In the same vein, you mentioned typewriters and before high school and learning to type, if we had a report due, we had to actually walk to the library and do research w/BOOKS! Now everything is at our fingertips w/computers and the internet and that isn't necessarily a bad thing but we sure earned our grades back then because we had to put forth the effort.

[Karen]

I sure do remember. No getting out of your car in bad weather. Sigh. More people working, too. Now it seems everything is going the way of DIY.

Around here you definitely still have a choice. There are some stations that are "full service" and some that are self-serve - and the price at the full-service is often cheaper than the self-serve! Seeing as I can pass 4 gas stations in less than a mile, I just go with whomever is least expensive.

[lvpets2002]

Yup I do & still there was only Black & White screens.. I can remember when we got one of the first Color TVs & oh it was so Great.. Still no remotes yet.. Also remember when at night & the TV Stations went off the air = there was the Indian in the circle & the TV just bussdd.. Also by the way I do still own a Manual & Electric Type Writer..

Uh oh. I'll just bet there is no one who remembers having to get off the couch, walk across the room, and turn the knob in order to change channels.

[Medusa]

Around here you definitely still have a choice. There are some stations that are "full service" and some that are self-serve - and the price at the full-service is often cheaper than the self-serve! Seeing as I can pass 4 gas stations in less than a mile, I just go with whomever is least expensive.

As far as I know, there was only one in the entire Canton area and I'm not sure if they're still full service any more because the only reason I even stopped in there once was because I was driving on fumes. They were waaay more expensive, too, so I bought just enough gas to enable me to get to a self serve. I don't mind pumping my own gas except when the weather is awful. Plus back in the day I knew all the service people by name and we'd talk about family, etc. Now it's all in-and-out.

[kokopup]

Some of the discussions on this wayward thread have been on the cost of things today compared to yesteryear. I recall if you were talking about a $5000 car it was a Mercedes and 10,000 was a Ferrari. Now 5000 will buy nothing new and $10,000 may buy a low end Kia.

The only thing that cost less today than at any time in History is anything tied to technology, like TV's and Computers. We can thank Japan, China and Korea who we are selling our soul to. That is where all of America's wealth is going. America has THE worst trade deficit of ANY country in the world.

I'm sorry to say all these good times we are recalling are history, never
to return.

[pomtzu]

Typewriters???

Ok - now I remember. Typing I was on that IBM manual, and Typing II you got the luxury of an electric.
And remember the course in Business Machines? - the 10-key adding machine and the monstrous Friden Calculator that was as big as a desk top? It would sit there and clack and grind and take 5 minutes to work an equation and spit out the answer. You could sit there and do homework for other classes while waiting for it!

I think kids should have a mandatory course in basic typing in elementary school now. They start out so early on the computer that they should be taught the proper way to navigate a keyboard.

[Willow Oak]

Heh heh heh, of course. Rabbit ears w/tin foil and all. In the same vein, you mentioned typewriters and before high school and learning to type, if we had a report due, we had to actually walk to the library and do research w/BOOKS! Now everything is at our fingertips w/computers and the internet and that isn't necessarily a bad thing but we sure earned our grades back then because we had to put forth the effort.

Books?

Now let's see, here ..., where have I heard that word before?

[Willow Oak]

Yup I do & still there was only Black & White screens.. I can remember when we got one of the first Color TVs & oh it was so Great..

That is a fact. One of the sweetest things I ever experienced was finally getting that color TV.