showing your age...

[Medusa]

Hmmmm - me thinks the part about "everyday wear" went right over your head........................Frenchie

Nope. I got it. This is a family forum, Gigi. LOL

[pomtzu]

Nope. I got it. This is a family forum, Gigi. LOL

Okay!

And I am a "GG" - I just heard someone saw her with the baby. Too bad she couldn't let me know about it.

[Medusa]

Okay!

And I am a "GG" - I just heard someone saw her with the baby. Too bad she couldn't let me know about it.

PM or email me and tell me all about it, if you want. That's a shame, Ellie.

[Willow Oak]

When I was pregnant, I got so phat that I couldn't wear my garter belt any more. We went to see Dr. Zhivago at the movies and back then going to the movies was a dress up occasion.

You're not old enough to have been pregnant when Dr. Zhivago was playing at the movies. Dr. Zhivago was, is, and always shall be my favorite movie.

[Medusa]

[QUOTE=Willow Oak;2150297]

When I was pregnant, I got so phat that I couldn't wear my garter belt any more. We went to see Dr. Zhivago at the movies and back then going to the movies was a dress up occasion.QUOTE]

You're not old enough to have been pregnant when Dr. Zhivago was playing at the movies.

If only.....

[kokopup]

I read post about TV before the remote or having to test tubes to repair the TV you own. How many out there remember when there was no TV. I remember sitting around the radio listening to shows like "Amos and Andy" ,"The Shadow" and "Intersanctum" .

Day time radio had some of the same Soaps that we see on TV today. I remember a popular soap "Just plan Bill" was one of my mom's favorites. In the Radio days they depended a lot on sound effects to enhance the imagery of the story line. Special effects today means car crashes/chases and/or explosions.

[Willow Oak]

I read post about TV before the remote or having to test tubes to repair the TV you own. How many out there remember when there was no TV. I remember sitting around the radio listening to shows like "Amos and Andy" ,"The Shadow" and "Intersanctum" .

Day time radio had some of the same Soaps that we see on TV today. I remember a popular soap "Just plan Bill" was one of my mom's favorites. In the Radio days they depended a lot on sound effects to enhance the imagery of the story line. Special effects today means car crashes/chases and/or explosions.

Well, I'm not but a child. I did, however, listen to a radio program when I lived near Chicago, narrated by E. G. Marshall ("The CBS Radio Mystery Theater") -- something to do with the "macabre." It was great.

Did you live in the era when you did all or most of your cooking on a wood stove? My mother did, and a few years back when this area of the country was crippled with a massive ice storm, and electricity was out for weeks, mother cooked all of her meals in her fireplace.

My dad talks about the luxury of finally getting a wood stove for the bathroom when he was a boy. He said that one time when he was taking off his pants to take a bath in a #2 wash tub, his foot got caught in his pants and he stumbled ... backwards, butt-naked against the red hot stove!

[kokopup]

Quote by Willow Oak

Did you live in the era when you did all or most of your cooking on a wood stove? My mother did, and a few years back when this area of the country was crippled with a massive ice storm, and electricity was out for weeks, mother cooked all of her meals in her fireplace.

I missed out on Wood Stoves, Outhouses and the like. I was a city/suburbia kid that had most of the conveniences all my life. We even had a private line on our phone.

I do recall as an 8 year old, me and my older sister going to spend the night with our black maid Essie. I don't even remember what the ocassion was but for some reason my parents were out of town. I remember the smell of her wood stove till this day. My fire place smell will drum up that memory from time to time.

The thing I remember the most about that night was when Essie woke me the next morning I saw my first snow.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Well, I'm not but a child. I did, however, listen to a radio program when I lived near Chicago, narrated by E. G. Marshall ("The CBS Radio Mystery Theater") -- something to do with the "macabre." It was great.

But...I remember Rod Sterling and the Twilight Zone on tv. Some of the shows still haunt my dreams. Somehow the "suggestion" was more realistic and spooky in my mind than all the "special effects" that are now available!

Going my way????......

[pomtzu]

I remember the world before t.v. too. Mom used to listen to "The Guiding Light" every day. And of course Dad and my brothers always had to listen to the Red Sox baseball games.

I was about 7 or 8 when we got the first t.v. Dad's favorites were Victory at Sea, the Jack Benny Show, Art Linkletter, and Ed Sullivan. I can't really remember what early shows I watched other than American Bandstand when I was a little older.

Remember when stations went off the air for the day - you got the test pattern.

Do any remember what car your parents had? My first real memory was of a blue Kaiser Frazer sedan, but there was another before that - looked like an old Model T from pics I have, but just a very vague memory of that one.

[Medusa]

I remember the world before t.v. too. Mom used to listen to "The Guiding Light" every day. And of course Dad and my brothers always had to listen to the Red Sox baseball games.

I was about 7 or 8 when we got the first t.v. Dad's favorites were Victory at Sea, the Jack Benny Show, Art Linkletter, and Ed Sullivan. I can't really remember what early shows I watched other than American Bandstand when I was a little older.

Remember when stations went off the air for the day - you got the test pattern.

Do any remember what car your parents had? My first real memory was of a blue Kaiser Frazer sedan, but there was another before that - looked like an old Model T from pics I have, but just a very vague memory of that one.

For some reason, I can't recall the event of getting our first TV. I do remember my mother watching The Guiding Light and Search for Tomorrow, both shows being only 15 minutes long back then.

As for the cars, my parents never had a car that didn't make me want to hide my face from everyone. When he finally was able to afford one, Dad bought a 1948 Hudson that had cloth interior and because Dad smoked then, I got sick every single time I got in that thing. He once bought a Plymouth something-or-other, a huge yellow car w/fins and rockets on it. It looked like a big banana. The worst, though, was a ridiculous car, I don't even know what make or model, that had different fenders on each side, a hood w/a doorknob on it because the piece broke off that was used to open the hood and all were painted various colors. He drove me to high school some mornings because school buses didn't run where we lived and I'd ask him to drop me off a couple blocks before we reached the school because the car was such an eyesore. My maiden name is Rhome and the kids called my dad's car the Roman chariot. Funny in the telling but not so much when you're a teenager and appearance means everything.

[Willow Oak]

Among the images of my dad I have in my head are him working on the car. We always had an old used car, and dad was always "tinkering" with it: adjusting the brakes; greasing the chassis; changing the oil; tuning the engine; etc. Every once in a while he would take all four tires off and set the car on cement blocks. He would have me sit in the driver's seat and pump the brakes while he bled the lines. On one such occasion we did that, then later in the day, Dad put the tires back on the car, and we went for a ride in the country. We were all enjoying the afternoon drive among the trees and the birds when all of a sudden ...WHAM!!!

There we were, bottom of the car slammed against the gravel of the old country road ...

... Dad had forgotten to put the lug nuts on the tires! In my mind's eye I can still see the tires rolling past, all four in perfect synchronization.

[pomtzu]

There we were, bottom of the car slammed against the gravel of the old country road ...

... Dad had forgotten to put the lug nuts on the tires! In my mind's eye I can still see the tires rolling past, all four in perfect synchronization.

Good thing we had no Interstates back then.....

[pomtzu]

On the subject of cars and driving...

How many of you older members had parents that both drove? My Dad was of the mindset that women had no need to know how drive, and Mom went to her grave at 79, never having driven a car. He wouldn't teach me how and wouldn't sign for me to take driver's ed either. My ex taught me to drive after we got married. I learned on an old used Opel Kadett that we bought in Long Beach, Ca. We were military, and he got transferred from CA to VA - piled all our meager possessions in the back and headed across country with me driving most of the way - with no driver's license! I finally did get it once we got settled in tho.

[RICHARD]

RC Cola, in bottles, 25¢
4 track tapes
45 singles
'Buy them by the bag!'
'Fill er up?'-A 20 won't do it today.
'Check under the hood?'
Landing on the moon??
Menu? LARGE bottle of pop, bologna and cheese sub and a bag of chips or Hostess snowballs/cups and change from a dollar.
Milk in the square wax paper box w/the flap stapled to the lid.
Disneyland ticket books. A tix were worth a dime and the E tix-I may be wrong-were 65¢ each.
Drop drills-Hide under the desk to escape the effects of Russian radiation-Now kids hide from their peers!!
Friday a.m. air raid siren tests.
Protest marches with wet hippies in the streets and anarchy was a sit-in at the Dean's offie.
LOL-cappucino was the drink of Bohemians!

I learned to drive in a Kadett, too! Canary yellow!