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Ummmmm, I can remember a fairly common expression used when a lady was in a bad mood that relates to wringer washers but I ain't gonna say it here.
Transister radios had little red triangles on them so you could dial in the emergency frequency in case of nuclear attack. And don't forget the drills in school to hide under your desk when that big A bomb is coming down. Wow, i just got under my desk just in time..whew, hey, where did everyone go.
That's hysterical. Yeah....getting under our desks would have saved us from the fall-out.
S&H Green stamps! Every grocery store trip. Take them home and put them in books to send off for cool stuff!
I remember when I took a pocket knife to school and the principal held it for the day and gave it back before I went home.
Now days they would have the state police interrogating the child with psychiatric evaluations and for sure suspension .....
Not saying that having a knife in school is OK and there have been some terrible things happening but things are out of hand with schools these days. My good friend is superintendent for a school district and he's blown away by some things that go down. He had to negotiate the return of thousands of plastic knives because they were serrated and not the smooth edge spreaders ???? Schools are sounding an awful lot like prisons lately.
Sorry got a bit off topic on a mini rant .......
That reminds me ...... I remember when you could speak your mind and not worry about offending anyone or being "PC"
Now days they would have the state police interrogating the child with psychiatric evaluations and for sure suspension .....
Not saying that having a knife in school is OK and there have been some terrible things happening but things are out of hand with schools these days. My good friend is superintendent for a school district and he's blown away by some things that go down. He had to negotiate the return of thousands of plastic knives because they were serrated and not the smooth edge spreaders ???? Schools are sounding an awful lot like prisons lately.
Sorry got a bit off topic on a mini rant .......
That reminds me ...... I remember when you could speak your mind and not worry about offending anyone or being "PC"
I remember boarding a plane with a full bottle of soda and my shoes on the whole time ..............
Just sayin' ......... Ya I'm in a bit of a mood today.
Just sayin' ......... Ya I'm in a bit of a mood today.
I remember bringing Clackers to school -- eventually they were banned. Too many kids were causing serious harm to the skulls. 
Taking quick break so only read first post. Storm rolling in.... lightening. DH warned me wit a "just say'n."
Old Post Office, wher my father worked, built sometime 1800's had brass spitoons all over. Rural mail carrier, farmer, and Dad of our next door neighbor, who I rode with, on his route some Saturdays, chewed 'bacco. The whole left side of his car was always splattered with brown stains.
Mom always insisted we wear shoes when we went to town because of all the nasty spit on sidewalks.
Karen, yup, the clip on roller skates with key. Don't think I ever saw a skate board till I saw one on TV first, years past my teen years.
Feisty Alice
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Old Post Office, wher my father worked, built sometime 1800's had brass spitoons all over. Rural mail carrier, farmer, and Dad of our next door neighbor, who I rode with, on his route some Saturdays, chewed 'bacco. The whole left side of his car was always splattered with brown stains.
Mom always insisted we wear shoes when we went to town because of all the nasty spit on sidewalks.
Karen, yup, the clip on roller skates with key. Don't think I ever saw a skate board till I saw one on TV first, years past my teen years.
Feisty Alice
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Speaking of radios, do you remember these?
I got a white one for Christmas one year and used to take it to bed with me at night and listen to it.
Were you standing in the line at Motor Vehicle today? That's enough to get anyone in a mood.
I remember playing with "Diamonds" which were pieces of a shattered windshield
I remember chewing Tar from the side of the road when the road in front of our house finally changed from a gravel road to an asphalt road.
Perked coffee
Churning butter and snapping beans, shucking corn, peeling peaches, apples, pears in season so we could can 'em.
Bread, butter, and sugar sandwiches
Hot tamale cart on the side of the road - big treat.
Stock car races then McDonalds after.....hamburgers were $0.10 and cheeseburgers were $0.15
Pay phones - $0.10 a call
I worked for the phone company right out of high school: I was an "Information" operator and we answered the calls by plugging into a big switchboard when it lit up, and looked up phone numbers in a big phone book. Years before computers came out.
I remember chewing Tar from the side of the road when the road in front of our house finally changed from a gravel road to an asphalt road.
Perked coffee
Churning butter and snapping beans, shucking corn, peeling peaches, apples, pears in season so we could can 'em.
Bread, butter, and sugar sandwiches
Hot tamale cart on the side of the road - big treat.
Stock car races then McDonalds after.....hamburgers were $0.10 and cheeseburgers were $0.15
Pay phones - $0.10 a call
I worked for the phone company right out of high school: I was an "Information" operator and we answered the calls by plugging into a big switchboard when it lit up, and looked up phone numbers in a big phone book. Years before computers came out.
I can remember when as kids we could play past dark so long as we came home for dinner with all the family. Yeah no need for Amber Alert's. Damn Tim, see what you started.
I can beat that, Tim.
When I was 11, they changed the law in MN so youths had have firearms training to hunt. We needed to bring a rifle to the classes which were after school. I carried my .22 on the schoolbus and kept it in my school locker during the day. Probably couldn't do that today.
My mom used to love, "Queen for a Day." My dad was more of a "You Bet Your Life" (Groucho Marx) fan.
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