I remember.....

[ltrainer]

Thought i would start a thread of rememberances that Reonauts might have from the "Olden Days?" Olden Days could be the mid 30s to the 90s depending on your age. Its always interesting how times change.

I remember party lines on telephones. There would be 5 or 6 families on one telephone line. Each family would have a distinct ring. "Someones calling Mabel Selirk." When we were kids we would lift the reciever, which was black with the microphone and speaker at each end, and listen in on the neighbors conversations. Kinda like the goverment...just kidding here!!! Just kidding!!!

 

[nerak]

Nice thread Loren!

I remember the roller skates that you would clip to your shoes. Turn the little bolt and tighten them so they wouldn't fall off! Roller skate key, yep, had one!

Also remember the first skateboards. Mine was and is (still have it) a Roller Derby, wood with metal wheels.

 

[_more_]

I remember party lines and my mom said that is how people knew everything!

I remember children were to be seen not heard. Also little pitchers have big ears meant the interesting grown up talk was finished

The worst thing i remember besides the dreaded outhouse was kicking over grandma's mason jar of snuff spit.
I learned to watch where you walk and don't run in the house plus it was safer outside than inside LOL

 

[house mouse]

Soda machines that had glass bottles of soda. Loved the Nehi Chocolate drink.

Sen Sen. Tiny little black breath mints that I used to sneak from one of the kitchen drawers in my Grandmother's house.

 

[unsure]

I remember saturday mornings with cereal and a prize in the box. Watching Howdy Doody, the Lone Ranger and Superman TV.

 

[karmakatie]

I remember:

Partylines...
People actually wrote letters and sent postcards.....
HUGE bell bottoms with fabric inserts to make them bigger yet....
Jeans with the double zippers up the front....
When they first started giving out Vietnam MIA bracelets with the soldiers info on it....
Dippity Do and pink hair tape....
When children would say "Yes sir, no sir" ie polite.....
More Freedom.....

 

[JimCal]

I remember having one telephone in the house, in the kitchen, mounted to the wall. And it had a rotary dialer. Man, I hated all the friends whose numbers had zeros in them. lol. I also remember if I wanted to watch something on TV, I had to turn it on about 10 minutes before the show so it could "warm up". But we did have a remote control for the TV. His picture is right over there to your left. Hi.

 

[dodari]

Thought i would start a thread of rememberances that Reonauts might have from the "Olden Days?" Olden Days could be the mid 30s to the 90s depending on your age. Its always interesting how times change.

I remember party lines on telephones. There would be 5 or 6 families on one telephone line. Each family would have a distinct ring. "Someones calling Mabel Selirk." When we were kids we would lift the reciever, which was black with the microphone and speaker at each end, and listen in on the neighbors conversations. Kinda like the goverment...just kidding here!!! Just kidding!!!

I remember being sent from The Rosebud and Pine Ridge, in the summers, to my uncle in southern Missouri Ozarks and at 5 learning about telephone work, the plug switchboards and the wall set phones with crank magnetos in them. The locals would shoot the glass insulators off the telephone poles and the lines would short out. Remember repairing broken lines with barbed wire.

Then came WW 2, most of the men gone and everything was rationed. Horse meat hash was a real, but rare, treat on the rez's I grew up on. Also remember going off rez to Pierre or Rapid City where "No Dogs Allowed" signs were on the grocery, drug and restaurants and such. Wasn't for 4 legged kind, it meant us.

Ah, the good ol' days.

 

[ltrainer]

I remember those soda machines with glass bottles. The gas station had one where the top of the vending machine flipped up and the bottles were standing up in metal slots. You put your dime in and that allowed the bottle to slide to the opening and then lift it out. Enterprising young boys equiped with a bottle opener and a straw and covered by the darkness of night could open the lid, pop off a cap then use the straw to suck up the Nehi or Pepsi. Don't ask me how I know this.

 

[house mouse]

Dippity Do ....

As soon as I saw this I swear I could smell it. It was a staple in the house when I was growing up.

 

[_more_]

I remember unlocked doors and open windows.

Fans were great but you couldn't block one by standing in front of it. The fans did not have the grill covers like today so kids got yelled at a lot for getting too close. I never experienced air conditioning until i was 16.

 

[ltrainer]

I remember saturday mornings with cereal and a prize in the box. Watching Howdy Doody, the Lone Ranger and Superman TV.

I always opened my cereal from the bottom if there was a prize inside.

PS. Rob i never did get my Reo Secret Decoder Ring

 

[debzcf]

Fun!

I remember "My Little Margie," Woodie Station Wagons (with the last row of seats facing the back...talk about car sickness, omg); Chatty Kathy dolls; Gumby; when it was considered rude to call people after 8pm; full slips; seeing The Beatles on Ed Sullivan...

 

[ltrainer]

I remember cars without seat belts and the highbeam, lowbeam switch on the floor. I kinda liked that still.

 

[bushmaster]

I remember switching from low-beam to high-beam and back again with my left foot.

Edit: Rats, you beat me, Loren.

 

[unsure]

I remember those soda machines with glass bottles. The gas station had one where the top of the vending machine flipped up and the bottles were standing up in metal slots. You put your dime in and that allowed the bottle to slide to the opening and then lift it out. Enterprising young boys equiped with a bottle opener and a straw and covered by the darkness of night could open the lid, pop off a cap then use the straw to suck up the Nehi or Pepsi. Don't ask me how I know this.

My father had several coin operated laundry shops with similar soda machines only the small glass door exposed 8-10 rows of drinks of 1 bottle per row. All lying on their side. Often we find caps popped off where someone must of had a cup to catch half of it and then finish the rest via a straw. I had to load the machine so I had all I wanted.

 

[ltrainer]

Fun!

I remember "My Little Margie," Woodie Station Wagons (with the last row of seats facing the back...talk about car sickness, omg); Chatty Kathy dolls; Gumby; when it was considered rude to call people after 8pm; full slips; seeing The Beatles on Ed Sullivan...

Dad had a ford station wagon with the seat facing backwards. We would wave and make faces at the drivers behind us.

 

[debzcf]

Dad had a ford station wagon with the seat facing backwards. We would wave and make faces at the drivers behind us.

haha...we used to do the same. I think every kid did that.

 

[ltrainer]

I had a Chevy II with manual shift, 3 speeds on the column.

 

[house mouse]

Cigarette commercials on TV. I still remember the Virginia Slims tune.