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Family Ties Forever! · 08-15-2005, 10:20 AM

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Penny Lane · 08-15-2005, 08:55 PM

Happily I am glad to report that I was born past 1945!

The good Old days......................... I'm glad that they are gone!

Cactus Jack · 08-15-2005, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Penny Lane

I'm glad that they are gone!

Penny Lane · 08-15-2005, 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Ron Burgundy

Really! My husband grew up in the 40's(born 1943) and that was my dad's favorite saying! My dad remembers having to go out to the hand pump in freezing weather to get water. Hell, we had an outdoor toilet until I was 5 years old! My dad built a bathroom onto our house when their 4th child was born!

I still remember the outhouse (but I never used it) My siblings and I used potty chairs until the bathroom was added on. My dad decided to install a bathroom when one day he found a snake in the outhouse!

That did it!

My husband is so old that he even remembers watching the telegrapher at the train depot in town. That was before my time but I do remember the old steam locomotives passing through the woods behind our rural house in the 50's.

Ah.... that lonely mournful sound .....................

I will never forget it! My mom still lives there but it is not so rural anymore! Practically house to house now!

Cactus Jack · 08-15-2005, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Penny Lane

Really! My husband grew up in the 40's(born 1943) and that was my dad's favorite saying! My dad remembers having to go out to the hand pump in freezing weather to get water. Hell, we had an outdoor toilet until I was 5 years old! My dad built a bathroom onto our house when their 4th child was born!

I still remember the outhouse (but I never used it) My siblings and I used potty chairs until the bathroom was added on. My dad decided to install a bathroom when one day he found a snake in the outhouse!

That did it!

My husband is so old that he even remembers watching the telegrapher at the train depot in town. That was before my time but I do remember the old steam locomotives passing through the woods behind our rural house in the 50's.

Ah.... that lonely mournful sound .....................

I will never forget it! My mom still lives there but it is not so rural anymore! Practically house to house now!

I see I thought you meant like The good ole days of THE BEATLES

Penny Lane · 08-15-2005, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Ron Burgundy

I see I thought you meant like The good ole days of THE BEATLES

Never! That's when civilized life began!

Cactus Jack · 08-15-2005, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Penny Lane

Never! That's when civilized life began!

Yup

Penny Lane · 08-15-2005, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Ron Burgundy

Yup

Fleet · 08-15-2005, 11:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Penny Lane

The good Old days......................... I'm glad that they are gone!

Please bring them back! (Well, the '50s, not necessarily the '40s.)
Modern "cars" and "music" are beginning to drive me crazy!

*Miss Randomness* · 08-15-2005, 11:20 PM

LoL, I was born in the 80s :P

Steve M. · 08-15-2005, 11:21 PM

I remember a time when you played recorded music on vinyl discs, Ayds was a diet supressant candy, the Web was soemthing spiders wove, movies were aimed at thinking adults, Dasher was a car, and you had to plug in your telephone and your telephone reciever to make it work! You heard music on the radio - FM and AM - not on television. There were three TV networks, three local stations, and one public television station, and if you had cable, the text-based channels with Muzak in the background outnumbered the orignal programming and movie cable channels. Computers were something banks used; you typed letters with typewriters. You made copies with carbon paper. You had an 8-track stereo in your AMC. You had AMC's. All telephone area codes had a "0" or "1" as a second digit. Elton John was shocking and Mary Tyler Moore was a big TV star. Yes, I remember. . . .

the 70's!

Have a nice day!

TripperFan · 08-15-2005, 11:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Penny Lane

Really! My husband grew up in the 40's(born 1943) and that was my dad's favorite saying! My dad remembers having to go out to the hand pump in freezing weather to get water. Hell, we had an outdoor toilet until I was 5 years old! My dad built a bathroom onto our house when their 4th child was born!

I still remember the outhouse (but I never used it) My siblings and I used potty chairs until the bathroom was added on. My dad decided to install a bathroom when one day he found a snake in the outhouse!

That did it!

My husband is so old that he even remembers watching the telegrapher at the train depot in town. That was before my time but I do remember the old steam locomotives passing through the woods behind our rural house in the 50's.

Ah.... that lonely mournful sound .....................

I will never forget it! My mom still lives there but it is not so rural anymore! Practically house to house now!

Yup! And my mother would get up at 4 a.m. every morning to go down and stoak the furnace with coal so the house would be warm enough when the family got up in the morning.
As a child, they'd wait for the iceman to come and while he was delivering the huge block of ice, would "steal" ice chips off the back of the truck as a big treat.
"Kick The Can" was a big game that was played with all the kids in the neighbourhood. Aluminum cans had recently come out so they loved the sound as it got booted around the road.
And you could REALLY hear a locomotive on a cloudy, humid night - the thick air seemed to amplify the sound.
When my mother first returned to Canada (she was born in Canada, but they lived in London, England until she was 5), they took the train to Edmonton. She watched out the train and saw the outhouses behind the farmhouses and declared, "I'm going to love living in Canada Daddy - all the little girls have wonderful dollhouses!"
And milk was home delivered in glass bottles with those paper stoppers that usually ended up getting pushed inside the bottle before it was finished.

Mikado · 08-18-2005, 05:09 PM

I remember Getting MIO pop delivered to the house, it wasnt very good, but it was cheap...the milkman( also a relic of the past ) drove a horse cart...id go to the store with a dime and get a bag of candy ( especially MOJOs<mmmmmmm ) that lasted an hour...Mountain Dew had a hillbilly on the bottle and didnt taste like 7up at the time...a 25 cent bag of sunflower seeds lasted a week...And the VW Beetle had the engine in the back...Ahhhh, the good old days

Mikado · 08-18-2005, 05:11 PM

ohh and another weird thing, when i was a kid in the 60s, the Coca-Cola trucks had a little coin box ( with a slot on top ) and you could buy p0p right off the truck!!!

Fleet · 08-18-2005, 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Mikado

And the VW Beetle had the engine in the back...Ahhhh, the good old days

And an agonizingly slooooow top speed of 60-80 mph (depending on the year and model).

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08-18-2005, 05:09 PM	#13
Mikado Main st bridge Forum Superstar Join Date: Jul 06, 2005 Posts: 25,886	I remember Getting MIO pop delivered to the house, it wasnt very good, but it was cheap...the milkman( also a relic of the past ) drove a horse cart...id go to the store with a dime and get a bag of candy ( especially MOJOs<mmmmmmm ) that lasted an hour...Mountain Dew had a hillbilly on the bottle and didnt taste like 7up at the time...a 25 cent bag of sunflower seeds lasted a week...And the VW Beetle had the engine in the back...Ahhhh, the good old days

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Mikado Main st bridge Forum Superstar Join Date: Jul 06, 2005 Posts: 25,886	ohh and another weird thing, when i was a kid in the 60s, the Coca-Cola trucks had a little coin box ( with a slot on top ) and you could buy p0p right off the truck!!!