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The store where I work has TVs for sale but no cable to show how good the picture is. They do have a DVD player hooked up so I found a couple old Disney movies (Mr. Walt Disney's movies, not the Disney most youngsters watch now) on DVD that we've been watching. Everybody seems to enjoy The Absent Minded Professor, with Fred McMurray, and also, Thomasina, about the cat. Both movies from the early 60s.
I got my Smithsonian magazine and was appalled/amused to find a short article about "nylons" and how they are such a thing of the past and no one wears them any more. I sure wore them up to about three years ago, when I learned from a niece that nylons are way out of fashion. Not good news for old white ladies!
And you know you're old when something you commonly wore is the subject of an article in Smithsonian!
The was a trimline style phone that had the dial on the inside part that you hold, very cool was this came out
Pay phones that had a slot for 0.5 - .10 - .25
I had one of the first VHS - it was really heavy, made well and lasted over 20 years. When I took it to have it repaired the guy said how much he loved seeing this machine but felt it would have cost to much to repair. I really wanted it repaired, and at the time was sorry I didn't because all the plastic junk VHS machines that were for sale were so poorly made they weren't worth purchasing. So the VHS I bought lasted less than a year and so on . . .
I'm so old I remember... The majority of the kids I hung around with lived at their grandparents farm.. they had the old time wood.. crank and flip the receiver to get operator.. "NO" Rotary Dialer or Push Buttons.. You told the operator the party you wanted to speak with.. or if long distance your name and address.. you got a bill from.. And along with the old time phone a portion of the farm house had exposed electrical wire running down the wall. Covered in cloth and terminals to hold it off the wall.. the switch was a push button switch.. the wall plugs maybe 2-3 in the entire house was ceramic and only two slots no ground.. the ceilings were tin with a design.. and the back entrance to the kitchen is were the pies cooled after backing and were the heavy winter jackets were hung.. along with a flash light and a oil lamp.. for the 2 am stroll to the out house 50--75 feet out back.. on the porch sat a gasoline powered washing machine.. you had a foot pedal you pushed down quickly.. 1-2 speed agitator open no lid.. and a set of rollers.. the Mangler had several setting for wringing out your clothes.. between wash and rise.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qpDgSktoE8 and for the drain... lay the hose on the porch and water the flowers.. and refill..
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I'm so old I remember... As in post 5137 the Old Farm house was built.. just a guess 1850-1860 just before the Civil War or around that time.. it had a water cistern a large area in the basement.. that held rain water. The basement was also the root cellar for canning and root vegetables only about 5 feet tall hand laid field stone and dirt floor. Timbers were cut from the trees when they cleared the land to built the farm house. The water came from the rain and " LEAD" pipe collected the water into the cistern.. a single " Lead Pipe" went up to the kitchen were along side the soap stone sink a small picture pump was attached.. the drain from the sink went out back into a slip trench filled full of gravel. The over flow from the cistern also ended up in the same trench.. This cistern was higher than the out house out back. That's how they did it then. Only sink in the house.. The hot water came from the massive cast iron cooking & heating stove in the kitchen 8 burners and a 20-30 gallon copper water tank on the side with a relief valve like a steam kettle.. got to hot it would open up and spit and sputtered. Had a faucet at the bottom.. kids would stand in a giant galvanized tub.. while gram mother or mom soaped you down and scrub you down.. 1-2 times a week.. up till you got old enough to say "NO" I will do it..
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Everybody had those rain bonnets in the little tiny plastic cases.....I loved mine....
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