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If you go in some of the older hotels, you'll see the pay phone areas. Those areas are now converted to sitting areas or gift shops. Who looks for a payphone these days?
I remember waiting in line to get a payphone. In my hand was a paper list of calls I needed to make.
Do you remember credit card numbers which were your phone number, plus three digits corresponding to the area code and a letter at the end corresponding to the last digit of the phone number and changed at the end of every year?
Wood floors at the A&P
Gasoline at .32 cent a gallon
Oil in round cans
Pop in glass bottle an cans no zip top
Corded phones with rotary dialer
Party Line
Flour in cloth bags
Brown paper shopping bags
Non-electric cash register
Refrigerator with the coil on top of the unit
Gas Stoves you lit with a match
Wood floors at the A&P
Gasoline at .32 cent a gallon
Oil in round cans
Pop in glass bottle an cans no zip top
Corded phones with rotary dialer
Party Line
Flour in cloth bags
Brown paper shopping bags
Non-electric cash register
Refrigerator with the coil on top of the unit
Gas Stoves you lit with a match
First gasoline I ever bought was 18 cents a gallon. And having just quit a job in the accounting dept of an oil company, I can tell you that the cost of producting that gallon of gas from ground to pump was five cents. Sounds unbelievable today, doesn't it?
As a kid I had wire recorder and several wind-up record players and loads of 78 rpm records still have them. also stereopticon and boxes of 3D pictures and the camera to take stereo pictures as well. Knob and tube wiring replacing blown fuses with pennies, twist light wall switches, out-house, hand pump well, butter churns, Hollow scratcher radios, funnies read on the radio, stories read on the radio, Christal sets, crank phones and party lines 4 digits. victory gardens, loads of board games, Gas fired iron, sad iron heated on the wood stove, the toaster was an apparatus that sat in the stove over the flame.
waffle makers that worked on the wood stove. iron cook ware, strait razors, wick trimmers, oil lamps , and whole house full of stuff too great to list. I still have.
Though I was born in 1950 , my dad being an antique buff, born in 1916, introduced a lot of things to me and instilled an appreciation for it all. a great deal of my life was spent around older folk the taught me volumes, it is sad this coming generation have no idea where they came from.
My own children grew up using many antiques not even knowing they were antiques. and they are still a part of my life.
My parents were Red Skelton fans, so I remember watching him. I have heard of Red Buttons, but do not recall seeing him on TV.
Red Skelton always closed with, "Goodnight, and may god bless."
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