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In school, we used to sniff the freshly mimeographed papers as we passed them back. I miss that. Now, I have to settle for a nice big breath while I'm pumping gasoline. Of course, I pretend I'm appreciating the fresh air.
When in public … people were more respectful of others ..
particularly in stores … respectful of someone’s space … courteous as
To where you pushed your shopping carriage….
Not standing in the middle of an aisle while you talk loudly on your phone
Use to be common sense
When in public … people were more respectful of others ..
particularly in stores … respectful of someone’s space … courteous as
To where you pushed your shopping carriage….
Not standing in the middle of an aisle while you talk loudly on your phone
Use to be common sense
It's a carriage up there? I grew up with the term cart and quickly switched to buggy when I moved to North Carolina.
Got another one. At noon every weekday our village had this "noon whistle." But it wasn't a whistle; it was an awful noise. It made me think of the sound an elderly giant yelling would make when he was frightened. It was the strangest thing. It wasn't a factory town or anything, so I don't know why people needed a noon yell. Either they stopped doing it around 1970, or I just didn't hear it from my junior high school.
Got another one. At noon every weekday our village had this "noon whistle." But it wasn't a whistle; it was an awful noise. It made me think of the sound an elderly giant yelling would make when he was frightened. It was the strangest thing. It wasn't a factory town or anything, so I don't know why people needed a noon yell. Either they stopped doing it around 1970, or I just didn't hear it from my junior high school.
^^^ We had the same noon whistle in the village I lived in, it was also used at 10:00PM for curfew.
Child hood memories.
We had sirens at noon and 6 pm, and that was into the 1970s. The town I lived in didn't have a curfew, so no 10 pm siren. But nearby towns that did have curfews, did have 10 pm sirens too. That would not be fun for people who go to bed early.
I could see a noon siren being useful to some people who are working and want to know when to take their lunch break, and it would be a good way to make sure the siren is in working order, but anything more than that, is ridiculous.
And somebody must have said this already: we ran all the way home from school to catch Dark Shadows on TV.
Roller Derby was also popular at that time. And in college, the lounge TV was always turned to Happy Days at lunch time.
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