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One more. I remember staring at a light bulb for hours and finally coming to the point of actually understanding it. Quite a revelation.
I did that once, but it was later in life than the things mentioned in the original post. Of course, I had been "smoking," and found the light bulb fascinating.
Ah man!
There are few things as unpleasant as using an outhouse on a bitter cold January night.
One thing's for sure - you didn't daudle
Only thing that might be worse was having to use it on a scorching hot July afternoon (Gag!).
Didn't daudle then either.
Ken
Yeah, but in the summer the worst thing was the spiders and wasps. I don't know how y'all did it, but we'd take a rolled-up newspaper, light it and wave it around the ceiling before entering.
Yes
1. Only 13 TV channels and only 3 TV choices for news. (Two channels only)
5. Party line telephone in your home--I was a junior in high school when we got this.
6. Rotary dial telephone in your home--we still have one for when the electricity goes off.
7. No computers in the home
8. Black and white TV shows
9. Not having air conditioning in your home.
10. Personally owning a typewriter.
11. Personally owning a phonograph.
12. Mimeographed copies in school
14. A stay-at-home mother
16. Out of town homes for embarrassed unwed teenage mothers
17. Lining up for gasoline every other day depending on your odd/even license plate number.
18. The draft
19. No child car seats
20. No seat belts
21. Walking more than a mile home from school
22. When men wouldn't be caught dead wearing earrings.
23. When men wouldn't be caught dead wearing thong underwear.
24. When only military and bikers had tattoos
25. When the "good guy" in a movie wasn't flawed
27. Being under 18 and not having your own phone.
No
2. Getting news when you went to the movie theater, either before or between two movies (yes, two movies, one ticket).
3. Whites Only/Colored Only signs
4. The saying, "Hey, hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?"
13. School drills in case of a nuclear bombing
15. Going "to church" at the drive in movie theater
26. When you could buy a slice of pizza and a soda for under $1
28. Kids in the neighborhood coming to your house and trying to earn some money shoveling snow or mowing lawns.
29. Playing in the street--I had 100 acres to roam around. We played a lot in the woods.
I had never met a black person, or eaten a piece of pizza or eaten at a fast food place when I turned 18 years old.
I remember when we did not have electricity. I was 5 when we got it.
How many of these do you actually remember in your life. Do you think any of these or not experiencing most or many of these influence how you do things or think today compared to others who post here?
1. Only 13 TV channels and only 3 TV choices for news. We only had 5 or 6 stations--ABC/NBC/CBS/PBS and 2 local ones (a 3rd was only possible with our little TV in the basement and a lot of patience with the rabbit ears).
6. Rotary dial telephone in your home
7. No computers in the home
8. Black and white TV shows We didn't get a color TV until I was in 5th or 6th grade--imagine my shock that so many shows were in color.
9. Not having air conditioning in your home. It was rare for anyone to have A/C in the Seattle area, so nothing big here.
10. Personally owning a typewriter.
11. Personally owning a phonograph.
12. Mimeographed copies in school I miss that smell!!
14. A stay-at-home mother Yes, my stepmonster stayed at home til I was 12...but a lot of good it did. Terrible cook, and the marriage fell apart anyway.
18. The draft
19. No child car seats Does anyone remember the flip-down 'booster seat' that used to be in some cars' back seats?
21. Walking more than a mile home from school
22. When men wouldn't be caught dead wearing earrings
23. When men wouldn't be caught dead wearing thong underwear.
24. When only military and bikers had tattoos
25. When the "good guy" in a movie wasn't flawed
26. When you could buy a slice of pizza and a soda for under $1
28. Kids in the neighborhood coming to your house and trying to earn some money shoveling snow or mowing lawns.
29. Playing in the street
30. Give us one of your own.
Allocated smoking area in my high school. The last day of kindergarten, when the teacher spanked the one troublemaking boy in front of us before wishing us well in 1st grade. No weapons ever used in high school fights. When teachers actually cared about and taught penmanship and cursive. 'Old math' that actually made sense. No ridiculous state tests every year, or to determine if you could graduate...you know, back when you graduated based on your grades and credits, and back when teachers actually taught subjects to the best of their ability, not just 'teaching to the test' baloney. Never had to hear about teenaged boys beating up their girlfriends. Pregnant teens (which were RARE) either aborted or were sent to Alternative School--in other words, no daycare centers in the schools. Most kids that I knew graduated as virgins. Quality television shows, especially sitcoms (All in the Family, for one) and the Movie of the Week. Being able to watch TV and NOT be subjected to ads for Victoria's Secret, Viagra, or phone sex chat lines.
I don't really know if my experiences affect how I post.
I remember ALL of them except for 3. & 15. I live in the north and there were never any visable signs of segregation (3), and never went to church at a drive in (15). That is something that just never was done very much in the north if at all. Come to think of it, we only had a few drive ins, and too much snow and cold.
My number 30 could be a list of about 20 items. Some lighter ones: little wax bottles that looked a a soda/pop bottle, candy cigarettes, certain TV shows that EVERYBODY watched--Ed Sullivan springs to mind.
Now some serious ones: assassination of Pres Kennedy and then his brother Robert, also of Martin Luther King (who at the time, I had never really heard of), and man's landing/walking on the moon in 1969-again another event that EVERYONE watched.
I had never met a black person, or eaten a piece of pizza or eaten at a fast food place when I turned 18 years old.
I remember when we did not have electricity. I was 5 when we got it.
Had a colored babysitter, Carrie King, when 8-9 years old. Most of the time she worked for free. I think she liked crazy white kids. When there wasn't much food in the house, she would offer to make a salad dressing sandwich for me and my sisters. We had never had a salad, didn't know what it was, and "dressing" didn't make sense - so we always shook our heads and politely declined. We thought it might be something only colored people ate. She thought we were weird in that regard. Course, we thought she was weird because she would tell us to cut off the lights instead of turn them off. We made a lot of jokes about cutting off the lights. It wasn't till many years later when I discovered mayonnaise on bread for a "salad dressing sandwich".
First pizza at 12, listening to "Hound Dog" on the radio.
First fast food at 15 - Burger, fries and coke for 65 cents.
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