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[DoneTryin]

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@MalteseMomma wrote:

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@LoveShoes wrote:
I remember when the tv's had a knob that you had to turn and get up in order to change the channel. My mother always had us change the channel as soon as we were getting comfortable, one of us would get up to change the channel.

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Remember the first remote control tv box with the wire attached to the tv was  spread across the room to your chair......lol  Everyone would trip over it......lol

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@MalteseMomma  That's the kind of remote that Jack Lemmon's character used in the movie The Apartment (1964)

[cookinfreak]

Remember the mimeograph machine?  The teacher made the original and had to put it on that machine to get copies.  Copies print was purple and I remember that it smelled really bad & strong like plastic or chemicals.

No expiration dates on anything

No VCRs or DVDs etc. If you missed a tv show, you just didn't see it

"Be Kind. Please Rewind"

Betsy McCall paper dolls in McCalls magazine

cookin

[DoneTryin]

Paperboys carried the newspapers in saddlebags on their bikes.  Rode down the streets, throwing the papers into the subscribers' yards & came around once a month with their little receipt books to collect payments.

Brownies & Girl Scouts went door-to-door in their neighborhoods to sell the cookies.  Everybody knew everybody & there certainly didn't seem to be anything unsafe about little girls doing that alone. 

TV antennas on the roofs of the houses in the neighborhood.  Dads periodically had to climb up there to make adjustments.

[WORKING GAL]

I lived in South Jersey during my elementary school days (1950's).  I remember that no retail stores were open on Sundays, just some gas stations and restaurants. 

Not only did we have a party line phone, but no dial.  We picked up the receiver and if the other party was not on the line, the operator came on and asked for the number you were calling.  No area codes in those days.

The milk man delivered our dairy very early in the morning in a metal crate.  The ice cream man (Jessie) came during the summer riding his bike with a large white metal freezer attached.  He was so nice to us kids and had really good frozen treats.

The doctor down the street (office in his home) made house calls.

We moved to So. California in the late 50's and stores were beginning to stay open later and open on Sundays.

In the mid 60's I got a small portable tape recorder - fun to use but not good voice quality.

In the late 60's I worked in a large office that created proposals for the first computer installations for the government.  The computers were gigantic.  Prior to the FAX machines being created, does anyone remember the TELEX machine?  They were horrible to operate.  You typed on a keyboard and a perforated tape was created.  No way to tell if you had any typing errors until you put the tape through to create the document. 

Just some of the things I remember - Such memories!

[jlkz]

@Imadickens

Yes I remember flash cubes but for a very sad reason.  When they first came out, a nun in the old type habit was taking a picture when the cube exploded.  The  starched white head piece under the veil caught fire.  She was badly burned: from then on they were not permitted to use that type camera.  So sad.

[Q4u]

I still say "run off" instead of "print out".... Ha Ha!

Not only did we have milk delivered to our door but does anyone remember the Helms Bakery Truck that would go down the street like an ice cream truck with bakery goods? My Mom didn't drive and would listen for him  and we'd go to the curb and buy bread and occasionally I got a donut!  OMG that was a treat! 

[lucieinthesky]

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@Imadickens wrote:

Any kids of the fifties? I remember when they changed the flag in my schoolroom to the fifty star from 48! Why no 49 star flag? Too close together?

we also got milk for snack. The milk guy brought the crate in the room. It has little glass bottles with pogs and paper doily on top!

my grandmother had daily dairy service! She left a note and in am the milk man left her order in an aluminum box on the porch!

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I am a kid of the 50's. During the summers, I remember getting so excited when I would hear the ice cream man on the street behind ours. I knew he was coming my way soon!  I remember spending a week or two during the summer at my grandparent's home (they lived in the country). I loved washday - and it was an all day affair. My grandmother had to get the water for the washing machine from an old well behind the house. Once the clothes were washed, she had to run them through the wringer ( I got to help with that until the time I got hand stuck one time!). 

[lOVETOSHOP]

I loved reading all of these responses!

I was just thinking the other day about those vinyl records and how I loved buying a 45 record with money I'd get for my birthday!

Other things I remember:  those metal icecube trays that had the metal inserts and you had to life them up to separate the icecubes; a heavy metal meat grinder my mother had to screw onto the kitchen table, penny gumball machines, the Avon Lady coming to the door, Stanley parties (I remember my mother and grandmother would have them...I remember Stanley brushes were popular); the Ford Maverick...we had one!; clotheslines,

manual eggbeaters with the turn handle, and I remember in gradeschool when we'd watch a movie in class, the film projector with the big wheel of film...I was always amazed at how the teachers would thread the film through and get it to work properly!

[alicedee]

When my daughter was little she was looking at old black and white pictures from my childhood in the 50s and 60s and asked "Was there any color in the world when you were little?" 

Taking pictures was expensive and a crapshoot...you bought film, then never knew if you got any good shots until you got them developed.  

Did everyone else's color snapshots taken in the 70s turn yellow?

[AngelPuppy1]

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@Imadickens wrote:
OMGoodness! You reminded me about pay toilets! Remember? You had to put a dime in the thing on the door and crank the knob, like a gum ball machine! I'd forgotten all about those until you mentioned pay phones!😀

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@Imadickens

I forgot about that, too!  I don't remember how much they were -- and thinking back --- I'm thinking --- why in the world would they be charging to go to the toilet???  Crazy!  That's one thing I certainly do not miss!  I try not to use public restrooms, but once in a while, you need to!!!!