Community Chat

[tweets12]

Any northerns remember plugging in

your car in the winter so it would start in below zero weather.  Upstate NY we use to get cold spells that lasted at least 2 weeks at a time

[tweets12]

Yes  I  forgot about that.  I think it tasted better in glass

[PA Mom-mom]

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@just bee wrote:

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@PA Mom-mom wrote:

Did anyone use frozen OJ cans for curlers? Or was that just a PA thing?

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@PA Mom-mom

A previous poster mentioned using vegetable tins.  When I read that I thought about the orange juice cans, so it wasn't just PA.  It was happening in CA, too.

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I missed that post. What were we thinking! I can still feel those stupid cans pressing into my head as I was trying to fall asleep. 

[lovesrecess]

Test pattern on the TV

[Starpolisher]

Gym suits and Bobby socks

[just bee]

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@PA Mom-mom wrote:

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@just bee wrote:

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@PA Mom-mom wrote:

Did anyone use frozen OJ cans for curlers? Or was that just a PA thing?

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@PA Mom-mom

A previous poster mentioned using vegetable tins.  When I read that I thought about the orange juice cans, so it wasn't just PA.  It was happening in CA, too.

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I missed that post. What were we thinking! I can still feel those stupid cans pressing into my head as I was trying to fall asleep. 

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@PA Mom-mom

I never used the cans but I knew those who did.  When I wanted curls I used those dreadful plastic curlers from the dime store.  I recently found a whole package of pink ones -- unopened -- in the closet.  I'm sending them to the Smithsonian.

Now those really hurt to sleep on!

And then there were the hot rollers.  I'm surprised I don't have permanent scarring from the burns.

[PA Mom-mom]

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@house_cat wrote:

I've seen this on FB many times - thought it might be fun to bring it here.

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@house_cat Thanks for one of the most fun posts ever! Such great and often crazy memories!

[bcnu]

Saturday morning cartoons

[SharkE]

Bed jacket

[kivah]

I was a stenographer - I sat at the desks of various people I worked for and they dictated correspondence/memos - and I took it down in Pitman Shorthand and typed it out. I was called a Secretary!!!! In high school and at my 1st job, I typed on a manual typewriter, where the carriage moved from right to left and then back.

A few years later,IBM invented the Selectric Typewriter, which used a "golf" ball gizmo which had all the letters and symbols- and when typing, the ball hit the paper.

At my first job after high school, in 1959, I worked for a company on Wall St. that invested money in the stock market for the rich. Most of the memos I typed, needed many copies, so I put carbon paper between each page.

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