What's your "long ago" story?

AND the programs were better.

When you outgrew pants, they were called "high water pants."

I was too short to pee though a screen window. I'm wondering just how those boys were constructed...

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Today, a youth gets community service for major crime. I had a cousin do time in the state reform school for grand larceny. See, what he did was he went behind the filling station and grabbed empty pop bottles they had stacked there, then went around front and traded them for candy.

Long ago. we knew the day was over when Chet and David said goodnight to each other.
Married TV couples slept in twin beds.
TV parents were caught telling told their kids 'no' almost weekly (and no one called them bad parents). And more often than not, the parents actually ended up being in the right and the kids the ones learning the lessons.

We listened to music on 45's then 8 tracks. The really cool kids had transister radios.

We could run faster if we wore PF Flyers.
Our balogna had a first and a second name and our tuna named 'Charlie'.

Sounds like my childhood! I remember a time where kids were told to "go play outside", and we wouldn't be home until dinner. We used to walk miles out in the fields and orchards and catch frogs in the pond. I walked around town collecting cans and bottles. We played under bridges and wandered through stores by ourselves. Our parents had no idea where we were, and come to think of it, I used to get strangers offering me rides... I was always told not to talk to strangers, so I never took those offers.

Back then we could ride loose in the back of a station wagon, or the open bed of a pickup. I rarely remember wearing a seat belt.

When I was about 4 or 5, my dad used to take me out on his little Honda 90 motorcycle. I would sit in a milk crate on the back, no helmet. I distinctly remember picking up a kitten this way; riding on the back of the Honda with a kitten in my arms.

Seat Belt?
What was that?

My first car was a '48 Chevy that I paid $35.oo.

Two years later when I sold it, neither the radio or the heater worked----but I still got $50.oo for it!

The seats were like huge overstuffed chairs-------- and back then no one had heard of a seat belt!

ABSOLUTELY THIS!!
except we had no ac...just a window fan. sometimes slept on the back porch just to get some air.
We had a creek behind the house that was ALIVE with fish, bugs, newts etc. We used to dam up small pools and make crawdad habitats, all kind cool stuff...I probably spent ten years playing in that creek.
I had a "rich" friend...walking into her house was like walking into a meat locker. I guess I was more acclimated to the heat by then.
At lunchtime, you picked your own tomato for your sandwich as you came in to eat. I still eat tomato sandwiches all summer long.

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I'd rather have one Chewbacca than an entire clone army.

i also remember seeing my first color tv at a families house down the road....hee haw was on and i remember buck owens red white and blue guitar,...i was awed, i thought they were the richest people ever, they even had a window a/c unit......lol

samm

I'm a pickin'
And I'm a grinnin'

I have a pic of my Grandma with Roy Clark....Also bought my dad some Hee Haw on DVD before he died..

Ahh...memories

Great Aunt Eleanor made us watch Lawrence Welk

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I'd rather have one Chewbacca than an entire clone army.

I remember old phones that hung on the wall where you talked into a speaker like on Green Acres at Sam Drucker's store. My grandparents had one at their house until I was about 5. And I remember party lines!!!! We had one until I was 15.


This is a wonderful topic!

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We had a party line. 2 longs and a short.

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Libertarindependent

Christmas of Long Ago!!! I remember going out all together to cut down a tree from the property, always lopsided, and just the top because they weren't even shaped. We would put a cardboard star wrapped in tinfoil on top. We had several ornaments, but also strung cranberries and popcorn. Then came out an old bag of tinsel that had been saved over and over for at least 25yrs or more. It wasn't the mylar stuff of today though, it was real metal kind of like a thick aluminum foil or something. We also made construction paper rings, but not of real construction paper..... No. We used old cereal boxes and other boxes cut into strips to make those paper rings, then fastened them with paperclips that were at least 100 yrs old and had some rust on them.
Then came out the bags of "saved" paper and old ribbons. We reused the same ones year after year after year after ..... You get it. Same with tags. They were saved each year and reused. We only got a couple of presents each, small things about 5-10dollars worth of goodies total.

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LOL we did it too!! All of us kids are still alive and kickin'

Long, long, ago... I remember being thin up until my late 20's when I got pregnant. Ahh, to see a size 5 or 7 again would be divine. Who am I kidding, I'd be happy to see anything smaller than what I currently am now.

Kidding aside, I long for those side vent windows on the older cars and trucks. Wing windows or something. Don't recall what they were called. You could crack them open just enough to get air, but it wouldn't blow you to bits. Why did they quit making those? I loved them.

Mom threw us out in the morning in the summer... LOCKED THE DOORS, lol! The hose was available if we wanted a drink. We went ALL over. ...if we weren't home or checked in by the time the street lights came on, they might start hollering...I think I must have owned 500 pairs of shoes, I never came home with them on. They were always in the bottom of the creek bed... "But mom, honest, I was lucky to get my legs out!" "I could'a been stuck there FOREVER" : P

Originally Posted by NickieL
I remember phones with cords.

I remember not having a phone. We did not get telephone lines in at the ranch until after I was grown, married and gone.

Did you ever have one of them FM repeater phones? That's what they had on the Brooks Ranch.

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Libertarindependent

No, I don't know that they even had them then (late 1940s/ early 1950s?).

I remember my grandfather had a radio that ran on batteries, looked like car or tractor battery, and can remember my grandparents, parents and I listening to it in the evenings for a short time. I always giggled when Fibber McGee opened the closet and everything fell out. And I remember Grand Ol' Oprey when Minnie Pearl called out "How....DEEE!"

We did get REA lines in when I was 10 or 12 ... phone lines several years after I left home. Never did get TV at the ranch, my parents finally got one after they retired completely and moved to town.

we had the trucks and the planes spraying,I don`t remember anyone following them though...lol

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Growing up in Miami we would be out first thing and not come back till we heard our neighbors airhorn the mother would blow for their kids.
We spent a lot of time riding horses,bikes and skateboards.My dog would pull me on my skateboard 10 miles to coconut grove almost every saturday for free concerts at peacock park.
Building treeforts was also fun.Always used to find great materials in trashpiles.Swimming in the canals,and snorkeling in biscayne bay.Those were the days!

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Our first telphone was the crank type and then you told mable who you wanted to talk to.

We would get up early like 4:00 AM to milk cows, feed and water them before walking to our one room school house. Unless it was full blowen winter then since the hill was between our house and the school we skied part way there and part way home. In the winter we had a Friday night sledding party every Friday. Moms would fix a dish to pass, some one brought hot dogs to roast and some times even a bag of marshmellows.

Spring found us working the fields I had my own personal tractor by the time I was 8.

I plowed fields for oat sand corn plantings. Picked up well over a trillion rocks in my life time.
About the time you finished up the planting andf rock picking it was haying time. We did loose hay with a hay loader hooked to the wagon.Then the4 wagon was brought to the barn to unload with a numbr of metyhods at one time or another. We had what were cvalled egale claws 3 tines to a side that pivoted in the middle sunk as deep in the wagon load of hay as you could get. then the tractor was hooked to the big rope to pull it a loft then we kids grabbed the hual back rope swinging out over the drive floor to get the hay to the rear of the barn. My dad and one of the uncles would then use long poles with a spike in the end to swing that load of hay to one side of the barn or the other. We also used what were called harpoon forks & grapple hooks to lift the hay. the grapple hooks were the best.

Then in the early 60's we got a baler. when it was going to rain we used every thing and then some to haul hay from the field to the barn.





Once maybe twice a summer we went to a drivw in movie. Movies were for winter time when the work load was not so great.

Those were the good old days. Family gathered in the spring to haul manure to the field, in the fall to buzz wood for winter heat and MOMs cook stove.

Al

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