What's your "long ago" story?

[tallpines]

Once upon a time, a long, long time ago ...........

bicycles did not have a chain guard ------------ and too frequently the bottom of your pants would occasionally get caught in the rotating chain.

To avoid this problem, one would need to roll up the the pants for the right leg ---- to just below the knee.

The idea cought on to make a pair of shorter pants --- just for biking.

And so, these short trousers were called pedal-pushers.


Today known as capris!
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[pheasantplucker]

And along the coast, where people used to roll up their pants when they went searching for edibles at low tide, those same pants became known as "clam diggers".

[NickieL]

hmm.....long ago when I was a kid we used VCR's untill DVD players came around.

[Marianne]

to the clam digger/pedal pushers!

[tinknal]

Originally Posted by pheasantplucker

And along the coast, where people used to roll up their pants when they went searching for edibles at low tide, those same pants became known as "clam diggers".

Unless you were looking for flotsam and jetsam, and they were called "beachcombers".

[Ohio dreamer]

When I was a kid you had to play during outside the day to stay cool. There were no kid shows on 27/7, no computer games and only people in the "rich" neighborhoods had whole house a/c. I was considered lucky as I had a window a/c unit in my room for night use once I was about 12 (turn it on when you go to bed....not 15 mins before, lol...and off as soon as your feet hit the floor in the morning - if mom hadn't turned it off while you were asleep)

[tinknal]

In the early 30's my Grandmother could not figure out why the steel window screen in my Dad's window kept rusting out........

[Yvonne's hubby]

Originally Posted by NickieL

hmm.....long ago when I was a kid we used VCR's untill DVD players came around.

I just love to hear kids recalling the good old days..... of last year.

[Yvonne's hubby]

I remember spending a lot of long winter evenings quilting while listening to the old radio shows. Lom and Abner was one of my favorites. And who here remembers the cute little monkeys that could be made of a pair of "monkey socks"?

[tallpines]

Originally Posted by NickieL

hmm.....long ago when I was a kid we used VCR's untill DVD players came around.

And even longer ago -----
when I was in 3rd grade------ we got a box called a TV.

And about 3 times a year we were lucky enough to go see a movie at an outdoor theater!

[tallpines]

Originally Posted by tinknal

In the early 30's my Grandmother could not figure out why the steel window screen in my Dad's window kept rusting out........

Funny thing was --- the only screen in the whole house that rusted was the one in the boys room!

And it left a brown streak all the way down the side of the house from the second floor.........

[tallpines]

I ran barefoot most all the time but those coal chinkers that got spread in the driveway sure were sharp!

[NickieL]

I remember phones with cords.

[tinknal]

Originally Posted by NickieL

I remember phones with cords.

I remember phones with dials......

[Jokarva]

Used to ride our bikes behind the mosquito trucks in the summer in Fla, couldn't see a thing and inhaling who knows what the whole time. Doesn't seem to have done us too much harm.

[NickieL]

Originally Posted by tinknal

I remember phones with dials......

I think I remember my grandma having one of those.

[nodak3]

I remember when REA came through. No more generators. Now we could have TV, which meant one channel that came on at 4:30 pm and went off at 9:15 pm.

Our swamp cooler was not a squirrel cage/water pump one, but a fan type with a drip system.

I still use mama's dripolator for coffee.

I remember when the coyote got in the house while we went to town.

And I remember the good schools, wonderful churches, and close and loving families that actually sat down and ate meals together.

[Homely]

Long ago we had rabbit ears, 3 stations and had to walk across a room to turn the channel. And television went off eventually.

[samm]

me and 2 girl friends would leave out early in the mornings in summer and ride our horses all over the country, and show up home late that evening, parents didnt have a clue where we were at, we swam in peoples tanks, play acted cowboys with heath barclay, the rifle man, little joe, hoss, the the men who played on the texas ranger show were all on our side, and that we rode with them..we collected coke bottles along the dirt roads and sold them to the man at the store and bought a cheese sandwich and an RC cola with the money, we'd pick black berries, persimmons, pears, plums what ever was in season,we would get the sticks of cane that grow in the ditches and play knights...we never got into anything too bad or that we couldnt get out of...im sure there was meaness out there we just never got in to any of it...and we never got bored.....those are some of my 'long ago" things...

samm

[Yvonne's hubby]

Originally Posted by Jokarva

Used to ride our bikes behind the mosquito trucks in the summer in Fla, couldn't see a thing and inhaling who knows what the whole time. Doesn't seem to have done us too much harm.

That would have been ddt, It worked so of course it had to be banned.