Growing up without a cell phone - Hilarious! (Long, but worth it!)
06-24-2012, 12:11 PM
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We had a Party line. My sister and I would pick up the phone on the first ring and the old lady would scream that this was her call and we needed to listen for our rings. (we wouldn't hang up and listen to her talk. She'd tell mom and then we would get abused.
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06-24-2012, 12:15 PM
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Hilarious but wait there's more. Remember when pagers came out and we used the numbers to spell words so you could send a message by page? Any Member's Only jacket wearers out there? Walkman owners? Who had Packman Fever? The hangouts were the mall, bowling alley or the roller rink. And yes, outside but be in before the street lights come on or else.
06-24-2012, 02:31 PM
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Ohhh the good ole' days. When I was a kid I learned to cook as soon as I could see over the stove. I did laundry, cleaned house, helped my Mother can and freeze food in the summer, worked in the garden, mowed the lawn, pulled weeds and other things I have probably forgotten. But, I did have a good childhood. OH, and when we did dishes, you washed them by HAND.
06-25-2012, 05:11 AM
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Ohhh the good ole' days. When I was a kid I learned to cook as soon as I could see over the stove. I did laundry, cleaned house, helped my Mother can and freeze food in the summer, worked in the garden, mowed the lawn, pulled weeds and other things I have probably forgotten. But, I did have a good childhood. OH, and when we did dishes, you washed them by HAND.
06-25-2012, 07:47 AM
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Well, I started to school (one room country school) in the 40's. I did walk two miles home from school on nice days. Daddy always drove me to school in the morning and home on bad days (1932 Ford Roadster with rumble seat and Oogah horn). Later riding the school bus to school in town (1 hour trip). I learned to sew on a White treadle. Green Hornet and The Shadow on the radio. Neighbors got the first TV and Daddy had to buy one to get me to stay home. Party line phone - no long conversations with boyfriends. Granny teaching me to cook at about 7 years old - first instruction: "Go catch a chicken." Roaming over the countryside all day in the summer - just had to be home for supper.
06-25-2012, 09:12 AM
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I was a kid in the 50's. Oh the freedom. We could go almost anywhere and do almost anything, some things were better the parent's didn't find out about. Like taking a rope swing over a gully with a creek ten to fifteen feet down.
06-25-2012, 10:00 AM
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Love it! I have a rotary phone in my basement which i still use. One day my grandson and I were in the basement and I ask him to call his mom for me ... he picked up the phone then looked at me with a dumbfounded look and said "mamaw how do you use this?" I also still have my record player and albums and a few 8 tracks (which I got ask if that was a vcr tape).
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