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I am 65 and I remeber getting polio shots when I was 8. When I ws 5 I was hit by a car and remeber having tons of penicillin. Must be why I am allergic to it today and How I loved the 5 and dime stores. You could buy anything and everything. Yoou can't find some of those products today.So 59 sounds about right. Oh the good ole' days.
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I lived on a big farm out where the sun barely shines as they say. We made our own butter. Our food came from what we raised and butchered on the farm. I remember the polio cubes,never had a indoor bathroom til I was 12. My age is 57.
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Originally Posted by Prism99
I'm not sure this is correct. I am 65 and I remember the delivery men carrying in our first black-and-white television set when I was about 5. We were one of the last families in the neighborhood to get one, so I think they had been out for awhile before that.
I also remember getting a polio shot in school when I was about 8yo, and I don't think that was the first year they were offered. Will be interested to see if my memory is any good! Edit: OK, I went and Googled television. Apparently my memorty is okay. The 59yo age will work for someone whose family was really late getting a television set (we were a working class family in a working class neighborhood, so we couldn't have been more than average in our timing for purchasing a tv). There were network broadcasts available coast-to-coast by about 1947, when I was a year old. They did not have access to electricity in the area my mom was raised till 1948 because the area was so rural. First thing my Grandpa got was a radio. |
Can't be correct for this date. J.L.Baird invented the television in 1926 for starters...
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I am 77 and I remember getting our first TV set......black & white, had to sit right up there to see the picture.......
but we thought that it was just the greatest...... we got ours in 1948..... One could ride down the street and see who had TV and who didn't .......as those large antennas told the story. Wasn't it great???????? |
I also went to the World's Fair in NY in 1939 and my dad was on TV..
they took him into another room and we all viewed him on TV in the outer room.... what an thrilling experience........ and look at us now !!!!!!!!! |
WOW does this bring back memories of the good olde days, 5 and 10 were the Ben Franklins, I remember this little blue bottle of perfume called "Evening in Paris" I think every dresser had a bottle on it. Oh, and the corner candy stores that had penny candy, I will never forget and my kids will never know. I spent a lot of my younger years on a farm in Mississippi, that what soooo much fun, drinking milk straight from the cow, mud pies and chickens. So much fun and boy does it go by quickly.
Thats another reason I love this board, you get to here about everyones memories. |
I am 59 and can remember all this things too...although the time line was a little different. We had a black and white TV; an ice box and received sugar cube polio vaccines(only the babies got a shot where I lived). Thanks for reminding us about the really good old days. Too bad we can not turn back time....I would first in line!!
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I still have a bottle of "Evening in Paris". Wonder if it is still good? Sure did love that scent!!
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When I was about 13, my girlfriend and I were allowed to walk to the local hamburger place about 3 miles away where we got a hamburg, a coke and french fries for $.90. My parents weren't AFRAID to let us go alone. What a change in a world, huh? Our innocence is gone!!
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