Here's another one (although somebody already mentioned this).
I can remember having a milkman, and the silver semi-insulated cooler for him to put the glass bottles in. We kept it in the garage. Eventually, we gave the Milkman access to a key to our backdoor, and he would actually come in our house if we weren't home and put the milk in the refridgerator.
I can still remember the smell of the Milkman's truck.
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What did it smell like??? I don't ever remember our milkman coming into the house but my Mom was always home to get the milk. We used to have a Nichols bread man too. Can anyone remember those little refrigerators that had the round turbine looking motor on top?? The freezer in the old time refrigerators held 1 ice cube tray.
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S & H Greenstamps - my mom collected those! We bought several items for our house that way. I think one was a new blender - woohoo!
I also collected Betty Crocker coupons (1975-80), for lack of a better word. You cut them off of food boxes? I had quite a bit and bought something during my first marriage. And no, not a blender. Probably something baking related though.
We're still using my one and only women's electric shaver - a Sears! Yes, it has the cord attached, it's not rechargeable. Must be why it's still going (after oh about 37ish years). My kids love it and borrow it all the time. Meanwhile, Nina's first shaver bit the dust long ago......but mine's still ticking. I couldn't even begin to count how many curling irons and blowdyers I've been thru. They don't make electronics like they used to!
I still own all of my old 45's. In a Decca case. I think I should leave that out for our next party - a conversation piece. I wrote my name and phone number on every single one.
Second thought, maybe I should keep those hidden. There are some Monkee singles in there...he he
Mary
I also collected Betty Crocker coupons (1975-80), for lack of a better word. You cut them off of food boxes? I had quite a bit and bought something during my first marriage. And no, not a blender. Probably something baking related though.
We're still using my one and only women's electric shaver - a Sears! Yes, it has the cord attached, it's not rechargeable. Must be why it's still going (after oh about 37ish years). My kids love it and borrow it all the time. Meanwhile, Nina's first shaver bit the dust long ago......but mine's still ticking. I couldn't even begin to count how many curling irons and blowdyers I've been thru. They don't make electronics like they used to!
I still own all of my old 45's. In a Decca case. I think I should leave that out for our next party - a conversation piece. I wrote my name and phone number on every single one.
Second thought, maybe I should keep those hidden. There are some Monkee singles in there...he he
Mary
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Yes, I remember the yellow coloring you put in the margarine. The TV stations would go off the air by midnight and put up that test pattern also, they played the National Anthem when they signed off. My mother canning all of the fruit and vegetables from the garden because fresh produce was rare in the Winter (I learned my canning from her) and of course I vaguely remember that we used have an ice box for a while before we got a refrigerator. Homemade pancakes from scratch and pre cake and cookie mix baking sessions when we made our own cookies and cakes from ingredients-homemade fudge and popcorn popped in a big iron skillet on the stove. Oh yes, and toasting marshmallows over the fire in the living room fireplace.
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Miss Mary wrote:S & H Greenstamps - my mom collected those! We bought several items for our house that way. I think one was a new blender - woohoo!
I also collected Betty Crocker coupons (1975-80), for lack of a better word. You cut them off of food boxes? I had quite a bit and bought something during my first marriage. And no, not a blender. Probably something baking related though.
We're still using my one and only women's electric shaver - a Sears! Yes, it has the cord attached, it's not rechargeable. Must be why it's still going (after oh about 37ish years). My kids love it and borrow it all the time. Meanwhile, Nina's first shaver bit the dust long ago......but mine's still ticking. I couldn't even begin to count how many curling irons and blowdyers I've been thru. They don't make electronics like they used to!
I still own all of my old 45's. In a Decca case. I think I should leave that out for our next party - a conversation piece. I wrote my name and phone number on every single one.
Mary
My mother has a sewing machine with a million miles (we've replaced the pedal five times) on it that she got with S&H coupons. You right, they don't make things to last anymore.
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What a GREAT TOPIC Janice!! 
Much of this has jogged my memory!
Walking to the corner gas station with my grandpa to get "pushups"
Moving into our newly-built "ranch" house when I was 4, on a dead-end street with fields all around. We had a carport with a toolshed, hardwood floors (later got wall-to-wall carpeting), push out windows in the bedroom and a, gulp, PICTURE WINDOW in the living room.
Getting our first tv - a CONSOLE. 2 stations, CBS and NBC.
The following year new grade school was built at the end of that dead-end road we lived on, so walking 1/3 block to school 1-5th grade, and walking home for lunch almost every day. Dad came home for lunch, too. We'd eat, then watch "As The World Turns" before I went back to school.
Watching Bonanza and Gunsmoke on Saturday nights.
Party-line phone, and the telephone: a black dialer on a little table in the kitchen.
Clothes line in the backyard, and running out to grab the wash if it started to rain.
Lunch every Sunday after church at Grandma & Grandpa's then taking a drive to visit "cousins. Most lived on farms via old dirt roads, and frequently we had to drive over levees and stop and open lots of gates along the way. Many had outhouses and pump over the kitchen sink, no phone, no tv.
Sitting in the "breezeway" between the toolshed and house at night as Dad would brought the radio outside to tune in WCBS from New York City (we were in Missouri!!). On that radio I can remember the Sonny Liston-Patterson world heavyweight championship fight, and many games of the New York Yankees.
Olive Green - when it was first invented, and very chic!
Having nightmares of "the bomb"
The Bay of Pigs scare
Alan Sheppard's historic flight
The day Kennedy was shot, and seeing Oswald shot on tv - the first real death on tv, and my parents not even thinking at the time whether it was "damaging" for young children to see
Cutting flowers from our own yard to wear as coursage to church
Saturday nights sitting on the floor in front of Mom while she pincurled or sock-wrapped my washed hair for church on Sunday
Brownie Scout day camp, later Girl Scout Camp and collecting all those cute little things to hang on a big straw hat.
the Beatles - Teen Magazine in our desks at school, posters on the bedroom wall, screaming in front of tv at Ed Sullivan appearances
Playing The Great Escape on our bicycles, tearing down dirt hills full of gravel and gullies, hoping for some good "air"
Snow days when the police would block our street with barracades, because it was a great hill for sledding. My girlfriend's dad would build a huge bonfire and kids would come from blocks around and spend the day on sleds
Oh, and those Summertimes:
Much of this has jogged my memory!
Walking to the corner gas station with my grandpa to get "pushups"
Moving into our newly-built "ranch" house when I was 4, on a dead-end street with fields all around. We had a carport with a toolshed, hardwood floors (later got wall-to-wall carpeting), push out windows in the bedroom and a, gulp, PICTURE WINDOW in the living room.
Getting our first tv - a CONSOLE. 2 stations, CBS and NBC.
The following year new grade school was built at the end of that dead-end road we lived on, so walking 1/3 block to school 1-5th grade, and walking home for lunch almost every day. Dad came home for lunch, too. We'd eat, then watch "As The World Turns" before I went back to school.
Watching Bonanza and Gunsmoke on Saturday nights.
Party-line phone, and the telephone: a black dialer on a little table in the kitchen.
Clothes line in the backyard, and running out to grab the wash if it started to rain.
Lunch every Sunday after church at Grandma & Grandpa's then taking a drive to visit "cousins. Most lived on farms via old dirt roads, and frequently we had to drive over levees and stop and open lots of gates along the way. Many had outhouses and pump over the kitchen sink, no phone, no tv.
Sitting in the "breezeway" between the toolshed and house at night as Dad would brought the radio outside to tune in WCBS from New York City (we were in Missouri!!). On that radio I can remember the Sonny Liston-Patterson world heavyweight championship fight, and many games of the New York Yankees.
Olive Green - when it was first invented, and very chic!
Having nightmares of "the bomb"
The Bay of Pigs scare
Alan Sheppard's historic flight
The day Kennedy was shot, and seeing Oswald shot on tv - the first real death on tv, and my parents not even thinking at the time whether it was "damaging" for young children to see
Cutting flowers from our own yard to wear as coursage to church
Saturday nights sitting on the floor in front of Mom while she pincurled or sock-wrapped my washed hair for church on Sunday
Brownie Scout day camp, later Girl Scout Camp and collecting all those cute little things to hang on a big straw hat.
the Beatles - Teen Magazine in our desks at school, posters on the bedroom wall, screaming in front of tv at Ed Sullivan appearances
Playing The Great Escape on our bicycles, tearing down dirt hills full of gravel and gullies, hoping for some good "air"
Snow days when the police would block our street with barracades, because it was a great hill for sledding. My girlfriend's dad would build a huge bonfire and kids would come from blocks around and spend the day on sleds
Oh, and those Summertimes:
- daily swimming lessons at the city pool
begging one of the neighborhood parents to take us back and drop us off at the pool for the afternoon
having crushes on the cute lifeguards and living for the occassional bit of attention which was usually being thrown in the deep end
church camp in the Ozarks
vacation Bible school
the introduction of 45's and having a player out on the carport and dancing after dinner (Dad would move the car)
sitting every day on the toilet seat next to the sink while Mom wet and brushed my hair tighter and tighter and then put on a rubber band that would hold ALL DAY.
every evening watching Dad pull the worms off the tomato plants
the neighborhood adults bringing lawnchairs to someone's yard to sit and visit while all us kids played either Annie Over, Kick the Can, or Hide & Seek
July 4th family fish fries, with fish we'd caught and frozen: bluegill, crappe, perch and bass, and plenty of hushpuppies, in a big black kettle big of enough for two gradeschoolers to fit in!
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I remember my little cousins pee pot in the corner of his bedroom on their farm.
And they put a hot brick at the bottom of the bed under the blankets. Their bedrooms were upstairs on the farm with no heat, just a metal grate on the floor where the heat from the kitchen came through.
Drinking water from the water pump outside. Be careful in the winter.
Feeding the pigs the slop from the daily household leftovers.
Going to the barn and jumping in the oats.
No dryers and the clothes smelled musty from being hung in the old basement.
Lightbulbs hanging in the house, bathroom, with no shade, just a metal chain. You did not pull that chain when you were wet.
And they put a hot brick at the bottom of the bed under the blankets. Their bedrooms were upstairs on the farm with no heat, just a metal grate on the floor where the heat from the kitchen came through.
Drinking water from the water pump outside. Be careful in the winter.
Feeding the pigs the slop from the daily household leftovers.
Going to the barn and jumping in the oats.
No dryers and the clothes smelled musty from being hung in the old basement.
Lightbulbs hanging in the house, bathroom, with no shade, just a metal chain. You did not pull that chain when you were wet.
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we STILL use a push mower.
I forgot all about green stamps. those were awesome. every saturday morning mom would get the stamps and books out and we'd all have to lick them and put them in the books. then it was off to the redemption center to get something cool.
I never drank kool-aid or swam in a public pool... but i do remember when the club first opened the pool for the season. what a snooty day that was. all the moms were in their best sunsuits and hats. what a hoot!
I forgot all about green stamps. those were awesome. every saturday morning mom would get the stamps and books out and we'd all have to lick them and put them in the books. then it was off to the redemption center to get something cool.
I never drank kool-aid or swam in a public pool... but i do remember when the club first opened the pool for the season. what a snooty day that was. all the moms were in their best sunsuits and hats. what a hoot!
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I mean push mover with no motor, nothing.
We did not spend that much time at the public pool either, but I did go. I remember stepping in the bucket of water to purify our feet, haha. (chlorine). I don't think they do that anymore.
My folks had a boat, so we took it out on the river on weekends.
I remember standing in lines at school waiting for my shot.
I remember summer picnics and potato salad and other things with mayonnaise sitting out in the sun all day and no one got sick.
I remember the little white starched, ruffled collars you put over the neck of your sweaters. Bat sleeve sweaters too.
Days of the week underwear, got those every Christmas.
We did not spend that much time at the public pool either, but I did go. I remember stepping in the bucket of water to purify our feet, haha. (chlorine). I don't think they do that anymore.
My folks had a boat, so we took it out on the river on weekends.
I remember standing in lines at school waiting for my shot.
I remember summer picnics and potato salad and other things with mayonnaise sitting out in the sun all day and no one got sick.
I remember the little white starched, ruffled collars you put over the neck of your sweaters. Bat sleeve sweaters too.
Days of the week underwear, got those every Christmas.
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Janice wrote:I just remembered that my dad never bought pop and brought it home. He said pop was not good for us. We did get pop when we went out tho. We could have all the KoolAid we wanted tho even with all that sugar. Dad must have not known what went in KookAid, haha.
Janice - my dad bought his beer by quart sized bottles. And would treat me to one pop, what we called soda. Just one. On rare occasions he'd buy an 8 pack and when that happened, it was as if we won the lotto. Seriously!
Like you we drank a lot of koolaid, lemonade and iced tea. And oh yeah - tons of milk. How many kids today drink milk? Not many.
Mary
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