This Is For The Older People Here

[Janice]

Mary, that is because I am wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy older than you.

[Janice]

Remember madras or bleeding material?

Balloon skirts

When you had to have a parka to wear to school for fashion.

You wore white gloves and a hat to church each Sunday as a child.

[Miss Mary]

I remember eating lunch at home, during the school day. I shocked my daughter tonight by telling her I regularly came home for lunch during my grade school years. She asked if I packed or bought hot lunch back then. She jokingly said I packed...how boring. Actually I walked home to a hot lunch I said! LOL Really she said.....shocked as all get out. I even took a friend home with me sometimes. Another shocked response. Really.....I said yeah, I remember having Campbell's tomato soup a lot, for some odd reason. I had to skip recess to eat at home but it was permitted. I think a lot of kids went home! Again, she just couldn't believe it.

The kicker? She asked me if I ever slept while home for lunch? LOL

I said what? I barely got there, had to wolf down lunch and head back. But it was nice to do that....if your mom didn't work.

I'm going to have ask my mom how many times I did this now. I think it was pretty many! I know I went home a lot in 7th Grade....that's when another girl named Mary - imagine that, in a Catholic School no less - wanted to beat me up all the time! Those lunch breaks at home sure came in handy when you wanted to avoid recess!

Mary

[beachbum_al]

I remember when the milk men used to drop milk off at the front door.

I remember when you got gas someone met you out at the pump and pump your gas, check your fluids, and wash the windows of your car.

I remember when Mickey Mouse Club was a household name.

I remember when MTV first aired and my mom threaten my sister and I if we didn't change the channel she was having the cable disconnected.

I remember when we only had four channels on the t.v. and one of those was a very blurry APT.

I remember when there was only sand dunes down at Fort Morgan, Gulf Shores, and Orange Beach, Alabama

[Cookiely]

I remember getting our first TV set. I remember my grandfather putting a plastic colored paper over the TV screen to make colors. I remember my aunt Lottie using a butter churn (the butter tasted awful to me (no salt). I remember getting my arm stuck in the wringer of the washing machine. I remember the bread man deliverying hot cuban bread to our house in the morning, and the milk man of course. I remember the wonderful hamburgers at Goody Goody's in Tampa and the girls would come to your car in roller skates. I remember the beautiful movie theatres and getting dressed to the nines to go downtown. The Doctor would make house calls and once I was very ill with pneumonia and he took me and my mama to the hospital to admit me. I remember a time that there wasn't ANY fast food restaurants in Tampa (Horror!)

[MomH]

Oh WOW... ya'll are old.

Yes, Brent, we are old. Old enough to appreciate much of what you young people take for granted these days. We remember how hard and tiring a day could be when you had to empty ashes from the fireplace or coal stove before you went off to a full day of work. We remember when food was rationed during the depression. We remember getting a bicycle for Xmas that belonged to both you and your brother. We remember spending lots of time with our parents learning to cook and clean as well as how to fish and swim. We remember being able to play outside after dark without being afraid. We remember the week the city passed a law that business had to lock their doors at night.

You'll be old some day and your memories will be different than ours. I just hope they are as pleasant.
MomH

[furluvcats]

I remember when surfboards had only one fin, and then two...
I remember when utility lines were on poles above ground...
I remember sprinklers that attached to your hose and did swirly turns, and playing in them on a hot afternoon was so much fun!

I also remember when high schools had smoking sections for kids to smoke...they stopped that before I started high school, and I never dreamed of smoking back then...but I remember how odd I thought that was...smoking in school...

[Janice]

Hey, all our utility poles here are still above ground. Crazy when we are in a hurricane zone.

[furluvcats]

I also remember when I didn't qualift to respond in a thread like this...it's a rude awakening to realize I have something to contribute to something only for the older folks....lol...guess I've earned it!

[Janice]

I remember the Flash Gordon decoder ring you could order...

[Miss Mary]

I also remember when I didn't qualift to respond in a thread like this...it's a rude awakening to realize I have something to contribute to something only for the older folks....lol...guess I've earned it!

Awww furry....welcome to the rocking chair and cane section of S2K! Don't be late for Bingo......

old fart Mary!

[Janice]

LOL, I didn't realize old farts were allowed on this site...

[Pburgh]

Well, I'm here and I'm as old as dirt!!!! I remember new construction sites in our neighborhood and using the dried plaster as chalk for HOPSCOTCH. I remember making ashtrays out of the concrete. I remember riding two buses to get to the swimming pool.

[Janice]

I remember going to old band concerts in the park with my parents on Wednesday night.

I remember separating the milk on my cousins farm and eating cereal and seeing the cream cling to it.

I even remember the old spidery wood outhouse they had before plumbing. I remember looking in the hole for mice before sitting down...

[Janice]

And, I remember the coal delivery man throwing the coal down to our basement thru a window and I remember us scooping coal into the furnace.

[Pburgh]

Man, I always looked in that hole for SNAKES!!!

[Janice]

Remember the old iron and telephone cords. They were made of some type of cloth material. No rubber or plastic back then. Just ugly black material.

And no heat upstairs. Black iron grates in the floors where the heat came up from to heat a room. In the winter, I would stand over the grate to keep warm.

Mom sprinkled the clean clothes then put them in the frig. Later we would take the damp clothes out and iron them.

I remember the darner. We darned stocks.

[breeze]

LOL, I remember the days before scented LYSOL in the bathroom....
...yeeeeeeeewwwww!!!!

[furluvcats]

You guys have good memories...lol

[Janice]

Yeah, probably in 10 years I will be telling you about the first wheelchair I got...