The Good Old Times

[Jimi]

With very few exceptions, this thread contains just about everything I remember from my childhood. I love tripping down Memory Lane and seeing and remembering all these things again.

That's just what this thread is for, to bring a few moments of happiness remembering life. I am so glad everyone likes it

 

[Jimi]

 

[Jimi]

 

[walton]

if you dont bother wearing any, you will save money. oh and maybe make some new friends

 

[Lannie]

I remember how fun it was whenever I moved to a new apartment or rental house, to go to the GE Phone Store and pick out a new phone. We didn't have to buy them, they just let you use them, and I guess the cost of rental was included in your monthly bill. Of course, you had to take your old phone back to trade. But all the different styles and colors! It was so much fun picking out a new phone! (It has never taken all that much to amuse me, I guess.)

 

[Lannie]

And speaking of phones, is anyone else really irritated at the high pitched electronic chirping that's considered "ringing" on phones these days? Wait, maybe not, because probably everyone has a cell phone now. Well, we don't. No cell service out here in the boonies. I miss the RING of the old phone. You could hear it wherever you were in the house, or even if you were outside! And people who are hard of hearing (like Rich) can't even hear these new phones ringing if the TV is on.

We still actually have an old desk style phone that was in the shop here when we bought this place. But alas, the phone company finally came out a couple years ago and changed the lines to fiber optics and (I guess?) that makes that old phone not work anymore, so now it's just a collector's item. Or a paperweight. Man those old desk phones carried some weight, didn't they?

 

[snake94115]

And people who are hard of hearing (like Rich) can't even hear these new phones ringing if the TV is on.

Forget the Tv it's the none stop cicada like drone of tinnitus that make my current cell all but useless.

 

[Jimi]

 

[Lannie]

Cigarette lighter, pull tab, 8-track tape, drive-in speaker, Instamatic 126 film cartridge, car window roller-upper, flash cubes for that Instamatic, cloth measuring tapes, credit card imprinter, View Master cartridges, lighted magnifying makeup mirror, TV remote, nut cracker and picks, electric frypan... and I don't recognize that last one.

Seriously, people don't use electric fry pans or nut crackers anymore? How do they eat walnuts? Buy them already shelled in a bag, right? Those are the people that also buy their cheese already grated in a bag, their potatoes already peeled and diced in a bag, their salad already cut up and mixed in a bag... I can't help but feel sorry for those people.

 

[Lannie]

On the same note as the nutcracker, you should have seen me trying to open a coconut with a hammer when I was 11 years old. I did it, but by the time I hit it hard enough to crack it, it shattered all over the back deck (mom wouldn't let me do this in the kitchen, LOL!). But I picked up all those pieces of coconut shell and chewed the meat off every one of 'em. Man, that was a good coconut. Better because I had to work for it!

 

[Jimi]

and I don't recognize that last one.

They really don't give a good enough view to recognize it IMO

 

[Lannie]

What is it? Do you know?

 

[SirKadly]

Chalk holder, the kind that you put a piece of chalk in each of the holders and use it to draw straight lines on the chalkboard. Here is a better pic, but that's what it is.

 

[gopher_byrd]

Chalk holder, the kind that you put a piece of chalk in each of the holders and use it to draw straight lines on the chalkboard. Here is a better pic, but that's what it is.

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Pretty sure that example would be used in a music class as each of the staffs had 5 lines.

 

[Jimi]

What is it? Do you know?

No I can't see enough of it to tell