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And they were hard wired without an RJ-11 jack.
And shag carpet! There was something so "homey" about shag carpeting.
I get 2 points
number 2 and 14
I got zero. Did every one of 'em. Does that mean I am (or was) a Happy Hippie? LOL! And what about playing music on a CD? That's how I still play music. How does everyone ELSE do it? Oh, on their "phones," right? I don't have one of those, so I'm totally unfamiliar with alternative methods of music.
I don't believe I've ever seen those, although I would have LOVED them! Like the original peanut butter cup?
Our rooms were a MESS! Mom would hound us, "CLEAN YOUR ROOMS!" every Saturday, and we'd move a couple of things around, but never actually did anything constructive. Then one day she hit upon a perfect solution. She went into our rooms with big lawn and leaf bags, and anything that was on the floor or someplace it didn't belong went into the lawn and leaf bag. We had ONE hour to put everything that was in the bag where it belonged, or it would go in the garbage. Of course, we didn't believe her, so SHE THREW ALL OUR STUFF AWAY! For real! Toys, clothes, treasures, EVERYTHING. But it only took that one time. After that, we made SURE our rooms were clean, all the time, every day. My mother was a genius.
My mom might have been a genius when it came to getting us to clean our rooms, but she was a frugal woman, so the only mustard I had ever known as a kid was French's plain yellow. However, I DO remember when French's came in a glass jar.
Oh, I missed the last few... I remember JuJuBe's but I didn't care for them. I sometimes had them at the movies, if we went to a walk-in.
Never heard of a Rally bar, though.
And Bell Telephone? They were going to rule the world! What happened, anyway? LOL! I loved going to the phone store and picking out a new phone whenever I moved to a new apartment.
Never heard of a Rally bar, though.
And Bell Telephone? They were going to rule the world! What happened, anyway? LOL! I loved going to the phone store and picking out a new phone whenever I moved to a new apartment.
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Ma Bell (AT&T) was declared to be a monopoly and broken up into the baby Bells. There were 8 of them including ATT long distance. Now they've been merged down to 3: Quest, AT&T, and Verizon.
Western Electric, owned by AT&T, used to have the monopoly in supplying the central office equipment as well as the home phones to Ma Bell. The ruling opened that up so other manufacturers could provide phones and central office equipment. I used to work for several of the central office equipment suppliers.
These were from the id 50's and never went over well, their time was short lived.
Such a shame we live in the greed driven world we live in
Who remembers all the colored lighting conected to your music
Wow, I never had one of those! Cool!
My boyfriend in high school was one of those nerds that built his own stereos and TVs (I am still in awe of his talents!), so I guess something like the above flashy contraption would have been "beneath" him, and by association, me, too. I remember saving up my money so I could buy an Akai stereo. I still have that stereo, and if I got radio signals out here and had some decent speakers, it still works. I paid $35 for that Akai back in the mid-70s sometime, I forget when exactly. That was a TON of money back then, but it was NICE, so it was worth every cent. I loved the feel of the knob turn, how smooth and perfect it was. You just don't find that kind of precision these days.
These used to flash to the beat
I wish they woulda never quit givin out stamps, for a kid that was a big deal to see what you could get
I LOVED S&H Green Stamps! I can still remember the taste of the glue as I was pasting them in the books. Then Mom would bring out the rewards catalogue (or whatever it was called) and we'd see what we could get for however many books of stamps we had. Seemed like every store we went to gave out S&H Green Stamps back then. I don't know why, but it was so much fun. Maybe because it was like getting "free stuff."
I loved those dresses! They were so summery, and comfortable, too.
I just finished making a batch of homemade peppermint ice cream with milk and cream from my cow. Everything tastes better when it's made the old fashioned way, by hand. I made a batch of chocolate fudge sauce to go on top, too. Guess what's for dinner tonight? It's going to top out at 97 today, says the weather guesser.
I just finished making a batch of homemade peppermint ice cream with milk and cream from my cow. Everything tastes better when it's made the old fashioned way, by hand. I made a batch of chocolate fudge sauce to go on top, too. Guess what's for dinner tonight? It's going to top out at 97 today, says the weather guesser.
your girl friends eh jimmi
Oh and what time am I supposed to be there
I loved those dresses! They were so summery, and comfortable, too.
I just finished making a batch of homemade peppermint ice cream with milk and cream from my cow. Everything tastes better when it's made the old fashioned way, by hand. I made a batch of chocolate fudge sauce to go on top, too. Guess what's for dinner tonight? It's going to top out at 97 today, says the weather guesser.sed
Ooops, you missed it! We had "dinner" early.
And oh, boy, was it ever GOOD! What's scary to me is that people who grew up with VHS tapes in their childhood are "old" now. What does that make ME? They hadn't even invented 8-tracks yet when I was a kid. I was all "growed up and married" by the time videotapes came out. My first Beta video player cost $416.00! And I was happy to pay that, because I could watch movies at home instead of going out to a theater.
Food for thought:
Who remembers gettin these
I used to make those in the 8th grade and sell them to the kids for 5 cents each. I think I broke even, considering the cost of the cinnamon oil, but it was a fun venture.
And of course, I got all mine for free! LOL!We had those in one of the houses my dad built! My mom LOVED them because she could have music throughout the house, AND because it also functioned as an intercom, she could yell at us from the kitchen when we were in our rooms, LOL! The unit was in the hallway outside the bedrooms, not actually IN our rooms, but she had good mom-lungs and we could hear her just fine. Or if we were outside in the yard (there were intercoms on the front and the back door, too). My mom was wired to the gills, ROFL! Oh, it was SO spacey and futuristic back then!
What a great memory, I had forgotten all about them.
Speaking of spacey and futuristic, we also had toilets with... PUSH BUTTON FLUSHERS! No lever handle, they had push buttons. Oh, it was sooo cooool! LOL! And my dad built an aquarium up into the wall at the foot of the tub in the main bathroom. It was pretty cool, too, until a fish jumped in the bathtub with my mom.
remember when these were popular
My dad was in Korea when I was born, and didn't get to come home until I was 13 months old. He brought me a pair of sandals similar to those in the picture, but with wooden soles and of course, eeny-weeny for a baby. I never wore them, to my knowledge (of course I couldn't walk yet), and I never saw any pictures of me with them on, either. I think they were just meant as keepsakes, souvenirs from Korea. I lost track of them somewhere along the line, and never knew whatever happened to them.
My dad also had a photo album of pictures he'd taken while overseas. It had heavy black construction paper pages, and his captions were written in opaque white ink (I have no idea what the heck that was, something people used to write in black paper photo albums, I guess). But the best part was the SMELL of that book. It had a warm spicy kind of smell... I don't know what it was, but I loved paging through that book, looking at the pictures and smelling that wonderful smell. LOL! I remember one picture was captioned "streetwalker" and one was "the honey pot." I figured everyone must be a streetwalker because they walked on the street (LOL!) and nobody could convince me that the "honey" pot was the midden. I mean, why would you call something "honey" if it was just a bunch of poop and garbage, right? I was so naive!
I sure miss my dad. He had some good stories, and songs. He was quite a singer and played anything with strings (he had a ukelele, guitar, steel guitar, and banjo).
Did you ever get caught?
Ever know anyone who got caught?
We "sorta" snuck in every weekend. We lived a few blocks from it, and it was situated right at the base of a butte. So we all went up and sat at the base of the butte, one of the guys hopped the fence and turned on a speaker in the back row, and we watched the movies. I saw Fritz the Cat that way. That's how old I am. Lots of other movies, too, but that was my first X-rated movie, LOL!
A few years later, same drive-in, I was at another X-rated movie with my boyfriend (in a car this time, LOL!) and as we were walking back from the concession stand, who should jump out of a random car and accost me but my MOTHER! She said, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" and I shot right back, "What are YOU doing here? and WHO IS THAT?" Hmmm... she had a new boyfriend she hadn't bothered to mention to us kids. Yeah, the pot and the kettle... she was really mad that night but later she decided it was pretty funny and we had a good laugh about it.
Drive-ins were SO much fun, even if the sound was really shitty!
That just reminded me of something that happened long long ago. I was 9 years old, and my adoptive parents biological daughter was 6. She wanted to go see Grandma, who lived 4 or5 blocks away. We had been there enough times that I remembered the way, so we walked there, and knocked on the door. She had a boyfriend over, apparently for a good time, and was very upset about our arrival. She hated me ever since.
In some cases, it might have been set for the comfort level of whomever was paying the bills. For others, it was about tightwad penny pinchers that didn't care if you had to wear 6 sets of clothing at once indoors in the winter.