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The Good Old Times
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Just thinking. My generation is the last that will remember when smoking on a commercial airline was actually legal. Who else would ever have an idea of what "smoking light" would mean?
Yeah, and back then, your girl weighed considerably less than the average heifer these days.
Wow, look at the suspension on that Challenger! It's at full burn with slicks, and not squatted down at all. My heart is thumping!
=Radium water filter, for some crazy reason about 100+ years ago they thought Radium Water was good for your health
And mercury! Remember Mercurochrome? OMG.
She was in Highlights magazine, wasn't she? Or was it just a comic strip in the paper? I can't remember. I seem to recall a little thin, two or three page newspaper for kids that I used to get, and she was in that. I can't remember what it was called, though...Who remembers Nancy
Ugh, yes! I was 16 before I got my own room. It was a tiny 8x8 cubby, but it was ALL MINE.
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The Nancy comic strip is still in newspapers. Same look but includes more of her aunt.
We don't have newspapers here anymore.
I will always remember those (in style) striped pull over shirts back then
Some of my fondest memories....
I remember doin this
No wonder I have Cancer
We never had those. We just got skeeter bites.
I still do, but now I save it in a canning jar kept in the fridge. Same thing, though, and yeah I was raised with that coffee tin full of bacon grease sitting beside the stove. How else would you grease a pan?
BOTH of them! I didn't care too much for the Fuller Brush man, but the Avon lady always gave me a bunch of those little lipstick samples. I had so much fun with those!
I still put grease in a can. Not so I can use it later, because it gets to where it stinks to high heaven, but because pouring it down the drain will clog the pipes.
Kids these days complain about worrying about passing final exams before they can graduate high school. The district at which I attended only made final exams a requirement for graduating starting the year after I graduated.
Even my brother and sister claim that's not fair. Some things are just too old school for some people... and I'm dang near old enough to be a boomer. Just half a year shy.
We still had the outdoor "smoking lounge". It meant having parental permission. So, between classes if I had time, and during luch break. Now, look what happens if a kid gets caught with any type of tobacco product at school.
Even my brother and sister claim that's not fair. Some things are just too old school for some people... and I'm dang near old enough to be a boomer. Just half a year shy.
We still had the outdoor "smoking lounge". It meant having parental permission. So, between classes if I had time, and during luch break. Now, look what happens if a kid gets caught with any type of tobacco product at school.
Here you go Lannie
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| The first performance car I ever drove was my mother’s daily driver — a 1970 Plymouth Barracuda 383 convertible, yellow with a black top and black interior.I was 16, and that car left an impression that has never really gone away. So reviewing the all-new 2026 Dodge Charger Sixpack Plus feels especially timely.It ... Read more |
The Plymouth Roadrunner was the best-selling car in the United States in 1969. It was also named Motor Trend's Car of the Year and Reader's Digest's Most Popular Car of the Year for that year.!
The Roadrunner was designed to be an affordable, basic muscle car for the average person. It was a popular choice for those who wanted to get into muscle cars without ells it like it is. spending a lot of money
Here you go Lannie
The first performance car I ever drove was my mother’s daily driver — a 1970 Plymouth Barracuda 383 convertible, yellow with a black top and black interior.I was 16, and that car left an impression that has never really gone away. So reviewing the all-new 2026 Dodge Charger Sixpack Plus feels especially timely.It ... Read more
Eh, that one doesn't do much for me. It doesn't look anything like a Charger, for one thing, or any kind of moPar (I understand it's not meant to, but then they shouldn't call it a Charger, eh?). And EIGHT speeds? Why? Because they could? I'm not a fan of "We did it because we could, not because we should." Not to mention, it's probably out of most people's budget and has more computers in it than NASA. I'll take a good old fashioned '68 Charger over this any day. Or a '69 GTX. Or a '74 Roadrunner with a "meep-meep" horn. Or the aforementioned '70 383 'Cuda.
The Plymouth Roadrunner was the best-selling car in the United States in 1969. It was also named Motor Trend's Car of the Year and Reader's Digest's Most Popular Car of the Year for that year.!
The Roadrunner was designed to be an affordable, basic muscle car for the average person. It was a popular choice for those who wanted to get into muscle cars without ells it like it is. spending a lot of money
Now, THAT'S more like it!
How many can remember McDonald's selling their burgers in clamshell styrofoam containers, before it was decided they were bad for the environment? It seems those burgers sure tasted a heck of a lot better than they do now.
nybody else remembering ironing “curly” hair to make it straight??
Yeah, and I almost melted my hair! Then my mom went and got a hair-straightening kit (like a permanent, but opposite) at the store, which worked a lot better. To this day, I still have the big plastic wide-tooth comb that came with it.
Strict Safety Regulations back in the day huh??? 
Baby Cages and the Pursuit of Fresh Air – New York City, 1920s–1930s.
In the cramped apartment buildings of 1920s and 1930s New York City, fresh air was considered almost as important as food. Doctors warned that stagnant indoor air could weaken babies, and many families lived several floors above the street with no yards or balconies.
So parents turned to a solution that feels shocking today.
They attached wire mesh “baby cages” to their windows.
These metal enclosures functioned like tiny balconies, bolted directly to the window frame. Parents would bundle their infants in blankets, place them inside the cage, and slide the window closed behind them. From the outside, it looked like a baby was hanging in midair, suspended above busy city streets.
At the time, this was not seen as dangerous or strange. It was modern.
Magazines and parenting guides praised baby cages as a scientific way to give children sunlight and fresh air, even in crowded high-rises. Advertisements promised healthier lungs, stronger immune systems, and better sleep. Some public health advocates even encouraged their use, believing outdoor air was essential for proper development.
Mothers would “air out” their babies daily, trusting the cage’s sturdy construction and the belief that fresh air could prevent illness. To them, it was no different than placing a crib near an open window, just taken one step further.
Today, the idea of suspending a baby outside a window feels unthinkable. But in an era before air conditioning, before modern safety standards, and before we understood risk the way we do now, baby cages were considered a practical solution to urban living.
They stand as a reminder that parenting has always been shaped by fear, hope, and the science of its time, even when those solutions later seem unbelievable.
Baby Cages and the Pursuit of Fresh Air – New York City, 1920s–1930s.
In the cramped apartment buildings of 1920s and 1930s New York City, fresh air was considered almost as important as food. Doctors warned that stagnant indoor air could weaken babies, and many families lived several floors above the street with no yards or balconies.
So parents turned to a solution that feels shocking today.
They attached wire mesh “baby cages” to their windows.
These metal enclosures functioned like tiny balconies, bolted directly to the window frame. Parents would bundle their infants in blankets, place them inside the cage, and slide the window closed behind them. From the outside, it looked like a baby was hanging in midair, suspended above busy city streets.
At the time, this was not seen as dangerous or strange. It was modern.
Magazines and parenting guides praised baby cages as a scientific way to give children sunlight and fresh air, even in crowded high-rises. Advertisements promised healthier lungs, stronger immune systems, and better sleep. Some public health advocates even encouraged their use, believing outdoor air was essential for proper development.
Mothers would “air out” their babies daily, trusting the cage’s sturdy construction and the belief that fresh air could prevent illness. To them, it was no different than placing a crib near an open window, just taken one step further.
Today, the idea of suspending a baby outside a window feels unthinkable. But in an era before air conditioning, before modern safety standards, and before we understood risk the way we do now, baby cages were considered a practical solution to urban living.
They stand as a reminder that parenting has always been shaped by fear, hope, and the science of its time, even when those solutions later seem unbelievable.