> > > >> >Bring back ANY memories ??? >> >> >>Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favourite 'fast food' when you >>were growing up?' >> >>'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him. >>'All the food was slow.' >> >>'C'mon, seriously.. Where did you eat?' >>'It was a place called 'home,'' I explained. >>'Mu! m cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together >>at the dining room table and if I didn't like what she put on my plate, I was >>allowed to sit there until I did like it.' >> >>By this time, the lad was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to >>suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had >>to have permission to leave the table. >> >>But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if >>I'd figured his system could have handled it :- >> >>Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans, set foot on a golf >>course, travelled out of the country or had a credit card. >> >>My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 >>pounds, and only had one speed (slow). >> >>We didn't have a television in our house until I was 10. >>It was, of course, black and white and the station went off the air at 10.00 >>pm, after playing the national anthem and epilogue; it came back on the air >>at about 6 am! and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show >>on, featuring local people ... >> >>I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone was on a party line. >>Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't >>know weren't already using the line. >> >>Pizzas were not delivered to our home ... But milk was. >> >>All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers - my >>brother delivered newspapers, seven days a week. He had to get up at 6 am >>every morning. >>Film stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the films. >>There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for >>everyone to enjoy viewing without profanity or violence or almost anything >>offensive. >> >>If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to >>share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't >>blame me if they bust a gut laughing. >> >>Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it? >> >>MEMORIES from a friend :- >>My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he >>brought me an old Woodroofes Lemonade bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper >>with a bunch of holes in it ... I knew immediately what it was, but my >>daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or >>something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board >>to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old. >> >>How many do you remember? >>Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car. >>Ignition switches on the dashboard. >>Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. >>Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner. >>Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators. >> >>Older Tha! n Dirt Quiz :- >>Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about. >>Ratings at the bottom >> >>1. Sweet cigarettes >>2. Coffee shops with juke boxes >>3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles >>4. Party lines on the telephone >>5. Newsreel's before the movie >>6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there >>until TV shows started again in the morning ... (There were only 2 >>channels [if you were fortunate]) >>7. Peashooters >>8. 33 rpm records >>9. 45 rpm records >>10. Hi-fi's >>11. Metal ice trays with levers >>12. Blue flashbulb >>13. Cork popguns >>14. Wash tub wringers >> >>If you remembered 0-3 = Youre still young >>If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older >>If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age >>If you remembered 11-14 = You're positively ancient! >> >> >>I must be 'positively ancient' but those memories are some of the best parts >>of my life. >> >>Don't forget to pass this along !!! >>Especially to all your really OLD friends ... I just did !!! >> >>(PS. I used a large type face so you could read it easily) >> > > > > > >
