Remember when you had to get up and turn the channel on the tv?
Remember when microwaves first came out? They were expensive and they were called Radar Ranges.
Remember a big boxy telephone that had a long cord and a dial?
Remember the first mobile phones? They were the size of a shoe box.
What "remember whens" can you come up with?
鈽?Gladys, I am particularly anxious to see your answers. EDIT This is so amazing! I am having such a good time remembering some of things ( a few are before my time, like the ice box)
Keep them coming! i remember when outdoor phone boxes had phone books in them!!! no one stole them or set fire to them
also at primary school-youd all take an item of food in-cake etc for the xmas party-now its just send in a fiver
oh and i remember when kids who were cheeky to teachers were few and far between TV sets with the 'disappearing' spot in the centre (we used to listen to a radio the size of a small car)
automatic gearboxes in cars (our cars had three speed gears on the steering column - known as 'three on the tree')
Girls wearing 'pants' to school (long pants, even in daylight in front of people)
Coffee as a powder (Instant) (Coffee chicory essence was all the vogue)
Tea Bags (Tea required a warm metal teapot, one teaspoon of tea leaves per person and one for the pot) and it had to stand for three minutes before drinking
Nappies (Diapers if you're American) were made from flannelet - and we used colour coded safety pins to make sure they were clean
Dubbin was used for cleaning and waterproofing boots/shoes
you could leave the keys in the car and the doors of your house unlocked all the time .. we never had keys to the house..
drugs were something the Dr gave out, if you were 'really' ill otherwise a glass of cold water, a teaspoon of castor oil with orange juice or a good walk was the measure for any aches and pains
Swearing was not allowed nor was it 'cool'
Kissing a girl was a cause for concern in case she got pregnant
as was riding her bike while the saddle was warm .. you could catch a 'girls disease'
boys didn't hit girls, girls would cry
Sitting in the back row of the movies entailed being watched by the usher with a torch Victoria does not have any secrets any more
Had a 17 year old the other day who did not know what an 8 track tape was
I remember when I WAS the remote control for my dad
You did not used to have to step on the brake to start a car
Cigarettes were 50 cents a pack
The worst thing you could do in school was run in the hall or chew gum in class
They pumped your gas, checked your oil, tires and washed your windsheild for 29 cents a gallon
No helmets, then helmets then no helmets for motorcycles
No helmets knee pads or elbow pads for bikes
Banana seats on bikes
sidewalk skates that you had to have a key to fasten onto your shoes
Rat tail combs
When pic nic shoe string potatoes were the BOMB They are nasty now
and on and on and on I remember when the "facilities" were out back, and boy was it cold in the winter!
Wringer washer, in the wash shed off the kitchen.
First telephone, on the wall. Wooden, and you called central to get your party. And it was a party line. Once, lightning struck the windmill that pumped our water, came in thru the phone, and it exploded right off the wall.
Big wood range in the kitchen, and taking a bath in a round tub in front if the open oven door, with water heated oon the stove. Sure was glad when we got an indoor bathroom and a gas range. I was in the 5th grade. 1951.
First TV, 5th grade also. Old console radio with short wave.
Cooking in the summer in the "summer kitchen" on a kerosene stove. Canning all the fruit and veggies, until we got a freezer.
Gas was like .15 a gallon. That is sure a change!
Having babies in the 60's, nobody breast fed. Formula was the thing all the doctors recommended.
Computers took up a whole building. Nobody had a pc.
Secretaries took shorthand. and typed on manual typewriters.
There were record players, and vinyl.
Adding machines. Manual cash registers, and you had to count change back. (very few people even know how, now).
Slide rules are obsolete.
Kids had scarlet fever, and scarletina, and mumps and measles. Vaccines, now.
Used to be when you looked under the hood of a car, you could see the motor! And a backyard mechanic could tear one down and rebuild it in a day or two!
Drive-in movies, soda fountains with cherry and lime phosphates. Real juke boxes. Saddle shoes, penny loafers. "Can-can' slips so your skirt was waaay out to here. Ducktail haircuts for the delinquent boys, and a few "wild" girls. Crew cuts for the jocks.Elvis was the bad boy, Pat Boone was the clean cut good guy. All the heros smoked, James Dean, John Wayne.
Marijuana was something musicians smoked in New York nobody had ever had any. Or any other drugs.
I could go on all night, I have just begun, but it's getting late and I have to go to bed. Happpy memories, everyone! Remember when the TV you got was the only one in the neighborhood and the neighbors all came to see it... and your cousins were all fascinated because they had never even heard of TV.... I'll bet you don't. The year was 1950 and I was only 4 years old.
Thanks for the memory.
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. When I was young there was no TV and I used to listen to workers playtime on the radio and Dick Barton Special Agent, Grass was something we mowed on Sunday morning, Pot as a cooking vessel, weed was something we had to pull out of the garden. Coke as a nice drink Oh they were lovely days then.Oh and I nearly forgot the first "mobile" phone. It was the size of 2 house bricks and about the same weight with an old fashioned hand set. I said to the owner " That will never catch on". Telephone party lines. The telephone with the beautiful ringing sound. Later, the princess phone and the wall set chimes with the kitchen phone. The phone company owned the phones but later on we could buy them. The Helms Bakery truck going through the neighborhood with all the goodies to buy. The Jewel Tea man. The Fuller Brush man. We seemed to have a lot of men selling things. Those were the days! Water used to come out of a pump outside, then we get one in the kitchen. I remember our first real toilet inside. And bathtub instead of a washtub. We had party line telephone until I was married awhile. And color television was a real treat when it replaced the old black and white. I remember:
bathing in a tin bath in front of the fire
when our first TV set came, it had one station and the screen was really small.
when you could play in the road, because there were hardly any cars.
when it was a scandal for an unmarried woman to be pregnant.
when half penny could buy you loads of sweets
when irons were placed on the range to get hot, ready for ironing.
when there were sculleries (ours was always cold)
when Christmas was something special
when scrumping was fun
when coffee was a luxury
when baking was an every day thing
when pinafores were worn by eveyone
when putting furniture on the back of an open truck to move house, wasn't frowned upon
when neighbours were there if you needed help
Now I'm going to sit back and remember the good ole days.... I remember when Sundays were a day of rest,nothing was open and if you had run out of milk,you would have to have black coffee till monday.
I remember when airplanes had propelers and flying was just another priviledge for the very rich
I remember in grandmothers house,her alternative to a fridge was a box with a thin mesh around it.(it kept feta cheese white for more days than todays fridges....)
remember the ''ice man'' delivering ice for the ''modern''ones who had fridges
Remember spending the whole day away from home ,during the summer hols,and our moms would'nt be worried about us
remember watching on black and white telly the moon landing
thats all for now... Remember when you all sat around the kitchen table and ate the food your mother COOKED HERSELF not sitting around the tv eating something from a bag wrapped in paper with golden arches on it.
Remember when we all sat around a radio listening to plays and scaring ourselves silly over the murder mysteries. Now we sit around the tv and watch them dismember people blood,guts and all. some seniors havent changed a thing So many. I could have lived an easier and comfortable life. Everything now is done by a push of a button. I remember doing the laundry by hand (no washing machine at that time) and had to squeeze the water out from wet clothes (no spin dryer) before hanging them out to dry in the back yard. Then, there were the beepers, now we have cellphones. We also had pocket calculators however, we do calculations by using our cellphones now instead of these gadgets. Then, we didn't have digital cameras or digital clocks or watches. No video cameras to record memorable events or occasions in an instant. All we had were cameras that needed flashbulbs to take clear pictures specially when there wasn't enough light. We had hair curlers and hair nets. We used tea towels to wipe dry our dishes or utensils, now we have dish dryers. Oh, lots of changes in my life. And I'm pretty certain there are more to come. I'm afraid to many to count... it's been an amazing ride! I can't help but wonder what the next century will be like... what more can they come up with!
So many good answers here, all have covered just about everything... awaiting Gladys too... lol milk was delivered daily to a little insulated tin box on door step. The vegatable and fruit truck would stop by every other day. Meat was bought at the butcher shop, not in a shrink wrap package.We could walk to elementary school. I didn't know what a school bus was until 1962. In 1959 we had our first car with A/C in it .No A/C in house.1960 our first Hi-Fi with 2 speakers. L.P. records to replace 78's records which was repaced by 4 track and 8 track tapes which was replaced by cassettes and than CD's.Commercial jet airliners replaced prop. airliners. Divorces were "hush-hush".Wealthy men would have their wives commited to an asylum instead of divorce. We had "five and dime" stores instead of a dollar store.I saw my first shopping plaza (101 stores in one location) in 1960,today it's an enclosed and air-conditioned mall with over 200 stores.Light bulbs only lasted about 6 months til they burned out.Today a bulb lasts me about 2 years or more. I remember all the empty green space. There were no houses spreading up the mountains with each one trying to be bigger and higher than the other. No shopping malls and strip malls. I could ride my bike into town with my sister, spend all day there, and our mom didn't worry. I remember everything being so much bigger, but then I was so much smaller and saw things from a totally different view. Remember gathering around the radio, before TV was a household word.
The boxy thing on the wall that you spoke into while holding a thingy next to your ear (we were "1 long, and 2 shorts")
First mobiles I remember were carried on the back of the "radioman".
Men were men, and women weren't ?
Majority of childrens parents were married -- to each other
A daughters date was aware that paw had a shotgun, a shovel, and 40 acres of good farmland
Cuban missle crisis
38th parrelel Korean issue
JFK assassination
Woodstock
The rise -- and fall of the Berlin wall (Berlin airlift)
Stockholm/Andria Dora collision
Loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald
1St Moon landing
1st man in space/sputnik
James Jones catastrophy
Viet Nam retreat (by civil order)
Valdez oil spill
Isreali olympic atheletes shot down
Various IRA / Brit confrontations
--and bunches more......... Remember when gas was 25 a gallon?Remember party lines at Grandmaws house?Remember when you still believed in Santa???/Good memories to all.Happy Holidays. The beginning of WWII, small flags in the windows with stars of how young men from that house hold were serving, our granny had three stars on her flag. The list could go on and on. I had two brothers in the Navy during the war. 1957 was a big change it's when I was married and still married to the same woman. I remember all the new technology from the nineteen forty's on and they are amazing.
Thanks for asking. I'm not a senior yet, but I vaguely remember gas at 25 cent per gallon! TV dinners were expensive and tasted about as good as the package.
Games - Mystery Date was my favorite - you didn't want the "bum." Saturday morning cartoons were great and they were an event. We would look forward to the new line up each year.
We also had TV with only a few channels that we got with an antenna on the roof. There started to be a couple of independents stations that cropped up in the early 1970s.
Oh, ya, no seat belts in cars!
The cool things were that we never had to lock our doors, kids walked to school without parents, kids could play in the streets without fear & neighbors looked out for each other (you really knew your neighbors). There was personal responsibility vs. looking for a handout! Ok, so I'm 35 and don't consider myself a Senior, but my Grandmother is 92 - a Senior by almost everyones book. She and I had a conversation a year or so ago about this very thing.
I said, "Granny, you've seen a lot of changes in your life, haven't you?" She said, "Yes, I guess I have." "What changes have you seen?" "I remember when we got our first radio, and how grand it seemed, to be able to turn on a box and hear people from hundreds of miles away. I remember going to Mrs. _____'s house and seeing her telephone. I remember when we first got indoor plumbing, and when we took out our gas lamps and went ELECTRIC. It was like we were living high on the hog when we got electricity." My Mother who is 65 remembers getting their first electric washing machine, although it was decades later before they got their first electric dryer. She remembers getting their first phone, and how they all jumped when it finally rang one day. My mom also remembers when they would sit and watch the pattern waiting for Howdy Doody to come on, then watch it again after it was over and before the next program came on.
Personally I can remember sitting with some friends in a DJ's booth while he played the first CD that was ever broadcast on the college radio station. Everyone had to be perfectly still and not walk around or even come near the equipment in fear that any jaring of the CD player might cause the CD to skip, thus ruining the CD and causing the dreaded "dead air" to be broadcast. I remember my DJ friend that invited me saying that there was a HUGE thing amongst all the senior DJ's as to who would get the honor of playing the station's first CD and which song it would be and who would be allowed in the booth, etc. My friend who was a sophomore at the time was chosen and could invite five people. Even though it was in 1991, it was a big deal for the little station.
EDIT: Yeah, I remember cars with no seat belts, and gas at $0.76/gal and complaining when it went up to $0.82. And stamps were $0.15 and thinking the world would end when they went up to $0.17 :) And our first phone, in the late 70's early 80's was a party line, but only for about a year. I remember my great-aunt going to Dallas and saying she had been to this thing called a strip mall. We all thought she had gone off the deep end and went to a strip club. REMEMBER WHEN THE GOVT. WAS NOT CORRUPT, LIKE IT IS NOW, REMEMBER WHEN WE TOOK CARE OF OUR OWN PEOPLE , THEY CAME FIRST???? AND HOW WE DRESSED LIKE WOMEN, NOT HOOKERS, SAME WITH THE YOUNGSTERS, AND NO BLING,BLING, MAKING WOMEN SO SELF IMPORTANT, AND THOSE DAM CELL PHONES!!!!!!!, i REMEMBER i HAD A TRANSISTER RADIO, i LOVED THAT LITTLE RADIO, TOOK IT WITH ME ALOT, BUT NEVER IN A PUBLIC PLACE OR SCHOOL, WE WERE NOT ALLOWED!!!!! AND WE ONLY HAD MABY 3 PAIRS OF SHOES, ONE OR TWO PURSES, NO ONE COVETED, LIKE THEY DO NOW, WE HAD PLAIN CLOTHES, AND ONLY THE WILD GIRL'S IN HIGH SCHOOL, WORE LOTS OF MAKEUP AND TIGHT CLOTHES. EVERYTHING WAS ABOUT FAMILY, WE NEVER SAW AND WITCHCRAFT, OR DEVIL WORSHIP MOVIES, WE HAD TO ABIDE BY THE LEGION OF DECENCY. TOO BAD THOSE DAYS ARE GONE, AND NO ONE HARDLY EVER GOT A NEW CAR, OR A FACE LIFT, OR A BOOB JOB WHEN WE GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL, i HEARD BOB DYLANS SONG A WHILE BACK, THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN, IT'S THE PEOPLE WHO CHANGED, NOT THE TIMES!!!!!!!! Remember all the thing you have memtioned. Seems like I can't go anywhere without my cell phone hung on my belt now.
The other changes in my life are medical reasons. oh how fun. lets see straws made of plastic in stead of paper. the pop-up toaster,instead of buttered an put in oven.turn signals on a car,bread with out holes so jelly couldn't drip through,electric coffee pot,ice cubes bobby-pins with rubber tips. more than five choices of cereal. oleo came with Little pat of yellow coloring you mixed in so it looked like butter. making our own cakes and most foods from scratch when kotex came instead of using rags/staying home. jet planes i flew from Hawaii to San Fransisco in a four propeller airplane.oh this could go on for ever,come on out there seniors jump in your turn.10cent pk smokes on military base.25 cents off,25 cents for movie 5 cents for popcorn 2or3 cents for candy. 10 cent comic books.25$ to100$ for used car 10$ to 50$ for rent. I remember seeing one of the last hand crank wall phones
on a neighbors kitchen wall, when I was about 5. I was fascin-
ated by it. I remember the next thing was an old car with a
'rumble seat' in the trunk. And you'd pull it out when you had
an extra passenger. My aunt and uncle had that car. And I
was again, about 4 or 5. I remember the manual lawn mower
my dad used to mow the lawn with. And a neighbor across
the street bought a new gas powered mower and her son
tried using it,and cut off a toe while he was pushing it. No one
on that street bought one, after that display.
I remember seeing the old propeller air planes that landed
at the old airport. We would go to a place off the road near
there, and there was a truck selling refreshments, and we'd
get an ice cream cone and watch the planes take off and
land. That was cheap entertainment that many families
enjoyed.
I remember our old living room radio. And how I'd sit on
Saturday mornings, listening to it before and after breakfast to the childrens programs until 11:00. I remember when we
got our first tv and it was in a wooden cabinet with doors that
closed over the entire cabinet. It was by Packard Bell. And
we had 'rabbit ears' an antennae, on the top. I remember
a great aunts' tv when she first bought a tv, and she had a
green screen on her set. It was supposed to be easier on
your eyes and eliminate a glare. I remember a pressing
machine my mother bought, called a "mangle" and it steam
pressed sheets and other things large. So you didn't have to
iron large things with an electric hand iron. It was something
my mother warned me to stay away from when she was using
it, for fear I could get burned from the steam heat.
I remember when the milk man delivered dairy products to
our door, and put the glass bottles into a wooden box with a
lid on top. We would put the empties inside and they would be
replaced with fresh full bottles in the morning when we got up.
Sometimes, mother would order some cottage cheese or
even some ice cream for a treat.
I remember penny candy. I could go into a neighborhood
little grocery store, where a couple would have basic foods
for sale that most people would run out of during the week.
And there were jars of penny candy or a glass case with rows
of different candy to buy. There were little horehound drops,
and butterscotch balls, and peppermints, and necco's, and
wax bottles of flavored sugar water in different colors of red
and green and grape. There were licorice ropes of red and
black, and licorice hard candy too. Chocolate covered
caramels, and plain carmels too. There were striped coconut
candies, with pink and chocolate and white strips, there were
raspberry candies that melted in your mouth to a jelly in the
center. There were hard cherry candy balls that were crunchy
on the outside. And there were Charm suckers for only 5c.
I would suck on one of those for quite awhile before it was
gone. When I'd go to the show with my parents occasionally,
I'd suck a cherry Charm sucker and it would last through
two features.
I remember when it cost 25c for me at the theatre when I
went to the matinee on Saturdays at 11:00. And my parents
would pick me up by 2:00, or 3:00, when I was about 11.
I remember the dolls my dad would buy when he got gas
for a dollar each to enable me to have a doll collection with
costumes from around the world. I didn't have very many tho.
I remember the cartoons that played at the matinees. There
were Heckle and Jeckle the crows. And Popeye the sailor and Bluto and Olive Oyl and Sweetpea. And Slyvester the
Cat and Tweety Pie. And Baby Huey, and Little Lulu, and
Henry (the bald headed boy). Gosh there were more that I
can't remember now.
I remember when mothers wore house dresses, because
pants weren't lady like. And so they wore snap or button
up dresses and sturdy shoes for being on their feet all day.
I remember when some women wore light weight hair nets
to keep their curls in place all week. Or maybe just around a
bun in the back. I remember when permanets were given
with an electric curling machine full of metal rods that your
hair was rolled onto. And they fried you hair til it curled or
frizzed. And this was in a beauty shop.
I remember when Camp Fire Girl mints were actually the
size of a silver dollar (because I sold them). And I remember
the electric trolleys that ran before the electric busses came
into play. Then gasoline busses ran the same routes after
the tracks had been covered over and the overhead cable
removed.
I remember when the little neighborhood candy stores
where we'd run to get bread for our mothers, folded up and
the large grocery stores were a few blocks down and filled
with lots more to buy. I remember that was when the
neighborhood butcher shop closed with their sawdust floor.
And the smell of smoked meat, and balogna that filled the air.
I remember when our first couple of tv stations left the
air and we'd have a tv pattern filling our screens. And we
knew tv was off for the day and would be back on the next
morning about 9:00 AM.
I remember when families all ate together when fathers
came home. And how a bottle of pop was a rare thing to
have or candy either. How mothers stayed at home and
minded their children, cleaned their floors with **** and
Span. How they did the wash with wringer machines and
blueing for the rinse water to whiten their clothes before
hanging them out on the line, or in their basements on
rainy days. I remember how my mother had a day of the
week for every chore. And when I became a housewife, I
adopted that same schedule in order to be on top of
everything, like a good little wife should be. Monday was
wash day, and Tuesday was for ironing and that's all I can
remember now. I remember my mom had a day for cleaning
out the fridg and washing the walls and racks inside and
toss anything old out before she did the cleaning. She'd
lay newspapers on the bottom where she stored the fruits
and vegitables to absorb anything that was damp or dripped.
We never saw an ice man, as we never had an ice box.
But a neighbor down the street did. And there was a special
box inside the back door, that the ice man put the block of
ice he was delivering.And it was chipped and chisled away
before the ice man came again the next week.
I remember how telephone service was. With a two party
or three party line. And how some people would like to listen
in on any call, even if they didn't have that amount of rings
to answer for.
I remember when doctors still made house calls. And you
had to be really sick before he came. And he'd come after
the close of his regular business day in his office. And he'd
examine you and tell mother what she needed to do with the
pills he happened to have in his bag. Or to take his perscription to the local drug store to have it filled. So when you were sick you stayed in bed in your pj's. And no one drug you downtown on the bus to see your doctor. And it seemed
like everyone rode the bus downtown back in the 40's and
50's. It was the cheapest way to travel and be on time. Doc-
tors and dentists were always downtown. But eventually,
they migrated into the various communities where people
lived and played. And other businesses followed suit.
I remember a large amusement park in the city where I
grew up. My parents had enjoyed going there when they
were young. And they'ed dance at the pavillion to the big
band sounds. There was a huge roller coaster called the
Big Dipper, which I never was allowed to ride on. And
there was the "Whip", and the Octopus, and the Fun House
with the mirrors that showed how silly they could make you
look. And the Penny Arcade that had all of the games where you could win prizes. And the cotton candy. Oh,now that was
something to watch. The girl would spin the paper cone
into the wind blowing machine after she'd dropped some
colored sugar and she would spin the cone around to
catch all of the wisps of candy floss. She had to be careful
or she'd get some in her hair LOL. And there were Snow
Cones and caramel candy and popcorn, fresh from the
air popper.
We had another amusement park on the other side of
town. But we never went to that one, til I went there to
roller skate as a pre teen a few times. They always shot off
fireworks at both amusement parks on the 4th of July over
the rivers they were near. They were always a good place to
spend the day with a picnic by the river and rides and the
fireworks at night.
Well I could be at this even longer. But I have to stop and
go to bed now. It was fun reminiscing about all these things.
And I'm sure some of you will remember a few, if you're
old enough LOL. well i dont know. i have read the others and i didnt find Gracie, whoever she is, but we must be somewhere near the same age. But i will try to remember some things. I remember when we went to school baarefoot in the spring, and we had to walk over a mile to one school. And i was about 7 or 8 at the time. The wall telephone was one that you had to turn a crank to get the other person. Our number[ as such] was a long , a short, and a long. You would crank the handle about 4 or 5 times for a long, and ctrank it a couple times for a short. etc. Usually, when they heard the phone ring[ Everybody heard it] other people would pick it up too. They would all talk together. Us kids would take an old phone apart and use the generator and crank to electrocute cockroaches,. In THEIR house. NOT OURS. We had a 6 volt radio and my dad would take the battery out of the truck and bring it in the house and we would listen to the radio for awhile. Not for long, cuz the battery would run down and we didnt have electricity or battery chargers out in the country. The toilet was out back, no more needs saying. Seatrs catalog , speigels catalog and montgomery ward catalogsw were there. AND not for reading. Our sAT nite bATH WAS IN A TUB BEHIND THE kitchen stove> For us kids anYWAy. DonT KNOw what the adults did, We maSE TOaST on top of the kitchen stove. JusT laid it on the top. Ma made bread too, it was made and out in a big washtub[ not the same one for baths] and it would rise to the top. Us kids got to help knead it. We even ate the dough whule kneading it. We had a horse and buggy, and a sleigh for winter. Sure missed those sleigh rides. Winters were winters back then. Other people have mentioned most of the other stuff. Oh, in the 30s my dad made home brew. It was prohibition tine. Our biggest customers were the state police. They rode motorcycles and wore the same type of pants that a canadian mounty wears. Or wore. ?? Probably more, but my memory is not that good anymore. My check spelling dont work, so you are on your own. AS Bob Hope useD TO SAY> THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES [ in the first line, i meant Gladys, not Gracie.] I remember when:
...Public restrooms had toilet paper
...The beaches had bar-b-q grills and no one took them
...roller skates were made of metal and the tires didn't have rubber either.
(**) I am a nurse and so many changes have happened in this field that I am amazed. I remember when we could not comb someones hair if they were on oxygen because it could cause a fire. You weren't allowed to give someone ice water if they had a heart attack. We reused bed pans and syringes but the diseases were not fatal from re using things.
I remember party lines when we had to call someone on our line we dialed their number hung up till it rang and they picked up then we picked up
I remember riding in the back window of the car on long trips
I remember gas wars
I loved my phonograph and I had one with 2 speakers. So cool
The first time we were allowed to wear pants to school. Wore dresses year round wasn't allowed to wear pants except under your dress.
Class pictures in black and white with the teacher and all the students
deposit on pop bottles loved to find a bottle to get 2 cents back and buy penny candy
So many things I can't name them all Not much left to add, I was born in 1925, so many changes have taken place, community spirit and charity to each other, the working class were all in the same boat, families kept together, and the old took care of by their children, the list is endless, old age is easier for me than my grandparents, although I live alone, life is far more enjoyable, and I am quite content with peace of mind. |
