Let's Reminisce, remembering when..

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Thanks for all of the shared memories and fun replies. A blessing to see this continues since I started this thread almost a year ago.

Did anyone take shorthand in school way back when? If so, do you remember any of it? I remember taking typing, shorthand, and office practice back when there were no computers. :)
 
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Yes, I remember now - I have had unprocessed, raw milk. I also remember the milk being left on the front steps. Mom also had a butter churn, and we made butter.

We didn't make our own butter but some friends who lived out on a farm always did. I remember the milk bottles on the front steps and also when the ice man brought ice.
 
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We didn't make our own butter but some friends who lived out on a farm always did. I remember the milk bottles on the front steps and also when the ice man brought ice.

I remember when stores started selling margarine instead of butter. It was white or cream colored and we had this little capsule of color in it. You had to work the yellow color in by kneading the capsule since it was covered with plastic. And the taste didn't come close to butter. It certainly wasn't like, "I can't believe it's not butter." :p
 
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_'shimmy shaker' :confused:
Was that the thing you stood on with the belt arlund your waist and it shook you up?
I used that at 'Gloria Stevens' weight loss program in the 80's after I had my son; it didn't work ^_^

Yes that is the thing... My grandmother had one... I used to play on it when I was little. I'd get on, put the belt around my bottom and turn it on and listen to myself talk. Great fun for a kid with nothing else to do---lol!!!
 
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Once again I've reread the whole thread :swoon:...

I recall sitting in front of the very large floor standing radio at night with the rest of the family (I am the youngest) and listening to the "LONG" Ranger (I was young and didn't know the word "Lone" I guess) ... I always pictured this really tall cowboy.
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Bubble gum at the corner store (we lived "in the country") 2 for a nickel... my whole weekly "allowance".

Dodge ball (which isn't allowed any more for today's children--too violent!)

"Mother may I?" game (take 3 steps forward...)

"Red Rover"

White Castle hamburgers for $.19, same as a gallon of gasoline.

BIRCH Beer! (Better than regular root beer, still!)

My first car was 17 years old... a 50 dodge. REAL bench seats...open the hood and look down at your feet from inside the engine area... engine, radiator, battery... "that's all folks!"

Pogo sticks.
Wooden stilts you made yourself. (But then I made my own "bow and arrows" to play with too. Hmmm must be why I'm such a good shot, began early...and my first BB rifle! (A hand me down from a brother)...)

Hand me downs.

Does any of this bring up bad memories for you? I get flooded with "injustices" and feelings I had back then too... nearly with every good memory is a negative I have to fight off. :(

Like... the hoola hoop... I was in a contest at school and we were all practicing and I had just dropped mine as the contest began...and they kicked me out from that. :(
 
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Yes that is the thing... My grandmother had one... I used to play on it when I was little. I'd get on, put the belt around my bottom and turn it on and listen to myself talk. Great fun for a kid with nothing else to do---lol!!!
ROFLOL ^_^ we didn't talk at the gym ;)

Yes...galoshes Dave ;)

Candy cigarettes were a staple in grammar school days :D

Good memories drjean.....some I forgot...especially the games/toys! :)

The past I leave to God's mercy now ~ no time to dwell on the negative.

All we have is the PRESENT moment (God's gift of love)

The future is in His providence :pray:


Hopscotch ...I loved that game...and always looked for the perfect stones to play it :angel:
 
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Here it is! lol


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Belt Shaker Vibrating Exercise Machine



They had these in the bowling alleys... I guess the idea was to break up the fat in the tush, and then go bowl it away! They were .25 a time. I never saw my mom use one.

We had milk and eggs and butter delivered to the door...I never heard if it was on discount, as my dad was the shipping supervisor at the dairy's local warehousing station... one of those things I'll never know...

another thing I'll never know has to do with "Easter" eggs... in a family of 6 children, there were a lot of them! But each hunt, there was either one extra or one missing. We would always joke that we'd find it in a week or so (pew!) but never did... I can imagine dad eating one (mom said she didn't) but all I can think of the extra is that it came from dad's other job, as a church mouse... maybe from an egg hunt the Saturday before (when he mowed the church yard)? lol
 
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We didn't do May Baskets... but the school had an annual May Pole Dance that the children did with streamers attached to the flag poles... until the cold war of course (and that was the year I would have been eligible to dance! ) They told us that we wouldn't be doing it anymore because of the issues with Russia. :confused:

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I recall selling Girl Scout cookies door to door, when the "doors" were easily a mile apart at times, rural area... of course always went with a "buddy" but it was soooo safe! I mean, as a Brownie I was 8 years old!

I also sold greeting cards door to door, by myself, and managed my own "business" doing so... remember those? I can find boxed greeting cards in my religious store locally now... something "new" they say. LOL
 
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I recall selling Girl Scout cookies door to door, when the "doors" were easily a mile apart at times, rural area... of course always went with a "buddy" but it was soooo safe! I mean, as a Brownie I was 8 years old!

I also sold greeting cards door to door, by myself, and managed my own "business" doing so... remember those? I can find boxed greeting cards in my religious store locally now... something "new" they say. LOL

I did the cookie sales too....we wore out our shoes fast with all the miles we covered ~ we walked everywhere!

Remember FULLER BRUSH salesmen?
 
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My mom became a Stanley Home Products saleslady when I was 3 months old... I had a black nanny (didn't know that till I was out front selling mangoes by the road when I was ??? 7?? and she stopped by... )

anyway, SHP was begun by a former fuller brush man... but they (SHP) instituted the "home party" plan... which Avon later used. (Now, Fuller has bought SHP lol small world)... still great products!
 
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What part of the country was that in?
I never heard of SHP....

Remember drive in theaters with the speaker box on the pole that you put on your car window?
They always played cartoons before the kid's movie, and then you fell asleep by the time the adult movie came on ^_^
The food was awesome .....though considered junk by today's standards ;)
 
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Trafficator
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a 'semaphore trafficator'.
This was the earliest type of electrical turn signals fitted to motor vehicles.
At the flick of a switch an arm would pop out from the side of the vehicle
indicating which way it was going to turn.
At the same time it would light up.

Thanks Dave, that's it. :thumbsup:
 
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For the boys:

paper airplanes painstakingly made and engineered for contests on which one could fly the farthest.

I also remember really homemade kites made with carefully selected small tree limbs, newspapers, and tape. Kite kits at that time were under a dollar, but we didn't have under a dollar. ;)
 
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Stanley Home Products was out of Massachusetts... but all over the country... I'm here in Miami FL... but also sold them while in Missouri.

I also did Gregg shorthand...have my small book still! You couldn't get a job unless you took shorthand...and typed at least 50 wpm.

The erasers with the brush was for corrections at the typewriter,,,to clean the crumbles out of the mechanism (if you could move the platen far enough)... and what was that stuff we put on the platen to plump it back up (acetone?) I need it!

I knew a family who had a push button gear shift Rambler!

Paper airplanes were for girls too...as were marbles (and I was good!) I still have some marbles today.
 
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Something odd's happening about quoting on here!

Someone mentioned shorthand a few posts ago. I remember doing Pitman's shorthand, as well as audio typing, initially on a manual typewriter, with carbon paper.


Hi Sue...
When you use the QUOTE tab below messages
be-sure to scroll down UNDER the 'quote' off-switch...
Before typing your reply

It looks like this:-> [/quote]

:wave:

dave
 
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