\nMEMORIES from a friend:
\n\tMy Dad is cleaning out my grandmother’s house (she died in December) and he brought me an old lemonade bottle.
\n\tIn 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.
\n\tShe 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.<\/p>\n
\tHow many do you remember?
\n\tHeadlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.
\n\tIgnition switches on the dashboard.
\n\tTrouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
\n\tSoldering irons you heated on a gas burner.
\n\tUsing hand signals for cars without turn indicators.<\/p>\n
\tGoddess<\/p>\n
Posted by:<\/strong> Dr Crapology on March 30, 2014, 3:25 pm<\/p>\n \tNo home air conditioning in the summer—and in central Texas it gets hot.<\/p>\n \tNo air conditioner in cars.<\/p>\n \tOnly AM stations, no FM or any of the fancy stuff available now.<\/p>\n \tSunday night with radio broadcasts of the following: Lone Ranger, Fibre Mcgee and Molly, Amos and Andy, The twilight zone, Jack Benny Show, etc. Only a morning show called the Breakfast Club.<\/p>\n \tTV shows like The Honey Mooners, Sunday night Colgate Palmolive hour–a variety show, Ed Sullivan show, You Bet Your Life, I’ve got a secret—this could go on forever.<\/p>\n \tRotary dial phones.<\/p>\n \t$.09 to go to a movie with a $.05 bus ride to and $.05 from the movie theater. That $.19 cents leaving $.06 for a box of popcorn with $.01 left over for a piece of gum from a bum ball machine.<\/p>\n \tHome made ice cream where you actually had to crank the machine by hand. <\/p>\n \tGasoline for $.17 per gallon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n \tJust a few. Will try and think of others.<\/p>\n \tDoc and Alligator Rose<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Posted by:<\/strong> Skinny on March 30, 2014, 6:58 pm<\/p>\n \tThese cards could be used to trade with your friends, read all about the players and the their teams. Finally, you could make a motorcycle out of your bicycle by clipping them to the wheels with a clothespin so that they made a sputtering sound as they flapped against the spokes.<\/p>\n \tSpeaking of clothespins, there was a clothesline in the backyard where clothes were dried on nice days. One in the house for when it was too nasty outside to hang clothes. Clothes dryer, what was that and who could afford one when they became available?<\/p>\n \tIron bathtubs with claw legs.<\/p>\n \tStation wagons that could fit your whole baseball team without seat belts and certainly over the limit of number of people allowed to ride in a car today.<\/p>\n \tDrive in movies with the family, sitting on the hood of the car to get a good view.<\/p>\n \tPenny candy at the local drugstore where you could get an egg cream that had no eggs or cream in it at the counter.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Posted by:<\/strong> Stephen C on April 2, 2014, 11:40 am<\/p>\n \tDamn, starting to get misty eyed……………………………<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Posted by:<\/strong> Mr Finesse on April 2, 2014, 12:59 pm<\/p>\n \tNot worrying about the police you feared your father more, spending all day outside rain or shine not playing video games in doors.<\/p>\n \tJust getting dirty outside building up our immunities so we weren’t always sick.<\/p>\n \tThis list could go on forever, the good old day’s were much simpler<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Posted by:<\/strong> OneMoonCircles on April 4, 2014, 7:01 am<\/p>\n \tI also remember "Gunsmoke" on the radio with William Conrad the voice of Matt Dillon. TV was one channel from Boise, ID but we didn’t have a tv though my babysitter did and local Grandparents. How about sawdust tires? Screw type bumper jack, I still have my Dad’s and the price is still on it. Steel pennies? \tWatched "Sputnik" in awe from our pasture. I lived in the Great Basin, high desert, hot as hell in summer but cold at night even in the summer. My folks would go gambling to Winnemucca and they would leave me with my maternal grandparents.<\/p>\n \tBuffalo nickels and Indian head pennies and mercury head dimes. Any one remember Ginny Gordon mystery books? Most probably remember Nancy Drew but I never heard of her till I was an adult. Beatle Bailey? Gasoline Alley? Cartoon characters that were "stick" figures? Popeye? Ma and Pa Kettle, Francis the talking mule? Shane? My parents would take me to a drive-in movie and sometimes it was so cold that they would run the engine with the heater going just to get through the movie. We had wood stoves and an oil burner for heat. Grandparents had a coal fired furnace.<\/p>\n \tDo you remember when cinnamon rolls came out with icing? My Dad liked to have cream cheese with them when we could afford it. How about packages of marbles stapled to quart milk cartons? General Mills packaged a little plastic car in cereal boxes, I still have one somewhere, this was around 1955.<\/p>\n \tYep, getting old.<\/p>\n \tOneMoonCircles<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MEMORIES from a friend: My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother’s house (she died in December) and he brought me an old lemonade bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. 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\n\tDip top cones at Dairy Queen. We didn’t have Chinese food but went to a Chinese place in Portland called the Canton Grill, I was 8 and my Dad insisted on me trying Chinese instead of a hamburger, I cried and he said that if I didn’t like it he’d buy me a damned hamburger and assured me he wouldn’t be mad. Been hooked on Chinese ever since. I even remember the dish, pork chow mein with fried rice and "bug" juice (soy).<\/p>\n