I'm so old I Remember when:

[Ponypoor]

A couple to add

Lawn darts were legal

And people could joke around with each other without someone getting butt hurt


Oh and brass monkey and Paul revere from the beastie boys

Lawn darts aren’t legal there?’

Wow - horseshoes should be made illegal - I have hit people so many times as my throw is off with my arm I had kicked by a horse. And I bet those suckers hurt when you get hot in the head!

 

[Nomadicus]

I remember when barcodes were put on merchandise so scanners could read the prices at the checkouts and how some people feared them..... Really feared them.

 

[Nomadicus]

I remember when the "Help Wanted" adds in newspapers listed jobs for males in one section and jobs for females in another.

 

[Ponypoor]

By the time we had home ec classes in junior high, most of us had been cooking meals and sewing clothes already for YEARS. Our mommas "done teached us real good" so we could be of real help at home. So home ec was pretty much a joke. Would've been way more useful to put the boys in home ec (so they wouldn't be helpless in a kitchen) and allow us girls to take the shop classes...lots of dads like mine weren't into teaching girls to use tools and fix stuff. But again, the early/mid 60s. Times were just starting to change where we were.

There were only the two us girls - we had to help our Dada with fixing cars, putting additions on house, roofing, I even helped h build a boat (28’ sailboat - we are Newfoundlanders), so I know how to use power tools- I have built a barn with my Dada and friends & family helping, put up all my fencing pretty much myself,

Of course also had to help mum and grandma, learned how to make homemade bread and still do 45 yrs on, cool, bake, push a vacuum…

 

[Hayden Goseek]

I remember when your parents said "Keep talking",

You better 'shut up.'

 

[Ponypoor]

I remember when the "Help Wanted" adds in newspapers listed jobs for males in one section and jobs for females in another.

Wow never seen that here. When did that end?

 

[Nomadicus]

Wow never seen that here. When did that end?

I don't know but I imagine when laws were passed concerning affirmative action.

 

[Ponypoor]

I saw a dusting of snow early one June.

Imagine my dismay at thick heavy snow coming down in middle of June…! Poor horses I had to put their winter blankets on them they had their summer hair as they had shed out their winter hair!

Seen heavy snow here first of Oct… hate winter.

 

[Ponypoor]

I don't know but I imagine when laws were passed concerning affirmative action.

Yes I imagine - your up early/late shouldn’t you be sleeping ha!

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh, I loved those books! We learned to read with them in my Marietta, Georgia elementary school, 1959-61-ish. (We named our Boston Terrier puppy "Sally" after the little sister.)

Yes here too, in fact mum had some chickens she used to push around in her little pram, she named them Dick, Jane and Sally.

She said when grandma killed one for supper mum wouldn’t eat it.