I'm so old I Remember when:

[notabitail]

Nope, but Mom tore apart an old mattress and we put the springs on the bottoms of our shoes.

That's a really good idea.

 

[LaurenRitz]

Oh yeah, the electric train. Had one, around the Christmas tree.

And you had to manually connect the power wires to the track, which until Dad made a wall chord also meant connecting them to a big old battery that hid behind the tree.

 

[Alaskan]

My son, born in 1975, got a smallpox vaccine but I don't remember how old he was. Three or four maybe? His sister, born in 1978, did not. I was very nervous about her not getting one.

That is interesting. My spouse, born in 1972 did NOT get a small pox shot.... maybe it depended on where you lived? Or if you were going to travel? Spouse did not travel as a kid.

I can't count that high. But after a while the putty took on the color of the newsprint and wasn't as much fun.

In our house you never told Mom you were bored. We found stuff to do.

Ha! I TWICE stupidly told my mom I was bored. Once I was real young... and got to scrub the kitchen floor on my hands and knees.

second time i was older, and got to clean, rewax, and polish all tje wood floors!!!!!

Anyone ever have a wood burning set?

How about Lincoln Logs? The real wood ones.

I didn't get fancy toys like that... but got to play with them at other people's houses.

My grandma as a kid only had a stool, and wooden spools to play with, she didn't even have a doll. But the spools, when standing up, where people, and when on their sides were livestock. She played with them for hours.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

grandma as a kid only had a stool, and wooden spools to play with, she didn't even have a doll. But the spools, when standing up, where people, and when on their sides were livestock. She played with them for hours.

So creative! I forgot till reading this that I had some plastic horses and my brother had cars. We used to make towns and roads in the dirt. He always lived in the city and would drive out to the country where I lived with my horses.

Wow. I just realized that when we grew up this was how we actually lived. He, in cities, and I, in the country, with, at one time, horses. And he drives out to visit me. Interesting.

I didn't have dolls (creepy things! Shudder!) But we both had a teddy bear and a stuffed dog, who peopled our world like Christopher Robin's Pooh and Eeyore.

 

[notabitail]

And you had to manually connect the power wires to the track, which until Dad made a wall chord also meant connecting them to a big old battery that hid behind the tree.

Ours just used AA batteries. Ate through them quite a bit. It was a cheapy one on ToysRUs closing sale.

 

[Gone]

I remember where I was standing and what I was doing when the announcement that JFK had been assassinated.

I remember that too. I was in school and it was announced over the speaker.

 

[Gone]

I remember when a glass bottle of Orange Crush out of the vending machine was 10 cents and all the ladies wore hats and gloves downtown.

 

[Gone]

That is interesting. My spouse, born in 1972 did NOT get a small pox shot.... maybe it depended on where you lived? Or if you were going to travel? Spouse did not travel as a kid.


Ha! I TWICE stupidly told my mom I was bored. Once I was real young... and got to scrub the kitchen floor on my hands and knees.

second time i was older, and got to clean, rewax, and polish all tje wood floors!!!!!




I didn't get fancy toys like that... but got to play with them at other people's houses.

My grandma as a kid only had a stool, and wooden spools to play with, she didn't even have a doll. But the spools, when standing up, where people, and when on their sides were livestock. She played with them for hours.

I had a Chatty Kathy doll and put her hair up in sponge rollers. My sister and I would go into the dining room and play cards at the table when it was raining. We went downstairs and turned all the lights off to watch The Outer Limits. We took turns turning the old tv off and on because the knob would shock you when you turned it.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I remember when a glass bottle of Orange Crush out of the vending machine was 10 cents and all the ladies wore hats and gloves downtown.

Yes, white gloves! We had an etiquette teacher on Friday afternoons in 8th grade. Among other things she taught us girls - pardon me, ladies - the proper way to remove our gloves. How to get into and out of a vehicle without revealing anything we shouldn't. How to do proper introductions and even how to curtsey in case we should ever be presented to the Queen of England, however unlikely a prospect that might be to us all-American gi - young ladies!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

When Mother bought scads of fabric and made a skirt for herself, a matching shirt for my brother, dresses for my sisters and a jumper for me (not a sweater, my British friends, but a skirt with an attached apron-like top, under which I wore a black turtleneck), snd we wore these matching orange and yellow plaid outfits to church, feeling like the height of elegant fashion!