'Remember when' or 'these kids today' nostalgia thread for old fogies like me

[User395221]

And you had to walk uphill. There AND back!

on me 'ands!

 

[Mace Gill]

I got kind of afraid of new technology for a while ... anytime I got something updated, a Beatle died! I was first In my family to get a color TV and John Lennon got shot. Two decades later I was first to get a computer and George Harrison dropped dead of a brain tumor. When my wife convinced ,e to get a cell phone, I kept checking the headlines to see how Ringo was doing!

 

[User395221]

I kept checking the headlines to see how Ringo was doing!

Please don't buy anything before Paul McCartney does his tour in November, please? (I'm not going, but a lot of people will be disappointed if he can't come)

 

[CapricornFarm]

And you had to walk uphill. There AND back!

"Free range children" are mostly a thing of the past, sadly.

I used to play most of the time in the woods by myself. Maybe that's why i live in the woods now. Love it.

 

[igorsMistress]

I used to play most of the time in the woods by myself. Maybe that's why i live in the woods now. Love it.

I lived on a farm when I was a kid that had a small woods area right where our property met our neighbors. My Mom felt like we were being watched and when she turned around the neighbors cows were standing there watching us. She screamed

Love the woods, live in the desert

 

[CapricornFarm]

I bought this stool in goodwill yesterday. Made without nails, just wooden pegs. Bet it is old. Now they make plastic ones.

 

[adrikeen]

Mace, thank you so much for starting this thread!!! I found it this morning before work. It made my day. I work in a facility where most of us are 45-60 y.o. but the next set down is 20-30 y.o. and the history gap is eye opening. We were all discussing our favorite shows/music of yester year: Partridge Family/BradyBunch/Monkees/I Dream of Jeanie, etc. You should have seen the blank stares from the 20-30's...I just shake my head.

 

[CapricornFarm]

A lot of the young people have no idea how to garden or raise livestock.They just buy fast or frozen food. They have no idea what they are missing.

 

[User395221]

You should have seen the blank stares from the 20-30's...

Television is pretty much 'over'. There is nothing in the guide to watch. It's all advertorials, "reality" shows (whose reality, I ask, nobody carries on like that in real life, do they?). I'm an insomniac, they used to play movies in the middle of the night, now there's nothing. It's a wasteland. Some of the online companies like Netflix are making "tv" shows, but there's nowhere near the volume and variety that were made in TV's "heyday". I've almost seen a whole technology come and go in my lifetime.

Watches. I remember being given a watch when I was a kid. It was a "big thing" getting your own watch. Watches were valuable. I now buy watches at the opshop for hardly nothing. Clocks, they've disappeared. Every business would have one on the wall, have a look around when you next go into the bank.
Old, manual, mechanical things will last a long time if you don't break them. I've got wind-up clocks, wind-up watches and I've got an old treadle sewing machine and they'll still be functional after I'm dead. No matter how good a fancy electronic sewing machine is, it won't last longer than its electronic circuitry. A mobile phone has no functionality whatsoever the minute there is no power to charge it with.

I'm feeling old.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Television is pretty much 'over'. There is nothing in the guide to watch. It's all advertorials, "reality" shows (whose reality, I ask, nobody carries on like that in real life, do they?). I'm an insomniac, they used to play movies in the middle of the night, now there's nothing. It's a wasteland. Some of the online companies like Netflix are making "tv" shows, but there's nowhere near the volume and variety that were made in TV's "heyday". I've almost seen a whole technology come and go in my lifetime.

Watches. I remember being given a watch when I was a kid. It was a "big thing" getting your own watch. Watches were valuable. I now buy watches at the opshop for hardly nothing. Clocks, they've disappeared. Every business would have one on the wall, have a look around when you next go into the bank.
Old, manual, mechanical things will last a long time if you don't break them. I've got wind-up clocks, wind-up watches and I've got an old treadle sewing machine and they'll still be functional after I'm dead. No matter how good a fancy electronic sewing machine is, it won't last longer than its electronic circuitry. A mobile phone has no functionality whatsoever the minute there is no power to charge it with.

I'm feeling old.

Look at fridges. Used to be they lasted 20 years, still running. Now pay thousands of bucks and pay extra because you know it will break down in a year or less.