The Old Folks Home

[Beer can]

Sweet truck!


Jillion years back already... Maybe in 2000... Wanted to buy a new Subaru (the last one got totalld by a friend) and I could not buy a new one with a stick. NOT available.

I've had some Subaru's, wish they still had real 4wheel drive. My first car was a '80 T-top Camaro that I had for yrs, but had a bad tranny when I bought it, took awhile before I replaced it, ended up my real first car I actually drove, one of the ugliest Subaru's ever, a '83 gl wagon, four speed stick with high and low range 4X4 on the fly, real 4 not this all wheel drive stuff that isn't. Had a '85 Brat that was the same, '86 wagon, '87 wagon, '93 clown car, the Justy, all yrs ago. Just junked a few yrs ago a '93 wagon auto, drove it a few yrs and didn't put a dime into it, it must have been around the time they were transferring over to AWD, this was AWD, but had a button on the shifter that would put up a manual light on the dash, AWD was 90% front 10% rear, hit the button and it was 50/50 and made a BIG difference.

 

[perchie.girl]

LOL manual transmission..... Remember Column shifters?

My truck is a Dodge Cumins One ton with a five speed manual stick. Cant start out in first gear or it will break traction... But in idle first gear will allow the truck to walk up a hill at about five miles per hour. Pulling a horse trailer. I have only owned two Automatic transmission carrs. Geo metro and a PT cruiser.

Learned to type on a Royal manual we werent allowed to type on an electric till we knew how. There was only one in the class. Double ribbon red and black and CARBON paper. so when you made a mistake you had to use the eraser on both copies.

Forget Xerox copies were made with Mimeograph... Blue print on white paper.

I remember the fluff over the new fangled phones that didnt have a dial.... when they first came out with push button dialing they had to mimic the sound of a rotary.

I have answered the phone on a party line but we never had that kind of service.

Long distance phone calls REQUIRED an Operator.

If you wanted to talk to someone on the phone where here wasnt a land line you had to use a ship to shore operator.... you spoke and then said "over" the operator would switch to the other person... and they had to say "over" .... My grandpa was a civilian who was stationed at Johnston Island while they did some sort of "installation" of equipment. Back in 1969.... Its a navy base. when grandma called him it was very interesting.

deb

 

[Beer can]

Culled seven yesterday, think I'm going to fall in love with these naked necks I've never wanted, so much easier, amazing how much fewer feathers they have.They don't look it but half their breast is bare and half their legs and backside, and no, absolutely no 'hair'!! smoooth, Need to put about twenty more in the freezer and planned on it, dang it takes forever to process. Giant Silkie crosses were the worst.

 

[perchie.girl]

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My first car was a 63 Corvair Spider. Turbocharged four speed. They were a flat six and know for throwing their belts if you didnt keep an eye on the tension. First thing my dad taught me was how to change a tire.... Second thing he taught me was how to put that belt back on .... It was a serpentine which with around the top and down the sides...

 

[Beer can]

LOL manual transmission..... Remember Column shifters?

My truck is a Dodge Cumins One ton with a five speed manual stick. Cant start out in first gear or it will break traction... But in idle first gear will allow the truck to walk up a hill at about five miles per hour. Pulling a horse trailer. I have only owned two Automatic transmission carrs. Geo metro and a PT cruiser.

Learned to type on a Royal manual we werent allowed to type on an electric till we knew how. There was only one in the class. Double ribbon red and black and CARBON paper. so when you made a mistake you had to use the eraser on both copies.

Forget Xerox copies were made with Mimeograph... Blue print on white paper.

I remember the fluff over the new fangled phones that didnt have a dial.... when they first came out with push button dialing they had to mimic the sound of a rotary.

I have answered the phone on a party line but we never had that kind of service.

Long distance phone calls REQUIRED an Operator.

If you wanted to talk to someone on the phone where here wasnt a land line you had to use a ship to shore operator.... you spoke and then said "over" the operator would switch to the other person... and they had to say "over" .... My grandpa was a civilian who was stationed at Johnston Island while they did some sort of "installation" of equipment. Back in 1969.... Its a navy base. when grandma called him it was very interesting.

deb

Column shifters? Three on the tree!
We didn't have a party line for a long time, mom and dad hated it, had to pick up and see if someone was on it first, and then check again, and again, remember mom screaming into the phone I have to make a call can you hang the F up! And then they could listen into your conversation. Private lines cost more $$ back then. Thinking now, probably didn't cost phone company anything, just a way to get more $$ at the time.

 

[perchie.girl]

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remember during those years there was an actual switchboard operator that made a connection. The ring pattern was the way to tell who the call was for. each person on the party line had a specific ring.

So to make the connection someone at the Telephone switch board had to take and plug your line in to the incoming call.... when the conversation was over the operator would unplug it.

The following picture is the switch board for overseas switchboard in order to make a phone call you had to call the operator and ask for a long distance operator and you got someone like the one below. To place your call you gave her the number and you would receive a call back when your connection was made.


The above was about when I was born around 1955. Those were in operation well into the sixties I believe.

believe it or not the first trans atlantic cable was laid in 1866 and it was Telegraph...

deb

 

[drumstick diva]

Oh I loved my typewriter an old Royal manual - my father got from work for $ 35. when they'd sell old equipment. I set out to write the Great American Novel, except I hadn't had any experiences in anything - at that point in my life. Instead I made a list of book titles, for later use.

I remember the party line stuff from our first house in '52 . - which I thought was creepy. Remember the rotary dial phone but, can't recall when we got the push button kind.

What really made me feel old was years ago, trying to replace my old address/phone book. They just didn't have them - they had books for your cell phone nos. fax. nos, etc for friends . They only had space for email addies. Makes sense I guess since next to no one seems to send letters and cards anymore.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I knew I was ancient when I took my kids to a museum... They had a rotary phone and my kids were all bug eyes over it.

My 2005 Honda Civic Value edition has hand crank--Manual windows. I do not know if that was the last model for them but I suspect that the lower cost cars will still have them.

My mom still has her rotary phone in her house.

And for what it's worth in 2009 I was in the market for a new car. I wanted relatively few things: good gas mileage, 4 or all wheel drive, stick shift, 2 door, hand crank windows.

It was not fun shopping for that car.

I ended up with a Suzuki - 4 doors and auto windows, but it had the rest of what I was looking for. I don't drive automatics and every time I think of having to get a new car I get a mild panic attack over the transmission. I will likely have to upgrade to a jeep to keep the stick when I need my next car. BF has an auto tranny truck - hate driving it. I feel like I'm driving a land yacht, and every time I brake I get "where's the clutch?" panic. I don't feel like I'm driving with an auto transmission - more likely to fall asleep/not pay attention, at least for me.

 

[Kusanar]

Sweet truck!


Jillion years back already... Maybe in 2000... Wanted to buy a new Subaru (the last one got totalld by a friend) and I could not buy a new one with a stick. NOT available.

They fibbed. I have a 2010 impreza with a stick. Wouldn't have it any other way. So, they did still make them....

 

[Kusanar]

OK guys, I may make you feel better about being "old". I just turned 28 and I have typed on a typewriter, carried one too... I work for a multi national company that employees close to 1000 people at MY plant and they still have a typewriter in the front office for certain documents. I drive a 2010 model straight drive car, my parents have a car that is from the early 2000's that still has the manual crank windows. My first car, a '92 ford aerostar van had a column shifter, I have NOT driven a standard on the column, just haven't had the opertunity to learn... I worked for an auto auction for a while where I drove nearly all of the huge farm trucks, you know the ones that NEED running boards so you can get in and have the wooden side rails... yeah,I drove all of those in because none of the other girls could get them out of the parking spaces.... OOOh, almost forgot this one... I drove a car at the auction that had a 6 casset changer! never seen one of those before... I've never dealt with a party line, but I have played with rotory phones, and even though we don't have a land line, there is a rotory phone hanging in my basement...

and... I have had to explain to children that I remember a time before the internet... and cd's... and color computers.... and tv remotes other than children....