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Subject: Bring back any memories?




Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favourite 'fast food' when you were growing up?'


'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him. 'All the food was slow.'
'C'mon, seriously.. Where did you eat?'

'It was a place called 'home,'' I explained. !
'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'

By this time, the lad was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.

But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I'd figured his system could have handled it:

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans, set foot on a golf course, travelled out of the country or had a credit card.

My parents never drove me to school. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow).

We didn't have a television in our house until I was 10.It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at 10 pm, after playing the national anthem and epilogue; it came back on the air at about 6 a.m. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people...

I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line..The majority of people had no phone and used a red telephone box.

Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk was..

All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers --My brother delivered a newspaper, seven days a week. He had to get up at 6AM every morning.

Film stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the films. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or almost anything offensive.

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.

Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?

MEMORIES from a friend:


My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In 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. She 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.

How many do you remember?
Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators.
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Older Than Dirt Quiz:

Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about.
Ratings at the bottom.

1. Sweet cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with juke boxes
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephone
5. Newsreels before the movie
6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning.. (There were only 2 channels [if you were fortunate])
7. Peashooters
8. 33 rpm records
9. 45 RPM records
10. Hi-fi's
11. Metal ice trays with levers
12. Blue flashbulb
13. Cork popguns
14.. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 0-3 = You’re still young
If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older
If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age
If you remembered 11-14 = You're positively ancient!

I must be 'positively ancient' but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.

Don't forget to pass this along!!
Especially to all your really OLD friends....I just did!!!!!!!!!

(PS. I used a large type face so you could read it easily)









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Oh dear ...
i'm ancient..because i remember them all
Hazelx

I'm not that old am I

Susan you can't be that old because you don't mention 78 rpm records which I've got over 300 of that I bought as a youngster, am now converting them to disc. F.

Now ancient, I was a schoolboy during the War (1939-45) when everything was rationed.
We were very lucky if we saw a banana once a month and sweets were very scarce.

I didn't go to school for a whole year because the school was taken over by the local RAF station - the Teacher came to us.
We received parcels of clothes and food from Canada.
Television did not exist and we had to depend on radio for news and entertainment.
During air raids we went into the air raid shelter in the back garden.

But we survived.

OH Dear, all that feels like yesterday!

I remember 10 of them - and I still have milk delivered today!

Go on - guess how old I am.

Oh dear, I remember 4 of them!

Fast food when I was a child was fish and chips or salt and vinegar crisps from the offie attached to the village pub.

Teresa

0.3 me :)))

Frederick, talking of 78 rpm record's, i have a collection of "His Master's Voice" stored in my attic. How about that then!!! Tee Hee Susan!

I only know about these things cause me muvva told me,,,,}}}}}!!!!!!

Hayley got hers wrong shes 3--6 and a bit.}

I also still continue to have my milk delivered. I cant seem to break the habit for some reason. I get letters posted from my milkman every now and then, informing me that i can pay by direct debit and i can now order or cancel my milk on line. Well where's the fun in that, i ask you?
So when the bill gets posted through, i wrap the money in the bill, pop it in a money bag, make a hole in the top of the bag thats fits nicely over the neck of the bottle. And when i want to order extra or cancel, i find a scrap of paper, write no milk today thankyou, roll it up, poke in the bottle and pop it outside............see, just like your mother used to do and such fun!!!

Susan

Kay I stopped reading after question 4 :)))

Is my memory correct or am i heading or La-La land,
Were sweets still on ration until 1953ish, anybody know???

remember when Old MacDonald Had a Farm, now he sell burgers,lol

Yes. sweets were still on ration then. Some other things were until at least then as I had to take my ration book home to Dad when I went there on leave from the hospital.

sadly I remember all 14 ! (and whats worse, I remember them so clearly !!)
Mum & Dad never owned the house, and we nrver had a car.
Dad always rode a bike, just as all the neighbours did, the first car in our street was an event !!! a black Ford Poplar ,then my brother got a big old Wolsey with running boards (remember them !) us kids would jump on & hold on for dear life when he drove into the village !
Our first TV came in 1960 ! ,& only went on for certain programs then it was turned off again (oh, it had to be put on early though, for it to warm up!)
no washing machine... mum boiled the whites up in the gas copper !
the washing went on the line & in the winter it would freeze so hard you could stand the clothes up against the wall !
No fridge..we had a meat safe to keep flies off of the meat etc, & bottles pf milk were put in a bucket of cold water in the shade to stop the milk going off.
The bread was delivered every other day, the baker had a big whicker basket with bread & rolls & cakes in !
Oh I`ll have to stop here or I`ll keep going all night !
great thread !
Tina x

Hi Georgygirl, for your info.

Sunday 24th April. 1949.

UK. Chocolate and sweet rationing ends.

BUT goes on ration again.

Thursday. 14th July. 1949.

UK. Alarming dollar shortage announced today. The sugar ration is down to 8 ounces a week. Sweet rationing is back at 4 ounces a head, and there is another cut in tobacco supplies.

Thursday. 5th February, 1953.

Sweet rationing ends.

Further info. Saturday. July 3rd. 1954.

Housewives ceremonially tore up their ration books in Trafalgar Square last night as the Government announced the end of all rationing after 14 years. Meat was the last item to go.

F.

Oh i loved all that Christina! But, OMG! Beverly had a chocolate marshmellow every day with her bottle of milk!!!! Gawd, all i got with mine was a cod liver oil capsule!!! Ohhh, how the other half lived!!! Susan x

we had a tap outside which 7 others shared until dad&neighbour dug up garden one night &then we had running cold water we also shared a loo,took a bath at local baths with our own soap anfd towels mind you and that was only in the 50's