What is the "olden days" to you or your child ?

Question

I still distinctly recall a large black rotary phone that hung on the wall in the kitchen - No such thing as a microwave or a cel phone or computers and watching more than a few black and white TV's .
I also recall cars that were the size of a boat -

To me the "olden days " were filled with horse drawn carriages and cowboys fighting Indians and so forth - I pictured no electricity and no TV - My mother for instance used to tell me the family gathered around the radio when she was small and that most houses did not have a telephone at all -

So I am curious what the kids of today would consider the old days ?

Answer 1

As a former sub teacher I can relate two interesting incidents. The first, a couple of years ago, was when I was going to show the movie "Empire of the Sun". I told the year the film was made and the students complained, saying they didn't want to see an old film. But when it played they were pleasantly surprised and thought it seemed more like a modern film. The year? 1987.

Another incident occurred several years ago. A student in all seriousness asked the poignant question, "What's MTV?"

Answer 2

I'm not sure at what age kids of today begin to think about "the olden days". Personally, I didn't start thinking about the "olden days" until I was in my forty's. I am now approaching 66.

I remember telephone operators asking you what number you wanted when you picked up the phone; and, the operator could usually tell you if that person was home or not. There were "party lines". When you picked up your phone receiver, and someone else was on the line, you could listen in on their conversation! Wouldn't that be a hoot if you could do that today! Before I was nine, all the phones in my community were crank phones. You turned a handle to ring the operator.

Families sat at a dining room table to have meals. Most children today only sit down at a table at Thanksgiving and Christmas, if then. Hopefully, our children and grandchildren will be able to look back on their childhood and remember some "good old days".

Answer 3

To me the olden days are more like little pieces of memories from being at my great grandmother's house when I was small and the things there that I didn't see anywhere else. The cast-iron looking oscillating fan that sat high on a shelf in the corner of her kitchen, little old frame houses with breeze-ways and screened in porches with rockers on them, her in a dress picking peas in her garden and humming to herself acting as if her glaucoma or arthritis didn't bother her...going to the Piggly-Wiggly on Saturday afternoons.

My 13 year old son will often refer to "back in the day" when he is telling a story from when he was in kindergarten or first grade. LOL

Answer 4

The wild, wild west and the commencing up of the 50 states. A time whilst there have been nonetheless territories and additionally you should bypass out and stake a declare on slightly bit land for loose. whilst Indians have been first started out to be appeared as in a unfavorable easy which replace into incorrect because of the fact we've been working them off their land. whilst cowboys wore in basic terms cowboy kit and somewhat slept decrease than the celebrities at nighttime, no ATVs, motorcycles and four wheel drives to help herd. A time whilst the railroad replace into seen elegant transportation and the wealthy even had their very own railway automobiles. A time whilst foodstuff replace into grown sparkling and in basic terms perishables that must be canned (in glass jars) had any shelf existence. A time whilst your place replace into geared up out of timber and despite factors you had close to you. A time whilst amassing around the hearth interior the domicile each and everynight meant kinfolk time and a style of warmth. A time whilst households sat down on the dinner table and ate as one. A time whilst difficult artwork and sweat somewhat meant residing or loss of existence. in case you probably did no longer artwork you probably did no longer consume. A time whilst all have been given collectively to help build barns and there replace into cooperation whilst it got here time to drag plant life up. A time whilst human beings nonetheless cared approximately others and have been prepared to share something that they had. A time whilst there have been nonetheless morals and values. A time whilst kinfolk replace into each little thing. I wasn't alive then yet by using kinfolk participants I hear approximately it.

Answer 5

my son would probably think the olden days were when you had to go to an arcade to play video games, or only had black and white TV