Dear My loving Elders I Would Like to see if you remember these days in your life OK ?

Question

Dear Sirs And Miss
I would like to please remember these olden days if you was born from 1940-79 Please answer ok I do not mean to hurt any one fillings just see if you can remember growing a garden eating food from it ? And eating that was put on the table for you and you help with the cows chickens getting the glass on milk from the milk man are the ice for the ice box ? and then moved up to a new ice box stove washing machine ? A new tv 25inch with built in radiothat was a am/fm a 8 track player and record player all in one and then a pop up vcr ? for vhs movies .
atari game system gas was (73cents) a gallon stamps was (17cents) a new car station wagon with air and am/fm radio (25000) dollars first ten horse power tractor 500 first dish waher 200 out side tv rabbit ears 25.00 And no fast food places to eat at ? No microwave ovens I learned how to stitch and patch pants sow cut out patterns to make clothes If you need a spanking you got one on your little bottom mouth washed out

Answer 1

Yep, I remember many of those things. It's amazing how a life can change in a matter of 75 years. I'm speaking of when my Mother was born to now. She is persently dieing of alzhimers, so I'm reflecting upon these things more and more everyday as it nears. To go back in time.........ahhhhhh. But yes, we need to get back to the basics. Life was much more simple and stress free.

Answer 2

Ah yes, the good old days. There was TV and such already when I was born, but we spent a lot of time with my grandparents, my grandma had a garden, my grandpa had a field, they had cows, a few pigs, some chickens. I would wake up early to go milk the cow with my grandpa, and that was the best tasting milk. The fresh vegetables from the garden and field were so delicious, I remember sitting and shucking corn. And the smell of the earth when we'd go with my grandma to the garden! They never bought meat, milk, eggs or vegetables. My grandma made her own bread, and didn't have to look at a recipe card to do so, and for our birthday's we always got a home-made cake, from scratch, not a box, and the icing was home-made too. We were healthy and tanned and once a week we'd gather around the TV to watch the Lawrence Welk show. And it was so quiet, no cars constantly going by, no blaring TVs or stereos. It was great!

Answer 3

Oh, I love the questions that call for personal reminiscences!

I grew up in the metropolitan area of a large city on the east coast of the USA, so I don't have any gardening memories (apart from the rose bushes my mother tried, unsuccessfully, to cultivate), but I most emphatically remember her informing me that she wasn't running a restaurant, so I'd better eat what was on the table or do without.

We did have our milk delivered by a milkman, and it came in glass bottles (one of my jobs as a little girl was to put the used bottles back in the metal crate after my mother washed them).

By the time I arrived, ice was no longer delivered for the icebox (though my grandmother, uncles, and mother often still called the refrigerator the icebox), and our washing machine was round with a wriger attached. It hooked up to the sink in the kitchen--kind of like a portable dishwasher (do they even still make portble dishwashers?).

I remember the rabbit ears on the TV well! The broadcasts were black and white, and when you shut off the TV, the image would shrink to a little gray dot that would slowly fade.

Would you believe I remember gas for 35 cents? My sister had a car that she could fill up for $6 and drive all over the place on it for a week. Since I didn't learn how to drive untiI I was in my twenties, the lowest price I recall paying was 50 cents a gallon--and the worst case scenario we could anticipate was the price going up to $1 a gallon!

My first husband and I had a stereo component set--turntable. speakers, and an 8-track player--and much later, one of our friends had the lineal ancestor of the DVD player. It was a machine that played movies on huge disks, about the size of a vinyl LP album cover. This was replaced by the videocassette tapes which were, in their turn, replaced by DVD's.

As a girl in junior high, I took the required (for girls) classes in cooking and sewing (the boys had wood and metal shop at that level), and it was simply unthinkable that a boy would learn how to cook or sew in school.

There's a lot more I remember, and I often think how surprised my mother and grandmother would be to see me using a computer the way I do--especially one right in my home!

Thanks for the chance to indulge in some nostalgia!

Answer 4

Heavens, 1979 is old? I have a daughter born in 1978!

I was born in 1953. We went everywhere by bus. We had no air conditioner, but lots of iced tea. Fast forward to the sixties...

VW bugs were advertised at below $2000. I got married in 1971 and gas was $.25 a gallon. I remember the gas crisis of 1974 and long lines at the pumps.

But I also remember segregation, shacks, people riding in the back of buses, people getting waited on last because of color (I'm white), and "Colored Only" signs.

I like now better. When I see interracial marriages, I think how beautiful the children are. I spoke to a lovely woman yesterday who was having her 60th birthday; I enjoyed a conversation with someone I couldn't talk to "back then".

Answer 5

Ah me, I am getting old! I remember when there was no TV, and we were chased outside to play. Nobody worried about us, as long as we turned up in time for meals. If you fell down and hurt yourself, you went home and got a bandage on the cut, and then went back to play. No visit to the doctor, and never the hospital!

The best times were visiting my grandparents' farm. No electricity, and we had to carry water. But I had every kind of animal to make friends with (except the rooster!) and I practically lived in the barn with the horses. Bringing the cows home in the evening for milking, with a collie dog urging them along. Picking wild strawberries most of the day to get enough to make strawberry shortcake, and it was worth every scrumptious bite, with cream so thick from our Jersey cows, that it didn't need to be whipped for the topping. Haying time, with a team of horses hauling the hay wagon stacked so high with fresh cut hay, that I couldn't figure out how they could pull it. And riding on top of the load, the best part of all!

My grandchildren are missing a lot. Sigh ...................

Answer 6

those and many more. don't forget trading stamps, " free " items in laundry detergent, daddy worked mommy stayed home with the children, movies were 25 cents and one could stay as long as they wanted. 78 rpm records, spanking at school another at home. very seldom were doors locked, most boys wanted to be police, firefighters or soldiers, these professions were greatly respected. the Watkins salesman home delivery,.

Answer 7

I believe we are related baby. I cannot believe how many people cannot do basic everyday things now. Talk about a can do generation! You won't see me cussin' here either cause Momma made good use of the soap when we were younger. That also included saying Damn! ......shoot!...she's running up the stairs.........esp or something...gotta hide....bye...........

Answer 8

yes, spank me harder.