loosehead
Dryer sheet wannabe
I was a teen during the 60's and as P.J. O'Rourke has said, "If you can remember the 60's, you were not there!"
How 'bout 'BURMA SHAVE' ..........
But each generation has it's own version. For me, I had to explain to my 12 year old son what a typewriter was ("Kinda like a computer keyboard, but the backspace key only worked on one letter"). He was confused and somewhat doubtful about the usefulness of such an archaic device. I didn't dare tell him that I took an entire semester class on how to type on one (IBM Selectric, which were still quite fancy then).
In high school I took a typing class (one of the more useful things I learned there) for two reasons: First, I knew they couldn't require that we buy a typewriter and therefore could not assign homework, and two, I was one of two guys in a classroom full of girls. He was there for the same reasons.
Talk about a target-rich environment!
This was before IBM Selectrics though, they were manual Underwoods.
there were no walk in closets?
the array of door to door service?
the bread man?
the milk man?
the egg man?
the fuller brush man?
"sneakers" were inexpensive?
most kids had at most one pair of shoes and one pair of sneakers?
everyone wore rubbers and galoshes when it rained or snowed?
there were no supermarkets?
department stores were just that?
payments were sent to a central cashier by pneumatic tube or by "rope and pulley" tram?
school children went home for lunch?
I remember:
Outhouses and chamber pots, well pumps, b&w tv, monophonic recordings, milk men, milk in glass bottles, dime stores, soda fountains, wringer washers, beer cans w/o pull tabs, .....highways pre-interstate, ........ drive-in movies, drive-in restaurants with carhops, service stations...
I remember when our little town had a furniture store, a clothing store, a dime store, and passenger rail service...
Kids "smoked" candy cigarettes
Cars had fins and no power steering, no power windows, no power seats, no automatic transmission, bench seats with cloth, huge steering wheels, small triangular windows next to the roll up ones, trunks were huge, backseats were the size of a living room sofa,.........
Small towns had railroad tracks through the middle of town; frequently dividing the town in half.
And my 1st cars and trucks were big enough that I could climb in under the hood, sit on the fender-well, and work on them. We always thought power-anything was for sissies!
Sure wish they made cars like that today.....like my ol' Galaxy, or my Pontiac Bonneville and Catalina, or how about the '68 Chrysler New Yorker.....talk about tanks! Those were the days! Cars were HUGE.....and SOLID.....and gas was CHEAP!
I remember learning how to type on a manual typewriter. That was before the electric models were more prevalent.I'll be 39 soon and reading these is a mixture of, "Oh sure, I remember that", "I remember my parents talking about that", and "What is that?"
But each generation has it's own version. For me, I had to explain to my 12 year old son what a typewriter was ("Kinda like a computer keyboard, but the backspace key only worked on one letter"). He was confused and somewhat doubtful about the usefulness of such an archaic device. I didn't dare tell him that I took an entire semester class on how to type on one (IBM Selectric, which were still quite fancy then).
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Yes, I remember setting the points on a '55 Dodge flathead six. I was skinny enough (130 lbs.) that I could wriggle down in there and sit next to the engine.
For a while we had a '62 Chrysler New Yorker station wagon bought used. The thing was a tank. 440 c.i. hemi, dual exhaust, four-barrel carb. Washing it, the roof looked the size of a football field. It had A/C that worked for about a year, but Dad was too cheap to have it fixed.
You just had to manually hold a "white-out" piece of paper and hope your fingers didn't get hit by the letter punch.
Walt, Chrysler never made a 440CI Hemi. Senior moment? The 440CI was a wedge.
I still have some of that "white-out" paper in my desk drawer here at work, as well as bottles of that liquid white-out (which are pretty much dried up by now). Maybe it's time to get rid of these products!
How do you get that stuff off the computer screen?
Aggie text editor?
I have a roll of that; it's been in the Navy longer than I was.I forgot to mention that I also have the white tape with sticky on the back.
Walt, Chrysler never made a 440CI Hemi. Senior moment? The 440CI was a wedge.
Must've been a senior moment. It was the largest size available at the time, obviously I've forgotten what the CI was.
How about-.......
"See Rock City"