You had street lights?My Mom's favorite line to me as I was heading out the door......"Head home when the street lights come on".
You had street lights?My Mom's favorite line to me as I was heading out the door......"Head home when the street lights come on".
You had street lights?
Kids playing outside!
I had a great childhood back in the 60's. A neighborhood with hundreds of kids. During the Summer, we'd leave the house around 10:00, come home for lunch, leave again and show back up at dinner and maybe leave again until dark. My mom would scream "out of the house!" She basically had no idea where me and my brother were at any given time. And, of course, if she did ask we'd only give her a hint of where we "might" have been.
Another interesting service fall by the wayside!! Just asked my wife when did the mike deliver service stopped here. She said early 90's and we got mike delivered to the doorstep till that era disappeared.
Party line in the early 70’s. Talking to my girlfriend way too long and neighbor interrupted said he needed the phone line to sell his cattle! ��. Embarrassing
my biggest "worry" as a kid i. the summer was getting enough guys to get a ball game going at a vacant lot. after dinner. we could play outside until the street lights came on. at 9:30 every night the firehouse in a neighboring town would blow their station siren announcing curfew.
Would you happen to have a name for that flat cap you speak of? Or an online pic of one?
Playing with plastic “army” men.
My Mom's favorite line to me as I was heading out the door......"Head home when the street lights come on".
- Big floppy "Dan Mathews" fedoras on men and white buck shoes on little boys.
- Obvious bifocal looking bifocals
- Fins on cars.
- Houses of perfectly prosperous, wage earning 30-ish and 40-ish year old people with 3-5 kids, and no air conditioner. How did they LIVE?!
- One telephone in the house and it hung from the kitchen wall
- Christmas lights on the outside of people's houses as Seasonally de rigueur
- All the stores closed because it's Sunday. Except drug stores so you could get a Sunday paper
- The big, huge, thick, Sunday paper or, in my town, BOTH Major Sunday newspapers
Would you happen to have a name for that flat cap you speak of? Or an online pic of one?
One can still get milk and dairy products delivered in SW PA, today..
Milk deliveries, which I just barely remember.
But, more consequentially, the pivotal exercise of getting to a telephone. I'm not arguing that telephones were more consequential than smartphones - they weren't - but you had to absolutely plan your communications and then communicate those plans to other people. If you watch any old movie or television show, or listen to an old radio show, the plot turned SO OFTEN on a phone call. "I have to get to a phone." "I can't leave the house, I'm waiting for a call." Even more drama in the era before answering machines. It's fun to watch the old shows with this in mind.