Good evening, I figured many of you would enjoy recalling the various events and even a couple I'm not sure I experienced?
Here's the scale as in the list:
If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You' re older than dirt!
Evening All,
I don't remember who posted the "do you remember?" but I got 18 that I remember. I guess that makes me old.
I hope everyone has a good night.
Yes Curt, it seems you fall in with many of us, as being considered, 'Older than dirt' but also having a good memory, just like, 'me', although your actually younger. I think a lot has to do with area we grew up in as well as how aware we were about our surroundings and general curiosity.
I remember 20. I am not sure if that makes me older than you, or just grew up in a backwards part of the country...
Yes, Gomez, your pretty close to remembering most of them like 'me' and others almost right there with the rest of us, just not quite as old as dirt. But like I said before we all have our memories in good working order and that what counts! God Bless!
i was reading a few pages back about how people dress i see
Film or pic of "RAILFANS" in 50's they are trackside in 3 piece suites, if you showed up
Today trackside in a suite the crews would think it was rail officals trying to fire someone
Yes, it's rather interesting how things such a dress change and the different reactions it evokes from us. Those earlier times were gentler times indeed.
OH He--!! I'm either a relic , or an old fossil. I remember them all. Heck, even used some.In freezing weather, the top of the milk bottle would be pushed up and their would be a stalk of cream. Gramps 'phone didn't have a dial. Had to give the number to an operator. Had three or four "ICE BOXES" on the back porch.
Ah yes. Memories.
Phil
Yes Phil, although you've got me by about 9 years I also well remember the Milk delivery and the cream solidifying above the milk, was that ever good but of course then the milk wasn't quite as creamy when shaken up. Also the glass milk bottles had either a somewhat thick type of flat stopper pressed down in the top or a heavy paper cap over them. I actually have a glass milk bottle from some years back.
As far as the phone that's one I don't believe I experienced at my home but did on the outside some place?
My folks had an Ice Box in the kitchen, it wasn't all that big to store too much in it. We only had it for a while and I can remember riding over to Canoga Park with Dad, about 3 miles from where we lived and going to an Ice House there near some spur line track to get 50 lb. Block Ice. the same as used in the Reefers that must have been iced up there but I was only about 4 or 5 at the time as I recall.
Yes, memories indeed!
We had one of the old (it was even old at the time) phones with no dial, and a separate receiver. You cranked a handle, which generated a noise at "central", and you asked the operator for MUrray Hill7-700. You'd pick up the phone and listen for a second, to make sure nobody else was talking.
Out street lights were electric, then, during the height of the gas shortage of 1973-1974, they converted the lights to gas.
We had a Monitor Top fridge, and the service stations had gas pumps that had the little "sight glass" on them, so you could see the fuel flowing through the pump. A soda was a nickel, and the bottle had a two cent deposit. I would drink the soda there, so I didn't have to pay the extra two cents.
Our local radio station rotated its format every hour throughout the day, and was only on the air from 6 am to 10 pm. I would always turn the radio off between 1 and 2 pm, as that was "polka hour".
Say Gomez, you and Phil are out doing me with the phones you had but I do remember part lines, I think as a kid but believe it or not we still had a 2 party line where I at now and would have to lift the receiver to listen if the line was clear/free of anybody talking or not.
I also remember the old gas pumps even with the large cylinder where you could watch the bubbles of air going through the gas as you pumped it. I also remember that some gas stations had smaller tanks with self service hand crank pumps for Kerosene, White Gas, and different types of motor oil.
The neighbors diagonally across the street owned the local .05 & .10 cent store in Woodland Hills where I grew up and they had the wax bottles bottles of sugar water and I think the bottles of soda and the deposit was the same as you mentioned. I always had to pay the two cents as I ued to go outside to drink the soda but would go back inside to get my deposit back.
I also well remember the old black and White TV and the early test patterns that would come on as well as the old radios before the TV.
Wow, I remember all this "old" stuff very well. Either 53 is "old as Methuselah" or I grew up out in the sticks!
Yes Karl, it seems you fall in with many of us, as being considered, 'Older than dirt', too, but also having a good memory, just like, 'me', although your actually younger. I think a lot has to do with area we grew up in as well as how aware we were about our surroundings and general curiosity. It all carries over into our railroading we do today!
