It was also a hoot when I pulled out my vinyl records and showed them the covers and then PLAYED them on my turntable. I was amazed just how scrachy they sounded by comparison to my CD remasters of the same record.
My oldest GGSon (12) was just flabbergasted that there was even such a thing. He really was amazed when I took out my grandmothers old Vetrola and played one of the hard wax drums on it.
Yep I think so. All of them have said that they would love to have the antics when my wife and I die. But I only one do I think would really keep them.
Strangers call you sir and you are not sure how to take it. You look at your friends and they " look old " You go to another room in the house and have to go back and sit down to remember why you got up.
Ok gang, Gracie asked for this! You know you're old, and the kids don't know who the hell Roosevelt was, much less that he was ever president,; when you lived through a history that has now been labeled mostly lies;when your dad made 18.00 a Week when you were born, and people still ate;You have to ask" What the Hell is a credit card for?", You paid cash, or used lay a way:;One computer for a company filled an entire very cold room; movies on Sat. afternoons cost 09 cents!;airplanes flew to Europe once or twice a week, if needed; there were no jet planes, just ones with propellers;home telephones All had party lines with as many as 12 families on one line- you had a different # of rings for your calls.People stayed married till death did them part;Kids knew how to respect their parents and old folks, yes ma'm and no sir were automatic responses to requests;sex was pretty much restricted to marriage, and that was your marriage partner, not the neighbors;families went to church together, and No one questioned the right to do so.
I remember a lot of those, doofie... how about the family sitting down together for dinner each night.. and collecting "returnable" pop bottles so you could go to the movies!!
45 rpm & 78 records and a phonograph to play them on.tape decks and the huge rolls of tape that went with them, ice boxes that held big blocks of ice which was delivered to the house two or three times a week, ice cream trucks in the summertime with ice cream and popsicles that cost a nickel and would feed two kids, hot summer afternoons running thru the sprinkler on the lawn in your clothes and barefooted.
It was so cold running down your warm arm! I still chew ice ! I don't have an ice maker, and use more than trays can make, so I buy bagged ice to supplement. I have an ice pick, and Love chipping Big pieces to suck on!
My oldest GGSon (12) was just flabbergasted that there was even such a thing. He really was amazed when I took out my grandmothers old Vetrola and played one of the hard wax drums on it.
Greg P.