🤔 1923-1973 Do You Remember...

[Anonymous]

👍Tell us about YOUR "good old days"......

BORN: Age 50 - 1973, Age 60 - 1963, Age 70 - 1953, Age 80 - 1943, Age 90 - 1933, Age 100 - 1923.

[DaveMcK]

[DaveMcK]

[LisaS961881]

   As I looked at this photo, it reminded me of something I found when I was indoors sorting through ephemera on one of those wicked hot days last week.

    Reading what I found not only brought back memories of rotary phones, typewriters, carbon paper and phone books, but also, through the refracted lens of nostalgia, a bittersweet glimpse of kinder, innocent days…

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[papawofboo]

Before this there were the "Number please" and party lines. Good thing about these phones they were made good, to hold up to the slamming. Also your and my phone were the same color. I thought I was rich when we got a colored phone that hung on the wall with a real long cord.

[DaveMcK]

[tomatillos]

This is great, Dave!  I was a pretty good kid but bad this particular day:  We had little money, and now and then none for soda, that's for sure.  So, one dark night, my older sister and I took a big cup up to the machine on the corner - bottle opener in hand.

Together, we walked home slurping a Coke-a-Pepsi-Green Spot-Rootbeer-Cream Soda medley of sugary delight. 

More than 50 years later -- I still feel the guilt.  I'll have to apologize to Mr. Witco one day in the beyond.

[DaveMcK]

[ChasKy53]

I still use one!

[DaveMcK]

[ThomasF792463]

\I STILL MAKE MILKSHAKES  BUT WITH A SINGLE  HAMILTON BEACH MIXER

[DaveMcK]

[papawofboo]

We had these way before we had power. Ever room had a mantle with a mirrow above it with one of these put in front of it at night. 

[DaveMcK]

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[tomatillos]

Is it a film /slide viewer?  Definitely a viewer of some sort?

[DaveMcK]

[papawofboo]

  Also remember what happened when you didn't. 

[DaveMcK]

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[MsStretch]

🎵 It’s Slinky! It’s Slinky! It’s fun for every girl or a boy! 🎵

Loved walking mine down the stairs.  Amazing how the simplest toys and concepts used to keep us entertained for hours.

[SoulSurvivor61]

[DaveMcK]

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[papawofboo]

Not sure but it look's like something my g/daddy hung fish on to dress them?

[DaveMcK]

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