🤔 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.

[papawofboo]

Still do. Mother taught me that you wore the best you had when you went to visit the Lord. I'm not real crazy about the dress codes at churches these days.

25% of the women look like they are going too or coming from a honky tonk. At least that amount of men look like they are fixing to tee off. 

When our pastor (never a tie) lets one of the younger ministers give the sermon about half of them were t-shoes. I don't care how much they cost, they are t-shoes.

I know, old fashion and out of touch.😀

[LisaS961881]

Well, if you are old-fashioned and out of touch, then so am I! 😀. I found myself nodding in agreement at what you wrote! 👏🏻

I recently attended a service where the Pastor preached while wearing a zip front hoodie and T-shoes.  I found it very off-putting that he was dressed in clothes I’d only wear gardening or walking.  I’ll admit that I felt guilty feeling this way, and internally chastised myself.

  I agree with you.  I feel it is a matter of  (if you have chosen to attend a service) respecting that the Church is a place of reverence and significance.    

~ Lisa 🌈

[papawofboo]

Don't feel bad about how you feel. The Bible says to give your best to the Lord and I take that to also mean how you come to him. God told Abraham to give his best. God told the Jews that their sacrifices were sick and lame, and they were sent into slavery for allowing it to happen. I don't know how much cleared it can be made that he expects our best.

My sister n law who is an ordained minister puts' it this way. What would you wear if you were going to a State Dinner at the White House? Lot of people need to answer that question while getting dressed for church.

[LisaS961881]

Oh yes!  
   White patent leather shoes with buckles, dress with a crinoline slip underneath, white gloves and a hat or chapel veil from Easter until Labor Day.  
   ~ Lisa ☀️🌸

[DaveMcK]

[papawofboo]

There were some bad days mixed in with those "Good ole Days."

This was one of them.

[DaveMcK]

[papawofboo]

I think it is the #1 drink on the ISS.

[DaveMcK]

[DaveMcK]

[DaveMcK]

Foot stool!

[KellytheBelly]

A hassock, footstool, ottoman, or pouf. My parents used them to prop up their feet, or to place their knitting needles and yarn project, even newspapers. 🙂

P.S. Forgot about the cats... definitely made for cats. lol

[papawofboo]

Made for a good TV tray also.

[DaveMcK]

[papawofboo]

When you got these, it meant no more blocks of ice and chipping ice with an ice pick.

[DaveMcK]

[MsStretch]

Played with these as a kid.  Can you imagine seeing something like this on the shelf today?  You could put someone's eye out! 🫣 Although we managed to stay unscathed. 😁  

[DaveMcK]

[papawofboo]

This packaging is before '62.

[KellytheBelly]

Scary! 😜  Never have I ever seen these in their product form, not once. 

So...What year were these on the shelves?  I think that'd be quite informative. 

A thing of the past, and exactly where it should stay! IMO. Sorry!  ;-D

Thanks for sharing, @DaveMcK! : D

[DaveMcK]

[papawofboo]

Petty sure you can still buy this. 

[KellytheBelly]

I find this post 'a-peeling.' Ouch! Watch those knuckles! 😄

Be good! x

[DaveMcK]

[DaveMcK]

[DaveMcK]

[LisaS961881]

I had these and I also had “American Plastic Bricks”.  The bricks were pre-Lego, and came in a large cardboard tub.  I remember building houses and stalls for the little plastic Noah’s Ark animal pairs that were a freebie from the gas station too!  This was way back, when everyone was encouraged to “put a tiger in your tank”, and most gas stations had “give-always”.  😀

[MsStretch]

@LisaS961881 , I remember the freebie tiger tails that Esso (or was it Exxon by that time?) gave out to attach to your gas caps and show you had "a tiger in your tank". 🐅

[LisaS961881]

Oh goodness - yes!  It had a black loop to attach it to your gas cap.  We would get so excited when we saw another car that also had a tail hanging out of their tank ! The kids in the cars would wave at each other, and the parents would laugh and wave too.
….And writing this just brought back another memory - playing “car bingo” when we were on long road trips.   The game had thick cardboard cards with little plastic sliders that you would use when you spotted something like a train or school.  It really kept us engaged, 

~ Lisa 🚘 ⛱️☀️

[MsStretch]

We had those same car bingo cards, too! 😄

Looked something like this:

------ Car Bingo!