🤔 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]

[MsStretch]

Next, your grandson will be asking “What is film?”

[SereneSeagull]

They contained things other than film! ☮️ 😉

[LeeS4949]

 So useful in so many ways

[LisaS961881]

   We had an Atomic Clock in our living room when I was a kid,  I wish I had held onto this - it literally shouts, “ MID CENTURY”!  (…or maybe “Sputnik” 😊)

   ~ Lisa 🙋🩵 

[SereneSeagull]

Bet these are now sought after!

[DaveMcK]

[SereneSeagull]

Are Jax still around now?  With all the video games, I wonder!

[LisaS961881]

   Serene Seagull,

       Yup, jacks are still around! Amazon has quite a variety! 

        I’ve used jacks, marbles, pick up sticks, dominoes, barrel of monkeys, playing cards, Uno cards, and chalk (hopscotch) as stocking stuffers for years! 🤶. Maybe it was just the novelty of these simple games, but they never “flopped”. 😇. 

         The one simple toy I enjoyed, but just balk at buying (because I remember when they were 10 cents at Woolworths, and now they are 10 dollars!) are those little magnetic black and white Scottie dogs.  Remember those?  

           Geez…..we really did know how to make our own fun!   ….without batteries or bytes!

    ~ Lisa 🧸📕🪁🛼🎲

[SereneSeagull]

Yes, to all of those! 

[LisaS961881]

[LeeS4949]

II remember the Woolworth lunch counter vividly.. My sister used to take me there after the Roy Rogers double feature at the movie theater on Saturdays..

[LisaS961881]

     Oh gosh Lee - a Roy Rogers double feature!  Memories of kinder, gentler times for sure! 

      I distinctly remember the stools and the counter, as well as the typed and ever-changing menu.  

     Eventually, my Woolworths store disappeared, along with my favorite small department store that had an elevator operator who always wore a green vest and a smile.  Yet, years later, Woolworths wiggled itself into my foggy memory!  It was when I was in my early twenties, watching an adaptation of a Miss Marple mystery on TV.  I couldn’t figure out why the maid in Bertram’s Hotel seemed so familiar to me…..then I realized that the bandette that the maid wore on her head was just like the one that the waitress at Woolworths had worn all those years ago!  ….that little adornment, the crisp white collar and the miraculously clean apron!

     Happy Trails Everyone!

…a quick addendum - I just found a photo of those elevator doors that simply fascinated my five-year-old self! 

          ~ Lisa 🙋🩵 🐴 

[LeeS4949]

 There were 3 major dept stores in the town I grew up in. Grants,Freezes,and Woolworth. Freezes had the elevator with the nice man who announced the floors and what was on them.. They also had the best Santas every December.. Grants had the best toy selection and Woolworth had the best lunch counter.. Grrrrrrreat milkshakes.. 

[DaveMcK]

[papawofboo]

When I was a child we didn't do the sprinkler, part of the reason why is because of that other picture you posted that had 2 wheels and rotating blades. The other reason was it cost and well kept lawn's weren't that important.

Now my children and their friends did it all the time. 

[LisaS961881]

   I certainly do!  Lots of fun - and I remember that once my Mom told me to finish my lollipop first before running in the sprinkler, or I’d “fall and poke a hole through” the roof of my mouth ! 😇. I can also remember being admonished, whether within the vicinity of a sprinkler or not, to never run with scissors or a pencil, or a similar disfiguring fate would befall me ! 🫠

   ~ Lisa 🏖️☘️☀️🍂

[DaveMcK]

[LeeS4949]

 perfect for those ghastly TV dinners..

[MsStretch]

@LeeS4949 , yes! Swanson, weren’t they? In those aluminum (tin?) trays with even a dessert. Gawd, they were terrible! 😝 I remember the mashed potatoes were pure grit.

[SereneSeagull]

Yes, I was going to say something about those as well.  Smiled when I saw your comment

[LeeS4949]

 Hard to believe something as awful as those things now jar loose a good memory or 2 lol.. 

[SereneSeagull]

The reveal after peeling back foil

[MsStretch]

@SereneSeagull , you kept hoping the peel-back would reveal something tasty and appetizing, but deep down, we all knew better.

Ah, well, we could always dream. 

[SereneSeagull]

I do remember burning my tongue on the cooked apples!

[DaveMcK]

[SereneSeagull]

They were part of the furniture. 

[LeeS4949]

 Oh yes!!!!  And don't forget the "rabbit ears".. (and the eventual tin foil on them )

[SereneSeagull]

And banging on the console when neither the ears or foil did the trick!

[DaveMcK]