🤔 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.

[GailL1]

Actually,I just replaced my very very old HVAC unit in my basement that had one of these old types.  The unit never got ran very much being in a daylight basement so it lasted and lasted - actually still OK when I replaced it - thought I better go ahead and do it because the new ones with the new type refrigerant cost more.  Now I understand that this conversion might be delayed by the new Administration.  Oh well, its done now.

The only problem that I ever had with this thermostat was that it was too high for me since I am very short - so I had to have a ladder to adjust it.  But I am use to things like that - every room has a ladder - not too high but does give that extra 12”.  

[LisaS961881]

      Your post reminded me of a ritual at the Parochial school that I attended so many years ago.  From First through Eighth grade, we were assigned our place in line by height.  I was always first. 
 (Even when I inhaled and held my breath so that maybe, just once, I’d be second in line, but nope - those nuns weren’t having it. 🥴).  Today, when inhaling, I am a towering 5’4”. 👍

[LisaS961881]

    I only know what this is because I used it with supervision/coaching from my Dad and then my HS boyfriend! 😊

[LeeS4949]

 Oh yes,back in the days when we worked on our own vehicles.. I still have one or two rattling around in the bottom of my tool box..

[LisaS961881]

   Gosh yes, Lee!

    ….back when everyone tinkered with their cars and every garage had a shop manual for every car that they owned as well as a Chiltons Manual for good measure.

[DaveMcK]

[LeeS4949]

 Still one of the most reliable can openers out there.. I never had much use for a cork screw.. (isnt wine all twist off tops now? my iced tea is)

[ChasKy53]

I still have the Better Homes and Gardens 'New Cookbook' shown. It is not-so-new anymore, just like me. LOL!

[DaveMcK]

[papawofboo]

When did you sneak in my house and take this picture?

[SereneSeagull]

That and Fannie Farmer!

[LeeS4949]

 I actually have one of those ! (but dont tell "the guys". If they found out Id probably get kicked out of the "guy club" and have to turn in my secret decoder ring.)

[LisaS961881]

    Lee,

         Thanks for the smile!  I still have mine too, but it’s in rougher shape than the one pictured!  😇 (….and you are quite welcome in this club! )

[LeeS4949]

  😊  

[DaveMcK]

[SereneSeagull]

Glue!

[DaveMcK]

[LisaS961881]

   Did anyone else have these before they were banned almost everywhere?

        😇

[GailL1]

I have NEVER seen or heard about these - we were pretty poor and lived way out on a farm so no real stores around - Katz Store?  what;’s that?   But we did do a lot of damage to ourselves, others and property with homemade sling shots.  When we got older, everybody did get a BB gun or at least a hand-me-down.

Bikes were even a rarity until later on when the roads got paved.

Yep - a different beginning.  Trying to remember when we got indoor plumbing.  

[LeeS4949]

  Yessss ! The old Red Ryder BB guns.. Most all of us kids had one eventually.. I made my own sling shot out of an old inner tube cut into strips ( remember those,before tubeless tires? ) and a Y shaped piece of oak.. I discovered later that by combining 2 strips of tube on each side and weaving them together I could increase the muzzle velocity of my slingshot dramatically.. Possibly my first introduction into the physical sciences.

[LisaS961881]

   Well Gail, we always had indoor plumbing, but every summer for about five years, I went to a three week “sleep away” camp that had horseback riding, swimming, crafts, and latrines!

    ….and I loved it! 🙋

[MsStretch]

I don't remember Katz Store, either, but homemade slingshots?  Oh, yes!  We used to hold battles with those.  What bad could happen with slinging gravel and rocks at each other?  I remember making some with the elastic bands from our underwear.  That definitely didn't go well with Mom. 😠  

[LisaS961881]

      Good times - we really knew how to make our own fun! 

[WebWiseWoman]

umm, ya, every kid on our block owned at least one set (think they were maybe 50 cents at the Katz store down the street).

I bet if you did an x-ray on half of us on our forearms you'd see the reminders we were left with...

[LisaS961881]

…. I giggled at your “x-ray” comment!  
     Yup, in those days, we just picked ourselves up off the ground, dusted off, and if we still had all of our teeth, we just kept on playing!  As Lee and Gail mentioned, what’s a few bruises or stitches when we were having so much fun! 😉

    (Didn’t have a Katz Store either though.)

[LeeS4949]

 I have to say you stumped me with that one lol.. I do remember lawn jarts tho.. 😊

[SereneSeagull]

Those Jarts lawn Darts were something!  How in the world?  

[LisaS961881]

    Yup!  What were they thinking?

     We had Jarts, but could only play with those while my Dad was working in the yard, and we were told to not throw them “straight up in the air”…..smart guy!  😉

[LisaS961881]

    Lee, 

        I did wonder if anyone would remember because these were taken off the market in just a couple of months.  While they were loads of fun, placing heavy swinging glass balls in the hands of eleven year olds did not end well. 🥴. I also remember that they later came out with a version that had lighter plastic balls, but that was sort of like playing badminton with a feather duster! 

[LeeS4949]

 lol,love the analogy.. A feather duster wasn't much good for anything other than what it was invented for.. I guess back, especially  in my single digit years, once the danger of something was removed so was most of my interest in it..