🤔 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.

[MsStretch]

@GailL1 , these X-ray machines were definitely after my time.  Oh my, this must have been one of those "state-of-the-art" "modern-day" (at the time) contraptions when I was still getting fitted. We never had anything so futuristic in the shoes stores I went in. 😁

[papawofboo]

Never seen one or heard of one. Course I grew up in a very small town that didn't have a doctors office much less a shoe store.

[LisaS961881]

….that gave me a giggle - I remember 2nd grader me sitting in the chair at the dentist thinking, “Hmmmm….if this this so safe, then why are they all running out of the room before they do it to me?

[SereneSeagull]

Yes, So true and obvious, and yet we had to listen to elders and not question! 

[MsStretch]

@LisaS961881 , I still think that. Drape me with a leaded heavy bib and then leave, before they zap my mouth, an open orifice to the innards of my body, with those "dangerous, radioactive" x-rays.  Talk about moot points, what good is protecting my chest going to do? 🩻

[GailL1]

Evidently they are still around for history buffs - $ 90 on ebay - Maybe that was when shoes were all made in one country and size was more standardize - I don’t find that anymore.

[SereneSeagull]

I still see these in some stores!

[LeeS4949]

 I'm not exactly sure why but getting this used on me was fun somehow.. I guess its use faded away with family Sunday dinners,Drs who made house calls, and courtesy to strangers.. sad..

[LisaS961881]

    I certainly do remember that “break-in period”!  And I usually chose Mary Janes anyway.   Mary Jane’s and white ankle socks - with or without lace….  

[LeeS4949]

 Oh yes,the twice a year shoe trip.. Once in the fall for a new pair of "clod hopper" boots for winter,and another trip in spring for sneakers.. 

[LisaS961881]

 Does anyone else still have something like this in their home?  Remember when, whether it was a wedding, a nightclub, a restaurant or a bar, you always picked up a matchbook ? 

[LeeS4949]

 Do they even make book matches anymore or have they done away with those as well?

[papawofboo]

I don't think they do. Way back they were a necessary, I remember when you bought a pace of cigarettes they would give you a book.

[LisaS961881]

    Since the Pandemic, I haven’t seen them in restaurants, but I did attend a wedding last June where there were matchbooks as part of the table favors.

    I suppose that there is no longer such a demand for them.

    Smoking was certainly ingrained in mid-century culture though.
    I remember that our circa 1965 living room set had heavy glass ashtrays that matched the marble pattern of the end tables - and neither of my parents smoked.  They were sold as a necessary part of the ensemble. 🥴

    I never smoked, but I always nabbed one of these wherever I went as a souvenir.

    I believe you’re right though.  They are no longer necessary, and in another few years they’ll be gone too!

[DaveMcK]

[LeeS4949]

 Simple is still the best!!!

[DaveMcK]

[papawofboo]

I remember when the one bathroom was an outhouse, taking a bath in a #3 wash tub, being the youngest meant being last to bath. I thought that a phone on the wall was the best of the best. The only net was a fishing net. TV had rabbit ears but couldn't use them because we were too far away from stations. Had an antenna, many was the time that had to go outside to turn it so you could get a picture.

Don't know about you people but I am sure glad for the smart people who advanced us from these parts of the "good ole days".

[DaveMcK]

What is this?

[SereneSeagull]

Dialing those phones to be the whatever number caller to win radio contests, was a pain!

[LeeS4949]

Another example of furniture that died with the arrival of new ideas.. 

[LisaS961881]

[LeeS4949]

 loved that store.. Great milkshakes at their lunch counter too..

[LisaS961881]

    Attending a Pep Rally or a Bonfire ?

[papawofboo]

Neve had either of them but, every Friday when we had a home game there was a parade downtown. Bands marching, cheerleaders cheering and pretty girls in convertibles. Football is king in the south.

The store I worked at had a cotton candy machine. We would give it away. After the parade we were busy as all get out. 

[LeeS4949]

 I wasn't much for pep rallies,no high school spirit,but loved the bonfires.. I really enjoy my wood stove which is a smaller more controlled bonfire if you think about it.. ( ok.. That was a stretch )

[LisaS961881]

    ….not such a stretch - one of the reasons that I enjoy Autumn is that it is the “time to light a fire in the fireplace” season!   Nothing beats raking leaves on a blustery day, chatting with neighbors, puttering around in the garage, then coming indoors to settle down in front of an open fire.
                           🍂 🔥🍎

[papawofboo]

Only 2 good things about ranking leaves. One, jumping on the pile then having to rank again. This would go on until everyone was tired, then came the best part. Burning them, loved that smell. Can't do that anymore. Have to bag them and put on curb, I hate bagging leaves. 

[DaveMcK]

[GailL1]

Never rode one - nothing so nice or build for this purpose was in my stomping ground as a kid.  

But reading about it here - it is a wonder that so many of you survived.