🤔 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]

[papawofboo]

Isn't this a repeat?

[GailL1]

Isn’t that thing a drill ?  I think I may even have one.

[SereneSeagull]

Yes I believe it’s a drill as well.

[LisaS961881]

     My grandmother and my Great Aunt each had one of these.  I don’t need one.

[LeeS4949]

 ok.. I give up.. Not a clue.. I am ,as many of my friends have long suspected,clueless..🙃

[LisaS961881]

    Lee,

       You just gave me my morning laugh!  Unless you watched it being used as I did, I truly don't know how anyone could figure what it is just by looking at it.

        It was used to lift the jars out of the hot water during the canning process.  Hence, sadly I don’t need one.  I vowed to at least attempt to “put up some preserves” once I retired, but have not done so.

   🙋🍂

[DaveMcK]

Mine: Sometimes you feel like a nut...sometimes you don't!

[LisaS961881]

….mine is this entire jingle!

[LisaS961881]

    ….oops!  I forgot this one which I remember simply fascinated me when I was watching it!

      “ In the valley of the jolly….

[Vexed]

 Love those @LisaS961881 thanks. 

Remember the old Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz?

[papawofboo]

This was the first that came to mind. Next in line was their "I can't believe I ate the whole thing."

And I can still see that little older lady saying, "Where is the meat."

[LisaS961881]

    I sure do!  Another one of my favorites!

[GailL1]

I knew I had seen it somewhere - what an awful job when there was no AC - sometimes not even a fan.  But at least the flies were under control since it was done inside of the home in my case.

But I am not sure that was the absolute worse - Meaning, those HOT, STEAMY, FLY INFESTED summer days at the public cannery - These were like real life gossip mills and why mothers thought the kids would love it to go play while they canned is beyond me.  It was H*LL.

Thanks but NO thanks for the memory - now I will stuff it back down again - Never to remember that history.  

EDITED TO ADD - just buy a kit to do your preserving - see, this thing is still around and for the same purpose.  This one was from ACE Hardware.

 ACE Hardware - Kilner Regular Mouth Preserving Starter Set 13.5 oz 8 pc 

I understand why @LeeS4949  was clueless - back then it was pretty much “women’s work” since it did involve food prep - bout the only thing my Dad did was to get us to the cannery and do some of the heavy lifting and then home again.  

[LisaS961881]

[MsStretch]

Betty White and Lorne Greene!

[LisaS961881]

   Yup!  And I chose this photo because it was their 1965 appearance and five year-old me was down there on the street somewhere! 

    My clearest memory is of seeing Santa at the end of the parade.  To this day I remember thinking, “There he is!  And mean old Marcy told us that there was no Santa! I’ll show her!”  

     By the time I saw mean old Fourth Grade Marcy again, her mother had discovered what she had told all of the younger neighborhood kids, and then somehow Marcy miraculously became a Santa convert and readily agreed with me that there was indeed a Santa Claus! ) 🤶

      And the float I remember is Elsie the Cow.  I swear there was an Elsie the Cow, and I was enthralled because I used to visit the small Dairy Farm that was next to our suburban neighborhood just to see the cows.

….. 🦃🍂🤶

[SereneSeagull]

Bright and early just to make sure I saw this when it came on TV every year!  

[DaveMcK]

[SereneSeagull]

We have one, but I tend to like using a wire whisk, fork, or spoon.

[Vexed]

 I remember those. We finally had one at one point. Mostly it was using a spoon. 😊

[DaveMcK]

[LeeS4949]

 Looks alot like mine only mine isnt nearly as organized

[LisaS961881]

Lee, I was just about to write, “Remember it? I still have it!” when I saw your post.

I was gifted with a new wrench and socket set a few years ago, but I usually use the one that was my Dad’s which is very similar to the one Dave posted.

Thanks Dave!

[DaveMcK]

[GailL1]

I will have to admit that I have never seen one of these.  In fact, I don’t even remember having toast as a kid - bread for breakfast was biscuits and for dinner, cornbread.  Did I even have a sandwich as a kid - yes, a tomato sandwich - toasted, never.  

Guess I lead a sheltered life in some respects.  This will be a good one to add to my grandkid’s 1923-1973 What’s This Game.  

[papawofboo]

We didn't have a toaster, but what was done was, make the sandwich then put it in a skillet on the stove and flip it one time.

Another thing that was done, put some butter on bread, put in oven and let it melt.

[LeeS4949]

  a toaster works for me.. saw one in an old hunting camp looked something like that..I was going to guess something to take wrinkles out of clothes... 

[Vexed]

Kinda looks like a toaster that I have seen. 

[papawofboo]

I think you are right. Think I saw something like it at an old soda fountain where they toasted bread for their sandwiched.