🤔 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.

[SereneSeagull]

Very cool @MsStretch  I’ve always wanted to see people dress up the strip malls, but like you say, it was like magic appearing the next day!  

Then maybe you would remember decades ago the Hecht Company or Woodward and Lothrop (‘Woodies as everyone called it) in downtown DC, with the big plate windows on the buildings all dressed up with the holiday scenes inside of them.  Many with mechanical moving decorations.  

[papawofboo]

 My town looked like this from weekend after T/giving until a few days after New Years. 

The only changes that I liked was the parking. If I didn't get it right on the first try then I was in trouble.

[SereneSeagull]

Yes!  Mine does that!  Not as elaborate as this picture, though.  As well as strip-malls do it on the poles of the parking lots area.  Very festive.

[papawofboo]

Christmas wasn't put out until the day after T/giving. All the yard decorations were made of wood.

And best of all, everyone said "Merry Christmas."

[LisaS961881]

      My wood Santa is still standing after all these years, and just needed a bit of touch-up paint !

[SereneSeagull]

Wow!  Very tall too!

[SereneSeagull]

It’s now after Halloween it seems when things get put out in the stores for the holiday season.  I dont mind saying Happy Holidays as it reflects our wonderful melting pot of holidays around the time.

[DaveMcK]

[papawofboo]

I bought one after I go married. And yes,the grandkids loved to roll it up and down. Some things never change.

[SereneSeagull]

So true!

[Vexed]

 Loved those, but we never had one. Would play with them whenever we could go to a store. (Then get shushed away by an employee.)

[SereneSeagull]

Nice!  Fun part as a kid rolling those up and down 

[DaveMcK]

[SereneSeagull]

I have my mother’s old one still, and tend to prefer it over the newer ones I was given over the years.  That, and a potato masher that were hers are some of my most used items from her .  I decided not to take the old Pressure cooker that was her mother’s though!

Edit to add — As a kid we used to put this on our head and pretend we were space creatures!

[LeeS4949]

 Hard to have pasta without it.. Thanks Dave

[LisaS961881]

     Anyone else remember these?  Or the church choir?

[Vexed]

 Yep, I remember them. Also remember some melted unrecognizable globs in the Christmas box. 😊

[DaveMcK]

[DaveMcK]

[WebWiseWoman]

I didn't want to post this response because it's personally abhorrent to me, as my 2 youngest daughters, their step-sis, and a cousin were at 1-Oct Route 91, with step-sis wounded... but for those who have re-visited, it's an AR-15 firing pin.

#VegasStrong

[Vexed]

Sorry for the memory this brought @WebWiseWoman 

[WebWiseWoman]

Thank you for the kind thought...

Here's something I didn't know until 1-Oct happened: it's never a memory; it becomes part of life day after day after day... it changes every interaction, every "normal" activity, every thought... 

I hope some will recognize we may never know what others have experienced, so perhaps we can be more cognizant with our thoughts and deeds, more careful of others feelings and experiences, whether we know about them or not.

[SereneSeagull]

@WebWiseWoman , So sorry to hear that. Can’t stand the use of those myself.  Would’ve never guessed it was that. 

[WebWiseWoman]

Thank you for the kind thought...

Here's something I didn't know until 1-Oct happened: it's never a memory; it becomes part of life day after day after day... it changes every interaction, every "normal" activity, every thought... 

I hope some will recognize we may never know what others have experienced, so perhaps we can be more cognizant with our thoughts and deeds, more careful of others feelings and experiences, whether we know about them or not.

[SereneSeagull]

Yes. Familiar with similar scenario as far as day in/day out  person never the same after.  Different method.   other car texting while driving. Violent death. Forever changed. It’s like  Dominoes 

[WebWiseWoman]

Yes, dominoes, perfect descriptor...

[LisaS961881]

   My jaw just dropped!  I just googled it - am speechless.

    Thank you for letting us all know. 🙏

[Vexed]

 As with everyone,  I am confused.

 It doesn't look like it has the ability to push or extend as in a probe.

 The only thing I could think of was old nail or pin type thingies that could be used to temporarily hold something together while you put together the rest of it, then could easily be pulled out with a claw hammer (we usually used long smaller nails). But, in a way it seemed a bit too fragile. 

 Hope he gives in and tells us.

[SereneSeagull]

I came back to this pic to see if the answer had been revealed as well.  @DaveMcK   What is this?

[papawofboo]

Looks like you stumped us. What is it?