🤔 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.

[LisaS961881]

Never once did I see someone’s head pop up with an apple clenched in their teeth!
 

…and I had forgotten about the Cake Walk.  We had that too!  I remember the winner receiving a bag of treats during our Halloween Carnival - not a cake.

    I also remember “Pin the wart on the Witch”, and another game played with a blindfold called “Dracula’s Dinner”. I still recall being led, while blindfolded, up to a table and being told that Dracula had prepared a feast for me.  I was just so delightfully creeped out as I touched ‘witch’s eyeballs’ (oiled grapes), ‘Frankenstein’s fingers’ (link sausages), ‘Zombie brains’ (mashed potatoes’, and such!

…..🍂🎃

[LeeS4949]

 I could never get an apple out of the tub.. Proof positive that my mouth wasnt nearly as big as my sister said it was.. 

[LisaS961881]

    ….and I hope you told her so! 😊

     I never nabbed an apple either - but I remember it being kind of like playing bumper cars with our heads with the added bonus of getting soaking wet - and I loved every minute of it! 🎃

[LeeS4949]

 Yesss lol.. Bumper cars with our heads!!!! Exactly.. 🤣

[DaveMcK]

[DaveMcK]

[LeeS4949]

 And they seemed to work fine.. Not sure why we needed to go digital..

[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!