Rotary telephones
Sniffing a Mimeograph
Rabbit ears on top of the TV
4 channels on the TV
Waking up in front of the TV when the National Anthem started playing

^^^ I remember Dad having to call the local tv repairman often for our b&w tube tv.
He would take the back cover off and start pulling tubes and plug them into his portable tester.
It never took him very long to find the bad one.

It was usually just one tube and we were good to go.

Our first phone was before we got a rotary. Just pick up the handset and when you heard "Operator" give her the three digit number you were calling.

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the old Bundespost was expensive..

Rika

^^^ What was the lock for? Parental control?

I love to come here when I'm feeling old...and watch you gents reminisce about things I've never experienced as I'm not as old as most of you :p

And when I DON'T feel old...I talk to one of my employees (in their 20s) who wasn't alive for 9/11. :eek

I was in 4th or 5th grade when my Mother told me that I had to start adding these five crazy numbers to every envelope I wanted to send.
I had no idea what they were for.

Mom used a microwave to heat up my baby formula.








































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Eventually the Rexall drug store had a tube testing machine for the poor DIYers that could not afford to pay the guy. They also sold the tubes.

Did you ever do tapping of pay phones?

Around here, back in the 1970's, you could tap a pay phone. Instead of putting a coin in you would tap the hang up lever to make the number up to ten. So if you wanted to enter in the number 7 you would quickly tap the lever 3 times and so on.

... NOT having a TV in the house? Life wuz gud :)...

signed....

Baby Coot

78 records?

Best
Les

^^^ And one of these for the fancy new 45's....:)

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We had a Curtis Mathes console stereo that had a 16 rpm setting on the turntable...

I remember sitting in my grandparents kitchen eating breakfast, and in walked the milk man through the unlocked back door. He opened the fridge, and put in the milk grandma had ordered on his last visit, and he picked up the empties glass milk bottles. He exchanged pleasantries with my grandparents, and my brother and I were introduced.

They had a different man that owned a local farm walk in a deliver the fresh eggs.

Growing up, I never had a house key. We just left the back door unlocked. It was not until I moved away from my parents to become a real adult that I ever had a house key.

I never had a house key either growing up. All doors were always unlocked.

Our school didn't offer any kind of 'hot lunch' until 7th grade. But they did have white and chocolate milk delivered in the (half pint?) glass bottles from the local dairy.

We had to order it ahead week by week. A 5 day service of white was 10 cents total. 5 days of chocolate was 15 cents....which breaks down to 2 cents for each white,3 for chocolate.

I used to do that in the late '70s, early '80s, but with cartons instead of glass. The first few times it was hard to just walk in without knocking, but you got used to it. Sometimes you got an unexpected surprise, as someone might just be starting their day. Some surprises were very memorable!;)

Best
Les

My Dad taking tubes to tested (for TV) at the hardware store.
Hot Dog Day at school -- Grape and Orange Fanta

Our glass bottles of milk at grade school were the type with the round cardboard disc pushed in the top. I remember having to pry up the tab in the center and pull it up. No foil over the top.

I remember walking along the side of the road, looking for glass pop bottles. They were worth 2 cents each at the grocery store. It was easy to find enough to buy some candy. If we scrounged further and looked for a couple of days, we could find enough to go to the Saturday morning matinee movies at the theater. We would get admission for 25 cents. Some candy for 25 cents, and see two cartoons, the newsreels, another episode of the serial, then two movies.

We we left, we got on out unlocked bikes and pedaled home.