- Pulling taffy
- Putting peanuts in a Coke bottle
- Turning the antenna (a pole outside attached to your house from the ground to above your roofline) to adjust your black and white TV
- Adjusting the tuner on your TV dial and getting up to turn the channel
- 5 cent candy bars
- Listening to Grand Ol' Opry on the radio
- Taking a bath in a tub outside--and sharing the same water with family members
- Riding in a covered wagon (just kidding! seeing if you were paying attention!)
- Watching the black and white test pattern on TV
- 3 hamburgers for 25 cents
- Men wearing dress hats everywhere they went
- Popping popcorn in a pan or in a wire basket over the fire
- Listening in on the party line of your phone
- Staying up til the TV went off at midnight
- Charging your groceries at the grocery store
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
The Olden Days
This morning, I was joined by some great people at breakfast at Living Water. Our conversation turned to the "olden days" and things we remembered (or, in my case...had heard about. Ha!) Here's a list of a few of those things. What do you remember?
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We had to adjust our TV antenna. It was a LONG pole from the ground to above our two story house, one of us girls would go out and turn while the others would yell out the window and tell us when to stop! It was hilarious! We also had a TV dial. Popcorn was always in a pan on the stove until about my Sophmore year of HS when Dad got us a popcorn maker!
Being in Colorado - we also had to shake snow off the antenna in the winter and if the storm was really bad -no TV at all. Another Colorado thing (or I think it was only Colorado) - every kid in school used to get 3 designated "hunting" absences during hunting season, this was above the normal amount of absences...now they just have to usetheir scheduled ones but back then EVERY family depended on getting Elk or Deer for meat during the winter - many years if you didn't get an elk, hardly any meat that winter.
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