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I had a See 'n Say :)
A Guy
Hehe... I was born in 1960. :)
@ A Guy....
I remember playing with a "The farmer says See N Say" (the cow says...Moooo!) Not the one armed bandit kind they have now, but one with a string that had a little ring on and if you pulled the string too hard it would break and you were doomed.
@ mjf
I was going to through my attic last week and found a box of several of my old albums. At the bottom of the box were those little adapters you needed to play 45's. Wal-Mart had a pallet of portable turntables (the kind that came in a suitcase with a handle) on display before the Holidays.
@ thelma
The other day I was listening to Marlissa sing "Yesterday" on youtube. My 18 year old daughter looking over my shoulder says, "Oh I love that song". I told her that was a Beatle song and she says, who?? :shocked: I can't even "imagine" where we would be without the Beatles.
@ BorisThe Animal
Yes my dear, you missed out on the best of times. So sad....
Playing in the street, badminton, footy, ( hardly any cars and they stopped ! ), reading strip mags together, the milk-, vegetable's and cool- man all with horse and cart, bread delivered each day, freezing cold house, only warm in the kitchen in winter, my toothbrush frosted in the glass, those were the days . Sounds like the middle ages now.
In Holland, they brought out a book about the 50 ties with many pictures last year. It's called, " the golden years" and it has chapters on everything from housing to music, from trains to TV, telephone, hoovers and so on.
It was a massive success no 1 sale for weeks on end!
Hoovers? Here in the States a Hoovers was/is a vacuum cleaner that actually sucked, lasted for generations (my mom pasted hers down to me and she bought it when I was pre-teen. Works great!!)
Remember the TV repair man? Now if the TV breaks you toss it out and go buy a new one. Same with many luxury appliances. Back in the 80's I had bought a Maytag washer/dryer set. Those luxuries lasted 15+ years. Now you're lucky to get one to last 5 years and when you flick the "metal" with your finger they go pinnng! instead of pong..
Speaking of ping pong, how better to spend a rainy day. I was raised in a neighborhood that was 3 blocks by 3 blocks and there were only two ways in or out. Everybody knew everybody and we were all friends even though our ages spanned years. We would all gather at "the 4 corners" where a side road and main road crossed to play kickball for hours. Same corner intersection that would flood during a heavy rain and we would gather with our bikes to have what we called spray races. That's where you ride your bike through the floods as fast as possible to see who could create the biggest spray kind of like a water skier would do but we did it with our bikes.
How about jump rope? Do they even sell those things anymore? Kids now a days have no idea how to have real fun.
thelma, you and I could go on and on and... Hooray for the good 'ol days.
Hah! Al Gore... (pfft! wave of the hand)
WE (us kids who used their imagination) invented the internet! Or was that networking?
I was born in 1941 & we lived on a rural property. We had a 32 volt home lighting plant with batteries & an engine driven generator to charge them. Cooking was on a fast combustion wood stove. Rainwater only for drinking & bore water for washing & bathing. No hot water system & chip heater in the bathroom for heating the bath water.
The phone was magneto type where you cranked the handle & waited for the operator to ask what number you wanted. The radio was a 6 volt wet battery powered console with a AM & short wave bands. Records were played on wind up gramophone at 78 rpm.
It might seem by the standards of today as a terrible life, but it really was very pleasant.