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Post by olmucky on Apr 12, 2024 15:39:25 GMT -5
Parents sitting down for the family dinner and dad still wearing his suit from the day at the office.
Airline trips where you had a choice of a full course hot meal served to you (included in the ticket)
Milk delivered?
Diaper service?
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Post by conchydong on Apr 12, 2024 15:42:49 GMT -5
And Charles’ chips. One TV in the house where the family watched together.
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Post by jcbcpa on Apr 12, 2024 15:47:26 GMT -5
Shelling peas while listening to Braves baseball on the radio.
Attic fan on a hot summer night, curtains flapping in the window and waking up cold under the cover the next morning.
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Post by olmucky on Apr 12, 2024 15:48:02 GMT -5
And Charles’ chips. One TV in the house where the family watched together. My dad ordered the big tin! They were good |
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Post by olmucky on Apr 12, 2024 15:50:35 GMT -5
Shelling peas while listening to Braves baseball on the radio. Attic fan on a hot summer night, curtains flapping in the window and waking up cold under the cover the next morning. Still have ours. But disconnected it after the renovation. It would move some serious air.  |
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Post by 4ward on Apr 12, 2024 15:53:25 GMT -5
Shelling peas while listening to Braves baseball on the radio. Attic fan on a hot summer night, curtains flapping in the window and waking up cold under the cover the next morning. Jalousie windows at that. |
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Post by hebegb on Apr 12, 2024 16:00:08 GMT -5
'Merica
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Post by 4ward on Apr 12, 2024 16:05:40 GMT -5
I remember when someone had a car problem, every dad on the street would be out after dinner. Drinkin beer and getting it fixed themselves.
I was 5 in 75 and can still remember thinking it was funny ( all the butt cracks hanging over the engine bay of the Caprice).
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Post by tonyroma on Apr 12, 2024 17:02:04 GMT -5
Parents sitting down for the family dinner and dad still wearing his suit from the day at the office. Airline trips where you had a choice of a full course hot meal served to you (included in the ticket) Milk delivered? Diaper service? Milk delivered? Damn you are seasoned Mucky😉 |
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Post by olmucky on Apr 12, 2024 17:09:45 GMT -5
Parents sitting down for the family dinner and dad still wearing his suit from the day at the office. Airline trips where you had a choice of a full course hot meal served to you (included in the ticket) Milk delivered? Diaper service? Milk delivered? Damn you are seasoned Mucky😉 Lol I figured maybe one on here MIGHT have a recollection |
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Post by gardawg on Apr 12, 2024 17:28:16 GMT -5
American Bandstand ...
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Post by gardawg on Apr 12, 2024 17:30:02 GMT -5
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Post by mackeralsnatcher on Apr 12, 2024 17:33:30 GMT -5
At my age i can remember all of that................I just gotta try real hard  |
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Post by PolarsStepdad on Apr 12, 2024 17:50:58 GMT -5
My dad got his ass beat because he got caught riding the ice wagon by his dad after he was told not to. If he'd have fallen off the wheel would ha e taken his leg off or worse. To this dad rhe refrigerator is the "ice box"
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Post by Mango Man on Apr 12, 2024 17:59:36 GMT -5
I remember having milk delivered...wait...shit...that means I'm almost as old as Mack Snatch.   |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2024 18:24:43 GMT -5
I grew up listening to Dad call the Fridge the “I’ve box”. Actually had an old “ice box” in grandmas basement.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2024 18:25:08 GMT -5
I grew up listening to Dad call the Fridge the “ice box”. Actually had an old “ice box” in grandmas basement. |
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Post by mackeralsnatcher on Apr 12, 2024 18:33:06 GMT -5
How about coal Jeff?
I remember having it delivered into the basement thru a little window.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2024 18:46:12 GMT -5
Yes. Coal. Dad used to shovel it into the basement through the little window and then into the furnace every night. Then I used to help him clean out the “clinkers” every so often.
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Post by richm on Apr 12, 2024 19:46:32 GMT -5
We had soda delivered! They made it down stercstreet.
Dad worked in a plant, home at 3:45 eat quick and go fishing or hunting or fix something around the house.
I remember the milkn boxes at other houses, chicken coops for eggs, big garden, canning fruits and veggies to last the year. Stuff like that.
We ised to go net alewife herring and turn or till it into the garden. Had huge veggies.
They converted from coal when i was ypung. I remeber the delivery truck and the coal chute to the basement and the root cellar. House was an oldtime inn before converted into 3 family house.
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Post by TRTerror on Apr 12, 2024 19:55:07 GMT -5
Damm...
Thought I had Bad Grammar.
How's that new Weed working Bro..?
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Post by richm on Apr 13, 2024 8:22:15 GMT -5
Damm... Thought I had Bad Grammar. How's that new Weed working Bro..? Fat fingering cell phone and cant see the screen well enough to See the letters…. Hate the iphone. If i put auto correct on there it gets really interesting and since use this for work would rather not deal with it. Yeah got readers… |
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Post by gardawg on Apr 13, 2024 8:27:33 GMT -5
 I remember the first school I attended. Two rooms. five rows in one room . each row a grade. three rows in the other room. each row a grade. pot bellied stove for heat. outhouses for toilets manual pump for water (washers were worn so you had to prime the pump when you wanted to use it.) |
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Post by gogittum on Apr 13, 2024 10:30:19 GMT -5
Yes. Coal. Dad used to shovel it into the basement through the little window and then into the furnace every night. Then I used to help him clean out the “clinkers” every so often. Same here for the coal. We had a ground floor basement and they'd carry it in in sacks and dump it in the bin. When I was ~12 or so, my job was to keep the thing stoked. One night mom & step-dad were out and I put too much in and it was really roaring - turning the wallpaper around the upstairs outlets brown. Got scared about a fire, so grabbed a bucket and heaved about a gallon of water into it to slow it down....then turned aside to put the bucket down. Good thing I did. It showed briefly as a black hole in the middle of a raging furnace, then WHOOMPF - that water flashed into steam and blew a stream of firey mess clear across the room. That was the only time I ever remember using the hose in the basement, but I did get it under control before anything else caught fire. Lesson learned and I never did that again. How did we ever survive youth ?? |
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Post by Mango Man on Apr 13, 2024 12:30:36 GMT -5
How about coal Jeff? I remember having it delivered into the basement thru a little window. Nope, before my time. Though my dad did make a fire in our fireplace with coal to show us. |
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Post by stc1993 on Apr 13, 2024 19:04:04 GMT -5
Back when i renovated old houses in Albany the city made us brick up the coal fireplaces.
You could tell the coal ones. They were not as deep as the wood burning ones.
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Post by bswiv on Apr 13, 2024 19:12:13 GMT -5
Shelling peas while listening to Braves baseball on the radio. Attic fan on a hot summer night, curtains flapping in the window and waking up cold under the cover the next morning. Still have ours. But disconnected it after the renovation. It would move some serious air. Attic fan........first three years Louann and I were married one of those was our "air conditioning"............. And we aren't that old......but were that frugal........ |
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Post by jmarkb on Apr 14, 2024 7:18:57 GMT -5
Shelling peas while listening to Braves baseball on the radio. Attic fan on a hot summer night, curtains flapping in the window and waking up cold under the cover the next morning. Me too. The Braves on the radio, and shelling peas. When I was 12-13, my Dad got us a pea shelling machine. One of the greatest inventions known to man. I remember watching TV on an old Black and white model. Some of my best memories are the massive amount of time we spent at my Grandad's ranch/farm. He had about 200 acres of orange grove, and another 150 or so of pasture. It was a great place to be a kid, but he (as well as my parents) also instilled us with a great work ethic, and to treat everyone with respect. |
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Post by Captj on Apr 14, 2024 8:10:06 GMT -5
Good Humor trucks giving us free samples while we were playing BB in the streets (old Miami). No air conditioning. Rabbit ear antennas on our B&W TV's. Living on our bikes. Getting smacked around for fucking up. I could go on and on.
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Post by wynnv on Apr 14, 2024 10:36:41 GMT -5
I bet if I dug around the house enough I could find a Charles Chips tin. And yes I remember milk delivery.
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