What is something from your youth

[Rightguide]

Going out all day to mess around with childhood friends and your parents had no idea or concern about where you were or what you were doing. The only rule was to be back for dinner. Now they plant a phone with GPS on the kid.

Yep, at age ten after chores on Saturday morning, we would be on our bikes and miles from home, camping, shooting bb guns in the canyons, or playing a Little League game in another neighborhood across town. Mothers today are afraid to let their ten-year-olds out of their sight, let alone ten miles for home.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Once upon a time, the word "dial" in connection with telephones actually meant something non-metaphorical. 911 was chosen as the emergency-services number because it was easy to dial quickly and difficult to dial by accident.

 

[Rightguide]

Once upon a time, the word "dial" in connection with telephones actually meant something non-metaphorical. 911 was chosen as the emergency-services number because it was easy to dial quickly and difficult to dial by accident.

...or that telephone prefixes were two number letter representations.

 

[KingOrfeo]

...or that telephone prefixes were two number letter representations.

That was before even my time, but I've read about it, in an SF story called "Mugwump 5," I believe.

 

[ryan8558]

duck and cover drills to help you survive a nuclear blast.

 

[ryan8558]

party lines

 

[Rightguide]

That was before even my time, but I've read about it, in an SF story called "Mugwump 5," I believe.

I remember one starting GRidley-7---and another COgress-8---

 

[oggbashan]

Telephones with dials?

Our telephone, on a party line - wait for rings in sets of three for us - didn't have a dial. It was wall mounted with a crank handle on the side. You lifted the receiver, cranked frantically, and hoped the operator would answer. You then asked for the number you wanted such as Spring Park ****.

It was replaced, still on a party line, by a telephone with an address book in a drawer underneath. It didn't have a dial but just lifting the receiver alerted the operator.

Three years later? A similar phone with a dial...

But when I started work I was back to the original model of phone for my office number.

 

[Rightguide]

Telephones with dials?

Our telephone, on a party line - wait for rings in sets of three for us - didn't have a dial. It was wall mounted with a crank handle on the side. You lifted the receiver, cranked frantically, and hoped the operator would answer. You then asked for the number you wanted such as Spring Park ****.

It was replaced, still on a party line, by a telephone with an address book in a drawer underneath. It didn't have a dial but just lifting the receiver alerted the operator.

Three years later? A similar phone with a dial...

But when I started work I was back to the original model of phone for my office number.

My grandmother used to have one of those crank type phones.

 

[RobDownSouth]

My Dad had a Nash Rambler that had a push button shifter. Forget the year.

I stand corrected. My aunt didn't have a push-button Chevy. My gearhead brother just texted me and said she had a 1962 Nash Rambler.

 

[Rightguide]

I stand corrected. My aunt didn't have a push-button Chevy. My gearhead brother just texted me and said she had a 1962 Nash Rambler.

That could have been the same year.

 

[ryan8558]

Back in the day, my girlfriend had one of these

 

[Christobal]

Drive in movies. It was fun in general and then if you were on a date and things were getting more hot and heavy. Well we move into the back seat. All cars were much bigger then.You could lay down all the way in the them. Then we would fog up the window just from us breathing so heavy from just the excitement of us other.

 

[ryan8558]

and sometimes you would fall asleep and then get jarred awake by some guy tapping your window telling you it's time to get her home!!!

 

[Colonel Hogan]

that your children , or grandkids will never understand or appreciate?

When I was in school if it was a beautiful day outside. Our teacher would open the back door, most of the rooms had a door that opened to outside, and windows that opened. And we would go out and have class on the grass outside.
The one day I went to pick up my Stepson from school. It was like going to a prison. Quite depressing. No matter who we elect or how the world changes, I do not think we will ever get back to that.

2nd would be a Manual transmission. I still remember the ones on the column. That was a trip to drive one of them. I do not think they even make them anymore?

So what is something from your youth growing up ?

And many times those open windows and doors would not be enough to keep the non air-conditioned building from being stifling in late spring. Many public buildings were not air-conditioned, and some of those that were, like movie theaters and restaurants would advertise that fact on their storefronts as a "feature."

 

[Colonel Hogan]

...or that telephone prefixes were two number letter representations.

I can remember when BOTH zip codes and area codes were brand new.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I can remember when BOTH zip codes and area codes were brand new.

I googled that. I wasn't born yet

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Polio. I remember as a kid just starting elementary school, our next door neighbor Mr. Hartlage had it. Also remember taking the oral vaccine on sugar cubes.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

I googled that. I wasn't born yet

I should have added that it was tough getting mail from the Pony Express. The horses would invariably shit in the yard.

 

[ryan8558]

small pox vaccinations. remember wearing the little plastic shield over the scab for a couple of weeks.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Drive in movies. It was fun in general and then if you were on a date and things were getting more hot and heavy. Well we move into the back seat. All cars were much bigger then.You could lay down all the way in the them. Then we would fog up the window just from us breathing so heavy from just the excitement of us other.

There was a time -- mainly the late '40s and the '50s -- when a drive-in theater was known as the "passion pit."

 

[KingOrfeo]

small pox vaccinations. remember wearing the little plastic shield over the scab for a couple of weeks.

I think people still get those, but as babies, so we wouldn't remember.

 

[KingOrfeo]

I should have added that it was tough getting mail from the Pony Express. The horses would invariably shit in the yard.

So old-fashioned! Why didn't you use the telegraph?!

 

[Wrong Element]

Going out all day to mess around with childhood friends and your parents had no idea or concern about where you were or what you were doing. The only rule was to be back for dinner. Now they plant a phone with GPS on the kid.

That was pretty much what my youth was like. Of course, I was 10 years old before the last of my siblings was out of diapers. My mother couldn't have kept an eye on us even if she had been so inclined.

Once upon a time, the word "dial" in connection with telephones actually meant something non-metaphorical. 911 was chosen as the emergency-services number because it was easy to dial quickly and difficult to dial by accident.

You can always tell how significant your part of the country was in the mid-20th century by its legacy area code. The more populous areas had the codes that were easiest to dial, which is why New York City had 212, the easiest to dial of all.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

My school produced a minstrel show (my ma was in it). I offered the new principal photos of the cast in black face (for the diamond anniversary) and she shit her pants.