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Title: If your over forty......... Post by TerryS on Dec 2nd, 2002, 4:40pm Well, you are over forty (or close to it) if you get this. You lived as a child in the 50s or the 60s. Looking back, it's hard to believe that we have lived as long as we have................. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat. Our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paint. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors, or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets. (Not to mention hitchhiking to town as a young kid!) We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors! We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then rode down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times we learned to solve the problem. We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day. No cell phones. Unthinkable! We played dodgeball and sometimes the ball would really hurt. We got cut and broke bones and broke teeth and there were no law suits from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame but us. Remember accidents? We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it. We ate cupcakes, bread and butter,and drank sugar soda but we were never overweight.... .....we were always outside playing. We shared one grape soda with four friends, from one bottle and no one died from this? We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X Boxes, video games at all, 99 channels on cable, video tape movies, surround sound, personal cellular phones, Personal Computers, internet chat rooms, ...........we had friends. We went outside and found them. We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rung the bell or just walked in and talked to them. Imagine such a thing. Without asking a parent! By ourselves! Out there in the cold cruel world! Without a guardian. How did we do it? We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever. Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment..... Some students weren't as smart as others so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade.....Horrors! Tests were not adjusted for any reason. Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. No one to hide behind. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law, imagine that! This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years has been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all. And you're one of them. |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by echo on Dec 2nd, 2002, 4:50pm We must have lived in the same neighborhood. I do worry about the future for those being raised now. No spelling bees -- too stressful. How will they learn to deal with stressful situations and someone being smarter than them. Almost impossible to get the kids to stay outside on a nice day. Seems like their imagination has been limited to what is given them by video games. I remember leaving the house after breakfast, heading to several friends houses and all of us taking off on our bikes until dinner time. There were days we were 10 miles from home, no one knew where we were. When asked, we would say, no one got overly excited about it. We were home safe and sound, tired, hungry, dirty, and ready to set out for the next adventure. Then again -- I grew up with one TV station to watch, and one AM radio channel. |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by domm on Dec 2nd, 2002, 4:51pm Terry - thanks for the memories. We went out in the morning and didn't make it home til dinner time. God help you if you missed dinner.....cuz Mom was gonna kill ya. It still amazes me that todays HS graduate has no inkling of B&W TV, JFK, Nixon, Vietnam, life without a computer, landing on the moon, etc. I guess you just had to be there. Thanks again from one old fart to another domm |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by TerryS on Dec 2nd, 2002, 6:20pm Yeah I grew up playing little league bassball building forts in the woods and sleeping in them, swimimg down at the creek riding my bike everywhere and fishing with my dad. I do think they were the best years of my life, ( No Stress ) just happy times. Thanks all, TerryS |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by suzy617 on Dec 2nd, 2002, 6:26pm When I was a teenager I hitchhiked everywhere all the time. It was alot better then waiting for the bus. Nobody really ever got creepy with me and I'm still here. Now adays, I'd kill my kids if they ever did that! Ok, feeling old now, got to go take a nap, LOL ;D suzy |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by cbolony on Dec 2nd, 2002, 6:35pm Terry thanks for the memories they we great years |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by Jackie on Dec 2nd, 2002, 6:38pm Thanks for the walk down memory lane, Terry.. :) Yes....those were the good old days!! And we're smarter, better people, harder working and more responsible because of those days :D I sometimes wonder what the kids of today will have to reflect on..... ::) Scares me :-/ I must be getting to be an old fart.... ;D Jacks 8) |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by cootie on Dec 2nd, 2002, 7:31pm I used ta walk ta football games and out where my horse was boarded several miles by myself day and nite and walk to the fairs.....now in our neighborhood even tho it's in the 'boonies' the neighbor girl left the fair on foot 'n got picked up and hacked ta pieces by a creep she knew that lived nearby also...never found all of her....things don't seem ta be the same anymore....either that or I was jus lucky ?? |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by BobG on Dec 2nd, 2002, 8:11pm Ahaa yes........great growing up in the 50's and 60's. Youg people today are lazy, ignorant and can only say gimme gimme gimme. Who the hell raised this today's generation? |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by kim on Dec 2nd, 2002, 8:52pm Smiling Terry at the memories....Yup, we took off at sunup on bikes and every day was an adventure. I remember playing baseball (hardball - LOL!) and my mom calling me in for lunch was TORTURE. I remember teaching my neighbor how to play "catch", LOL, I informed her that an incoming "hard ball" was on it's way. Her father did not appeciate the dentist bill ??? LOL. We played Ring a Levio, kick the can, tore up the neighborhood! We had fist fights, fought mighty battles, and later belly laughed till it hurt. We survived. Each day was a surprise and a mystery. Got some kiddos now. It's different. When I see a kid riding his bike along a busy road all alone, I wonder for his safety and at the same time I feel that pull from my past. It's a different time. What a luxury it was and we did not even know it!!!! We must now make "appointments" for our kids to get together. When you suggest that the kids go bike riding, they look at you like you just committed them. :D Well, I gotta admit, I'm a hard ass and on a sunny delirious day, I WILL "force" them to get on the bikes and see what is still to see. They can thank me later :) |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by Margi on Dec 2nd, 2002, 9:10pm Thanks, Terry - that brought on a serious case of the warm and fuzzies. ;) My banana bike could FLY, man. Then my mom got it converted to a 3-speed (instead of the pedal brakes, damn near killed myself with my new hand brakes!). But I did actually survive my childhood withOUT helmets, seat belts or kneepads. Amazing. |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by Jabeen on Dec 2nd, 2002, 9:16pm Someone had sent that to me already and it really did ring true. But beyond that-I brought my children home from the hospital in my arms, no mandatory car seat and they fed them in those flimsy little infant seats that I sat on my counter-not belted in. So much has changed since then! Also-did you guys run behind the DDT truck as they sprayed for mosquitos?? Thats the one that really kills me! :) :) :) |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by Charlie on Dec 3rd, 2002, 12:39am That was fun Terry. I'm one of the goofs who came home in the dark, black and blue, nail in my foot, snake in my pocket, bee sting, burdocks in my hair, eating a Chunky, while engaging in our nightly horse chestnut war. Them there was them daze. Today, everyone is terrified because they watch TV news, which here, tries to scare the beejesus out of parents who make kids even more frightened. No matter what you see on the tube, there are fewer per capita crimes of almost all kinds. The rate of kidnapped and molested children is lower than ever. No one will believe this because it isn't said on TV. What a shame. Sorry but you know me. I can't leave this kind of thing alone. Thanks Terry. Charlie |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by BobG on Dec 3rd, 2002, 1:09am Yer right Charlie Fear, violence, murder, rape, child molestation, war sells big time. Kids getting straight A’s in school are ignored. No money in it. Who's running the news organizations and producing "kids" cartoon shows these days? Those of the generation that grew up in the 50's and 60's. Yes, I am one of those that grew up in the 50's and 60's and I'm not too proud of my generation. My generation is also running Arthur Anderson and Enron. And W is from my generation and wants to take us to Iraq for the big oil companies. |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by Ted on Dec 3rd, 2002, 1:37am Feel better about your generation, Bob. Before yours it was the laissez-faire economists leaving everyone to Darwinian social systems. It was blacks at the back of the bus. It was blacks not eating at counters. Segregated fountains. Segreagated schools. Folks starving in the Appalachias, Selma, Washington DC. There was a war that the soldiers were spit upon unnecessarily, but also the war needed to be stopped. There were unequal opportunities for women, compared to men. The list goes on big time. But those Enron/Arthur Anderson types have managed to dimish your generation as one of a bunch of liberal whiners that didn't do shit for this country. Well, the liberal whiners stole this country from the laissez-faire economists. The white supremacists. The anti-women-working/wearing pants crowd. The war industrial complex. From all the bastards trying to take the country back these days. All those areas still need work. But before your generation, very few were working on it or cared. Yours, despite the rhetoric out there, was a generation of saints-on-acid. :-) |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by Charlie on Dec 3rd, 2002, 6:58am Well done Ted. Something else to consider is that the World War Two generation, those who grew up in the depression and fought, worked, or sacrificed for the cause, were the ones who became the liberals. These voters kept the Democrats in control of Congress from the 1950s through the 1990s. Patriotic veterans were the backbone of liberal thought of the time, not liberal radicals. It was our civic minded parents who were responsible for most of what you said Ted. Perhaps after seeing the horrors of war, liberalism looked pretty damn good. Charlie |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by catlind on Dec 3rd, 2002, 4:36pm Geez, where the hell did I grow up.... LOL I'm not over 40 but that's how my childhood was. Charlie, I had completely forgotten about chunkies!!! Man they were good. Miss them terrible. I still remember at age 9 or 10 standing holding the reset button on the B&W TV while we watched Elvis' last concert. Bike riding was the only means of transportation, as we didn't consider foot transport LOL. I lived by the river, and we woke up and headed across the road and swam til November LOL. I still remember the contests to see who would be the first one in for the year. I won by going in during March before the ice flows came down from the lakes. We played outside all year long....winter didn't slow us down one bit. My folks never once worried about us walking the highway by ourselves down to the park 1/2 mile away. The didn't stop and think twice as we all trooped out to the bush lots behind the fields. Only time Mom ever got upset was when we were caught chopping steps with an axe in Old Mr. West's 100 year old black walnut. That and the time we brought home the wild dog...but that's another story. We created our own games to play, Mr. Eberts wife will never forgive him for giving us that hand pully. It made for a great ride down from the top of the oak tree in the back yard. We built our own rafts out of scraps instead of cars. That was all great til we decided to add a chair and "seat belt" to one. We didn't know much about physics, but we learned that when you knot the red head kid into the lawn chair at one end and shove off, the raft will tip over! Of course we caught royal hell after we all stopped laughing and realized that Greg wasn't coming up! Ooops, shouldn't have tied that knot so tight. Oh and hunting....each other! Now that was fun. Of course Mom didn't think so but she didn't find out til we were grown LOL. You'd be amazed at the power of green bubble yum in a pellet gun! I'm not even 40 yet and I lived all those things. I wonder what my kids will do .... if the playstation is off limits and the cable goes out, it's as if they have been inflicted with the most horrendous punishment of all. The words I'm bored are always coming out of their mouths....thank goodness I learned how to handle that one....there's always a toilet that needs scrubbing. To think we survived and without too much money going into therapists pockets! LOL Whatever shall we do with today's kids? Cat |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by Drk^Angel on Dec 3rd, 2002, 4:59pm I remember the good ol' days... An hour late gettin' home and still 10 miles away... Hikin' 2 miles through the backwoods to my friend's house everyday to just do BS all day, only to have to hike the 2 miles back at the end of the day... Living 5 miles away from the nearest school bus stop... Building a bike ramp out of old plywood and cement blocks, then busting up my bike on the first test of the ramp... Throwing rocks at a wasp next, then realizing that wasps can fly a lot faster than we could run... But wait a minute... I'm not 40, so just forget all this... ;D <----- Look... Teeth... 100% all natural, factory originals in perfect working order. PFDAN............................. Drk^Angel |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by catlind on Dec 3rd, 2002, 6:25pm Man Drk, forgot all about the ramps....except ours ended in the river LOL You'd probably make a fortune if you went diving in the St. Clair river and brought up all the bikes we lost! Cat |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by Charlie on Dec 3rd, 2002, 6:49pm What TV reset button? Our first TV was a 1949 Meck. That, all the way through the 1963 Zenith, had dials that wore out and had to be jostled to steady the picture. Often, we took off the knob as it would work better. I still have the box of dad's old RCA tubes which he used for replacements. Collectibles now. Never could swim but we had some bb gun wars. Never got hit and most of us were bright enough to split anyway. Joe shot my friend in the finger with a pellet gun...damn that must have hurt. I fell through the floor of our "secret" abandoned house. Used to get fireworks from some place in Ohio. 4th sounded like a small war around Dearborn St. and burn barrels didn't have a chance. At my uncle's cottage on the big lake, where the 4th was pretty dangerous, dad brought the assortment of 10,000 firecrackers...he was a great dad.....we blew apart everything. One guy found an old well pipe and discovered what kind of noise acetylene made. No wildlife within miles of the place. Mom used to toss barrel bombs (you probably know them as M-80s) in the water. Waterspouts were like mines. Probably some not very happy fish. Mom liked fireworks more than anyone. We walked one mile to school in the morning, home for 1-hour a lunch (no cafeteria) back to school and them home. City kids had no school buses. Used to build some pretty dangerous (go-carts) out of just about everything after stealing the remains of a wagon, dug holes and covered them with twigs and dirt. Mrs. Swanson got mad when she nearly sprained her leg and we had to stop. Pretty stupid. By the way, I still drink from the garden hose now and then and you can still buy Chunkys here. Don't miss Flav'r Straws though...horrible... Charlie |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by cootie on Dec 3rd, 2002, 7:48pm Anyone ever watch American Bandstand on a black and white tv....after a while we took the knobs off and used plyers to adjust stuff. Mom would sit on the floor doin her theigh exercises eatin a huge bowl of potato chips and choc cream 'toes' watchin Amercian Bandstand....don't think the exercises did much verses all that fat food tho..... |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by Edna on Dec 3rd, 2002, 8:49pm gee terry........THANKS I'm not 40 yet........39 only and lots here has kept the smile going AND CHARLIE WOW YOU KNEW MRS. SWANSON?????????????? did you ever get to sample any of the TV dinners?? ;) ;) ;) EDNA wonderful, fun memories here!! |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by Charlie on Dec 3rd, 2002, 11:11pm Yup. I ate tons of them there dinners. Just awful. Now its Stouffers stuff in its many forms. We used pliers for the knob too. Dad used surgical clamps sometimes......even better. Bet you kids didn't know that about 1950, most network TV didn't come on until the afternoon and signed off about 11:30. I kid you not. Charlie |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by brain_cramps on Dec 4th, 2002, 2:53am none of you from up north here (CAN) that played hockey at 20deg below 0 (NOT CELSIUS) for 5hrs at a time??? nothing quite like hearing a bunch of kids with frostbite in their feet. TAP.TAP.TAP..... |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by cootie on Dec 4th, 2002, 9:05am I 'memeber when we 'first' heard of McDonalds openin up in a nearby town....we'd get excited an drive over there for special dinner nite out plans an mom'd order bout 20 extra burgers "ta go" and put em in the freezer so we could have Mickey D's more often for dem special occations.....yeah.....love that special sauce now days that does special things to your gut..... |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by Jabeen on Dec 4th, 2002, 9:16am But did anyone else run after the DDT trucks while they were spraying for mosquitos??? |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by cootie on Dec 4th, 2002, 9:33am Fer some reason I don't member the DDT trucks....I know they sprayed tho....I member a bug spray smell late at nite seepin in the window. Think they did our neighborhood 'late' at nite cuz I member that smell.....I used ta pick big chunks of asbestos off the huge plumbing pipes in the bathrooms in first grade at school and the stuff'd fall off on yer head and all over the floor all over us...we'd pull big sheets of it off. Closed that school many years later cuz of guess what.....asbestos !!!!! Scarey ! When I was a toddler I picked....then "chew'd" lead paint chunks off the window seal while lookin out the window....I actually member doin it....was a sand color'd paint and really thick........gawd........ |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by Jabeen on Dec 4th, 2002, 9:59am When we were kids in the late fifties-early sixties (YUK! Sounds old) they used to spray for mosquitos-especially at the shore. The truck drove around spraying DDT out the back of a truck-we used to chase the truck and run through the cloud...it makes me ill to think about it now. And our parents never stopped us-they didn't think it was a problem. We also lived near Givadun and Hoffman La Roche and Minwax-big chemical and pharmaceutical companies that dumped into local ground water. We played in those waters also and found distorted frogs. It is amazing that we aren't all dead or deformed. Most of those sites are closed down and have become federal clean up sites- Maybe your trucks came too late to chase?? The smell was distinctive! |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by captdshea on Dec 6th, 2002, 5:07pm Brain- We played hockey from early morn until dark. Always Built the fire before, And everyone had to find or bring wood. |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by cathy on Dec 6th, 2002, 6:00pm ???Hey my husband, who IS over 40yrs has 1 clusterhead, 4 necks, 3 arms, 14 fingers, 2 belly buttons, 4 legs and a foot, with quite a few toes on it................used to chase DDT trucks do you think thats maybe why he has a finger missing?????? LOL ;D ;D ;D ;D Agghhh LOLLOLOLOL Cathy 8) |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by cerebus on Dec 7th, 2002, 5:38pm I'm not over 40 but I still remember a time like that. and maybe a little more technology was involved in a few of those activities, but, they were good times. How did we do it? Simple........."Home trainin'" Cerebus( pushing 40 very soon uughh) |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by Charlie on Dec 7th, 2002, 6:36pm I missed the McDonalds post. They were 15 cents and cheeseburgers 20. Fries must have been a dime. In truth, they are a lot bigger today.... no better, and they pissed in the pickle barrels, but you can get fat enough to bring lawsuits against them for forcing you to squeeze your butt through the door. Only Den could come up with something that funny. I wonder if they still spray the streets in Eagle Bay, NY (lower western Adirondacks) for black flies. They were doing it in the 1970s. It was pretty thick but black flies are no picnic either. Flit Gun totin' Charlie |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by sueellen83 on Dec 8th, 2002, 12:37am Hey, Terry!! Thanks for the memories!!! I'm still a couple of years away from 40 but, I can remember the freedom my brothers and I had. We would hit the front door in the morning running and didn't slow down until Dad made us come in. My sons have more than 200 acres to run on and it is like pulling teeth to get them to go outside. My brothers and I would have killed for that much space to run in!!!!! |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by cootie on Dec 8th, 2002, 1:11am Anybody 'member Romper Room on TV.....I was so upset they never said 'they seen Pam' thru that lookin glass...Oh....and Captin Kangaroo...........what about Mr. Jing-a-ling........(how you ting-a-ling keeper of the keys)..... |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by sueellen83 on Dec 8th, 2002, 1:26am Yea Cootie I remember Romper Room (was my favorite show) and Captian Kangaroo. Don't know the other one though. Wow, that really brings back the memories!!! :D :D |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by cootie on Dec 8th, 2002, 1:33am Mr. Jing-a-ling was the Christmas dude.......he was the keeper of the keys.....now that I think of it....what keys.....for what ? Always thought he looked a bit scarey....or gay.....myself...strange curled up on th ends wig....bells on his shoes...shiney silk outfit !? Romper room was so long ago.......but honestly....all respects here to the max......I remember them sayin 'I see Jonny' the most......honest.....not tryin ta be a smartass......that was the most popular name.....no Pammie........wah.......I sat in fronta the Tv waitin ta hear my name................... |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by SommelierCH on Dec 8th, 2002, 6:22am I’m sitting in the middle of 46 yrs. on the planet, I remember Snickers bars and Wrigley gum for a nickel. Zarda’s Dairy had their own ice cream shops, seven big scoops for $0.35. The only place you could see any naked women was National Geographic and Mom was always wondering why the Sears catalog had so many pages ripped out (bra and panty pages). They couldn’t show bra’s on women on TV, so Playtex would have a commercial showing a manikin with a bra, or Bess Myerson (?) wearing one OVER a sweater. I would have killed for a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue, or (would you get your ass out of the bathroom) Victoria’s Secret catalog. We will be the last generation to grow up so innocent. For six years through grade school, I walked over 1 mile to school and 1 mile home. If you lived over a mile away, the bus would pick you up, but the school district measured it “as the crow flies” so we walked. Rain? “Don’t forget your raincoat”. Snow? “Wear your boots today”. Two cars, so that Mom could drive us? “In your dreams!” For some reason, one of the things I miss the most, is people walking around after dark. Not too many people walk, here in LA, even in the daytime, but I now live in a Hasidic and Orthodox Jewish neighborhood, within walking distance there are 4 different Synagogues. After sundown Friday night until sundown Saturday night, the sidewalks are filled with families, dressed in their Sabbath best, holding hands, pushing baby carriages, literally taking back the streets. During the High Holy Days, I see whole families, grandparents down to infants, walking around the neighborhood when I’m getting home from work at 2:00 am in the morning. That is a wonderful and uplifting sight. Oh yeah, I didn’t have these fucking headaches! PFDAN David J. |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by Charlie on Dec 8th, 2002, 6:52am God I'm old. For me it was Howdy Doody, Clarabell and Mister Buster. Mom couldn't stand it...It's Howdy Doody time...etc. with the Peanut Gallery that never shut up. Bosco. Flav'r Straws The tiny wax "bottles" of flavored juice (you bit the top off to drink them) Those fat paper straws with Kool Aide like powder we ate dry most of the time Beeman's Pepsin Gum Gem razor blades Necco wafers (Bleaugh) 15 minute TV news Betty Furness wheeling around TV sets and portable GE air-conditioners December Bride Your Show of Shows (Still the funniest thing ever on TV) Lone Ranger on the radio Our Miss Brooks 5 cent, 12 ounce Pepsi Weeky Reader Cartridge fountain pens (Everyone refilled the cartridges with an eyedropper. Re-using stamps by covering them with Elmer's glue (Still works I imagine....the cancellation rinses right off) I'm done for now... ::) Like I said, I'm old. Probably a year older than The Beaver.... :-/ Wheezing old Charlie :P |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by SommelierCH on Dec 8th, 2002, 7:41am Charlie dude, As long as you can still REMEMBER “The Beaver” you’ve got some hope (“uhh…I’ll take what’s in Carole Merall’s box, Monty”). Not only was Pepsi $0.05 (but it was 10 oz. not 12 oz., don’t fade on me now man, you were doing so good), you could go around to the neighbors and collect enough returnable bottles to get a seven scoop ice cream cone. During a slow time in my television commercial career in collage, I sold Rainbow Vacuum cleaners, door to door. Good luck, now a days, getting someone to even open the door to a stranger, let alone let them into your house, to dump dirt on your floor! PFDAN David J. P.S. There's a guy on the phone for you, says he's the Postmaster General. |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by SommelierCH on Dec 8th, 2002, 7:46am Jonny, Charlie: You guys just put me over the top. I’m a fucking VETERAN now. If I ever find that bastard that called us “vipers”, you better be ready to pull me off him!!! |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by jonny on Dec 8th, 2002, 8:31am Im not pulling you off no dude, cause theres no homosexuality in my kingdom unless it has to do with chicks.....LMMFAO ;D ...................jonny |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by Ann on Dec 8th, 2002, 8:37am Ok, I'm only 36, but I remember a lot of what Terry mentioned. Here's what I would like to add to my list of memories. 1- playing ice hockey in the streets, actually wearing the skates and having to move our goals when a car wanted to pass 2- building snow forts and tunnels right on the side of the street because that's where most of the snow was. Was always fearful the snowblower would come by and grab me out of my hiding place. And sliding from the roof because there WAS so much snow! 3- riding my bike everywhere I wanted to go 4- our very first colour tv. My dad had locked us out of the basement one Christmas morning, because it was a surprise. (I remember changing the channels with pliers as well!) 5- walking 5 miles to the "corner" store to buy junk...dip sticks, bazooka bubble gum etc. 6- seasame street, the friendly giant, romper room (she never said my name either!) The Carol Burnett show, Sonny and Cher. 7- playing all the games you mentioned ie: Kick the can tag, mother may I? etc. My niece just started riding her bike and I asked my sister if she was going to get her a helmut. She said, "hell, we never had one and we turned out fine". I guess she's right in a way...although I don't think there were as many cars back then. Thanks for the memories guys...you made me realize that my childhood was pretty darn cool! hugs Ann |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by SommelierCH on Dec 8th, 2002, 9:20am Quote:
I’m thinking it would be more in the masturbation realm, but I’m with you on the chicks! David J. |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by jonny on Dec 8th, 2002, 10:18am LMAO.........Touche' David ;D ...................jonny |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by cootie on Dec 8th, 2002, 2:44pm Any body ever listen to them radio shows....'The Shadow'....that was friggin cool !!! Gave ya such vivid visuals with sound effects....well.....you can get sum good visuals listenin ta Howard Stern to.........not that "that's" a good thing tho......interesting but.....he can be a gag jus the same......... |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by Roxy on Dec 8th, 2002, 3:52pm I think I have most of ya'll beat in the age dept., I'm 45...going on 80 I think. And Charlie, your's really brought back memories. Pixy Stix, the wax bottles...man, I haven't thought of alot of that stuff in ages. Remember those Highlights magazines (find the hidden things in the picture?) The awful vinyl floors in everyones house? And what has happened to all the fireflies that used to be everywhere? We walked so much, that in the summer the bottoms of our feet would never come clean, no matter how hard we scrubbed...and they toughened up to where you could almost walk on broken glass. Riding horses bareback to the back tank (that's pond for the yanks!) and fishing for crawdads and catfish (also bottlerockets explode underwater too). Pink Panther cartoons, Captain Kangeroo...and of course, all the girls loved the Tom Jones Show. But everyone loved Ed Sullivan on Sunday nights. Mom's had a big meal prepared every night of the week...did we even have fast food then? Sneaking into the drive-in theater, or going with you parents and having something risque playing on the back screen...getting whapped on the head everytime you tried to turn and watch the better movie! Making homemade ice cream and watching your Dad crank that thing forever!!!! We still make it all the time, but there something missing when you just plug it in. Feeling safe enough to sneak out your window in the middle of the night...and then later in high school, knowing if you snuck out and got caught, the local police would just drop you at your house, and laugh with your parents about kids nowdays. The family doctor was really a family doctor, and would come to your house to stitch you up or whatever. He always made housecalls, no matter how late at night. Those cub scouts and brownie uniforms (and why is my husband always wanting me to wear it again?) Parents listening to big band music, and dancing in the living room and down the hallway. Thanks, all you guys, for bringing back memories of things which shouldn't be forgotten. R |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by Charlie on Dec 8th, 2002, 8:28pm Guess you were right David. Coke must have been 5 Oz. "Twice as much for a nickel too; Pepsi Cola is the drink for you." :D Picky, picky ::) Thanks Roxy...Pixy stiks sounds right I forget everything. The free Coke one could win by digging out the cork in the bottle caps Green Stamps & Red Stamps The little cap bombs (forget what they're called) Soda powered bathtub submarines and divers John Cameron Swayze Science Fiction Theater Carling's Black Label Beer Rubber Bowie knives Robert Q. Louis Mini Brix Jack Parr with Oscar Levant Bridey Murphy Carrol Chessman & Dr. Sam Shephard (I know I spelled it wrong) Highway Patrol M-Squad J. Fred Muggs You Are There Monster Cards The egg man (peddled eggs from his truck) We never locked our doors unless we were gone overnight I had never heard of cluster headaches Okay. I'll stop ::) But who made the homemade cigarette machines? They used paper tubes, I think and sold mountains of tobacco. Your turn...... :D Charlie |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by Donna on Dec 8th, 2002, 8:57pm And don't forget..... Hermit's Cave The Red Lantern (kids program) Teaberry Gum Blackjack Gum Rock Candy Soda Fountains Street Cars The Paper-Rags man The smell of a garden of tomatoes, etc. Panning in the creek for fools gold Carving your initials in the Daisy BB gun ( I was Annie Oakley) |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by cootie on Dec 8th, 2002, 9:27pm Coolest 'thin I remember when I was very very young was livein on a brick road and the ice cream man was comeing down the street ona white Harley trike....I'll never fergit that !!!! That was KEWL......................... :) |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by catlind on Dec 9th, 2002, 6:45am Ahhh Charlie and David, you both managed to remember the Pepsi and Coca Cola, you of course didn't mention that they actually came in GLASS bottles that required a bottle open that was usually conveniently located right on the side of that awesome cooler! You guys forgot to mention those fancy coolers that you slid the lid over to reach in and get your soda out of...I used to have to lean so far in that my feet would come off the floor! I think they've gone the way of the dinosaur.... I loved pixy stix and flav'r straws, there were both , and the little wax bottles of flavored water and wax lips too, they were kewl. Ahh the days of the corner store and penny candy that actually cost a penny! Cat |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by TerryS on Dec 9th, 2002, 7:15am I was Wild Bill with my Daisy BB gun or sometimes Hop-A-Long Cassidy. How about the Ted Mack Amateur Hour,Zorro, Mickey Mouse Club, Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Mysteries. You guys have had some great memories. Wow Black Jack Gum.........I don't think I have had any of that in 30 years. Thanks everyone for all the relived memories. TerryS |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by jimbo on Dec 9th, 2002, 11:08am Allmost 40 but, I remember getting my ass kicked by my Dad when I had it coming and not telling him that "I'm gonna call the cops on you!" (That woulda been another ass-kickin!) Not being judged by other kids by the price of my tennis shoes. Learning math without a calculator. My brother and I having the same shirt for graduation pictures (3 years apart) One car families. Aluminum foil TV antennas. 2 TV's, one for picture and one for sound. Clear Kool-aid (outta sugar) Spending all day looking for 5 returnable bottles worth 5 cents apiece so I could get another soda. Popsicle stick rafts for the puddles. Poppin tar bubbles. The folks being pissed if we didn't bring home the brown paper sack to re-use for tomorrows lunch. When someone under 18 in the neighborhood was pregnant and it WAS a big deal. Fights without weapons. When the most fearful words you never wanted to hear were "Wait till your Father gets home". Actually taking responsibility for your actions. What the hell is the world coming to? ;D gottalovit. |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by Charlie on Dec 9th, 2002, 8:55pm You misfits do pretty well with nostalgia. Thanks again Terry 8) Here we go: X-ray machines in the shoe stores Nash Rambler and Packard Play House 90 Gillette Cavalcade of Sports Fletcher's Castoria The Rebel Quemoy & Matsu Kids actually played outside Salk Vaccine was Intravenous at first Soccer was not a big deal Sleeping on your mat in Kindergarten $64,000 question Ernie Kovacs Not everything was "For the children." Adults counted Thanks for the teaberry gum reminder. It was good. Yer turn :D Charlie |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by pimmony on Dec 10th, 2002, 1:59am Oh! Oh! I have been reading this thread with great interest and until you mentioned the glass bottles of coca cola not much really hit home. I am 51 and the strangest thing is I feel really young altough I miss being able to take flying leaps into hedges for the sheer joy of it. (It is perhaps significant that my partner got me a new gameboy for my birthday and I have far too many wasted hours on Everquest.) When I look at the photo album, though, I miss a lot. I grew up in africa and ran barefoot in the wilderness. I have a lot of young friends and I wish that they at least had the chance to do that once, even though deep down I know they would probably hate it because civilisation is so much more alluring. The Goon Show, as it was being aired for the first season ) |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by Charlie on Dec 10th, 2002, 3:43am The Goon Show..... I haven't heard of that in a long time. I think the only time I heard it was on an old LP that I had. I think it was only one of many things on that recording. No doubt it can be found now. I'll have to look it up. I confess knowing little of Africa and if you like, tell us something about it. I'd be interested. Glad you stuck around and I hope you're doing better. OK: Flit guns The Profumo scandal Flouride treatments in school Dribble glasses Brylcreme Albert Anastasia Cream Top milk bottles and spoons Muttnik Hitting a roll of caps with a hammer and still being able to see I better stop before they hall me away. :P Mean old Charlie |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by catlind on Dec 10th, 2002, 1:13pm LOL Charlie, once again you keep reminding me of things: "Hitting a roll of caps with a hammer and still being able to see " We could still see, but man we had alot of broken fingers that year! ;) Here's one for ya, not sure if many will remember or even want to, but what about ...... Gammara the Japanese Super Turtle! Does anyone remember that show? Cat |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by cootie on Dec 10th, 2002, 5:28pm Ha-ha-ha...I remember Gammara..I still watch that stuff on 'nutin ta do Sundays' on Sci-fi.....I remember when Godzilla used to sorta scare me !!! Mom and dad took me to my first theater sci-fi movie when I was 'very' young and could stand in the seat (I'm still short tho)....it was called 'The Crawling Eye'....(blk/wht movie).... I was so scared I'd turn away soon as the monster would come on screen and mom would warn me. They took me to see the first original ' The Blob' movie sum time later and think I had my first panic attacks after that...I was skeert shitless at nite thinkin it was seepin inta my room thru registers and windows and under the bed....I was white knuckle skeert at nite).... I can see how movies can influence kids....good or bad......... |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by Slammy on Dec 10th, 2002, 5:55pm on 12/10/02 at 13:13:20, catlind wrote:
you're too fucken old! ;D Slammy 8) |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by oringkid on Dec 10th, 2002, 7:05pm This is so cool! It is almost as if it were another life.... I remember in the summer, staying outside from early morning to late at night playing. My always bare feet, tough as nails and coated with tar from the hot tar bubbles in the street. Waking up to the smell of coffee and bacon (not that I drank coffee then, but it smelled soooo good! Way better than it tastes!) Catching salamanders and crawdads in the creek. Actually getting up and clunking the dial around on the black and white tv...don't know why they had so many numbers as there were only 3 stations. Soda fountains in the drug stores. That big pickle barrel, also in the drug store. My Dad carrying me on his shoulders at night so we could catch lightening bugs. No air-conditioning. Fans with metal blades. Watching Ed Sullivan. Gunsmoke Sugar Foot Sky King Bonanza (before it became Ponderosa) Ben Casey Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Green Jeans (actually Frank Zappa's father... still can't believe that!) And yes I remember the pixy stix, wax bottles and lips, boston baked beans (candy coated peanuts) getting tired of the cap gun and just hitting the strip of caps with a rock. (I loved that smell) Sparklers on the 4th of July (before they banned them) Back then, our cookouts were always steak (not hamburger) and corn on the cob...trying to eat it with my 2 front teeth missing. Having a rope swing over a big drainage ditch (we called it the "little creek") that our parents didn't know about. My mother used to whistle for us to come home (she was one hell of a whistler too!) We had to yell "coming" at the top of our lungs and head home. There was a mocking bird in our neighborhood that adopted my mom's whistle and had us running home all the time and being super pissed cuz she hadn't called us. Earlier still, I remember that the man from the cleaners came to our house and picked up our clothes to be dry cleaned. Our milk was delivered to our door, in glass bottles with foil tops. My grandmothers always had HUGE, LIVE Xmas trees that would sit by the stairs and the top would reach to above the first floor ceiling. My brother had an all metal, blue, ford pedal car, which I was too big to get into... :( Computers were something that only scientists had and they filled whole rooms. Learning to show the home movies on the Bell & Howell film projector was a rite of passage. The BLINDING lights that my parents used to get all those cool home movies. Man...we had it great didn't we? Sherry |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by pimmony on Dec 11th, 2002, 5:14am Charlie, I am A Big Goon Fan[tm] and one site I think is pretty good is below, because he has mp3 links and .wav files and, simple me, I laugh every time I hear I_dont_like_it.wav (not linked here). http://www.alphalink.com.au/~robertd/GoonShow.html Now that this has come up I shall spend a couple of hours on that site after reading all this forum! Africa was wonderful. I was born in what was Southern Rhodesia, in a town called Gwanda (seriously!). We farmed in the east just over Christmas Pass, over the mound from Umtali. Life was an outside privvy which usually homed a banded cobra (not a pet) - and wide, netted, verandahs with cages of budgies and a pet blue vervet monkey called Shoko. We farmed all sorts, from avocado and olives to sugarcane and vegetables. I spent all my off school time with my monkey exploring the bush and swimming in a river which ran through the farm. It was a pretty isolated childhood but I loved it. We had a small diary herd and one calving, which was a young bull calf and a pet. I used to play hide and seek in the rose garden with it but then it got big and they took it away to the abbattoir. My first heartbreak and it took me years to understand it. And of course the coca cola bottles in wooden crate-fulls, BBC worldwide radio with the news. No television at all until the 1960s when they received the first transmissions on the top of Christmas Pass and my family was witness to a snowflaked black and white news broadcast from the BBC. It was also two years of locust plagues and bankruptsy, which, at eight years old I did not really understand. My memories are filled with fishing and camping every weekend in the Matopos Game Reserve, where we pitched old fashioned green tents on whatever high ground we could find and played guitars and sang around campfires and watched herds of impala and kudu all day. So many buck! And buffalo and bouncy Sprinbok. This was a game reserve of course and I even went up to a white rhino on a dare (all I can really remember is adrenalin and that it was stinky and eat really loud!) and patted it on the head and it was very tolerant and did not kill me. Oh yes, giraffe and the scare of a leopard coughing outside my tent in the night. Even after UDI we stood at the start of movies when they played God Save the Queen. We were more British than British and the rest of the world never understood that Rhodesia was multiracial and apartheid was a dirty word. I grew up in a gorrila war zone but we still went fishing in the Kariba Dam and more than once had both sides wandering into our camp. I grew up losing boyfriends to bullets and utter confusion, still believing neither side was right and there is no glory in war. I do not mean this to be inflammatory or diminish the value of the lives lost. I just saw too much of things that teenagers should never see, I guess. Anyway it was still all barefoot and avoiding devil thorn and scorpions, and standing very still on a river bank while the crocodiles yawn around me. Oh and the lizards in the Matopos Game Park sipping coca cola from plastic bowls during the day and the hawk moths doing the same in the night (we had to put bowls of cola out for the huge moths so they would not come into the fire). And church on a Sunday, which we raced back for still wearing fish scaled cloths and the stink of campfire, for high mass :) Enough of me! |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by cootie on Dec 11th, 2002, 9:06am WOW.....growin up in Africa..."awesome" !!!!! I'm in love with tigers and lions......and wild cats......I am totally amazed by big cats and the wild life......that's totally cool (not the hassle part that happen'd)....I loved that movie 'Out of Africa'.............I wonder'd around a teeny wooded patch behind my house with about 6 trees I thought was a jungle back then.........I'd of been in heaven in Africa......an prolly some big cats lunch to........ |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by Charlie on Dec 11th, 2002, 5:34pm Wow, Rhodesia. That’s something, and thanks for your great story. What memories. Never again will I make such a big deal of dad driving the pickup to our big camp and using the portable generator to vacuum all the dead bugs we DDT’d inside, and slept in a bed which my grandmother kept cleaner than the one at home. It was a short drive and we stopped to load up on beer and stuff for the icebox. Not the same thing! 8) That was a great narrative. I’m 56 and my childhood was that of a small city kid with too much to do. Not at all interesting. I’ve not had an attack since 1991 and have lead a rather dull, reclusive live. Not even a budgie. Sally had those. :D I’m very glad you waded in and stick around. :D Charlie 8) |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by Charlie on Dec 11th, 2002, 6:02pm Ah, Gammera, the rocket powered spinning turtle: My favorite of the Japanese monsters. I hadn't seen any of it in eons until a few years ago, Mystery Science Theater 3000 ran Gammera and the whole goofy series of the things. MST3K did just about everything from Ed Wood to Lugosi. Gammera shows up in all the good ones. OK: Civil defense drills in elementary school Black & White Polaroid Land Cameras with prints you had to coat with a smelly preservative. God knows what was in it The Detectives with Robert Taylor Boston Blackie Bourbon Street Beat The Real McCoys Nat King Cole Show Tales of Texas Rangers Dave Garroway Oxydol The Monster Mash Walter Winchell Peter Gunn Look Magazine Putting washers in the Pepsi Machine. Melted ice worked well too Fountain pens with ink snorkle (Not sure who made the things) Krackle (you slammed a 5 cent bar of wrapped very brittle taffy on the counter which broke it into bite-size pieces) Thanks for the memories folks Charlie |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by Tim_w on Dec 13th, 2002, 5:20pm Terry thanks for taking us back in time! If we were growing up now we would have to visit our parants in jail, for child abuse, for betting our asses Timw :-[ |
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Title: Re: If your over forty......... Post by pimmony on Dec 14th, 2002, 4:49pm Charlie, I remember when I announced to my family that I was going to get married and emigrate to Britain and how exotic they all thought it was to travel here. When I first arrived I was fresh from the country and wondered what the heck those things stuck on the wall were until someone gave me a wierd look and told me that they were central heating radiators. I could not understand how people could abide living in terraced houses, or even semi-detached and double storied houses were a wonder, having come from a bungalow ethos. No-one that I saw for many many months had a swimming pool, or a fruit orchard or housing for domestic workers. It was all very different and new and exciting really, especially the shopping Spent some years in the Karoo and lived in Egypt too but everywhere only ends up exciting because of the people, in the end. I love your stories. They are ones I have not lived and do not know and they are exotic to me. |
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