GREAT idea!! Maybe pick a day, and people could use the date that's closest to it. I love it!Originally Posted by Shalom_Poet
GREAT idea!! Maybe pick a day, and people could use the date that's closest to it. I love it!
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it--every, every minute?" Emily Webb, Our Town
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Shalom poet that is a great idea. I would love to read that. June 15 1968 is 10 years before I was born but it would be interesting to read what people were doing.
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It would be interesting to see what we were all doing on the same day! I will get the dates on here soon and let everyone choose one to share.
"Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in the midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free." Leonard Cohen
Love the diary entries Catherine!
My mom learned how to drive in 1960 and the only unsmashed cars available for drivers ed had an automatic transmission! She never really learned how to drive a manual. There's a funny story of how, not long after they were married in 1965, my mom ended up leaving my dad's car at an intersection - in the middle of the road! - around the corner from their apartment as it stalled at a light and she couldn't get it going again!My goodness, I'm only 31 and I remember using a rotary phone. My parents had one until I was well into high school.
I remember when vehicles had carburetors, floor vents, and push button radios, and automatic transmissions were a luxury. I still will only drive a manual
In 1991, when I was a newly-minted newspaper reporter working on a small-town Michigan newspaper, the town of 12K's police department and fire department offices had to use rotary phones to communicate. I can remember being shocked - my parents had had a touch tone (not rotary) phone for longer than I could remember!
Love the great stories Tradd!!!
I'm so old I saw my first television when I was six years old. Aunt Jeannie had a crank-style telephone in her kitchen. In those days we not only had rotary phones, we had only one per home, and hard-wired into a central location with no privacy. We were on a party line. I can't get across to my (very bright) stepson what a party line was.
4 cent stamps; 31 cent a gallon gasoline. Cars with side vent/wing windows in front that could be broken into with a coat hanger. I locked myself out of my 70 Cutlass once and got back into it with a borrowed coat hanger.
The gas bill for my first apartment was $2.40 a month, electric $5. My entire college education including living expense cost $6,000, and it took me 12 years to pay it off.
Looking things up in a multi-volume hard copy encyclopedia, with no way to know what had changed since it came out, unless your folks subscribed to the yearbooks.
Schools with NO vending machines of any kind. Pay phones in booths that had a door on them.
I remember when all department stores like JCPenney and others had departments for everything like sporting goods, toys, hardware, fabric, bicycles, wedding dresses, cameras, electronics, pianos, etc. and a candy counter and sometimes a restaurant inside. Sometimes the clothing department was called "ready-to-wear". It seems like just recently that department stores no longer have a huge department for panty hose, and a large selection of slips in the lingerie department. Do they even make full slips anymore? I grew up in Cleveland and we sometimes went to Higbee's, the store shown in the movie "A Christmas Story" where the kid goes to see the mean Santa Claus in the store. I went to see Santa in a Higbee's that looked just like that.
I can remember our telephone number when we had a crank phone. It was short-short-long.
My first computer didn't have a hard drive, and operated on a cassette disk.
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