Something that a young person would not understand...
Saw this on Facebook today ....Without revealing your age...say something that a young person today would not understand:
"Going to listen to my favorite singer today on the radio....His name is Perry Como!"
Will you turn the rabbit ears a little to the left? The picture is still fuzzy.
Car breaking down on Rt. 80 and running along shoulder to use one of the every 1/2 mile "Emergency Phone", only to find out that it didn't work - lol!
Apr '21
I wish the DJ would stop talking before the song is over! He's ruining my mixed tape!
Apr '21
“Winkie Dink” plastic cover on the tv screen so you could use special crayons and draw on the tv.
Spring fever, I used to get in trouble for forgetting to put the plastic screen on the TV. Nice to see someone in my age bracket LOL.
When making a phone call we would pick up the phone, and the operator would say...
"number please". Then you would tell her the number you were calling. Also there were party lines. Lines you would share with other people. So if you wanted to make a call, you'd pick up the phone, and if there was another person using that line, you'd have to hang up and try again later.
Collecting Katie Keene and Archie and Veronica comic books.
Playing jacks during recess on a black-topped playground.
Warch crown. Just read this yesterday in a watch review:
"....the majority of the Reverso watches are still hand-wound. That means you have to twist the crown to activate the movement, and while it may seem odd at first, it means you don’t need batteries, and it’s an oddly satisfying thing to set your watch and hand-wind it."
TV networks going off the air at midnight-just after the national anthem was played.
Dads or Grand-dads putting up screen windows for the summer months and taking them down in the fall. No air conditioning... just window fans.
Pickup sticks, Slinky, (can you hear the song?) Silly Putty and “copying” Sunday comics onto it, going to buy penny candy, records skipping, Fluffernutter, the Fruit Stripe gum zebra. I could go on forever
Saddle shoes and
White Bucks....Dog collars worn around right ankle if you were going steady...
The Stroll, Watusi, Jerk, Swim, Fish, Mashed Potatoes, Pony, Hand Jive - memories
Only having the "network" stations....ABC, NBC and CBS. NO 100+ stations to watch at all hours of the day/night!
Hopscotch anyone? Drawing a roller skating rink with chalk in the street outside my house in Newark! "Walking" everyplace we had to go; Church, groceries, school, to a friend's house to play.
Stoop ball with a Spalding, skate key around your neck, a church key, a johnny pump and jimmies,
Bring your checkbook, in case they don’t accept credit cards. Always keep some cash available.
Joyful - thanks for starting this trip down memory lane ..... You mentioned white bucks, I was a big Pat Boone fan and was in our local chapter of the Pat Boone fan club. I asked for a pair of bucks for Christmas. It was one of my best gifts ever and of course I got many since. I wore them proudly for a long time.
@ justwondering: I also received my first pair of white bucks as a Christmas gift along with a white wool blazer which we high school girls wore along with our pleated skirts and thought we were the "cat"s meow". I was a cheerleader in high school and the saddle shoes were for that...If you wore a special guy's highschool sports sweater with the School Letter on it...that signified that you were going steady with him...
MTV actually played music videos.
Video games with crappy graphics and you had to have one of those switch things attached to a gigantic tube TV to play them.
Erector set, Captain Kangaroo, Mr Magoo, Davey and Goliath, riding bikes....."just be home before dark!"
Having to pay extra for soft drinks in deposit bottles--then collecting them all and returning them for money.
baseball cards held by cloths pins attached to the back wheel of your bike, clicking through the spokes as you ride
Wringer clothes washing machines....Clotheslines filled in the beginning of Fall and end of winter with Dad's longjohn winter underwear....
Somehow, we lost the "young person" angle... I'm damn near 50 and have no idea what half of you are talking about (-;
There's a Tim McGraw song from years ago about sayings that the now-generation wouldn't understand. How they were said years ago has a different meaning now.
Does anyone know which song it is?
slide rules, phone booths, pay phones,45 rpm records, picture tubes on tv, tube radio, transistors, tooth powder, hot wheels
Found it. This song has many!!!
Back When
Tim McGraw
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Don't you remember
The fizz in a pepper
Peanuts in a bottle
At ten, two and four
A fried bologna sandwich
With mayo and tomato
Sittin' round the table
Don't happen much anymore
We got too complicated
It's all way over-rated
I like the old and out-dated
Way of life
Back when a hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
And crack's what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes
Back when a screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew
And when you said I'm down with that
Well it meant you had the flu
I miss back when
I miss back when
I miss back when
I love my records
Black, shiny vinyl
Clicks and pops
And white noise
Man they sounded fine
I had my favorite stations
The ones that played them all
Country, soul and rock-and-roll
What happened to those times?
I'm readin' 'Street Slang For Dummies'
'Cause they put pop in my country
I want more for my money
The way it was back then
Back when a hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
And crack's what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes
Back when a screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew
And when you said I'm down with that
Well it meant you had the flu
I miss back when
I miss back when
I miss back when
Give me a flat top for strumming
I want the whole world to be humming
Just keep it coming
The way it was back then
Back when a hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
And crack's what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes
Back when a screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew
And when you said I'm down with that
Well it meant you had the flu
I miss back when
I miss back when
I miss back when
"doctor shirts' from Ben Casey & Doctor Kildare TV shows, go-go boots, nehru jackets, desert boots, violet candy. making bell bottom pants from straight legs by splitting the seams and sewing in scraps of material. Hip huggers, hot pants. mini & maxi skirts.
How the Beatles changed popular culture forever. Also, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd and David Bowie.
Apr '21
New shoes taken to shoemaker to put metal taps on heels and toes. Brothers spit shining shoes before going on dates. Going to 5 & 10 cents store and register had tax box attached to it.
Stretching the Phone cord - to the bathroom - or to your bedroom, thus tying up the phone line. If you were lucky, and had another phone, someone in your household could pick up the same line, and interrupt your conversation because they had to make a phone call.
Does anyone remember Odd Ogg, a large, plastic frog where you can rolls balls into his mouth! ? or Shoots and Ladders board game? or hop scotch or jacks?
Stymie.......I popped a balloon for a penny banana split at Woolworth’s counter and I actually did win !!
Herb Oscar Anderson, Harry Harrison, Ron Lundy, Dan Ingram, Scott Muni and Bruce Morrow and other ABC 1960 Top 40 Radio DJs, Dave Herman and Allison Steel WNEW FM DJs, transistor radio, LPs, 45s (the records, not the weapons), playing war after watching Combat (and when serving in a war realizing just how untrue the TV show was), during the summer having breakfast then going outside to play and being told not to come back into the house until lunchtime, having the Good Humor man stop by the beach every afternoon and Mr. Softee driving through the community in the evening, riding bicycles off of the 10 foot high dive, going into the woods and bringing home a bag of garter snakes (my Mother never recovered from that one), bowling in a facility that had 8 lanes and the ball return was above the lanes, having the fire siren sounding off at 4 PM every Saturday so the volunteer firemen could meet at the local bar for a couple, Palisades Park, going to summer camp for 8 weeks for 10 summers and still having friendships with other campers 50 years later, being dragged to New York and having to sit through an opera, Bertrand Island, not being ejected from a private school but having the headmaster tell my parents not to re-apply for the next year. I had a pretty good childhood.
Apr '21
Flexible Flyer sleds with steel rails and a wooden deck. We would sop up the rails for better speed.
Say your prayers before going to bed....
Getting dressed properly to go shopping.
Smoking in the waiting room at a doctors office.
Smoking in your bed while at a hospital stay.
In Long Valley, when dialing from area code 201-876-xxxx to another 201-876-xxxx, all you had to do is dial 6-xxxx.
No need to dial the first five digits of 201-87.
Pensions, job security, gold watch and party at retirement. Buying a house for 15k.
Kick the can , playing marbles. For Halloween, notches on wooden spool to make noise on someone's window, tipping the outhouse, removing someone's gate.
@Hackresident......Used to be the school champ at Double Dutch. We played it with the two ropes on the school playground at recess...
Suffering through "Modern Farmer" while waiting for the Saturday morning cartoons to start.
small grey plastic submarine use to come in ceral boxes.Fill with baking soda or powder cant remember which. play in tub or sink.use to rise and sink a few times
Joyful: that took a lot of practice to get that down pat. Congrats!! :-}
Do the young girls these days draw Hop Scotch boards on the black pavement with colored chalk?
This is a great thread. Funny, interesting, ironic....but let's flip the script :
New Thread: "Things that older folks don't understand"
DM "that's Lit" TicToc... Swipe right...Grimes
Typewriter ribbons
Gasoline lines.......and even and uneven days for buying gas.
Dressing up for airplane flights
dial-up internet
polio vaccine on sugar cubes
"wait till your father gets home!"
girls and women only in dresses and skirts- gloves if going to the City
snowpants
Our Parents telling us when we went to visit relatives or friends that we are to be seen and not heard....and never show disrespect or poke fun of others.. especially to your parents and elders...
A livable wage, pay that rises with cost of living or even inflation, going to school and NOT having an active shooter drill, a husband able to work one job and pay for an entire family including house/car/ins./a child/etc..., ability to leave work at work and not be contacted on a Sunday at 10am demanding you fix your bosses error before start of work Monday, having household appliances last more than a few years, vacations, not knowing every cops name in town and where they live, anything resembling a community, funerals where everyone was allowed to attend and not limited by the government, etc.....
Test Pattern on TV
the excitement of hearing Mom listening to John Gambling (for snow closing notices)
Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop, Soupy Sales, Howard Cosell and Cassius Clay (later on,
Mohammed Ali), Jack LaLane and his calisthenics workouts, Peewee Herman, Mitch
Miller,Leslie Uggams and chorus, Lawrence Welk, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Steve
Lawrence and Eydie Gorme', Judy Garland, Jack Paar.
Does anyone remember those drills in elementary school, where you were supposed
to line up in the hallways, on your knees, bent over, head down, facing the wall? This
would supposedly protect you in the event of an actual nuclear bomb attack.
.....@5wilds. LOL, Good one!!! Now that is something a lot of folks wouldn't recall.
That brings back great memories except it was my dad that was listening.
......rambling with Gambling.
How about the Ed Sullivan Show in the 50s and 60?
do you know this is on Channel 238 on Comcast i discovered a month or two ago!?
i forgot to put: The Ed Sullivan Show is on weekdays from 7-8 pm. Check it out. i saw Tom Jones on it when he started; Lisa Minnelli, the Beach Boys, and many others. very cool !
Jello 1-2-3 (a pudding-like dessert that became three layers of pink as it settled); searching for the little adapter that you put on the turntable “stick” on the record player to make 45’s fit; stacking a few records on the stereo and sliding the lever over to play one album after another; blue denim three-ring notebooks; games around the neighborhood with teams divided by “shirts and skins”; one air conditioner in the house (if you were lucky) and it was usually in mom and dad’s bedroom; putting that orange liquid (mercurochrome?) on a cut; tilting your head back and filling your mouth with Pixy Stix powder!
The orangish liquid I remember was called Betadine... not sure if it was a brand name for mercurochrome or a different product altogether.
Using thumb tacks and putting up pictures of your favorite Movie stars(heartthrob).. from Movie magazines on your bedroom wall like wallpaper...
How about Saturday morning TV starting with “Modern Farmer” followed shortly by Roller Derby?
Starring “Ronny Robinson—son of Ray Sugar Ray..”
Mille Bornes was a French card game (based on a road race that you needed to be the first to 1,000 miles) that was popular in the '70s.
"Coup-fourre" was what you yelled when you had the reparation card for a damage card that your opponent played against you.
Silly stuff... not unlike fondue pots and shag carpeting (-;
If your family owned a car with power windows,a riding mower and a color tv, you were "well off".
Apr '21
Mervin
Microfilm too!
"Dropping a dime" on someone. Of course, while it has two meanings, the main one selects the person and in the second meaning, fate (or chance) selects them.
Dragnet
putting coin in vending machine for pack of cigarettes and getting change back inside the wrapper
garters, jitterbug
Hopalong Cassidy
Queen for a day show.My mom would watch while cleaning up the house that her four kids messed up.
Apr '21
Sweater sets, babushka, neckerchief, petticoat, half slip, brown lunch bags re-used for a week, fancy patches sewn on back pocket of jeans, Popular Club Plan, Spiegel's catalog, watching news reel before the movies.
Trick or Treating (without adult supervision) until you dropped and being able to eat the candy without paranoia.
pea shooter, sling shot, spit balls, galoshes, engineer boots, clod hoppers, clam diggers, capris, pedal pushers, dungarees, comb in back pocket.
Teacher checking kids heads for lice...School cafeteria helpers being able to take home leftovers from school lunch....
Burning trash and papers in a 55 gallon burner barrel in the back yard.
Playing the game "stick knife" with our friends.....(Cannot believe we actually did that!)
Spring Fever..... We didn’t get a polio shot. We stood in line at school to get the Polio vaccine in a sugar cube
Children of parents that had or passed from Turburculosis (sp) "TB" having to be tested (patch tests) to make sure they did not have it as well...
Mosquito spray fog showers. When the truck came around to spray the neighborhood lots of kids went out to run through it.
The flavored Ice Truck in NC. The guy had a unique sound, different from the Good Humor Truck's jingling bells. There was a speaker on top belting out the same tune. I still don't know what it was, but if I heard it again I'd know it!
Sit up straight, hands folded on the desk, raise your hands to ask or answer a question.
Pencil sharpeners.
Pencil boxes.
Cars with no seat belts.
Using your arm to signal turns and stops while driving.
Waiting for the TV to warm up before you could watch without rolling or sideway pictures. 'Adjusting the Horizontal Hold.' to correct it!
Big back TVs, cassette tapes in tape recorders, rotary dial phones, VCR tapes.
and i heard vinyl records are coming back!
when we didn't have Garmins or Magellin's; and when we never thought we'd have cell phones (vs. walkie-talkies).
If it's any consolation, "young" people have no idea what a Garmin or Magellan is, either (-;
Silver change.
REAL silver quarters and dimes.
What I wouldn’t give for my paper route now for just a month!
My kids get a $2 bill from the Tooth Fairy for every lost tooth. The $2 is in current circulation; you just need to request them from your bank.
One time during the 50's, when our company employees cashed their checks, it was all in $2. bills. It wasn't a lot, as we only got paid $1/hour.
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