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nonightowl · Nov 21, 2021 at 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Broken Old Man

Grew up with a party line for the telephone,
can remember paying 25 cents a pack for cigs
bought gas for the car for 25 cents a gallon
was not allowed to use a calculator in H.S. and had to use a slide rule instead.
Never worried about locking the doors on the house--crime wasn't a problem
Got your *** whipped in school if you didn't follow the rules.

Yes, I'm old, I could go on and one.

BOM

I remember slide rules.

Crime wasn't too much of a problem when I was little but it increased when I got into my teens.

I could go on and on too. Connecting or talking meant TALKING, with our voices either on the phone or in person. Now it's email or texting or Facebook.

Handwritten letters and cards. Thank you notes. Good manners. Milk in glass bottles delivered to us. Knowing our neighbors and looking after each other. Getting up to change the channel on the TV, no remote! Still have my boom boxes! Remember those printers with green and white striped perforated paper, ha ha. So SLOW!

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Originally Posted by Nammu

Mum had a ringer washing machine for a long time, well into the 60’s. She liked her ringer.

What's a ringer washer? Or it wringer?

Yes I could look it up but asking is more fun. I get the personal touch.