I can remember when ...

[OzarkWoman]

^ missing is: when kids in school got the strap

That needs to come back too!!!!

[Naomi]

Originally Posted By: Gail

^ missing is: when kids in school got the strap

That needs to come back too!!!!

I hope not. But, we are a third generation of "strapless" people. Guilt trips (: and other forms of punishment but not the whippings I hear about and see evidences of.

[Naomi]

I can remember when all the women in the community saved their feed sacks with pretty prints on them, traded with each other until they had enough of one design to make clothing.

[Dottie]

I always wondered how they could get a dress of of "a" feed sack!

[Naomi]

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I always wondered how they could get a dress of of "a" feed sack!

It made for some interesting seams. Most of the ladies were quite creative with matching patterns. My 9th summer I went to spend some time with my "City" aunt. She took me shopping and bought me a store-bought dress. I was so proud of it. When I returned home mother had made me a new dress .... the very same material, pattern and print! Life's lessons come in unexpected packages

[doug yowell]

Having grown up without a TV, I am at a disadvantage.

Thus I shall say, I remember when reading was popular among children. And playing outside.

Hey, I did all of those things with a passion. Did you ever have to do book reports? How bout those standardized reading lessons that were supposed to test for your speed,comprehension, and skill level? I read almost 150 books {I think 148 of them were about war of some kind) in 4th grade and still had time to play with the neighborhood kids till well after dark (and,incredibly,lived to tell the story!!)

[doug yowell]

Yeah, you can tell the one's I watched regularly.A lot of the programs were on Fri.-Sat. so I didn't watch them and I didn't like shows like Green Acres ect... Great call on Highway Patrol!! Which 3 TV shows were your favorites?

[doug yowell]

Originally Posted By: Gail

^ missing is: when kids in school got the strap

That needs to come back too!!!!

I agree. A potent deterrent!Especially the part where your dad would whip you at home if he found out that the school had to do it first.

[rudywoofs (Pam)]

Yeah, you can tell the one's I watched regularly.A lot of the programs were on Fri.-Sat. so I didn't watch them and I didn't like shows like Green Acres ect... Great call on Highway Patrol!! Which 3 TV shows were your favorites?

I don't remember that many of those programs were on Friday/Saturdays...could be, though. My dad wasn't SDA when we kids were growing up, and consequently, watching TV on Friday nights wasn't anything we had thought anything about. Nothing was on during the day on Saturdays...

my favorites? Depended on my age...although I'll always be a fan of The Flintstones.

0-5 yrs old = Howdy Doody

6-9 yrs old = Flintstones, Gilligan's Island, Bonanza

10-14 yrs old = Perry Mason, Here Come the Brides, Room 222

Now, just about all I watch are the old programs: Perry Mason, Bonanza, Murder She Wrote, George Burns, Jack Benny, McHale's Navy, The Waltons, All in the Family...

I find the newer TV programs disgustingly full of vulgarity, sex, violence, and family relationships with which I'm not in agreement.

[cricket]

^ missing is: when kids in school got the strap

[cricket]

Depended on my age...although I'll always be a fan of The Flintstones.

0-5 yrs old = Howdy Doody

6-9 yrs old = Flintstones, Gilligan's Island, Bonanza

10-14 yrs old = Perry Mason, Here Come the Brides, Room 222

For me it was:

0-5 yrs old = Sesame Street, Tom & Jerry

6-9 yrs old = The Muppet Show, Brady Bunch (I can't remember watching anything else at those ages--too busy playing outside)

10-14 yrs old = Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Dukes of Hazzard and the Love Boat

[M. T. Cross]

Having grown up without a TV, I am at a disadvantage.

Thus I shall say, I remember when reading was popular among children. And playing outside.

Holy smoke Og - 2 things we agree on - onions and reading

I too grew up without tv. My dad would not allow one in the house until I was about 13, and then we were only allowed to watch Hockey Night In Canada, M*A*S*H*, and later the Cosby Show.

For a number of years I was homeschooled and we lived in the middle of nowhere. I got off of the farm once a week and really only had books as an escape. I read so many books, and each of them so many times. I have probably read the Sam Campbell books that were sold at ABC 15 times each. It built a great imagination and I really do not feel deprived in that regards in the slightest.

To this day I read probably 50 books a year.

[olger]

[OzarkWoman]

I remember Uncle Miltie, Milton Berle for those that don't know.

[rudywoofs (Pam)]

hey, just because I watched TV as a kid, doesn't mean I never read books! I read all the works by Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Dorothy Gilman, Agatha Christie, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Louisa May Alcott, O. Henry and many more... and in the summers, I had no TV. I was at Spirit Lake, where the only communication with the outside world was by boat mail or this:

[rudywoofs (Pam)]

I remember Uncle Miltie, Milton Berle for those that don't know.

[Naomi]

hey, just because I watched TV as a kid, doesn't mean I never read books! I read all the works by Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Dorothy Gilman, Agatha Christie, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Louisa May Alcott, O. Henry and many more... and in the summers, I had no TV. I was at Spirit Lake, where the only communication with the outside world was by boat mail or this:

Great choice in books ... yes, we had a telephone like that at one time. It was a party line and our ring was a long and a short. But, everyone listened in on everyone's calls. :)

[JawgeFromJawja]

Gas was .21 per gallon at Sinclair.

Gotcha beat. The wife of my youth and I bought it in my first year in medical school (1960) for 19 cents / gal. Even so, there was a gasoline price war.

[JawgeFromJawja]

Cigarettes were available in vending machines.

Roller skates were made of metal and worn over your shoes.

You could play an 8-track tape in your car.

This was all that was on TV in the middle of the night:

Click here to see!

You could play an 8-track tape in your car.

You could. We couldn't. Only had a radio (AM only).

[JawgeFromJawja]

I remember when a "beehive" didn't have bees in it; when if you needed to "take a leak" you went behind something and wouldn't get a ticket; when children weren't allowed to visit patients in the hospital; when there were visiting hours in the hospital; when you took your turn at the doctor's and didn't make appointments (and have to wait an hour anyway).

They still are not around here, and as far south as Gainesville, Georgia, about 40 miles from Atlanta.

[JawgeFromJawja]

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Hah! My first (and ever current) wife got lotsa good stuff with Green Stamps. For us, really good stuff. Baby equipment, etc.

[JawgeFromJawja]

Burma Shave signs were cool

Regretfully, they faded out in the 60s with Interstate highways.

[cricket]

Originally Posted By: cricket

Cigarettes were available in vending machines.

Roller skates were made of metal and worn over your shoes.

You could play an 8-track tape in your car.

This was all that was on TV in the middle of the night:

Click here to see!

You could play an 8-track tape in your car.

You could. We couldn't. Only had a radio (AM only).

Technically, I couldn't either. I wasn't old enough to drive. Only my parents could.

[doug yowell]

I remember when a "beehive" didn't have bees in it;

[doug yowell]

I remember Uncle Miltie, Milton Berle for those that don't know.

How bout Uncle Martin?