From Days Gone By... What DON'T You Miss?
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OFT II
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Going to the outhouse in the cold wintertime.
Going to the outhouse in the hot summertime.
Going to the outhouse in the hot summertime.
dickttx
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Getting up on a cold morning and going to the outhouse, hoeing cotton and pulling bolls.
Beemer-mark
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Wading thru the snow drifts to get to the outhouse.
Trying to sleep with no heat upstairs
Not enough to eat
Not having a cell phone and Wii (course no one else did either).
Trying to sleep with no heat upstairs
Not enough to eat
Not having a cell phone and Wii (course no one else did either).
ohiococonut
Member
Some of these replies sure bring back a lot of memories.
I don't miss the cold Sunday morning showers with lye soap before church. Grandma had no water heater and the shower was a tin room with a 1/2" pipe flattened down on the end.
Had to slick your hair down with pomade unless you wanted to look like Buckwheat. I don't miss that either.
I don't miss the cold Sunday morning showers with lye soap before church. Grandma had no water heater and the shower was a tin room with a 1/2" pipe flattened down on the end.
Had to slick your hair down with pomade unless you wanted to look like Buckwheat. I don't miss that either.
jag312
Member
I don't miss Lawrence Welk, which my mother had to see every week.
I don't miss B&W television or early color television.
I don't miss the time at Fort Ord and one individual in particular. He must have been related to the banjo kid in Deliverance. He had a club that he used to punctuate his screaming commands. I used to fantasize about where I would put that club so that he would need to see a proctologist to extract it. I don't know if he is still alive. If he is, then he's lucky that no one fragged him. I don't miss him, and if I ever meet him again, I swear I won't miss him.
I don't miss my Ford Escort.
I don't miss Fran, Sharon, my son's mother (I can't think of her name), and a few others whose names escape me.
And I sure as heck don't miss the brussels sprouts that my mother used to make. That stuff ain't fit for human consumption.
I don't miss B&W television or early color television.
I don't miss the time at Fort Ord and one individual in particular. He must have been related to the banjo kid in Deliverance. He had a club that he used to punctuate his screaming commands. I used to fantasize about where I would put that club so that he would need to see a proctologist to extract it. I don't know if he is still alive. If he is, then he's lucky that no one fragged him. I don't miss him, and if I ever meet him again, I swear I won't miss him.
I don't miss my Ford Escort.
I don't miss Fran, Sharon, my son's mother (I can't think of her name), and a few others whose names escape me.
And I sure as heck don't miss the brussels sprouts that my mother used to make. That stuff ain't fit for human consumption.
enfield
US Veteran
I don't miss galoshes, sleeping under 50 lbs of quilts, or carrying in two 5-gallon buckets of coal before walking to school in the winter.
Lye soap - my mother used to boil my dad's greasy coveralls (millwright) in a big pot on the stove using lots of homemade lye soap. It was good stuff for clothes but rough on skin. It gave you a healthy pink glow.
Lye soap - my mother used to boil my dad's greasy coveralls (millwright) in a big pot on the stove using lots of homemade lye soap. It was good stuff for clothes but rough on skin. It gave you a healthy pink glow.
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Getting a contact smell do to alot more smokers,duraspark electronic ignition,scratchy records,sacirin on every restaurant table,radish in salads,T.V. that went out after the 11:00 pm news,bad built guns like Rohm,RG's and Arminius,DWI laws or lack of, metal garbage cans, relatives ordering christmas clothes that never fit me through the catalogs.
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GRIZZLYBEAR
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Just to name a few:
Outhouses, 8-Tracks, AM only radios, no turn signals on vehicles, 6 Volt electrical systems on cars, Retread tires, snow chains, and walking a couple of miles to and from school.
Outhouses, 8-Tracks, AM only radios, no turn signals on vehicles, 6 Volt electrical systems on cars, Retread tires, snow chains, and walking a couple of miles to and from school.
sipowicz
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Mummenschanz.
John Ross
Absent Comrade
Lousy brakes, indifferent steering, bias-ply tires, non-synchro transmissions, fouled plugs.
Vinyl records, cassette and 8-track tapes, vacuum tubes.
Film cameras, buying film and having it developed and printed, movie cameras that gave you two minutes of footage.
Expensive long distance bills.
Burger Chef.
Mimeograph machines, typewriters, slide rules.
Lee Loaders.
Vinyl records, cassette and 8-track tapes, vacuum tubes.
Film cameras, buying film and having it developed and printed, movie cameras that gave you two minutes of footage.
Expensive long distance bills.
Burger Chef.
Mimeograph machines, typewriters, slide rules.
Lee Loaders.
lazy
Member
The Time before ATM cards.
enfield
US Veteran
Vacuum-operated windshield wipers.
Reveille.
Cod liver oil.
Reveille.
Cod liver oil.
sipowicz
Member
Castor oil and Coke...castor oil and coke.
50 target
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feralmerril;135917535 working on my knees in the fields for about 50 cents a hour said:
Hands down: High School Algebra, and the ditzy "teacher" who spoiled my approach to math for many years after.
John
John
feralmerril
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50 target, yeah we got paid. I was doing that stuff from 1953 to 1958. That was for commercial truck farmers. Of course had to do the same stuff at home for free too. Seriously, anybody could find work in wisconsin in the summertime in those days. There never was a excuse that you couldnt find work back then. Of course it all was hard, dirty and didnt pay much. Farmers were begging for help. The braserio`s were a big thing in summers. Truck loads of them would follow the harvest`s. Lots of jamacians too. They pretty much had to put us local kids to work if they were going to hire all those foreigners.
I worked alongside them in the fields. Not fun, but it kept us in spending money. Never, ever, did I ask my folks for money. All my peers were the same too!
I worked alongside them in the fields. Not fun, but it kept us in spending money. Never, ever, did I ask my folks for money. All my peers were the same too!
Feralmerril,
I remember those days well. During summers in high school, I worked in the citrus packing sheds in Tempe, Arizona for a dollar an hour gross, not net. It was 8 hours a day of backbreaking labor in the summer heat - filling crates, stacking crates, washing fruit, loading full boxes into refrigerated boxcars, etc. I learned a lot from those days, including some choice Spanish swear words. I also learned that I'd better get an education to avoid being stuck in that kind of job for the rest of my life!
John
I remember those days well. During summers in high school, I worked in the citrus packing sheds in Tempe, Arizona for a dollar an hour gross, not net. It was 8 hours a day of backbreaking labor in the summer heat - filling crates, stacking crates, washing fruit, loading full boxes into refrigerated boxcars, etc. I learned a lot from those days, including some choice Spanish swear words. I also learned that I'd better get an education to avoid being stuck in that kind of job for the rest of my life!
John
michael thornton
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push mowers, black and white tv all them shots you got when you went to school, and those home hair cuts momma used to give us!
