What is #27? It looks familiar but I can't place it.
A selectable address book, so sort of a flat Rolodex.
Yep.
I still have mine. (I'm NOT old!)
#1: I have 2, a giant one and one like the picture. They're still on a shelf.
#2: What my family ate on back in the day. It got relegated to the kitchen for quick breakfasts before school when grandma willed us her dining room table.
#3: I had a sister, it was the 50s, so, enough said.
#4: Used them all the time. Used one in Grand Central Station back in '64 to call the parents before flying home from Conn. Used the one in the old SF airport to tell them I was about to board the flight out of the country, circa fall '65.
#5: Still have one. Everyone I know has one. But the Idahoan Buttery Homestyle is so close to the real thing, it's hardly worth it any more. They're still good for those yam casseroles at Thanksgiving and Christmas.
#6: Only thing Mom ever had in the bathroom cabinet for cuts and such. I got used to it. When I was compiling a first aid kit for the PCT hike that never happened, this was the first thing I looked for to add.
#7: My Thorens only has 33 1/3. I had a flip-down player I lugged everywhere back in the day. Wish I could find it. The wife has a player she won in a radio contest when she was a "teeny bopper". It's signed by the Beatles.
#8: Uh huh
*9: Sears and Roebuck shoe department.
#10: The car I currently drive had one. I don't know where it is. The hole it was in now has a double USB charger.
#11: Now, I
always thought that was freaky, but no one ever commented. In our house, the TP was just on the back of the toilet, undecorated.
#12: The joys of the big spend, on credit.
#13: There was a "snack room" at Bell Telephone in San Antonio, which only had snack and drink machines. I often forgot to make and take a lunch on night shift, so yeah.
#14: I found one while digging in my back yard. It's in the drawer in my desk.
#15: Mom had one, but it was only used in the kitchen sink. We were expected to help with the laundry on weekends and during the summer. Mom had one of these, which sat in a small outhouse near the garden and the clotheslines.
#16: I've been there when the "blue light special" fired up.
#17: You got old tennis shoes, you gotta still look sharp!
#18: Still have one. It's in the utensil drawer in the kitchen.
#19: With some spam and mayo, my favorite sandwich.
#20: Like I said before, I had a sister. It was the 50s.
#21: We were poor. We bought cheap cuts. I have Mom's old one: stole it out of her kitchen drawer in 1967.
#22: Uh huh. Houses in south Texas were cheap to rent, but rickety and had leaky window frames. When a really cold norther blew through, you could hear the windows rattle, which caused the counterweights in the sashes to swing. Extra blankets were
not optional.
#23: Uh huh. Press all the way in after tuning to your station.
#24: She was a headliner (with Bob Hope) at the Airman's Club at Clark. They were on their way to 'Nam.
#25: When I bought the my first car w/o one, they had to tell me where it was. Now the button to start on the dash has made a comeback, but they're labeled - like we're all stupid out here - I don't think the one in my dad's old Chevy was labeled: you just knew what it was.
#26: Every year. Always with a warning that you couldn't eat it all, and it had to last until at least summer.
#27: See above. It still works, but there are people in there who I no longer know (or remember!) and others who have long sinced "passed on".
#28: Need I say it? Still had one until the wife took it to use as a planter.
#29: Yet again: I
had a sister. It was not in the bathroom, but I saw it on her dresser.
#30: Before Bluetooth. If you thought your date was willin', you left it on the post.
#31: Had two. I have pictures, so believe me.
#32: Uh huh
#33: Mom still had hers back a couple of decades ago, but I suspect my brother threw it out. I've actually used one in a hayloft with a cousin, in lieu of kissing. (I was stupid then, and I haven't improved.)
#34: I didn't "take band", so the wife, who did, had to inform me.
#35: We had one, the neighbors (when we lived in town) had one - there's still one in a house [
ETA: in a nearby neighborhood where the wife and I walk all the time - I think it qualifies as an 'antique'.]
It's a great day here in Austin, with blue skies, 50s and a slight wind. I "cooked" my coffee water on the patio this morning when it was a mild 43, and started a fire in the chiminea. The wife came out and warmed her feet, but she was angry at me because I'm not doing all the chores on my "todo list". Already spent two days this week pulling in the plants and covering the rest, as well as the garden when the forecast sad we'd hit 29 on Tuesday. Does she want me to work
all the time?. :^)