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Post by autumnmist on Dec 11, 2020 11:52:51 GMT -8
Does anyone remember hand shadows?
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Post by BigLoad on Dec 11, 2020 12:10:32 GMT -8
Does anyone remember hand shadows?
Those were fun. I still try to invent them when we lose power and just have a candle or two going.
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Post by reuben on Dec 11, 2020 12:15:22 GMT -8
Does anyone remember hand shadows? Yeah. Sometimes they ended up as a sort of virtual dodgeball, with monsters and lions and tigers and dogs and eagles all trying to kill each other.
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Post by ErnieW on Dec 12, 2020 7:14:32 GMT -8
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Post by hikerchick395 on Dec 14, 2020 10:47:28 GMT -8
I'm old. Knew all of them and still have a few of the items. Four percolators currently in use (two in the house and two in the 5th wheel...caf and decaf.)
My mom got an afghan those same colors in 2018. My sister, who made it for her, got it back this year when mom passed away.
We had the wringer washer til I was an adult and my dad was still using it until the early 80's when he got remarried and his new wife wasn't having anything to do with THAT. Of course had to hang washed clothes on the line.
I remember playing dodgeball with a volleyball in the 3rd grade. After that, I didn't care for the game. In the 6th grade we used to fake finishing our lunch so we could be excused to get into the kickball game.
Yes we had to wear skirts and dresses to school...shorts were allowed on hobo day. Our school swimsuits were made out of sweatshirt material. UGH. Oh yes, dressing up in church clothes was required to fly on an airplane.
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Post by davesenesac on Dec 14, 2020 11:59:23 GMT -8
28 out of 35. Some of the items were not that dated that tends to show the writer was only middle aged. Girls wore dresses through all my California K12 school years. In kindergarten most liked pushing girls on swing sets.
First post USAF job worked for a company next to Stanford U that made card keypunch machine readers with earliest digital electronics versus earlier all mechanical.
Besides 4-square dodgeball, another very popular violent game on all grade school grounds was tether ball. From 4th thru 6th grades most popular games that we boys would race out to for on recess breaks was fly ups and workups. I lived in the Sacramento outer suburbs where every school had large athletic fields., If you know what those are, then you are old.
Walked about my residence looking for something really old. Only a set of Collier's Encyclopedia Yearbooks from 55>74 parents passed on to me. As to being old...am going down with a fight on that count.
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Post by johntpenca on Dec 14, 2020 13:21:17 GMT -8
Funny, I never thought either pickup tackle football, dodgeball or tetherball were in anyway violent.
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Post by ErnieW on Dec 14, 2020 15:12:33 GMT -8
Remember having to talk to an operator to make long distance calls?
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Post by BigLoad on Dec 14, 2020 15:15:37 GMT -8
Remember having to talk to an operator to make long distance calls?
First you have to make sure the party line is clear.
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Post by johntpenca on Dec 14, 2020 15:16:48 GMT -8
Yeah. Rotary dial phones too; remember when they only came in black desk top models?
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Post by desert dweller on Dec 14, 2020 16:12:41 GMT -8
Rotary dial phones too; remember when they only came in black desk top models? I remember when they were permanently attached to the wall and you'd have to take the handset off to stop someone from calling.
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Post by ErnieW on Dec 14, 2020 16:23:46 GMT -8
I remember when they were permanently attached to the wall and you'd have to take the handset off to stop someone from calling. We had the default length handset cord. I was always jealous of the families that had the long cords so you could sit down while on the phone.
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Post by swimswithtrout on Dec 14, 2020 17:22:58 GMT -8
Do you remember when phone numbers were alphanumeric.. Our town numbers were Federal8-xxxx...(338-xxxx)
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Post by BigLoad on Dec 14, 2020 17:29:08 GMT -8
Do you remember when phone numbers were alphanumeric.. Our town numbers were Federal8-xxxx...(338-xxxx)
I remember when radio and newspaper ads used the alpha codes. Some of my parents' friends did, too, but my parents didn't. I think my Dad objected to it on the same grounds as he objected to the Dewey decimal system as opposed to the Library of Congress numbering.
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Post by texasbb on Dec 14, 2020 17:35:28 GMT -8
We've lost the most important function of those old desktop cradle phones: the ability to slam the receiver down when you were upset with whomever just called. Tapping that stupid little red icon just doesn't satisfy.
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