I continue to receive emails from a booster program that prepares young mind to navigate into the real world. I created a post for it 10 years ago and notice that some of my links are now obsolete. Our time spent at JA City (here) took place approximately six months before our move to Oregon. Thus not only do I live in another state than the said activities but my child is now 20 years old. I finally hit the unsubscribe button. Hopefully it worked.
We passed a horrific accident returning home from the ward luncheon. I don’t know how many people were involved or how many hurt. I saw a stretcher out by a car in the ditch. Ahead was a van all smashed up. It had to have been going pretty fast to have been that smashed up – or perhaps it had been the other car that hit on the way to the ditch (I guess I don’t even know what direction the ditch car was facing)
We had to slow down as we
passed. Tears formed in my eyes. I don’t know what happened. I would guess it could have been
prevented. I feel bad for the
victims. I hope things will be resolved
and health will be restored.
Doris Day and Rock Hudson made a few movies together including “Send Me No Flowers” which I had mentioned in my last post and “Pillow Talk” which is the segue into the topic of this post. 20 Things From The 1960s, Kids Today Will Never Understand! #16 mentions the party line which is not something that took place in our home but I did know of neighbors who had party lines. I don’t know why some neighbors had them and some didn’t. “Pillow Talk” gave me the impression that it was more common than not and yet I really didn’t know that many people who had them.
In “Pillow Talk” the solution worked out
by the characters was to make or accept phone calls within a half hour
time. One could take the hour until half
past while the other used the phone half past until the hour. I don’t know that either of our neighbors had
worked out anything. I know my neighbors
from across the street knew who they shared the party line with but the others
did not. They actually did not live that
far apart and Peggy’s boys had paper routes in which their party line would
receive newspapers.
From what I understand Carlton’s (I
don’t remember their actual names) would call to make complaints for whatever
reason and Bird’s line was always busy – it was busy because they shared a
party line. Birds knew that was why the
line was always busy. I don’t know if
Carlton’s ever figured that out.
Dave Willock played the part of a milk man in 1964’s “Send Me No Flowers”. I’d forgotten the now obsolete profession. I don’t remember the milk man but I do remember the milk box that lived outside our door for years.
Once
a week it was magically filled with four quarts of milk that we would take from
box to fridge. I remember having pulled
out the heavy glass bottles and placing them in our fridge. I think it had been delivered by Winder Dairy.
When
we finished our milk we would return the empty milk drop container and they
would be picked up when the next delivery was made. I don’t know how old I was when we started
picking up plastic jugs of milk because the four quarts were no longer
enough. Eventually the delivery stopped
and the milk man was gone.
You
can read more history at this site.
In the 20 Things From The 1960s, Kids Today Will Never
Understand! YouTube video there was mention of a record player
and the speeds features for various record players. I remember the different speeds mentioned and
the record sizes. I also remember a 16
speed (not mentioned) but never saw a record for that speed. I barely remember the 78,
33 and 78 records had holes in the middle to fit
over the piece in the middle of the turn table. But the 45 speed or singles had
a larger hole which required an adapter.
I remember having red plastic
circles but did not use myself as someone had brilliantly invented an entire
tube to fit over the stem and so the hold would fit in place over the tube.
I had created this post in 2015 and thought there
was another that gave indication to my first phonograph and stereo. Must have been a page I had created for a
memory scrapbook. Perhaps an entry for another post?
I remember green stamps. I remember having watched them dissolve – not
that I was ever attached to them. I was
a kid. I didn’t care about their existence
or what could be purchased with them.
Though I have done “remembrance” and “evolution”
posts before, I thought it would be fun to reminisce once more and reflect on
some of the items mentioned in this and other videos. I will start with #13 carbon paper.
I remember using carbon paper and typewriter ribbon (#15) both equally messy leaving stains on the fingers and paper. Carbon paper was often NOT a great quality for duplication as it was never as dark as the original - at least mine weren't. Today's "copy" is a zillion times easier.
Digitalizing documents wiping out our past. I watched two more videos that focused on products of the 19th turned to early 20th century. Many I remember from historic sites but of course not from personal experience. As I watched those I wondered if children from this century view the things I grew up with in the same way that I view the turn of the century described above. I never thought of myself as seeing a "turn of the century" as I'm so focused at 19 becoming 20 but I have seen a "turn of the century" from 20th to 21st. Retro to digital everything.
I have only one dose left of the nasty mouth wash I will swish around after my next meal. I have five pills left from what I told was a day’s worth of what I thought to be pain killers. They are actually “knock-me-into-a-coma-so-I-forget-the-pain” pills. I found that out one evening when I took the one pill at 5:00 p.m. instead of my usual 8:00 when I am ready to retire to bed anyway.
I bet I could cut the remaining 5
pills in half and they would still be as effective. I wish they were memory pills.
