Back in the day my parents couldn't afford a new color tv so dad brought home a used one and a box of crayons. It was a paint-by-numbers model.
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lol... "back in my day"... boys would fight boys... and girls rarely fought. But if they did... they knew what they were doing. Lol. Yup... that happened to me... like a doofus I stumbled into a fight with a capable tomboy. She could scrap... and I got scrapped. Lol.
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@SW-Userif you like the comment... I sometimes share the story for fun and laughs... funny long after the fact. Lol.
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I remember those... the "country squire" station wagons!
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@SW-User Oops... I posted the comment in the wrong spot!...lol. However, I do have a "country squire" wagon story or two. Lol.
Back in my day music came on black vinyl discs and you had to flip them over to hear the rest of tbe songs. And if you wanted to see a movie you had to go to a cinema with only screen, and if you didn't see it while it was showing you had to wait about 2 years before it was shown on TV.
@voodoo1970 We had two TV's. We had our main one in the living room and an older one in the basement for playing video games. My parents were wise and kept the older one instead of getting rid of it.
I remember paying 10 cents for a candy bar that was bigger than it's current iteration. I rode my bike w/out a helmet, played outside, did not have video games...queue old man voice...thought women were supposed to do the cooking and cleaning, hockey players didn't wear helmets, Dick Butkus was reading the lips of the opposing team-my rheumatism is acting up...must be going to snow-I had never been exposed to anyone who was gay and gas was 35 cents a gallon and lead in it. -hobbles away with 2 canes-
@voodoo1970 Haha, yes ! Mine has a dial. My teenage niece was trying to figure out how it worked. 😄
@latinbutterfly Yes, a landline phone. It was called a “Genie”, and the model that is displayed in a Bell museum downtown on Montgomery St has buttons, like your phone set. Mine was an older model, when they first came out. 🙂
Back in the day we made our own "snow ice cream" out in the country where I grew up. We'd get a big bowl and spoon and fill it with snow,(no yellow snow) add milk, vanilla flavor, and sugar. 😋❄️🌨️🥣
Back in my day, kids could walk around a ghetto neighborhood and hang around in the junky playground/field for hours without worry. Drug dealers were more discerning about their customers. Affairs were kept secret. MSDOS was king.
... It had jump seats in the trunk area, and back in my day there were no seatbelt rules. We rode on the freeways playing cards back there! 🤣 Funny to remember.
Back in my day we were very poor couldn’t even afford the word poor!!!!! People would break in our home to bring us furniture lol!!!! I remember always walking to school and then bible study after school everyday for elementary and jr high school and I was an atheist I did it due to they feed my mom and sister so that’s why I went but God convicted my heart changed my ways when I got way older and now I’m set free no more struggle with food or shelter all to his Glory
@Gr8Guy1979 Amen...my family didn't have much money either. When I was a little girl in Chicago in the 80's, we didn't end up having most of the technology that was becoming popular at the time like the PC, VHS player, and Cable TV. With the exception of video games, my parents didn't have invest in those things until the 90's. One of their sayings was, "If we don't need it, then we won't buy it". God did provide for us more than what we needed.
Amen to that miss!!!! It’s very true I did not have a father in my life and it’s okay my mom raised me right she had to always work two jobs to provide for us but like you said and it’s so true God blessed us much more we put him first and he did the same for us I hope you are having a great day or night my friend @latinbutterfly
@Fernie My first car did 0-60 in less than a week and used as much oil as it did gas. And if you rolled the passenger window down too far, the door popped open.
Doug Demuro just showcased one in mint condition. My dad had one in 2005 it was barely running and it was in bad shape and nothing electical-wise worked and it had a 2.8 Diesel Mercedes engine that was too weak on such a beast, it barely drove. I found it interesting and I wanted my dad to fix it but he got rid of it and he probably did the right thing lol
@whowasthatmaskedman Some had an extra seat in the trunk area if I remember, I think ours did. Obviously it could only be used if there was no cargo in the trunk.
We had several station wagons but none as big as that .Living in Rhodesia reliable newish cars were hard to come buy so my gran bought us a car in the uk every 4/5 years and it was shipped to South Africa and dad took the train to get it off the ship and drive it home .
Back in MY day, some of us smaller kids would not ride in a seat, but would sprawl across the back deck looking up at the night sky through the rear windshield. Seatbelts in the Oldsmobile?? Nah. You’d get pulled over & ticketed for that now.
@Beatbox34 It's probably hard to find one at a decent price that is in good running condition. Or maybe find an old, beat up, non running one and fix it up.
