but 55 years ago they landed on the moon on my birthday 🤩 nope I was already born before then Some of the current people were born then…happy birthday to all you moon babies.
Old enough to remember Bill Hailey and the Comets. Old enough to remember the first Television sets. Old enough to remember $.28 per gallon gasoline. And telephone “Party Lines” (and NOT the 1-800-nnnn types today!). Old enough, unfortunately, to remember sex.
My older brother took me to my 1st concert at the Chicago Theater to see Bill Haley and the Comets. I clearly remember the bass player coming down the aisle to get to the stage, playing the whole time. I also remember not only party lines, but having to tell the operator what number you wanted so she could connect you! We had the 1st TV on our block and neighbors used to drop in to watch wrestling (my fave was Chief Don Eagle!). I think TV had some better shows in those days with ochestras, operas, great 1/2 hr. dramas ( often starring unknowns who became big stars later) and LIVE comedies featuring the likes of Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason and Red Skelton!
Old enough to remember when Sputnik was launched. Hopalong Cassidy, Cisco Kid, Roy Rogers The Dumont channel, Hula Hoop ,Davey Crockett. Debut 1955 Ford Thunderbird. Going to a double feature matinee for 35 cents. My dad's first new car 1956 Olds 88. Our new house purchased in 1953 Torrance ca.Purchased with help of GI bill. house payment was 84 dollars a month. Many comic books cost a dime each.
my mind is only 45 -50 years old but my body nearly a shocking 80. In town, We had running water and electricity. I can remember milk / cream in little bottles ,… Cinnamon rolls , delivered to your front door steps every morning . Ice delivered in your rear alley that went down a chute into your kitchen ice box . Coal delivered to a chute in the alley that went into your basement giant pile of coal, for your furnace / heater. You burned your garbage in a 50 gallon drum in your back yard. A guy in a cart came around out back weekly and carried away your ashes from the coal and non burnables from the burn drum.
I’ve lived in houses in the country that had an out house out back that was your toilet. In that house, in your bedroom was a big bowl and pitcher of water , on a stand, to wash up in when you got up mornings. That same bedroom had a big “ pee jug “ under the bed and behind a screen in the corner , a fancy porcelain toilet seat in a plain can exterior that was your toilet in winter when there was 14” of snow on the ground and below freezing in howling wind. You didn’t even try for the outhouse in a winter storm. I remember when electricity first came to that house. Kerosene lights before that. The arrival of electricity made an electric pump / running water possible. A radio that didn’t need batteries on the shelf under the radio.
On the daytime only am radio station, glen miller music, the hog report started the day, Amos and Andy, the shadow, fibber McGee and Molly ….much more. The war had ended only a few years ago, the country was in postwar reconstruction. Everyone had a large garden , grew their own food and canned it , in mason jars for winter. Raised a hog and sheep and had a couple of milk and beef cows in a pasture next to the barn. Raised chickens, ducks, rabbits etc.for food too. Butchered our own meat and hung it in our smoke house next to the coal shed. Made rotten socks stinky home brew in a lot of 5 gallon crocks in the smoke house too. lol times sure have changed lol.
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