My friend's grandmother just died...

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

OK I'll give it a shot. I remember when:
Wow! And I thought that would be difficult. Now, can you guess my age?

Yes you can. if I had not met you I would say you are about the same age as me just by what you posted. You can tell the era by all the descriptions. Man do we have some old timers here or what?

[riverdees05 Platinum Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close riverdees05]

WOW - What a long life, hope it was good to her. She saw so many things happen in her life, that one can only guess how it must have seemed to her. Going from horse and buggie to jet planes to space travel. Going from no electricity to computers in almost every home. An so much more.

What a span of history to have lived

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I can remember when I was at my Grandfather's, watching shows on the radio!

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I watched Howdy Doody and Popeye regularly when I was a kid. I was never a Mickey Mouse Club fan, but I never missed American Bandstand and I watched Soul Train (back before it became ultra raunchy when they started almost 'doing it' while dancing). I never missed Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and the Lone Ranger.

Happy Trails To You!!

Hi-Oh, Silver - AWAY!!!!

My brother's fave - "Out of the blue of the western sky, IT'S SKY KING!"

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This subject brings back some really old memories. What fun!
Speaking of color TV, I remember how absolutely awesome it was when we visited friends and watched the Disney Show in color. Wow! It wasn't long after that that we replaced our old Hoffman EZ Vision with a brandy new RCA .. in Living Color! We'd been wondering why our kids didn't watch TV much at home any more, and then we realized our picture tube was going, and the "picture" looked more like a negative. What an excuse to have to get a new set.
I remember having an icebox, and our milk delivered to the back porch. In summers, when I was a kid, we used to love to chase the ice truck down the street, trying to grab pieces of ice out of the back. (He used to chip off chunks for us to get.)...Good Humor Bars...rumble seats, Sunday chicken dinners. My Grandmother raised chickens in the back yard, and Sun. morning she'd go out, chase one down, and swing it around by the neck until the head came off. Then it would go flopping all over the yard until it fell over. I know the true meaning of "running around like a chicken with its head cut off". Then, the stench in the kitchen when Gram would boil the chicken to loosen the feathers. Those are indelibly etched childhood memories. Somehow, though, they disappeared when dinner was on the table.
I remember party lines, and having to wait to make a phone call because of yackity neighbors on the same line...having real, live operators handle our calls...and even being one when I got older. Another memory is the advent of margarine. It was white, and yucky looking, encased in plastic, with a bubble of yellow coloring we had to break, and then mix it all in together before cutting it open. ...and we actually ATE it!
Lots of things lurking in the back of my mind.. I may be going into overload..

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I remember a show called "Winky Dink" when you placed a plastic screen over your tv and drew on it with the program. I vaguely remember President Kennedy's funeral. I was 4 and I was angry that my shows were not on. And perhaps you have to be from NY City to remember this: There was a "ride truck" that came around. There were a couple kinds, the one I liked the best was rock-a-bye-baby. The truck pulled on to the street and all the kids went out, paid the man, and got a ride on the truck. Rock-a-bye-baby resembled the pirate ship rides but the man manually pushed one side up and the then the other. You could hear the squeals of the kids on the next block. Also the ice cream man wars - "bungalow bar tastes like tar!"