Me too!I remember when I could hop down from the bed of a pickup truck, land on my two feet, and take off running. Try that today and I'd end up in a crumpled heap on the ground, checking limbs for what's broken.
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Me too!I remember when I could hop down from the bed of a pickup truck, land on my two feet, and take off running. Try that today and I'd end up in a crumpled heap on the ground, checking limbs for what's broken.
Make recordings of the most likely to needed digits and play them into the phone. Troublesome, but should work - theoretically.Same! We have a trusty old rotary dial clunker for power outages. Never has failed us, unless we have to press 1!
Ahhh, yes! Before we moved to the country, the whole neighborhood full of kids would be outside playing till dinnertime, at each others' yards or in the surrounding woods & fields. Each Mom had her own way of calling her kids home. One used an old ranch-style triangle, another blew a conch shell. We wished Mom would try the classic Tarzan yell (which Carol Burnett did wonderfully on her show that we loved so much!)Leaving the house on a summer morning and not being back until dinner. Then when the sun went down, we would play hide and go seek in the dark. Good times
And in the grocery store!Doctors smoking in hospital hallways.
And other peoples parents could spank you!I am so old I remember being paddled at school.
Resteraunts..pharmacies, teachers had smoking lounges..I'm so old I remember when everyone smoked at the movie theaters,
Yes!Did anyone have one of these? I played with this thing a long time til my brother broke it to see how it worked.
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We still have one locally!I can remember going to drive-in theaters.
We still have one just like that for camping & when the power goes out and we're cooking on the little Coleman camp stove in the dark.When coffee was made in these, on the stovetop. I used to love to watch it bubble up in the little glass knob.
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I have the tones for my childhood best friend’s home phone# implanted in my memory—BEEP-beep-beep—beep-beep-BEEP-beepMake recordings of the most likely to needed digits and play them into the phone. Troublesome, but should work - theoretically.
I prefer the blue one. jsWe still have one just like that for camping & when the power goes out and we're cooking on the little Coleman camp stove in the dark.
A few years ago the phone company was working on the junction box in our backyard. He said to reduce redundancy and avoid upgrading the whole underground phone system, they were switching landlines over to internet.Blessedly, our landlines are still powered so they work when PG&E blacks out...frequent occurrence in winter and wildfire seasons. Lots of "antique" things still work out here on The Lost Coast; modern things, not so much (internet especially).