dancers Loc: melbourne.victoria, australia

we had an ice chest, not a fridge, no hot water on tap, no car, no phone, and of course no TV. Mama cooked on a wood fired stove.

we survived!

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

Ah Yes! These millennials have it too good. Who would have thought that they could wake up by an alarm clock, go to the bathroom IN the house, pick up your cell phone, order breakfast delivered and then jump on one of those newfangled exercise treadmills that is set up in their living room in front of the television.
It’s absolutely amazing even before they know what the weather is like outside!

Happy Shooting!

kschwegl Loc: Orangeburg, NY

All of the above!

Billbobboy42 Loc: Center of Delmarva

Shucks! I forgot whether I ever won a mumbly peg game. But I still have 10 toes🙂

joehel2 Loc: Cherry Hill, NJ

I can remember playing “cowboys and Indians” with my friends, using thumb and index finger as the six shooter. Today the county would assign a social worker to address my anti-social behavior.

Fotoserj Loc: St calixte Qc Ca

Done it all, damm I most be old

wbk56

Had a party line that had three sisters as one of the three people sharing

2Dragons Loc: The Back of Beyond

We got our first TV in 1949 and I believe there were only 2 Boston Channels at that time, 4 & 7. 12" screen in a huge mahogany box. My father would sit for hours fiddling with the "test" pattern.

PaulBrit Loc: Merlin, Southern Oregon

Happy Birthday for then! From this Brit living very happily in the USA and only 75!

47greyfox Loc: on the edge of the Colorado front range

For years growing up on an Iowa farm, I only thought there was one TV network.... CBS, then the upstart ABC showed up and progress stalled until I moved on.

Picture Taker Loc: Michigan Thumb

I had a 2 Speed shifter on my bike that had a little spring that would brake and it was made by New Departure Co in Bristol Conn(relived in Bristol). And during the war (WW2) we would go to a back door and a guy would give us a hand full to take home and share. N.D. was a big baring maker during the war but still made that spring for some military use. Before TV, AC etc, thanks for making me think back.

odujim Loc: New Jersey

phlash46 Loc: Westchester County, New York

Yep, that old.

Harry0 Loc: Gardena, Cal

I remember watching Alfred Hitchcock.
Commercials ONLY at the beginning and the end- none in the middle.
Studio corps started to pressure him, and he resisted. He made 1 hour movies. He didn't want to split them.
BUTT new contracts, new execs, new weasels- I mean lawyers. So he finally agreed.
His show would run @ halfway, and something evil/disgusting/nasty would happen. Just terrible! Fade out ...
Alfred appears "If you thought THAT was bad, wait until you see THIS!" Fade to: Pepsodent or Tide commercial.
That lasted for a while.

Did you ever watch "Queen for a Day"? My grandmother loved that show, because she hated it.
Crazy old woman. 7 kids. Drunk husband No money. Only clothes she brought with when she got married.
The worst sorry sobbing miserable wretch won. Shiny glitz, sit on a throne, get a crown and a royal robe.
She wins .. a washing machine! Take some of the load off, mom! Sobs. Still waiting for Rural Electrification ...

Sometimes I'd watch Clutch Cargo, Crusader Rabbit or the original Micky Mouse Club. With horses.
Almost every day, I'd get breakfast. Then sent outside. Be back by the time the streetlights came on.
I come home for a snack? 2 slices Wonderbread, Each- layers of butter, honey, confectioner's sugar. And milk.
I could walk a mile to the drugstore, and buy $.25 cigarettes, and fireworks, over the counter. And codeine.
Teenager wants condoms? He'd get them- and a lecture. His mom- and hers- already knew before he got home.
Some days I kinda acted up. The teacher would slap me. And my mom. And my dad. Was my grandma there?
If at least ONE of them was left handed my nose wouldn't be like this.
Yup. Good ol days.

1Feathercrest Loc: NEPA

One of my first recording machines was a wire recorder and I also had a vinyl disc recorder that cut the grooves in a blank disc while recording. The cut filaments from the disc were like fine black hair. Sound quality was not up to present day recording equipment. I wish I still had those artifacts now for the historical value.