ONE Thing!
Having my childhood in the 1950s, with 4 people in the family, Mom & Dad & brother & me, we seemed fine with ONE of any entity. In today's world, most middle class folks have multiples of almost everything. Well, here's what we grew up with...and we were happy!
1 Phone - for the whole family to share
1 TV - black & white - with antenna on roof - got 3 channels, CBS, NBC, ABC - no remote
1 Car
1 Dog
1 Bathroom - Scheduling was a challenge
1 Bank
1 Doctor
1 Faith
Do you have any other ONE's in your childhood?
PS. Check out today's 17 year olds on rotary phone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=74&v=1OADXNGnJok
bobbyjohn wrote:
ONE Thing!
Having my childhood in the 1950s, with 4 people in the family, Mom & Dad & brother & me, we seemed fine with ONE of any entity. In today's world, most middle class folks have multiples of almost everything. Well, here's what we grew up with...and we were happy!
1 Phone - for the whole family to share
1 TV - black & white - with antenna on roof - got 3 channels, CBS, NBC, ABC - no remote
1 Car
1 Dog
1 Bathroom - Scheduling was a challenge
1 Bank
1 Doctor
1 Faith
Do you have any other ONE's in your childhood?
PS. Check out today's 17 year olds on rotary phone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=74&v=1OADXNGnJokONE Thing! br br Having my childhood in the 1950s... (
show quote)
I can check all those same boxes. However, I envy all the choices my kids have. I DON’T envy their responsibilities to undo much of what those who came before have screwed up so badly.
bobbyjohn wrote:
ONE Thing!
Having my childhood in the 1950s, with 4 people in the family, Mom & Dad & brother & me, we seemed fine with ONE of any entity. In today's world, most middle class folks have multiples of almost everything. Well, here's what we grew up with...and we were happy!
1 Phone - for the whole family to share
1 TV - black & white - with antenna on roof - got 3 channels, CBS, NBC, ABC - no remote
1 Car
1 Dog
1 Bathroom - Scheduling was a challenge
1 Bank
1 Doctor
1 Faith
Do you have any other ONE's in your childhood?
PS. Check out today's 17 year olds on rotary phone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=74&v=1OADXNGnJokONE Thing! br br Having my childhood in the 1950s... (
show quote)
Yes, ONE Saturday night bath. And...Dad had one camera ~ Kodak Bantam 828 (I got his pre-War compact ~ my first camera).
I rather recently have been told, by a childhood friend, that we were considered "rich", 'cause we had "a 2nd car" ~ a 1937 Chev 2-dr sedan.
DirtFarmer
Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA
When I was a kid the family owned 1 car but since my father owned a hardware store he had a pickup truck. 3 on the floor Studebaker. It's what I took my driving test in.
Everything else was pretty much the same (except our TV had rabbit ears and our phone did not have a dial).
Walked to school.
bobbyjohn wrote:
ONE Thing!
Having my childhood in the 1950s, with 4 people in the family, Mom & Dad & brother & me, we seemed fine with ONE of any entity. In today's world, most middle class folks have multiples of almost everything. Well, here's what we grew up with...and we were happy!
1 Phone - for the whole family to share
1 TV - black & white - with antenna on roof - got 3 channels, CBS, NBC, ABC - no remote
1 Car
1 Dog
1 Bathroom - Scheduling was a challenge
1 Bank
1 Doctor
1 Faith
Do you have any other ONE's in your childhood?
PS. Check out today's 17 year olds on rotary phone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=74&v=1OADXNGnJokONE Thing! br br Having my childhood in the 1950s... (
show quote)
So, our kids have more choices; and in many, many way things are better for them. What is wrong with that?
I do hope our Grandkids have even more choices.
Thanks. They’re terrified at 20 and 28...
bobbyjohn wrote:
ONE Thing!
Having my childhood in the 1950s, with 4 people in the family, Mom & Dad & brother & me, we seemed fine with ONE of any entity. In today's world, most middle class folks have multiples of almost everything. Well, here's what we grew up with...and we were happy!
1 Phone - for the whole family to share
1 TV - black & white - with antenna on roof - got 3 channels, CBS, NBC, ABC - no remote
1 Car
1 Dog
1 Bathroom - Scheduling was a challenge
1 Bank
1 Doctor
1 Faith
Do you have any other ONE's in your childhood?
PS. Check out today's 17 year olds on rotary phone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=74&v=1OADXNGnJokONE Thing! br br Having my childhood in the 1950s... (
show quote)
1phone for 4 houses in the neighborhood.
llamb
Loc: Northeast Ohio
One breakfast time and one dinner time.
~Lee
We must have been “rich” because we had a half-bath on the first floor. I learned to drive on a Ford tractor - the transition to a car meant I didn’t have to stop to shift gears and there was only one brake pedal so I couldn’t steer with the brakes.
burkphoto wrote:
I can check all those same boxes. However, I envy all the choices my kids have. I DON’T envy their responsibilities to undo much of what those who came before have screwed up so badly.
Quite right. Where would we be without self-loathing and an induced sense of guilt?
Rich2236
Loc: E. Hampstead, New Hampshire
bobbyjohn wrote:
ONE Thing!
Having my childhood in the 1950s, with 4 people in the family, Mom & Dad & brother & me, we seemed fine with ONE of any entity. In today's world, most middle class folks have multiples of almost everything. Well, here's what we grew up with...and we were happy!
1 Phone - for the whole family to share
1 TV - black & white - with antenna on roof - got 3 channels, CBS, NBC, ABC - no remote
1 Car
1 Dog
1 Bathroom - Scheduling was a challenge
1 Bank
1 Doctor
1 Faith
Do you have any other ONE's in your childhood?
PS. Check out today's 17 year olds on rotary phone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=74&v=1OADXNGnJokONE Thing! br br Having my childhood in the 1950s... (
show quote)
Yes to everything. And those teens on the rotary phone are hilarious. That is all we had, I am 82 and I still remember my rotary phone number: JE (Jerome) JE6-2766. (That number was from the Bronx, NYC.)
Rich...
When I was a kid in the third grade, my father used to walk with me every morning to school and then walk home with me when school was out. That's because he was in the third grade too.
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