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Feb 15, 2019 13:10:50   #
bobbyjohn Loc: Dallas, TX
 
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


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Feb 15, 2019 13:34:30   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 

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Feb 15, 2019 13:36:16   #
burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC
 
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=1OADXNGnJok
ONE 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.

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Feb 15, 2019 14:05:18   #
le boecere
 
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=1OADXNGnJok
ONE 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.

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Feb 15, 2019 15:06:04   #
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.

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Feb 15, 2019 16:14:29   #
BB4A
 
Luxury! Here’s my childhood story: https://youtu.be/26ZDB9h7BLY

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Feb 15, 2019 16:49:38   #
Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida
 
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=1OADXNGnJok
ONE 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.

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Feb 15, 2019 17:58:38   #
TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC
 
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.


YESSSS!

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Feb 16, 2019 00:28:05   #
burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC
 
TriX wrote:
YESSSS!


Thanks. They’re terrified at 20 and 28...

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Feb 16, 2019 00:48:14   #
WILLARD98407 Loc: TACOMA, WA.
 
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=1OADXNGnJok
ONE Thing! br br Having my childhood in the 1950s... (show quote)



1phone for 4 houses in the neighborhood.

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Feb 16, 2019 06:33:11   #
llamb Loc: Northeast Ohio
 
One breakfast time and one dinner time.

~Lee

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Feb 16, 2019 07:20:39   #
cdayton
 
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.

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Feb 16, 2019 07:26:36   #
traderjohn Loc: New York City
 
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?

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Feb 16, 2019 07:35:45   #
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=1OADXNGnJok
ONE 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...

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Feb 16, 2019 07:50:36   #
bedouin Loc: Big Bend area, Texas
 
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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