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Last Thursday a bunch of us met in the Common room for a gab-fest (we call our gathering 'Chat and Chew") and some lunch. We brown-bag it and then just visit.
We got to talking about how much life has changed in our lifetime. Oh, my gosh. Well, just look around you and you'll get the picture. It was more than fun to relive some of those old days although I am not sure I'd want to go back to them.
Mom didn't have a telephone 'til after I had married and left home. Being out in the country had it's challenges for sure. We could see one house... and they didn't have a phone either! Imagine now we just carry our phones in our pockets or hands wherever we go.
I was in my teens before we ever got an indoor toliet. I definately do not want to go back to the outdoor kind! Nor the Sear, Roebuck catalog toliet paper!
I was eighteen when I took my first plane ride and I was scared to get out of my seat. How, stupid is that! But, hey, I was a country girl and knew nothing about flying! It was a propeller driven plane. The first commercial jet came into service in 1952, the year I flew to San Diego from Alabama with my 3 month old daughter in tow.
We lived with my grandmother and grandpa and I remember my grandmother walking through some of the weed-grown fields near the house, her apron tail gathered in her hand so she could place in it the eggs the hens had laid out there, just anywhere they pleased.
Everyone had their own tales but me being the oldest at the chat and chew, I think mine were the most shocking.
Did any of you have things happening like that when you were growing up? Nah, probably not. I'm older than the hills, I am.
I am sure by the time all you youngsters (and that includes anyone 85 and under) you came along, you had it easier!!
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I am 64 and can't believe how things have changed in my lifetime. I remember our phone line having 2 households on it, and we would have to wait to use it. Like you said, now we just carry them with us.
ReplyDeleteFrom what you said, I think the indoor toilet has to be the best thing!
Change came so fast from our childhoods til now. Most people now have cell phones. If you had predicted Facetime on phones people would not have believed it. When I grew up our family phone number had 4 digits only, and a party line. If you picked up the phone you could hear the other people talking. Laptop computers and Kindle ebook readers, amazing.
ReplyDeleteI remember my grandmother talking about her childhood at the beginning of the 1900s... she remembers seeing a wooden biplane flying over the fields at the beginning of the days of aviation.
ReplyDeleteIn my world the good old days were the eighties, life under the leadership of Saint Ronnie Reagan was something I prefer.
ReplyDeleteMy mother had stories like this, too, and she always seemed amazed at her adult life as compared to her younger days. For myself, I'm sure my kids think I grew up in the dark ages, not getting a cell phone until I was 35. Oh, the horror. At work we joke about how children of the 60s didn't have internet, bike helmets, seat belts, drank red Kool-aid, and were latch key kids who walked home from school, and we all thrived.
ReplyDelete73 here...lots of good memories too...
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Donna
It's the technology advances that have made life so different for my daughters and granddaughters.
ReplyDeleteOh, yes, I remember. Born in the 50's in a rural area. I joke that we were the original organic farmers - if we didn't grow it, pick it or kill it, we didn't eat! Central heating & running water came when I was 10 yrs old. I remember getting electricity.
ReplyDeleteSo much has changed. My mother speaks of no electricity, outhouses, and no telephone. I wonder if change will continue at this pace in the years to come.
ReplyDeleteI remember the old telephone of the wall, and the hand pump to get water for the sink. My grandmother had chickens too, but they were fenced in.
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