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Hippiekinkster -> RE: You know you're getting old... (7/2/2011 11:42:22 PM)
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ORIGINAL: ChatteParfaitt
I got yall beat, before TV we used to listen to radio, not just for music and news but stories, too. Records that you played on your hi-fi were 78s. Gas fixtures instead of electricity, all cars were stick, phones where you had to call the operator first and give your number, "party lines," long distance was a big production, you had to call the operator and she would call you back when she got through.
Doctors made house calls, butchers gave you free bones for the dog, the vegetable man traveled down the street with his cart and horse, and the milk man delivered.
You could give your kid money to go to the store for you and buy cigarettes or alcohol. Processed food hardly existed, microwaves (and dishwashers) were unheard of, people had to actually cook.
Every community had a local theater, and Saturday afternoons there was a double feature for a quarter. Gas was 16 cents a gallon but let's not go there.
Yeah. Milk deliveries. B&W TV. Hula Hoops. I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. My draft number was 8. Seeing Led Zep, and the Cream, and The Dead, and Quicksilver, and Jeff Airplane...
Ten dollar lids... Orange Sunshine... Free Love... the SDS... hitchhiking across the country - twice... when JFK was shot... Kent State...
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