O how it used to be..........

[ladiesbballcoach]

A thread to teach these young whipper snappers on here, how it used to be......

 

This is what made me think of this thread.

 

Last night we were driving home after a 2-hour baseball practice in 85 degree weather and then driving to Florence for a basketball game. They were tired and wanting to lay down in the back seat, which made me recall the trips I had as a kid going from our house in NKY to Corbin KY and my mamaw's house.

 

Mom would lay a pillow IN THE FLOORBOARD on each side of the hump. I would lay and sleep the whole 3 hour drive IN THE FLOORBOARD of the car was we drove along. My sister would always get the backseat as I was the younger of the two.

 

Imagine today letting your kid sleeping in the floor of the car as you zipped down I75.

 

What about BGP, things you did 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago that the younglings of today would be amazed by?

[Polarcat85]

Only eating out about twice a year!

[Watusi]

We got 3 TV channels and we had no VCRs, etc. You were at the mercy of the networks (there was no cable channels) and you watched what they wanted you to watch. You couldn't just pop in a movie. If you watched a movie, you went to the theater.

 

If you missed a TV program, you missed it. We got 30 minutes of cartoons every afternoon (Mr Cartoon Show on WSAZ) and then a morning of cartoons on Saturday. That was it.

 

The Charlie Brown Christmas, The Grinch, The Wizard of OZ, etc. were shows that came on once a year, and you made darn sure you were there and ready when they came on. If you missed it,... well we covered that already.

 

The news came on twice a day and you made sure you watched it at 11 so you could get the sports and weather. There was no other way to find out who won the days MLB games, short of listening to the Reds on radio and waiting for the rundown, even then you missed all the west coast scores until the following day.

 

The nightly news anchors were like movie stars. They were your window into the world, as there was really no other up-to-date information source. And even they were usually several hours behind in telling you of major events.

[iPapi]

I used to ride right next to my dad in his regular cab pickup.

 

Bench seats, no seatbelt, and sometimes I'd even sit on his lap and drive.

 

I've done the floorboard thing to LBBC...those were the days.

 

And to be honest, I hardly ever remember eating out that much at all. I'm going to make it a point to quit abusing that privilege.

[LadyBearMom]

No running water in the house!

Having to use the outhouse instead of a toilet

[STRIKE3]

As a young man, I did without things we have today. If you wanted to talk with someone, dial the rotatory phone or walk over to their house.

 

No Computer

No Cell phone

No TV Cable

No sports drinks

High top Converse

Neighborhood/Sandlot Fields

One Uniform (not home/away color)

Gunsmoke, Gilligan's Island, Mannix, NBC Game of Week on Saturday

Dinner was at 6:00pm

Comic Books were $.10

Going to Movies on Saturday Afternoons

GI Joe toy figures, to play with

Leave Front Door unlocked

Yes Sir, No Sir....Yes Mam, No Mam

.....ah, the good 'ole days. Thanks LBBC, been great thinking about these.

[ladiesbballcoach]

My grandfather was a bus driver and there was a flat space to the left of the driver's seat. I would sit there and look at the window as he ran his route. Ride the bus with him in the morning and afternoon sitting right beside him on the bus on the lid of the little storage opening.

[SvFan4life]

Well I'm just 21 but I always hear my grandparents and other people saying about how they had to walk so many miles in the snow just to get to school. lol

[iPapi]

At a young age I remember dad watching TV in the house, and my younger brother's name could been change to "remote" and mine to "channel changer" because we both spent countless hours on our knees beside the TV finding him something to watch.

 

I had no computer of my own until I was out of undergraduate school.

I really wish cellphones had never been invented, now its like they are a necessary evil but I remember a day when nobody had them & it was great.

[kygirl]

When I was a kid remote meant a secluded spot off the beaten path. TV was watched at night when you couldn't be outside. Cable was something that supported a bridge. An airbag was some guy who talked too much. Digital computing was counting on your fingers. Surfing was something done on a board in the ocean. Garage door opener was when you got out of the car and lifted the door. I agree eating out was done infrequently. Dinner time ever one was home and came to the table to eat. The best times were gathering with friends in the backyard playing softball, football, or basketball depending on the season.

[Alabama Larry]

My boys think I make things up when I talk about the "Old Days". They think I was around with Moses.

[True blue (and gold)]

I only had 1 channel growing up. We lived in a valley (a "holler").

 

We didn't have a phone until I was 10. I wrote letters to friends over the summer.

 

We didn't get any air conditioning until I was 16.

[BigBlueFreak]

I didn't watch much TV growing up. As soon as we were able to we were in the Tobacco fields. I remeber the first job was following the setter, then progressing to pulling plants all day then to driving the tractor during housing season until we were able to actually load the tobacco. In the winter time was stripping season and when we were old enough to walk we would pick up the leaves that fell on the floor until we could cary stalks and then progressed to stripping the stalk. Usually lugs first and after we were able to distinguish between trash and lugs we got a little more freedom. OH and inbetween that going to ball practice and then back to the field. I distintcly remember when I was 8 I got chicken pox and the week I was off school I spend in the barn at my grandpa's stipping tobacco. That's the way it was, kids now days are handed everything for the most part and have no clue what hard work really is.

[Watusi]

If anyone put 100,000 miles on a car, it was astounding.

 

Nobody drove nearly as much as we do today. My Mom went to the store once a week and we took care of other errands at that time. She bought what we needed for that week and we ate at home. (and we ate what she fixed). If she forgot something, we did without it til next week. There was none of this running out to the convenience store for bread and milk. No making 4 or 5 trips a day out for whatever reason.

 

Other than going to church, she didn't drive much at all besides that weekly trip to the store and to run errands.

[malachicrunch]

Soft drinks on Friday night only. I'm glad that is not in practice nowadays:D