Rommel: hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Kelvinator is still in business!

LOL!  Pryman, thats not bad news, glad to know SOMETHING is still around.  I have not seen that brand since I was about 5 or 6 years old and I must admit, I have not been in the market for a refrigerator very often since then.  I am sure they look much better now than the one I remember in the kitchen years ago!

The Berlin Wall

My hair

Bubbajoe

rotary phones

Rotary phones?  Holy cow, when were you born, man? 

the Baron

Bubbajoe

rotary phones

Rotary phones?  Holy cow, when were you born, man? 

My in-laws still have a rotary phone......and it has the pre-fix "UNION" typed on it!

I have a mint "Mickey Mouse" phone, made by Western Electric / Bell Labs, in the late 60's / early 70's.  It has a rotary dial and is the first version of the Mickey Mouse phone ever made available for sale.  I recall paying dearly for it.  At first, you had to "lease it" from Bell Telephone.  Then some years later, they made it available for sale to the leasers, for an exorbitant price of over $100!  I wanted to keep it, so paid the rip-off-  They sent me a sticker to place on the bottom to prove I had purchased it!  

I think if I wanted to sell it today, I would be lucky to break even.

The rotary phone was patented in the late 1800's and Bell introduced them around 1919.

I think everyone would agree with this one - your parents or grandparents' or favorite relative's home cooking. I know I miss my mom's cooking and both my grandparents' cooking.

BlackSheepTwoOneFour

I think everyone would agree with this one - your parents or grandparents' or favorite relative's home cooking. I know I miss my mom's cooking and both my grandparents' cooking.

Amen to that!  My Nana's spaghetti sauce, with homemade meatballs--none of this frozen crap, or Ragu from a jar!, her Pennsylvania Dutch pot pie, her meat loaf, her chicken soup, and her baking!  I used to visit her every Sunday for dinner, and there was always something wonderful cooking.  When she made spaghetti, she'd meet me at the door with a hug, then take me into the kitchen and hand me a loaf of Italian bread, to dip into the sauce.  Eventually I started cooking with her, to learn as much as I could.

Sampling grapes at the local supermarket, don't get caught today or you'll do five to life(but a drunk driver can stack up a dozen or more and still drive). Being innocent until proven guilty, gone prabably way before my time but gone. Sonic booms and buffs flying in and out of the local air force base. Genuine concern for your neighbors and the willingness to share a summer afternoon BBQing and having a beer. Clean water to swim in, easy access to afor mentoined lake, how the heck can somebody own water? Gravel pits where men could practice shooting for free so we could feed our family now ya need a  pass to park  outside the pit and ya can't see your target through all the flatscreens, milk jugs and beer cans(not the safest combination IMHO). Alot of all the cool stuff folks before me posted.

Well most of you have hit the high points of the things that have come and gone in my lifetime, I'll be 36 in June, but here are the things that have gone in my lifetime ( and some came well before me),

Dial up Internet

Having cable that has shows worth watching on it

No police in schools, ANY schools

Turning in glass bottles for a nickle at the gas station

I forget the model, but the Texas Instruments computer you hooked up to the television

Black and white television

Cheap gas prices

Personal responsibility

Good work ethics

Parents actually disciplining their kids

getting paddled in school lol

MTV actually playing music videos

USMC6094

Well most of you have hit the high points of the things that have come and gone in my lifetime, I'll be 36 in June, but here are the things that have gone in my lifetime ( and some came well before me),

Dial up Internet

Having cable that has shows worth watching on it

No police in schools, ANY schools

Turning in glass bottles for a nickle at the gas station

I forget the model, but the Texas Instruments computer you hooked up to the television

Black and white television

Cheap gas prices

Personal responsibility

Good work ethics

Parents actually disciplining their kids

getting paddled in school lol

MTV actually playing music videos

Godzilla without computerized graphic effects; nuthin like seeing some guy in a lizard suit stomping on model houses!

the Baron

Bubbajoe

rotary phones

Rotary phones?  Holy cow, when were you born, man? 

so..................talking to a live, human female Bell Telephone operator was also outside someone's experience? 

Speaking of rotary phones...

jimbot58

The rotary phone was patented in the late 1800's and Bell introduced them around 1919.

Some website or the other had a photo of the first cell phone prediction I've ever seen- wish I could remember where it was. It was back in 1910 or so and the guy had a older style phone just like this but the cord was running up to an umbrella/parasol sorta thing with radio antenna instead of spokes.   

Apparently you were supposed to carry the phone around in one hand and the umbrella antenna in the other. 

If you are still in Paramus, SME. (Scale Modeling Enthuiasts) meet the 2nd Tuesday of the month at the Feanklin Lakes ,NJ VFW hall.

No !

We did that all the time .Crank the handle on that old wall phone and ask Mrs.Butler to connect me to Mr.Borden's hardware store ! That and A good snifter of blackberry brandy ( homemade of course) The Grandmother's famous ( to the family ) sauce and homemade sphagetti noodles . A real Schwinn Bike ! oh , Lets not forget , an RC cola and a Moon Pie on the porch of the variety store . How about this for a closer .A big box our new gas refrigerator came in   .All the way from town ( the city ) 68 miles away ! that became a spaceship or a tank fighting our enemies .Then when it was torn up to much ,cutting it down into an Indy race car! Ah , Those were the days of silence on Sunday mornings when you woke up ! Ah , that was nice though .

My youth.