Signs of Getting Older

Gamera

Someone may have mentioned it and I missed it but mimeographs in school. I remember that funky chemical smell, the weird purple ink, and the way it would come off and stain your hands.

Hey I remember those in elementary school!  The prints smelled of alcohol, and they came off the press wet and had to dry.

Real G

 

 

Gamera

Someone may have mentioned it and I missed it but mimeographs in school. I remember that funky chemical smell, the weird purple ink, and the way it would come off and stain your hands.

 

 

 

Hey I remember those in elementary school!  The prints smelled of alcohol, and they came off the press wet and had to dry.

 

My first driveable car was a Crosley.  How many of you remember those?

Real G

 

 

Gamera

Someone may have mentioned it and I missed it but mimeographs in school. I remember that funky chemical smell, the weird purple ink, and the way it would come off and stain your hands.

 

 

 

Hey I remember those in elementary school!  The prints smelled of alcohol, and they came off the press wet and had to dry.

 

We had one at home that Mom used to print the church bulletin every week. I have visions of my siblings and I as young'uns, gathered 'round the table watching in fascination...and probably breathing those fumes deeply, looking slightly glassy-eyed....

Mary Ann, deffintely better.  I never did go for the M.Monroe bit from ginger.

Going to the record store, or department store and having not only to buy needles but checking the records.  You had two choices in 33 1/3, mono or stereo.

Later it became a choice of what receiver you wanted, mono, stereo, or quadrophonic.  In a few years, we were back to two choices.

Then came video tapes, beta or vhs,  Beta had better picture quality but in the end it didn't matter, now no tapes.

Recalling that originally when watching my favorite TV shows all the commercials were for sports cars, beer and the Marlboro Man.

Now I watch reruns of those same shows and all the commercials are for Depends, step in bathtubs and medical alert pendants

Sigh.

Back then there were no commercials allowed for Lawyers.

They just started a policy that to do commercials you had to belong to the actor's guild.

Sometimes while watching a program a light would reflect of something on set and a flash or trail of light would follow the camera for a couple seconds.

The Beverly Hillbillies would do cigerette commercials at the end of the show with grannie saying that Winston tastes good like a cigerette had outta.

Darl Shadows was dopne live and sometimes things just didn't go right, like the fire on stage and you could hear teh extinguishers going off in the background while the actors did their lines.

Real G

Gamera

Someone may have mentioned it and I missed it but mimeographs in school. I remember that funky chemical smell, the weird purple ink, and the way it would come off and stain your hands.

Hey I remember those in elementary school!  The prints smelled of alcohol, and they came off the press wet and had to dry.

And then there was the white paste we used for "art" projects. It was very tasty!  

It seems to me that whatever she was using to make copies had to be a step or two below the mimeograph machines.  The first one of those I encountered was when I was in 9th grade and it was a original placed on a metal drum and rolled.  It had the snell of alcohol.

Remember the paper towels?  The dispenser had a log cabin pressed intothe front and the paper was a sort of light brown with what looked like shaved pieces of wood scattered around.