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DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
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Pitcher head pump
Mr. Ed
A television surrounded by a wooden cabinet that was about 4 feet long for only have a 22 inch screen.
Rotary phones and bunny ears for the tv
the tv had to warm up.
I went to a one room school. There I went from the 3rd through 5th grades. It had a black board acroos the front of the room. A pot belly stove in the back. A foyer with a rope hanging from the ceiling that when pulled rang the bell. The best school I ever went to.
Playing outside all day long on weekends and in summer.
No Electronics of any kind except a turn table hifi
Hard work
Chuck norris!
Clint Eastwood..
When tar came up on the beach, lifeguards would give you a rag soaked with kerosene to wipe it off of you.
rotary phones. 4 channels on TV
Having to make sure you have a dime to use the toilet . . . or crawling under the door!
Panther piss.
work ethics
A church key.
Chick-Nick-Pic-Nic
Snap Jack shoes
A crystal set.
The metal adapter to stack 45’s on a record player
8 track tapes
Playing outside
Dirigibles routinely flying over.Now you barely ever see one.
Creepy Crawler Thing-maker Machine
Rotary dial phone in the kitchen, with a chord just long enough to reach around the corner
Polio.
Collect calls
Slide rule
party line
A partyline
The Answer Is ...NO
Politeness.
Learning to swim by the Red Cross at the City Park in front of the bandstand and swimming in Johnson's Lake and Schumaker Pond.
Learning to swim by the Red Cross at the City Park in front of the bandstand and swimming in Johnson's Lake and Schumaker Pond.
Courtesy.
High beam switch on the floor
Three on a tree
A life
My dad being able to support his wife and 3 children well on a meat cutters pay at the A&P store. He worked there 43 years. We wanted for nothing.
Transistor radio
Rotary dial telephone and party lines
Work boats in the Annapolis harbor
Outdoor toilet, wearing out the knees of my pants shooting marbles.
jack purcells
The Ed SULLIVAN SHOW
Lassie
Cisco kid and Pancho
Milk in glass jugs
The Mousecouteers
Long distance calling "Nightly rates"
The needle is skipping
Tubes in the TV and taking them to a store with a place to plug them in to test them. If they were no good you could buy a replacement and get the TV working again. Wouldn't want to miss " You bet your life" with Groucho.
A washboard and big metal tub to wash clothes with fels naptha soap. Or homemade lye soap.
a telephone booth, money to make the phone call, rotory dialing. Frying chicken on Saturday night to take to Ocean City for a beach picnic.
Eating fried potatoes and fried bologna for supper(dinner)
Pay phones in public places. Cost a dime to use.
Toni home perms.
541, we occasional eat that now, our kids love it! However it must be Boars Head!
My father operated a Linotype.
The tube tester at the drug store.
saddle shoes
a principal in elementary school who wasn't afraid to use a paddle
Always carrying a dime in my pocket to make a call at pay phone if I needed to.
be home before street lights come on
HR Puff and stuff and witchypoo
1.integrity 2. truth 3 patriotism
RESPECT for authority.
Sealtest milk and Bond bread delivered to your house.
Keeping my opinions to myself and SAVING.
Afternoon addition newspapers.
SBJ
Cursive writing
Landline rotary dial phones and the courtesy and sharing needed for party lines. Live helpful directory assistance operators.
When I was in elementary school, the kids that lived in the house behind ours (our house was across the schoolyard from the school in town), walked two blocks and got on a bus and rode to a school 5 miles outside of town.
Rotary Phone
Teachers old enough to be your grandparents (or great grandparents)
Twenty cent per gallon gas.
Sears toughskins
Station Wagons
the bible
milk box, jarts, tube testers.
Iron Lung
PF Flyers
Flag etiquette.
Hushpuppies. (No, not the food.)
Radio dramas and serials.
Several people mentioned testing radio tubes. The heart of the tube tester was a strain gauge which was invented by my father J. M. Stinchfield when he worked for RCA. RCA Allowed their engineers to put their patents in their name however RCA retained exclusive rights to the patent. I still have a copy of my father's patent.
15 to 20% interest rates on your bank deposits in the 1980's.
21% mortgage rates to buy house
Romper Stompers
Hardrock, Coco, and Joe. Sorry that's three names, but they were one team!
Gooood Mornin Party Line
JETSON. YOU'RE FIRED.
Fender skirts, curb feelers
Call adults Mr. and Mrs...... or Miss
I remember Hopping Hoomdorms and nobody else does.I feel like I'm priviledged.
A darning egg.
An old fashioned whipping with a leather strap for disobedience
Boys dressing and wearing their hair so you could tell they were boys and girls dressing and wearing their hair so you could tell they were girls. Strange concept, huh?
8:54 you mean boys ain't girls, then how come they can play on girls sports teams?
Swimming in Leonard's Mill pond every summer.
1.Film cameras, taking the film to the drugstore to be developed.
Have your pictures back in "about a week"
2.Mercurochrome-Red/orange splotches on skinned knees. Stung like hell.
3.Bicycle=Freedom...Be back home before the streetlights come on
Phone numbers listed alpha-numerically.
SPruce 5-XXXX
SP5-XXXX
775-XXXX
Full service gas stations..
Uniformed attendants, a friendly greeting, oil checked, tire pressure checked, windshield cleaned, gas tank full, and on your way, with change from a 10 dollar bill.
TV shows advertised "in Color"
Black and White TV (Color TV's were expensive)
Small Town business districts. (before Malls, and Big Box stores)
In a 5 minute walk, the drugstore, the hardware store, the men's clothing store, the 5&10 cent store, the shoe store, the women's clothing store, the bank, the post office, the insurance agent, the supermarket, the service station, and a restaurant.
Rifles/shotguns in the rear window racks of pickup trucks parked at the school. The vice principal asking to see your new deer rifle.
Radio/TV Repair shops, small appliance repair shops, etc.
A focus on repairing what you had, not simply throw it away and but new.
Metal roller skates that attached to your shoes with a key
Door to door sales/service.
the milkman, the bakery man, the Fuller Brush Guy, the Vacuum Cleaner salesman, the Avon lady, and the life insurance guy coming to the house to sell their wares.
Respecting my teachers and parents!
Being Dad's first remote control.
Turn the TV up/down, change the channel, adjust the rabbit ears..
Cigarette ads on TV, Cigarette vending machines. TV and movies depicting smoking. ash trays located in cars, on planes, and in public buildings.
Standing for the Pledge of Allegiance in School every morning.
wringer style washing machine, laundry tubs, and clotheslines.
Rifles/shotguns on open display in Sears, JCPenney's, K-Mart, Western Auto, and the local hardware stores and sporting goods stores.
If they didn't have what you were looking for, you could order it from a catalog.
Buying Beer legally at 18.
Vietnam war footage and body counts on the nightly news.
First video game...PONG!
Watching the first moon landing Live on TV.
Believing then that we would soon be able to travel between planets as we travel between cities today.
Realizing now that we probably witnessed the pinnacle of western civilization that July evening in 1969.
Frosty rootbeer
gas rations. depending on your tag number is the day you went and got gas.
getting your fingers caught in a wringer washer and if you don't line it up right you will pop the buttons off.
Smallpox vaccination scars
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