Happy Birtday'
llebrez
I am so old that:
A products "Best Used by Dates" or "Born On" dates, were unheard of in my days, we ate the foodz, and hardly ever got sick an' died.
We had blimps and derrigibles, propeller commercial aircraft, B29's, and P41's flying overhead.
The areoplane' was considered a vehicle of shock & awe, and we all ran outside to see them.
Beer came in 3 piece tin cans, with out pop-tops, and required a triangle can opener ... we drank Ballentine. :hehe:
Soda came in glass guart bottles.
Milk was also in quart bottles, delivered by the milkman (aka: My DAD) :hehe:
My other DAD, was supposedly the Cloth Diaper Delivery man.
The Fuller Brush-Door To Door salesman was also rumored to be my DAD.
DAD had a big "Woodie" (not that term that your thinking of) ... you know ... one of those station wagon cars, that all the kids made fun of: "
Ahhh Hahhh, Your DAD drives a wooden car" !
We dint' have plastic bags, everything was in paper bags.
Burning ants with a magnifying glass, and building 3 story tree forts was a favorite passtime.
Stores were closed on Sundays, because of religeous Blue Laws.
Ciggarettes were 41 cents a pack, and vending machines took pennies.
Gasoline was 0.17 cents a gallon.
We dint' have 8 Track tapes, and a cheepo Radio Shack Realistic/Tandy Corp reel to reel tape recorder was the coolest thing since they sliced and bagged white bread, and LP's were not made of vinyl.
We had no Atari video games, and "Pong" and "Missle Command" was not yet invented.
Movies had an intermission, and the theatre ushers and workers wore a funny "Chimp" hat.
Food jars had no safety tamper evident inner seals.
Pepsodent toothpaste came as a powder in a tin can, and you applied it to a wet toothbrush.
Everybody used Phisoderm shampoo, and hardly anybody got seriously kilt' by the toxic concoction.
We had "Fizzies" carbonated soda pop tablets, that ate pits in Aluminium cups.
When a family got a B&W TV ... everybody in the neighborhod wanted to visit, and set a spell watching the
HoneyMooners, and the Art Linkletter show.
A "cement pond" was a thing only rich people could afford.
Women wore skirts overtop of one piece bathing suits, and mens bathing suits had B&W horizontal stripes.
Everyone had a Derby, or some sort of nifty crumpled "Bugzy Malone" hat.
There was no Fast Food at all !
The iceman delivered 12" blocks of ice for our icebox fridgerator', by horse and wagon, and would chop off a chunk and give a hunk of ice it to all the kids (unflavored ice cream).
The Wopsy RR, Mt Tamalipias RR, Reading Gravity RR, Mahanoy Inclined Plane, Mauch Chunk Switchback RR, Mt Lowe RR, were all considered a high speed rollercoaster.
The term: "Bogeyman" was a RR worker with a bat like ash axe handle, that ran along rolling freight cars, slowing them with the Bogey Stick jammed in the wheelset.
A Poling Car was used, to pole railcars, using a poling rod, inserted into the poling pockets.
Anti RR propoganda warned that RR's were dangerous, would run away uncoupled, locomotives would explode and scald pedestrians, maiming everone.
Canal boats were hauled out of the water, bogies were attached underneath, and 2" hemp ropes hauled canal boats up and over the Appalachian Mountains from Hollidaysburg to Johnstown ... the trip from Philadelphia to the Ohio river took @ a week.
When one came to an intersection: Indiana & Ohio State motor vehicle law required that a motorist would dismount his horseless carriage, blow the squeeze bulb "Hooter Horn", blow a bugle, ring a triangle gong, bang a drum, discharge a shotgun, holler' "Ah Hoy" in all directions, look doth ways, then re-mount his horseless carriage, and proceed.
Corn oil was used to power vehicles ... and the exhaust smelled like popcorn.