1. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS?
2. DO YOU KNOW HOW TO USE THIS ?
3. WHAT'S THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THESE TWO OBJECTS?
4. DID YOU EVER RIDE ONE OF THESE???
5. DO YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THESE?
6. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS?
7. HAVE YOU EVER SHOPPED AT THIS STORE?
8. DO YOU KNOW HOW TO PLAY WITH THESE?
9. DO YOU RECOGNIZE WHO THIS IS?
10. DO YOU KNOW THEIR NAMES?
11. HAVE YOU EVER HAD A GLASS OF THIS?
12. DID YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW HAVE ONE OF THESE?
13. DID YOU, OR ANYONE YOU KNOW, EVER TAKE THIS CLASS IN SCHOOL?
14. DO YOU KNOW WHAT'S HANGING FROM THE CHAIN OR RUNNING UP THE POLE?
15. HAVE YOU EVER SEEN OR USED ONE OF THESE?
16. DO YOU KNOW WHAT THESE ARE?
17. HAVE YOU EVER USED THIS?
18. HAVE YOU EVER PLAYED THIS?
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20. WAS THERE EVER A TIME IN YOUR LIFE THAT THIS WAS THE ONLY OPTION TO DRY YOUR CLOTHES?
21. WHAT'S THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THESE TWO OBJECTS?
22. IS THIS A FAMILIAR SCENE?
23. DOES THIS BRING BACK GOOD MEMORIES?
24. DID HE EVER COME TO YOUR HOUSE?
25. DID YOU EVER HAVE TO SAY "HELLO" BEFORE YOU KNEW WHO WAS CALLING?
26. DID YOU EVER LAUGH OUT LOUD WATCHING THIS?
DID YOU KNOW...
Those who were born in the '50s, '60s, '70s and early '80s are the last generation who played in the street. During our childhood, we walked over a mile a day when we played & played “hide & seek” outside at night with no worries or fear of anything bad happening to us.
We are the first generation who played video games and the last to record songs off the radio onto a cassette tape. We learned how to program a VCR before anyone else, we were the first to play from Atari to Nintendo…We are the generation of Tom & Jerry, Looney Toons, & Captain Kangaroo. We traveled in cars without seat belts or air bags, lived without cell phones and caller ID. We did not have fax machines, flat screens, surround sound, iPods, Facebook, Twitter, computers or the Internet and, through it all, we had a great time.
Yep, the good old days. I wasn't allowed to play anything but softball, there was no equality in women's sports.
ReplyDeleteI was told by the Pittsburgh Press that I wasn't allowed to deliver papers because I was a girl.
If I were African American, I would not have been able to purchase a home here.
I had to take cooking and sewing in school, wood shop and metal shop were for the boys.
Everything was so wonderful back then.
Elaine, thank you for reminding me of a better place and time.
ReplyDeleteI'd hate to think of kids playing on our streets today! We can only pray that the kids don't get run over by a soccer Mom in a minivan flying through the neighborhood at multiples of the speed limit and then laughing and telling the whole world about how she got out of the ticket!
12:30 PM, you don't need to worry about today's kids playing in the streets...they're too busy playing computer games online and texting their friends.
ReplyDeleteI feel sad for what they are missing.
Don't know what street you live on 12:30, but don't drive down Parkside because kids are playing on the street there all of the time. They set up hockey nets on either side and roller blade while they play.
ReplyDeleteNo one has been hit by a car.
Maybe you should all read an old copy of MtL? Our PIO described her Pittsburgh traffic court experience - how she navigated through the court system so that she could ditch the harsh consequences of her ticket.
ReplyDeleteThe following month, she published an angry letter that she received from our police chief.
12:27 PM, now there is no Pittsburgh Press or any kids having a paper route. Sanders Task Force only permits African Americans to rent single family homes in Mt. Lebanon. I took wood shop a couple of years ago through Mt. Lebanon Adult Continuing Education classes. I see that a woodworking class starts on Sept. 23 at the high school. Also, you should happy to know that "home ec" has been dropped by many school districts. That is why my CCAC sewing classes sell out every time. Yep, the good old days.
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Life doesn't have to be complicated to be fun. Last week we went to visit my parents. I cooked up a scheme to take my mother camping like we used to do. My husband agreed to stay home with Dad and do some fun things while we went for the overnight. I pitched the old green canvas tent under the Live Oak trees, opened the camp chairs and got out the binoculars to bird watch. Many were there since it's open and protected, even a pair of woodpeckers. We watched the meteor shower until our necks hurt, and then went to the sleeping bags on the ground in the tent for the night. Mother can walk well, but the level of the lake was down about 100 yards and would have been impossible for me to walk easily, so we passed on a swim. Later as we drove to dinner, there were farm sprinklers going over the hay fields. Mom said, "Stop here and we will run through the sprinklers!" Right, two ladies, one of them in her nineties, racing across the field, under the bombing of the water from the field sprinklers with water sloshing all around us. The run was fun and she went back home refreshed to bear the burden of care-taking of my Dad.
ReplyDeleteI hope you younger residents can share the same experience with you Mom and Dad. I hope you can afford Mt. Lebanon taxes.
10:12 PM, that was delightful! Thank you for sharing it with us.
ReplyDeleteI am using my iPad at the moment, and see that the photos aren't showing up. Sorry about that.
Elaine
1245--kids are playing hockey in their own neighborhood? Wait, I thought if we didn't turf fields, kids would be denied the pleasure of playing sports...holy cow. You mean kids can actually play sports without a field? Were they shaking? Were they crying? How many coaches were there? Who was lording over them and forcing their "enjoyment" of the sport? I'm just curious as to how bad the emotional trauma might be without artificial turf. What's next, a Bigfoot sighting? Kids playing in the street...pfft. Never. This is Mt. Lebanon, people. We don't do that, understand? We don't play pickup games of any kind, especially on a street and out of sight from the community at large.
ReplyDeleteJames, It is possible the kids even had a good time without a treat after the game. Naaa! That could not happen to a kid from Lebo.
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EG:
ReplyDeleteThanks for fixing the photos!
Blog readers:
I have ambivalent feelings about the "good old days," but I don't think I'm unique in feeling that way.
People tend to remember things based on their experiences at the time. Those experiences may not necessarily reflect the way things really were. For example, I love old cars, but today's cars are light-years better than those of the '50's or '60's. How many of you remember the winter "ritual" involved with starting a car back in the early '60's?; or 10,000 mile tune-ups (new plugs, points and condenser)?; or 1,000 mile oil changes?; or rust? It was worse in the '50's. I was too young to drive in the '50's, but I remember a neighbor telling my dad that he had put 80,000 miles on his Dodge, and we were all astounded! Today 80,000 miles is just beyond break-in!
Having said the above, I do think the one thing that is missing today that we had as kids "back in the day" is that we were taught self-reliance (and, to a degree, self-discipline). Because of that we learned how to solve our own problems - for the most part.
As far as the photos on this thread are concerned: I was born in 1948; Harry Truman was president - a fact that astounds my children! Consequently I am able to recognize and name all of the items shown. I don't miss #17 - my DSLR camera is much better - and I still have the item shown in #25, although I don't use it. But just remember one thing; for many kids, today will likely be one of those "good old days" not too many years hence.
Thank you for sharing these photos with us. It certainly brought a smile to my face.
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Elaine: You should use the picture of Timmy and Lassie as the headline artwork for your new threads on the school district--very apropos
ReplyDeleteHaving been born in the late 1930's, I remember all of them, but can't name them all.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the memories !
Pictures number 6 and 23 remind me of the submarine races. Will Brumfield come up with a fee for submarine races too?
ReplyDeleteThe Submarine race fee would pay for for the 25 parking spaces at Brafferton Field.
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