I'm Old Enough to Remember....

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Comment by Elle MacNeil on August 24, 2011 at 10:49am

I really miss that "human to human", Lisa!!!

 

Yes, MR!!!  Good topic!  And it also made me think of my Dad, who always had one next to his spot at the kitchen table.  He'd listen to the news while he ate his breakfast.  Sometimes I wish I'd held on to that; not sure what happened to it.  : (

 

And funny, Lisa, now that you mention it, Yesterday is one of the few songs I can remember hearing for the first time.  Another is the BeeGees' New York Mining Disaster 1941!  Hearing that always puts me right back in the under-the-eaves lilac bedroom of my teens.

Comment by Maryrose Orlans on August 24, 2011 at 9:31am

Look at all the memories my little transistor radio brought up!!  I just remember when a song came on we all loved, I'd turn it up and my friends & I would sing--together!!!  Very communal :-)

Comment by wiffledust on August 24, 2011 at 9:15am

that's cool, elle. now you're making me try to think of when i heard certain songs for the first time. and you know what? i can't remember. unlike now where we have so many ways to "try out" songs, way back then we didn't even have those trial headphones at the record store. but we did have this man named sam who owned the local record store. sam had a fabulous stereo in the store, and when you liked something, he often had a trial copy up front and he would play it for you. sooo human to human, huh?

Comment by Elle MacNeil on August 20, 2011 at 11:15pm

Actually, I remember transistor radios all too well...and fondly.  Yes, as to the "community", Lisa.  (Although in my group of friends, we often had different likes and dislikes!)  OH, the rush of hearing a new song by a favorite artist for the first time.  <thinking of the first time I heard "Yesterday"...late at night...in the dark...priceless!>

Comment by wiffledust on August 20, 2011 at 11:33am

ok, points well made about the ipod, BUT when everyone was tuning into the same stuff, it was more of a communal experience. we all had the same fave songs. now everyone is in their own private idaho!

Comment by nancy Sanchez on August 19, 2011 at 1:44pm

I was in my early teens when I got a "portable" radio..about a foot long and that much high and took a pile of batteries then they started shrinking till the big boom boxes came around and made my little radio look petite ..now that is one thing I wish I had hung on to...LOL

 

Comment by Maryrose Orlans on August 19, 2011 at 12:54pm

But, the transistor was the Ipod of my generation ;-)  MP3s make life much easier when it comes to music!

Comment by Elle MacNeil on August 19, 2011 at 10:40am

Ahhhh, but iPods are far superior, MR!  You get to pick the songs and you don't have to worry about tuning them in.  (Was there anything more frustrating than that static in the middle of your favorite song??  <wink>)

Comment by Maryrose Orlans on August 18, 2011 at 11:54pm

AM handheld transistor radio!!  You could take your music everywhere, which was so cool!!

Comment by Elle MacNeil on August 17, 2011 at 9:51am

Oh, milk in bottles - for SURE!!!  With a little piece of cardboard as a stopper.  (That sure wouldn't fly in THIS day and age!)  Delivered by the milk man.  Mom would put the washed-by-her empties in the insulated box on the back porch and the milkman woud leave new ones.  Not sure how he knew WHAT to leave though (I'm fuzzy on that part).  I also remember the inch or so of pure cream in the top.  Mom would shake it so the cream would disperse, but it never failed that some of it would remain in a clump...and that clump would always manage to find its way into MY glass.  : [

And as for the Q-tips, Lisa.  I don't buy the name brand, so the real deal MIGHT have a plastic stick.  Like I say, the ones I use have a stick that is just like a lollipop stick. 

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