I'm Old Enough to Remember....

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Comment by wiffledust on July 25, 2011 at 9:36am

matthew, are you younger than i thought? because i don't remember aquafresh OR bbq potato chips back in the day. i remember a choice between pretzels and potato chips and that was it! ha! but you make such a good point. although i'm wondering what it means that we have so many ways to express our creativity now that we didn't before. with digital stuff, we can create so much music, art, writing, etc. it's true that we spend so much of our time on the stupid stuff it offers, but we could use it for good if we want to, right? i just posted about my mom doing the laundry. so she was busy with her body and outdoors. she was making a home. all things more worthwhile than playing on her phone. but i also wonder about how her day would have been more satisfying with more mental stimulation that our world provides. but one thing is for sure. when i think about back then, when people wanted inspiration or stimulation, they/we reached outward...towards community. there were dinner parties and coffee and cake with a neighbor, organizations that met in person regularly rather than just tossing money online. i think we can still have the good of what they had, but we have to try harder. which brings us back to your point...choices. we have more choices. not just of phones but of how to live. thanks for the thought provocation. better than ironing!

Comment by Matthew Kahler on July 25, 2011 at 9:20am

i remember less options. everything was kinda in threes. regular potato chips/ruffles/bbq, crest/colgate/auquafresh, 3 major beers/cigarettes/car companies/churches/gum/and so on... just much less. far less choices. as in most things, there is a good and not so good side. certainly it's a wonderful thing that we are offered so much, we have even sponsored an industry that solely supports such an idea(smart phones, etc.), but the question begs: why? why do we THINK we need it all? while i believe that it is ultimately a good thing that we value the human condition, i am continually disappointed that we seem to forsake the high road when given the opportunity to take it. seems as though option equates to convenience only. how can we take choice away from the consumer by offering too many. again, it's a good thing to have the known universeat our fingertips in the way of the internet/web devices, but honestly, 90 something percent of us, including me, stream endless hours together, making perfect circles doing really only one thing: playing on our phones. chatting/gossiping/gaming/watching dog's fart/people fall/on and on...

not bad things really. afterall we need to relax, we spent so much time answering to someone else's demands/vision. i understand. but really, the universe is out there. talk about options. i am gonna get out of my digital backyard today. there has to be an app to help me with that entitled whim of mine.

Comment by wiffledust on July 25, 2011 at 9:17am

oh, so true, bains! i remember that. they used to smoke me out of every corner i would find. i remember when it was socially acceptable to put you in the car, drive you to florida, and smoke all the way there with the windows up! ......ok, a different one. i remember my mom hanging all the clothes outside on the line. which meant that she did the wash, took it all outside, then brought it inside and IRONED it. no wonder she hollered ;-)

Comment by Bains on July 25, 2011 at 5:31am

I remember, vividly, how nearly Everyone used to smoke. Just about everywhere, even workplaces, the air was grey and swirly.  

"those were the days", eh.  ;-) 

Comment by wiffledust on July 17, 2011 at 11:39pm

i do!! barely, but i do! and it was good too! funny you should mention that, because i was thinking of that just last week. i was wondering why that's never on reruns. i haven't seen it in ages and ages

 

Comment by Maryrose Orlans on July 17, 2011 at 7:25pm

Does anyone remember "The Mothers-In Laws"?? Eve Arden & Kay Ballard!!

Comment by wiffledust on July 17, 2011 at 6:38pm

darin WAS that bad! ;-) 17 cartoons, sherry? that's alot! i'm old enough to remember all the big excitement about walt disney world in florida!

Comment by nancy Sanchez on July 15, 2011 at 9:39pm

WOW 17 cartoons...back in the 40's we only got one and of course the newsreel and a double feature movie.....once in a while they would sneak an extra cartoon in between the two features.....

Comment by Sherry Somach on July 15, 2011 at 6:56pm

As a child we would go to the movies for the day. We would see 17 cartoons( really cool cartoons), a newsreel, then maybe something like Abbott & Costello or the 3 Stooges or some other short film, and then the  feature: a spaghetti western, or the Lone Ranger or the like.

 

 

Comment by Bains on July 15, 2011 at 3:51pm

Oh yeah, Hee Haw! "Pain, despair and agony on me!" LoL! 

 

And Samantha Stevens was hotter than Jeanie but Jeanie had better legs. ;-) 

HENNY Youngman! Yeah, and Jack Benny. Loved that guys little looks to the side with raised eyebrows. Classic! :-D  

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