I'm Old Enough to Remember....

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Comment by nancy Sanchez on August 22, 2012 at 3:15pm

from grade school we always walked home for lunch and then of course back...the only kids who could eat at school were kids who had a note from parents saying why...it was bring your own then too .....no hot lunch in grade school in the later 40's or early 50's.....

Comment by Maryrose Orlans on August 22, 2012 at 3:01pm

For years my Mom picked us up for lunch!!  We ate lunch and watched the Monkees, then back we went!!  Ah, good old Catholic school!! 

Comment by C. Annie Doucette on August 22, 2012 at 1:41pm

with the school year getting ready to start, does anyone else remember walking home for LUNCH? and having to go back!

Comment by wiffledust on April 8, 2012 at 1:58pm

it's amazing, knowing what we know now, that people survived the hospital back then. but in some ways it was better than it is now!!! thanks for sharing this stuff, guys!

Comment by nancy Sanchez on April 7, 2012 at 7:32pm

oh yes in '76 when I first went into nursing everyone smoked ...and on the Psych unit when we did group all the patients lit up and many times so did my co leader then we closed the door...I was the only one not smoking...never thought much about it...docs even smoked in the patient rooms then...Yikes ! health care ????

Comment by margaret kraft on April 7, 2012 at 6:10pm

I don't think I have mentioned this in this forum.  It is one of my favorite stories to tell new nurses.  My first job in the hospital was back when nurses could smoke in the nurses' station, patients could smoke in their rooms, and a physicians would walk down the hall with cigarettes or cigars in hand.  There was one surgeon who put his lit cigarette on the lip above the door jamb before he entered the patient room and snagged it on his way out.  My favorite venue announced this week that the deck is now non-smoking.  Prompted the memories.

Comment by nancy Sanchez on April 7, 2012 at 3:15pm

oh yes Joanne all of that...did you chase after the milk truck asking for chips of ice ????? we had an icebox for a time when I was about 7 living in Nebraska and got whole blocks of ice chips and all that was fun...

Comment by Joanne Gerber on April 6, 2012 at 9:46am

I'm old enough to remember going over to our neighbor's house to watch TV. I remember party lines on the telephone and how our ring was a bit different than the others on the party line. I remember milk coming in glass bottles and being delivered once a week by Bill the milkman. I remember thinking summers would last forever and all of the good times I had playing with my friends.

Comment by Maryrose Orlans on April 4, 2012 at 6:48pm

We had rabbit ears with a UHF dial! In northern NJ we got 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, and The Uncle Floyd Show on UHF!! I remember feeling so 'left out' when they would say In Living Color, but I couldn't see it!!!

Comment by wiffledust on April 4, 2012 at 5:44pm

oh i remember those rabbit ears!! i lived in the country for awhile, where i not only was dealing with the rabbit ears, but i was attaching tin foil to them to try to get better reception on the UHF! :-)

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