I'm Old Enough to Remember....

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Comment by Robert Muscovitz on September 1, 2011 at 10:43am

Even I recall no seatbelts.. there were nine of us kids plus mom and dad plus my gr-grandma many times in the old Ford Woody station wagon with the holes in the floors. LOL! I remember lots of tears from both my parents trying to figure out how to afford groceries back then...Add groceries into the car and my oh my.. We were packed! Imagine that,, we could bottom out the car..LOL! No free lunch programs, very very little welfare if any, no housing assistance, not much in tax returns for having us kids, no healthcare insurance at all. Then we wonder how the country can be so broke... We survived and so can this generation if it has to or is forced to. I'm sure there are alot of stories about the 50's and 60's...

Comment by Maryrose Orlans on September 1, 2011 at 1:26am

No seatbelts and no carseats!!  Sitting between my Mom & Dad on the front seat!!  AND  Sitting in the back of a '64 Chrysler Newport with the seats so clean that we would slide into each other on hard turns!!!

Comment by Maryrose Orlans on August 30, 2011 at 2:01pm

Me, too, Lisa!!  Summers were hot, winters were cold, and we had a spring and fall!!  It all seems to have become a mixed-up mess!!  Too hot, too cold!! 

Comment by wiffledust on August 30, 2011 at 11:03am

i'm old enough to remember when we didn't talk about weather that much. summers were about 85 degrees. winters had a snowstorm or two. once in awhile we had a big ice storm or something interesting. but we never had day after day of discussing weather....nobody went to the basement for weather. flooding in river areas, yes. all this other junk, no.

Comment by Maryrose Orlans on August 25, 2011 at 3:15pm

My Dad has had cars, in the past, with a rumble seat!  For people who really enjoy "the great outdoors"!!

Comment by wiffledust on August 25, 2011 at 2:28pm

yessir, that's a rumble seat!

Comment by Bob Carter on August 25, 2011 at 2:10pm

dose anyone remember what this is called? And has anyone every rode in one?

 

Comment by Maryrose Orlans on August 25, 2011 at 1:05am

That's right, Robert, AM only!!  I listened to 77 WABC!!

Comment by wiffledust on August 24, 2011 at 11:37am

oh the dad's and the transistors! yes! i remember my dad having one all the time or having the car radio set to KYW, our local all news/all the time station. i used to make fun of him for listening to the same news repeat itself and beg to change the station to the music. he would let me and then make fun of my music. my mom, on the other hand, had the FM radio and had some kind of easy listening musak thing going on that was also torture. so when i took the car, i used to crank my station. and hell had no fury like my mother if i forgot to change it back to her station. if she got in the car and got blasted with some rock and roll, i got blasted too! :-)

Comment by Robert Muscovitz on August 24, 2011 at 11:20am

You gotta love the past...Our transistor radios were all am, not fm yet..we lived by one of the oldest radio towers in the state owned by CBS-WCCO which we could get even on our 8 party phone line until NW Bell fixed the lines.. LOL! I don't know of any farmer in this state that didn't have these radios to catch the Twins games, farmers reports, local news, etc. Most towns had their local am station here to catch the school closing as well or you could get them on WCCO statewide. It was better than public radio back then. My first Beatle songs were "She Loves You" and "Love Me Do". The Dave Clark Five, Animals, Stones came later..But I'll never forget my sisters in the back yard singing "Henry the 8th" by Hermans Hermits.. LOL! They still talk about it after all these years. They were goodtimes. Mom still says that Elvis was the best.. LOL! Even the car had am radio..so we never missed a thing from blizzards to local celebrations and fairs. Of course us kids wanted dad to put it on one of OUR radio stations that plays OUR music..

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