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#617232 - 05/24/14 04:06 PM Born Before 1954??
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Registered: 02/21/07
Posts: 3284
Loc: Missouri
If you were born before 1954, you were born before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen food, plastic, contact lenses, frisbees ...radar...credit cards, split atoms, laser beams and ball point pens. even before pantyhose, dishwashers, clothes
dryers, electric blankets, and air conditioners, drip dry clothes and before man walked on the moon.

Rabbits were not Volkswagons, before computer dating, dual careers ..never heard of FM radio, tape decks, yogurt, a chip was a piece of wood. Pizza and McDonald's, instant coffee were all unheard of, for a nickle you could mail one letter and two postcards or make a phone call, buy a Pepsi, ride the city bus.

11 cent a gallon gasoline..a good Chevy coupe was $600, grass was mowed, coke was a cold drink ...oh well we survived.

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#617234 - 05/24/14 04:45 PM Re: Born Before 1954?? [Re: Pirate]
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Madame Flutterbye

Registered: 01/18/04
Posts: 19514
Loc: SopranoLand

I was born early in '49
every once in a while I think about having first
learnt to write seated at a wooden desk with a
functioning INKWELL using a metal nibbed pen
and what an innovation "BALL POINTS" were..
..w/their sticky leaky cloggy blue ink tongue

...and what a relief it was to be able to
wear nylons WITHOUT a Girdle w/clips
to hold them up... blush

I remember getting a Polio Vacine in school
in fact the entire community turned out to
participate! (obviously back before any
"OBAMA-CARE-SCARE Socialist Gov TAKE-OVER"
when sensible folk feared a crippling disease
even more than their own President. smirk
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#617236 - 05/24/14 05:24 PM Re: Born Before 1954?? [Re: Pirate]
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Nut Dood

Registered: 04/21/02
Posts: 17704
Loc: Pinellas Park, Florida
1950. Still have all original parts.
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#617237 - 05/24/14 05:25 PM Re: Born Before 1954?? [Re: Pirate]
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Nothing comes of nothing.

Registered: 05/25/01
Posts: 30520
Loc: PA, USA
Well, the atom was split long before '54!
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#617240 - 05/24/14 06:04 PM Re: Born Before 1954?? [Re: MacBozo]
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Madame Flutterbye

Registered: 01/18/04
Posts: 19514
Loc: SopranoLand
Originally Posted By: MacBozo
1950. Still have all original parts.


Congratulations!
That makes you a Collector's Item.
esp. if your wife never opened your box
...nor played with you! laugh


((bin watching FAR 2 Much "Big Bang Theory")) blush
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#617241 - 05/24/14 06:09 PM Re: Born Before 1954?? [Re: Pirate]
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Registered: 04/19/02
Posts: 27495
Loc: D'OHio
I still remember sitting on my Dad's lap steering his '53 Studebaker down our street. I supposed if I'd driven us into a telephone pole (yep, no buried lines then, either), I'd have been the first air bag! eek And we were the first in our neighborhood to get colored fire! cool
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#617243 - 05/24/14 06:36 PM Re: Born Before 1954?? [Re: steveg]
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I invented modding!

Registered: 08/28/03
Posts: 9722
Loc: SE Kansas
I remember vaguely having working horses on our farm. To me, they were big and scary. These were draft horses. My biggest memory would be when I was about 7 or so. We were working down at my grandfathers place about a quarter mile south from ours. They were done for the day, so dad told me to take the team back north to our barn. Man, I didn't want to do that as I didn't know much how to drive them.

Not to worry, as the team knew exactly where to go. My biggest problem was keeping hold of the reins and keeping up with them as the hurried home. You see, their double tree harness wasn't hooked to any wagon or such. I had to run behind them . But they went right into the stable. I was breathless and frightened to death.

Dave
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#617251 - 05/24/14 07:37 PM Re: Born Before 1954?? [Re: steveg]
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Muhahahaha

Registered: 04/22/02
Posts: 15046
Loc: Columbus OH
Originally Posted By: steveg
I'd have been the first air bag!
Hot air bag? Would have been?

Too easy. You lob 'em up, I'll hit 'em.
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#617253 - 05/24/14 07:41 PM Re: Born Before 1954?? [Re: steveg]
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Nut Dood

Registered: 04/21/02
Posts: 17704
Loc: Pinellas Park, Florida
Originally Posted By: steveg
And we were the first in our neighborhood to get colored fire! cool


Ya some kind of racist? laugh
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#617265 - 05/24/14 09:35 PM Re: Born Before 1954?? [Re: Pirate]
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This space for rent

Registered: 05/02/05
Posts: 7405
Loc: 東京都
Great stuff, but near the end it said, "grass was mowed"

What do people do instead of mowing grass these days?
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