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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 590926" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I go back aways! We played jacks and marbles outside in circles that we drew in the dirt - my 30-something year olds kids wouldn't know what either one was. Soft drinks came in real glass bottles that we could take back to the store for the deposit ... spending money! The kids know only plastic bottles and cans. We had one phone in the house with a cord so you had to sit in one spot to talk - strangely, nobody considered this to be a hardship. If you were out somewhere and needed to make a call, you found a phone booth and dropped coins in to the slot. Phone booths are almost extinct now. We had a B/W TV and if you wanted to change the channel (there were only three) you had to actually get up out of your chair, walk across the room, and turn the knob. My mother did laundry in a wringer washer, then hung it all out on the line. And the next day was spent ironing - no permanent press back then. Cars came with an AM radio and a heater,and NO seat belts. Only a few expensive luxury cars had AC back then. Nobody had air conditioning in their homes either. We opened all the windows and used fans if we had them. Most of the time you were just hot and you got used to it. And of course there was no AC in the schools either. I don't remember being particularly hot in school but we were used to it too. My whole childhood I don't ever remember having more than two pairs of shoes - one for school and one for church. And we had "school clothes" and "play clothes" ... you changed when you got home.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 590926, member: 1883"] I go back aways! We played jacks and marbles outside in circles that we drew in the dirt - my 30-something year olds kids wouldn't know what either one was. Soft drinks came in real glass bottles that we could take back to the store for the deposit ... spending money! The kids know only plastic bottles and cans. We had one phone in the house with a cord so you had to sit in one spot to talk - strangely, nobody considered this to be a hardship. If you were out somewhere and needed to make a call, you found a phone booth and dropped coins in to the slot. Phone booths are almost extinct now. We had a B/W TV and if you wanted to change the channel (there were only three) you had to actually get up out of your chair, walk across the room, and turn the knob. My mother did laundry in a wringer washer, then hung it all out on the line. And the next day was spent ironing - no permanent press back then. Cars came with an AM radio and a heater,and NO seat belts. Only a few expensive luxury cars had AC back then. Nobody had air conditioning in their homes either. We opened all the windows and used fans if we had them. Most of the time you were just hot and you got used to it. And of course there was no AC in the schools either. I don't remember being particularly hot in school but we were used to it too. My whole childhood I don't ever remember having more than two pairs of shoes - one for school and one for church. And we had "school clothes" and "play clothes" ... you changed when you got home. [/QUOTE]
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