Remembering The Past

[Figarou]

At least they had a dial to work with.

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[Trigganometry]

At least they had a dial to work with.

Few good memories there! First is even at home everyone was dressed in their best and guys had a tie on. I remember as a kid going downtown and all the men wore hats and had suit coats and ties on.

Then the dial phones. We were on a party line for a while so remember people breaking into your calls or you doing that to them. Neighbors always knew who it was too! Things were so much simpler then and people were civil too. My dad fought with the telephone company to keep his dial phone. Didn’t want the new push button style ones. Remember when phone numbers had the first 2 letters instead of numbers. Think they did that to know what switch house your phone was connected to

 

[Figarou]

Few good memories there! First is even at home everyone was dressed in their best and guys had a tie on. I remember as a kid going downtown and all the men wore hats and had suit coats and ties on.

Then the dial phones. We were on a party line for a while so remember people breaking into your calls or you doing that to them. Neighbors always knew who it was too! Things were so much simpler then and people were civil too. My dad fought with the telephone company to keep his dial phone. Didn’t want the new push button style ones. Remember when phone numbers had the first 2 letters instead of numbers. Think they did that to know what switch house your phone was connected to

Push button phones has an advantage over rotary phones.

I remember trying to call in for a prize on a radio station. 1st person to call gets the prize. Silly me with a rotary can't compete with push button phones.

 

[AzScorpion]

Few good memories there! First is even at home everyone was dressed in their best and guys had a tie on. I remember as a kid going downtown and all the men wore hats and had suit coats and ties on.

Then the dial phones. We were on a party line for a while so remember people breaking into your calls or you doing that to them. Neighbors always knew who it was too! Things were so much simpler then and people were civil too. My dad fought with the telephone company to keep his dial phone. Didn’t want the new push button style ones. Remember when phone numbers had the first 2 letters instead of numbers. Think they did that to know what switch house your phone was connected to

What was worse was when you were waiting for a phone call and you mom or sister were on it. They'd be talking for hours and we didn't have call waiting or caller ID.

Yes everyone dressed nice back then not like today when they're to lazy to even change out of their pj's. I remember flying and most men were in suites and the women in either a dress or a nice pants suite. Now you see them bording with their pants down to their thigh and their boxers hanging out. ? Oh, there was even smoking allowed on the airplane. I mean what could go wrong with 100's of people smoking in an enclosed tube filled with jet fuel. Nothing ever did but being a non smoker I'm glad they don't allow this now.

Speaking of dressing up to go shopping.

 

[KNI]

Hi Folks,

Ever hear of Corduroy Roads?

A corduroy road or log road is a type of road or timber trackway made by placing logs, perpendicular to the direction of the road over a low or swampy area. The result is an improvement over impassable mud or dirt roads, yet rough in the best of conditions and a hazard to horses due to shifting loose logs.

Best,
Phil

These are not past, but present. On small scale lumberworks, like thinning with ATV+timber trailer these are pretty common sight. Usually used for only on the tight spots, water crossing and swamps.

For the big stuff like real harvesters, these are no longer needed as those things go over bogs and 6 feet boulders with ease. On the snow and frosted ground these are not needed of course. But for ATVs in spring/summer thinning these are the perfect productivity boost.

Edit: From pages of history..

Finnish 7th division made 37km (or 23 miles) of this kind of road in 4 days. With hand saws and axes..

https://www.sotahistoriallisetkohteet.fi/app/sights/view/-/id/1271

 

[KJRR]

What was worse was when you were waiting for a phone call and you mom or sister were on it. They'd be talking for hours and we didn't have call waiting or caller ID.

Yes everyone dressed nice back then not like today when they're to lazy to even change out of their pj's. I remember flying and most men were in suites and the women in either a dress or a nice pants suite. Now you see them bording with their pants down to their thigh and their boxers hanging out. ? Oh, there was even smoking allowed on the airplane. I mean what could go wrong with 100's of people smoking in an enclosed tube filled with jet fuel. Nothing ever did but being a non smoker I'm glad they don't allow this now.

Speaking of dressing up to go shopping.

Hey hey! You should have at least put those behind a spoiler alert. Some people will be sitting down to a nice dinner tonight and may not be able to unsee that.

 

[AzScorpion]

Hey hey! You should have at least put those behind a spoiler alert. Some people will be sitting down to a nice dinner tonight and may not be able to unsee that.

KJ, you should know by now you'll never know what to expect when you click on one of my posts. ? ?

Bon appétit. ?

 

[Radioman]

Was used to build parts of the Alcan Highway during WWll

That's true, I had forgotten about that. (But not like I was there. )

 

[dtech]

Anyone on here remember these guys, Paul Revere and the Raiders, recall them playing "Where the action is" as they waded into the surf on that TV show "Where the action is" (oh baby c'mon, oh baby c'mon) . My favorite song from them was "Cherokee Nation" clever lyrics and all, but reading the differing perspectives on another EV debate, some updated lyrics to Cherokee Nation popped into my head, sadly I recall the band's founder and namesake passed away some yrs ago., I know I should be listening to XMas tunes. And in line with the rememberances - how about those TV shows like Shindig, Where the action is, Hullabaloo, Bandwagon, etc

We took the whole ice nation
Banned their sales via legislation
Took away the fumes and gas
made fossil fuels a thing of the past

We failed to increase electrical generation
Brought the power grid to ruination
Now we live our lives in the dark
And find our EVs must be parked

Maybe someday when we learned
ICE vehicles will return, will return, will return, will return

 

[Fordup]

What was worse was when you were waiting for a phone call and you mom or sister were on it. They'd be talking for hours and we didn't have call waiting or caller ID.

Yes everyone dressed nice back then not like today when they're to lazy to even change out of their pj's. I remember flying and most men were in suites and the women in either a dress or a nice pants suite. Now you see them bording with their pants down to their thigh and their boxers hanging out. ? Oh, there was even smoking allowed on the airplane. I mean what could go wrong with 100's of people smoking in an enclosed tube filled with jet fuel. Nothing ever did but being a non smoker I'm glad they don't allow this now.

Speaking of dressing up to go shopping.

This is what Walmart did to our country. Luckily we didn't have Walmart in the north until the late 90s. You wouldn't dress like that for a trip to Sears Roebuck, Montgomery Wards, or Woolworths

 

[AzScorpion]

This is what Walmart did to our country. Luckily we didn't have Walmart in the north until the late 90s. You wouldn't dress like that for a trip to Sears Roebuck, Montgomery Wards, or Woolworths

I think that was the same time frame for us in WMA. I remember seeing them in FL when we travel down there but didn't know much about them until they started popping up everywhere by us. Honestly they were one of the worst things that happened to our country along with al the other big box stores. I'm all for have a few here and there but they killed the small business owner.

 

[BS67]

Anyone on here remember these guys, Paul Revere and the Raiders, recall them playing "Where the action is" as they waded into the surf on that TV show "Where the action is" (oh baby c'mon, oh baby c'mon) . My favorite song from them was "Cherokee Nation" clever lyrics and all, but reading the differing perspectives on another EV debate, some updated lyrics to Cherokee Nation popped into my head, sadly I recall the band's founder and namesake passed away some yrs ago., I know I should be listening to XMas tunes. And in line with the rememberances - how about those TV shows like Shindig, Where the action is, Hullabaloo, Bandwagon, etc

We took the whole ice nation
Banned their sales via legislation
Took away the fumes and gas
made fossil fuels a thing of the past

We failed to increase electrical generation
Brought the power grid to ruination
Now we live our lives in the dark
And find our EVs must be parked

Maybe someday when we learned
ICE vehicles will return, will return, will return, will return

Paul Revere Dick was born just north of us 6 miles in Harvard, NE.

 

[Grumpaw]

Anyone on here remember these guys, Paul Revere and the Raiders, recall them playing "Where the action is" as they waded into the surf on that TV show "Where the action is" (oh baby c'mon, oh baby c'mon) . My favorite song from them was "Cherokee Nation" clever lyrics and all, but reading the differing perspectives on another EV debate, some updated lyrics to Cherokee Nation popped into my head, sadly I recall the band's founder and namesake passed away some yrs ago., I know I should be listening to XMas tunes. And in line with the rememberances - how about those TV shows like Shindig, Where the action is, Hullabaloo, Bandwagon, etc

We took the whole ice nation
Banned their sales via legislation
Took away the fumes and gas
made fossil fuels a thing of the past

We failed to increase electrical generation
Brought the power grid to ruination
Now we live our lives in the dark
And find our EVs must be parked

Maybe someday when we learned
ICE vehicles will return, will return, will return, will return

Awww Heck....we were watching Dick Clark's American Bandstand back in the 50's when the Raiders were still wearing diapers !!!
Listening to country western when the only instrument was either a guitar or a banjo.
We flocked to the movies to see all the "Beach" surfing movies, the most popular was Ride The Wild Surf in 1964....Eden and Fabares in bikini's....WOW !!!
We all had surf boards...the loooong 8 foot jobs that weighed more than we did, and tried to be like those in the movies...
Only problem was, in south Florida the waves almost never got higher than 3 feet.
I remember when The Endless Summer came out in 1966...we thought it was the best movie ever made...

 

[JayBickles]

My first car back in '93 had one of these! Remember driving from Las Vegas to Alaska when I was 7 listening to music one one also. We had the adapter that you could put a cassette tape in so you could listen to cassette tapes.

 

[Synfulz]

I had one of these in my 1971 Duster.

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