before Hauptwerk, that it wasn't possible to play a beautiful, reasonably priced pipe organ - in your own home.
Then there was Aunt Suzzie's pump organ in her "parlor"?
Hammond organs in places other than funeral homes and
Not having fast food.
All the food was slow.
Where did we eat?
It was a place called, “Home.
Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.”
And how we had to ask for permission to leave the table.
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, never wore Levis, never set foot on a golf course, never traveled out of the country or had a credit card.
In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears & Roebuck.
Our parents never drove us to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer.
Having a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow)
We didn't have a television in our house until I was 11 and it was a "second hand" 11 inch "floor" model.
Of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; it came back on the air at about 6 a.m. And there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people.
I was 19 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called “pizza pie.” When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.
Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was.
I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers. My brother had a
"paper route" and delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which he got to keep 2 cents. He had to get up at 6 AM every morning.
On Saturday, he had to collect the 42 cents from his customers. His favorite customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the change. His least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.
If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren.
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
MEMORIES from a friend:
When Dad was cleaning out my grandmother's house and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my kids had no idea. They thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to “sprinkle” clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.
How about helping mom hang the newly washed clothes on the line outside using "clothes pins" even in the
winter. The "wash" froze of course. but when it had dried, it became soft and fluffy. How good those fresh sheets and pillow smelled.
How many of these do you remember?
Head light dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
Older Than Dirt Quiz:
Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom.
1. Blackjack chewing gum.
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water.
3. Candy cigarettes.
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
5. Coffee shops or diners with table side juke box music selectors
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.
7. Party lines on the telephone.
8 Newsreels before the movie.
9. P.F. Flyers.
10. Butch wax.
11..TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in
the morning. (there were only 3 channels...(if you were fortunate).
12. Sometimes a sign would come on saying 'We are having technical difficulties. Please stand by.'
13. Pea shooters.
14. Howdy Doody.
15. 78 and 45 RPM records.
16. S&H green stamps.
17. Hi-fi's.
18. Metal ice trays with a lever to eject the cubes.
19. Mimeograph paper.
20. Blue flashbulbs.
21. Packards.
22. Roller skate keys.
23. Cork popguns.
24. Drive-ins.
25. Studebakers.
26. Wash tub wringers.
27. Cars with cranks in front down low to start the engine.
If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young.
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older.
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You' re older than dirt!
I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.
Don't forget to pass this along!!
Especially to all your really good Hauptwerk friends.
Rgds,
Ed
Then there was Aunt Suzzie's pump organ in her "parlor"?
Hammond organs in places other than funeral homes and
Not having fast food.
All the food was slow.
Where did we eat?
It was a place called, “Home.
Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.”
And how we had to ask for permission to leave the table.
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, never wore Levis, never set foot on a golf course, never traveled out of the country or had a credit card.
In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears & Roebuck.
Our parents never drove us to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer.
Having a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow)
We didn't have a television in our house until I was 11 and it was a "second hand" 11 inch "floor" model.
Of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; it came back on the air at about 6 a.m. And there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people.
I was 19 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called “pizza pie.” When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.
Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was.
I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers. My brother had a
"paper route" and delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which he got to keep 2 cents. He had to get up at 6 AM every morning.
On Saturday, he had to collect the 42 cents from his customers. His favorite customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the change. His least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.
If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren.
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
MEMORIES from a friend:
When Dad was cleaning out my grandmother's house and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my kids had no idea. They thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to “sprinkle” clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.
How about helping mom hang the newly washed clothes on the line outside using "clothes pins" even in the
winter. The "wash" froze of course. but when it had dried, it became soft and fluffy. How good those fresh sheets and pillow smelled.
How many of these do you remember?
Head light dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
Older Than Dirt Quiz:
Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom.
1. Blackjack chewing gum.
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water.
3. Candy cigarettes.
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
5. Coffee shops or diners with table side juke box music selectors
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.
7. Party lines on the telephone.
8 Newsreels before the movie.
9. P.F. Flyers.
10. Butch wax.
11..TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in
the morning. (there were only 3 channels...(if you were fortunate).
12. Sometimes a sign would come on saying 'We are having technical difficulties. Please stand by.'
13. Pea shooters.
14. Howdy Doody.
15. 78 and 45 RPM records.
16. S&H green stamps.
17. Hi-fi's.
18. Metal ice trays with a lever to eject the cubes.
19. Mimeograph paper.
20. Blue flashbulbs.
21. Packards.
22. Roller skate keys.
23. Cork popguns.
24. Drive-ins.
25. Studebakers.
26. Wash tub wringers.
27. Cars with cranks in front down low to start the engine.
If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young.
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older.
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You' re older than dirt!
I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.
Don't forget to pass this along!!
Especially to all your really good Hauptwerk friends.
Rgds,
Ed
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