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Tom,
My mother was not happy about the bottle caps for the same reason. Must be a Mom thing.
Forgot about the taps in shoes. They were banned in our school for the same reason. I wasn't allowed to have them on my shoes by my parents.

Steve.
 
I remember having a party line not many people know what that is any more...for those who don't it's where you and 3-4 other neighbors share the same phone line and can pick up and listen in on others conversation...a real gossip tool...kinda like the fence you lean against to talk gossip at.
 
george_n_texas said:
I remember having a party line not many people know what that is any more...for those who don't it's where you and 3-4 other neighbors share the same phone line and can pick up and listen in on others conversation...a real gossip tool...kinda like the fence you lean against to talk gossip at.
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It really sucked though if you needed to make an emergency call. I remember my mom trying to convince somebody already on the phone that she had to make an emergency call to my dad at work. I don't remember why. But she got tired of trying to reason with the conversing people and turned to me and said "Go get your violin." Then she immediately said "Never mind", then hung up briefly and began dialing. I still have that violin but I play it very well now.
 
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I was doin tech support and got a call from some dude up in Arkansas tryin to use dialup on a party line....he knew he was skewed but said he thought he'd try LOL
 
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Our phone # was 112. Party line. Picked up the phone, if nobody was on it the operator would come on. If you didn't know somebody's #, you just asked by name.
 
2door said:
Hey, who remembers those little leather loops with a red reflector you used to see around the the front, and sometimes the rear axles on bikes...and how long has it been since you've seen one? And...just what in the heck were they for? I was once told they kept the grease from goobering up the axle and kept it shiny.
Tom
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Those were put there to fan the flatulants away from the rider so as not to pass out from exurting yourself due to the lack of an engine on your bike going uphill. (I play bolderdash in my spare time}
 
Untill a few years ago where my grandma lives all you had to do was dial 5 numbers in her area as all numbers began with the same 3 numbers. Never lived in a 5 digit dialing area before.
 

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Greybeard said:
"town" was 385 people. Shell, Richfield, Chevron, and Union stations. 4 Churches, 2 butcher shops, 1 grocery, 1 police officer driving a 6cyl Ford. We had piano and "Tap Dancing" classes available. The school had Dance classes manditory. No girl sports (A real shame as the fastest person afoot was a female that could put 10 yards on the fastest guy in the 100yd dash wearing loafers).
We NEVER locked the house and most every car had the keys in it.
If you were too drunk to drive the cop took you home.

It was a totally different universe from the one we live in today.
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Now kids have sneakers with little pockets built in the bottoms, that take small caster wheels. They are called skate shoes. But some dumbass that designed them put the wheels in the heels, so kids are tripping up and breaking their wrists or worse.

Here, I guess some of them have 2 wheels per shoe. I've never seen these before, just the ones with heel rollers.
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fasteddy said:
Tom,
My mother was not happy about the bottle caps for the same reason. Must be a Mom thing.
Forgot about the taps in shoes. They were banned in our school for the same reason. I wasn't allowed to have them on my shoes by my parents.

Steve.
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Allen_Wrench said:
It really sucked though if you needed to make an emergency call. I remember my mom trying to convince somebody already on the phone that she had to make an emergency call to my dad at work. I don't remember why. But she got tired of trying to reason with the conversing people and turned to me and said "Go get your violin." Then she immediately said "Never mind", then hung up briefly and began dialing. I still have that violin but I play it very well now.
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At least you had a dial phone! We didn;t!
 
Greybeard said:
"town" was 385 people. Shell, Richfield, Chevron, and Union stations. 4 Churches, 2 butcher shops, 1 grocery, 1 police officer driving a 6cyl Ford. We had piano and "Tap Dancing" classes available. The school had Dance classes manditory. No girl sports (A real shame as the fastest person afoot was a female that could put 10 yards on the fastest guy in the 100yd dash wearing loafers).
We NEVER locked the house and most every car had the keys in it.
If you were too drunk to drive the cop took you home.

It was a totally different universe from the one we live in today.
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I remember going to the movies, while they were changing the reels they would have a local (talent show). There was a piano player that would play music for the local talent!
The only silent movies that I remember them playing was Tom Mix.
 
A lot of us HAD skates like that, Happy. Not sure about the ones you show but most of them had a key that when you turned it the skate tightened onto your shoes. Of course you had to wear hard soles, not sneakers, and you didn't want to loose the big key or you'd have to wear the things wherever you went or go barefooted.
They used to make sparks on concrete and sounded like a thrashing machine when there were several kids all skating together down a sidewalk.

Tom
 
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