Do you remeber having to use coal to heat with or cook with??? Pumping water from a well by hand or god forbid the Outhouse?

I don't but my husband does...but he lived in a more rural area than I. And he's only 2 yrs older than I..he's 55.

about anything...not just age....:D :D :D


Sorry, couldn't resist.....:p

No, they didn't sell car parts, but they did have a machine where you could test your radio tubes and buy new ones from the bin in the bottom.

Yes...we had to heat with coal and coke.....had to buy a mix. Coal was harder to start but lasted longer and Coke started faster but burned down quickly.

Remember using the ashes on your icy sidewalks? Or having to sift out the "clinkers"?...

Neighbor had a water pump...I remember playing with it when I was 2 or 3...

Also remember the TV/radio tube testing machine...
Wish I could find one today..I have a 1938 Philco floor shortwave radio...it still turns on...but needs new tubes...

Scotz: What a wonderfull Idea!

Got all the ones you listed, and here's afew more:

Burmashave road signs.

Mail Pouch tobacco signs on Barns

Reeds roll candy

Heathkit build it yourself B&W TV (my first tv)

The Horse-Drawn Veggie cart.

WIRE recorders ca WWII.

Fizzies Tablets

Speedy Alkaseltzer

"Call for Phillip Morris"

RKO Double Feature Matinees

The Perils of Pauline

and for those of you who are interested, I now OWN one of those tube testers that used to be in all the drug stores....and one final oldie but goodie:

Anyone remember when Radio Shack was truly an electronic parts store and not an electronic toy store?

Murphy---I grew up in New England!When;Iwas a child;almost
every weekend;my folks;and I;would pack a lunch;and take"day
trips."We always packed a lunch;and ate at roadside rest areas;
because we had no money to eat out.In those days;you couldn't
go anywhere;without seeing those"Burmashave" advertisement;
signs.I appreciate now;that altho;my folks;had no money;we still
did things as a family ;all of the time. Irish

When resistors were the size of your little finger at best and they had all the “fire bottles” before that funny thing with the “3” wires. OLSEN was the biggest competition to them.

Nop! Don't remember that either.:o

The Alamorosa Truck Stop, between Tularosa and Alamogordo, New Mexico is a

4. Coffee shop with tableside juke boxes.

And they still work! Lotta old classic C&W.

What evil lurks in the hearts of men?
 

"T h e S H A D O W K N O W S"....... "heHEHEHAHAHAAAAAaaaaa"

How about Jack Benny & Rochester