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Did you ever say “Breaker, breaker”?
"Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Harry / Marietta GA
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BlueBirdMusic wrote: »Did you ever say “Breaker, breaker”?
I believe that's a Western Auto cb radio. Even the company is long out of business. -
Yup. Back then, it doubled as a "radar detector". Between that and people hitting their brakes for no reason far ahead, you had time to be aware of where they were hiding and slow down.
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Sounds like a gen x youngster; I remember when we were able to get rid of our 8 party line (our ring was 1 long and 1 short) and get our own private line. -
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Ward Bond, Gary Cooper, Gene Autry, John Wayne, Gabby Hayes"Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Harry / Marietta GA -
motorstereo wrote: »Sounds like a gen x youngster; I remember when we were able to get rid of our 8 party line (our ring was 1 long and 1 short) and get our own private line.
Oh, the woman on our party line's a nosy thing
She picks up her receiver when she knows it's my ring
Why don't you mind your own business?
Mind your own business
Well, if you mind your business
Then you won't be mindin' mine
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motorstereo wrote: »
I guess we were lucky. We only had a 2 party line. -
I don't know how many people were on our party line. Probably the whole rural community. All I know is if it rang, everyone picked up. Most hung up when they found out it wasn't for them. Some stayed on because they were nosy.Gustard X26 Pro DAC
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Geeez, I remember when the "Party line".....was another line. You could actually switch between the two.
That was high falutin' technology right there...
Right before the 10 pound "cell phones" folks could get in their cars....at an unbelievable cost...that took up half the passenger seat.
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
Those are good memories when the family got our first telephone. I must have been 10 to 12 years old. The colored phones were more expensive than the black models. I remember the first phone call I made.
Anyone have a gossip bench. They came in all shapes and styles. Here's one that let a person talk and keep stuff to "drink" in the little cabinet. One of my aunts had one that I really liked.
Another aunt had a built in wall shelf similar the one below with a second phone (always) in the kitchen.
Note the shelf just outside the bathroom in a hallway.
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However my favorite telephone memory is:
Our house had a phone in my room and one in the kitchen. About a year after having the new phone, I learned that my mom's Aunt Ida always called almost every morning about 8:00 AM. That was 15-20 minutes before the school bus arrived which I watched for looking out a window in my room at the other end of the house.
I had learned to mimic Aunt Ida's voice so occasionally I would dial our number put the phone on the base. Our telephone would ring; mom would pick up the phone and talk to me thinking I was her aunt.
FUN! The fun ended on a day when the bus was early. I said to my mom "The bus is early. I have to hang up.""Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Harry / Marietta GA -
BinKY188_5 wrote: »
I guess we were lucky. We only had a 2 party line.
Oddly enough, our family cottage on Walloon Lake had a two party line until 2001. I guess it was cheap, and the other party only used their cottage about one week a year. It ended when that person sold their cottage.
So you don't have to be that old. I guess Ameritech still had operating party lines in Michigan as late as 2002.
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Heck, as a freshman in HS, I remember seeing multiple rifles hung on on the back windows of the student's pickup trucks. Don't remember any school shootings either.
It all changed the next year.
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
You know you are getting old when you instantly recognize what this is...
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
Probably still works if you hooked it up
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If you watched this on TV:
"Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Harry / Marietta GA -
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A college buddy, who is now my BIL, would come over every Saturday evening and 3 of us would finish off a case of beer with SNL entertaining us.
Now that makes me feel old!Yep, my name really is Bob.
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You know you are getting old when you instantly recognize what this is...
Tom
Good one, Tom!
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I used my Mickey Mantle rookie card.
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aprazer402 wrote: »I used my Mickey Mantle rookie card.
I'm sure many of us used cards that would have been worth tons now days. -
When!
"Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Harry / Marietta GA -
BlueBirdMusic wrote: »I don't remember seeing an RCA TV with a record player.
I do remember our family's first TV which was a black and white RCA. Of course, the furniture store delivered the TV and set it up. During the setup is when I saw my first show on one of the three channels. It was the Andy Divine Show. Roy Otwell of Otwell's Furniture Store in Temple GA delivered the TV.
Could you imagine if every TV today was installed by the store where purchased.
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I posted the above ^^^ in July 2022 about the old TV pictured and referenced our family's first TV in the 1950's. I said I remembered the first TV show I saw was the "Andy Divine Show" when the TV was turned on for the first time. It came from Roy Otwell's Funiture Store in Temple GA. It's the same place where my American Flyer Train set was brought by Santa Claus, and later my bedroom set came from the store.
Now the old furniture store building built in 1887 with 6744 sq ft is for sale as as a combination business and home. Temple GA had a line of 15-20 stores that the family (mainly my dad and me at the hardware stores) frequented. Temple is about 50 miles west of Atlanta. It and was a "nothing town" (from Jimmy Buffett song Ringling, Ringling) when I was a kid. The family lived about 6 miles north of Temple on a dirt road until I was about 8 years old. We, family, still own the 50 acres of land and home where I grew up.
In 1939, the REA (Rural Electrification Act of 1936) provided electricity to the area. My father decided to become an "electrician" in addition to farming, and he wired the 10-20 houses along the road that led to our house from Temple and north to Draketown GA. I was not born at this time. I did not know this fact until about 15 years ago when I was replacing the old wire in the family house after a broken pipe caused extension water damage. My uncle came by and told me how my father helped every family along the road. I felt proud of him that day and again today. My father retired from Lockheed-GA after working there for 20+ years involved in the wiring of C-130's and the C-5. He was on the rollout team of the C-5.
Sorry for writing so much but HISTORY is amazing!
The one thing that Temple GA is noted for that I am aware:
The Facebook Marketplace ad I saw this morning re Roy Otwell's Furniture Store
"Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Harry / Marietta GA
