| GOD, i must be getting old...
Posted: 1/6/2008 9:20:54 AM |
And not all kids are spoiled and don't know that the TV works without a remote. . Ummm, my son is the least spoiled child there is and I think it is just having the opportunity of using a remote because that is how the t.v.s have been sold for the last while. When the batteries died, he had the experience to "learn" that a t.v. can be put on and off without the remote.
I remember going to Eaton's with my grandmother and we would go in the basement part of it, to the bakery and get a whole red velvet cake boxed with the string around it to carry it home. | |
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| GOD, i must be getting old...
Posted: 1/6/2008 9:39:55 AM | Comments made in the year 1955! That's only 52 years ago!!
'I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $20.00.'
'Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $2, 000.00 will only buy a used one.'
'If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous.
'Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?'
'If they raise the minimum wage to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.'
'When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage.'
'Kids today are impossible. Those duck tail hair cuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls.'
'I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying DAMN in GONE WITH THE WIND, it seems every new movie has either HELL or DAMN in it.'
'I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas.'
'Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the President.'
'I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now.'
'It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet.'
'It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work.'
'Marriage doesn't mean a thing any more, those Hollywood stars seem to be getting divorced at the drop of a hat.'
'I'm afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business.'
'Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to congress.'
'The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on.'
'There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend, it costs nearly $15.00 a night to stay in a hotel.'
'No one can afford to be sick anymore, at $35.00 a day in the hospital it's too rich for my blood.'
'If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it.' | |
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| GOD, i must be getting old...
Posted: 1/6/2008 4:22:46 PM | Double post but this one's got a quiz!
Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom.
1. Cho Cho bar
2. Drive ins
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soft drink machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or milk bars with tableside juke boxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with foil stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. Packards
10. Blue flashbulb
11. Telephone numbers with 2 letters and 4 numbers
12. Peashooters
13. Wash tub wringer
14. 78 RPM records
15. Metal ice trays with lever
16. Studebakers
17. Cracker night
18. Using hand signals for cars without turn signals
19. Bread delivered by horse and cart
20. Head lights dimmer switches on the floor
21. Ignition switches on the dashboard
22. Heaters mounted on the inside of the wall
23. Real ice boxes
24. Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards
25. Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner
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! | |
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| GOD, i must be getting old...
Posted: 1/6/2008 4:28:00 PM | I remember just last year when my mom called me and asked "Are you taking your sister to the Manisphere". I was silent for a few seconds and was replied "mom put the joint down for a minute and speak english". She laughed and said "Are you taking your sister to the ex".
I dont ever recall it being called that, mind you I am only 23  | |
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| GOD, i must be getting old...
Posted: 1/6/2008 7:13:43 PM | | Manisphere......haven't heard that in ages, geez. Ummmm, not that I'm old enough either..cough cough | |
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| GOD, i must be getting old...
Posted: 1/6/2008 7:17:50 PM | First of all Wer - 1955 was a very good year for new starts.
I got 18 out of 25, I guess that means I'm older than dirty old men.
16-25 = You're older than dirt! | |
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| GOD, i must be getting old...
Posted: 1/6/2008 8:26:26 PM |
I got 12 out of 25. Yikes....think I better go take some geritol.
Ok sparks...I'm was sure I was a couple of years older than you!!! You sure you're younger???? I only got 9 of the 25...lmao | |
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| GOD, i must be getting old...
Posted: 1/6/2008 8:32:10 PM | So would 23 out of 25, date myself too much??lol. Where's my cane???
There's my cane, opps that's not my cane,lol. Guess I am not that over the hill yet | |
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| GOD, i must be getting old...
Posted: 1/6/2008 8:37:13 PM | 11 out of 25 for me
Only our phone number didn't have letters it was 329 ring one one...not sure how I even remembered that...guess i'm close to the older than dirt catagory.
I have a cane you can have BBQslave lol | |
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| GOD, i must be getting old...
Posted: 1/6/2008 9:37:29 PM |
I remember going to Eaton's with my grandmother and we would go in the basement part of it, to the bakery and get a whole red velvet cake boxed with the string around it to carry it home.
I also remember going to Eaton's with my Baba but, I remember the bakery being on one of the upper floors by the overpass to the parkade. We used to get lemon and butterscotch tarts in those same little cardboard boxes tied up with cotton string. By the way RAM, just to show how much "older" I am than you... the Red Velvet cake was part of the Home Economics curriculum when I was in high school. The good news, in case you didn't know... it's still available, in slabs or single portions at Sals. | |
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| GOD, i must be getting old...
Posted: 1/6/2008 10:36:30 PM | cusper here. 11 out of 25
so what the heck was "cracker night"? sounds like a future POF event | |
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| GOD, i must be getting old...
Posted: 1/7/2008 5:21:19 AM | Gypsywinds.....EATONS had a bakeshop in basement in FOODATERIA and also you are correct a GOURMET food shop including a bakery on the floor that connected with the parkade. You could also get baked goods in the fifth floor GRILL ROOM at the cashier.
I am presuming CRACKER NIGHT is FIRECRACKER DAY which was Victoria Day when I was a kid. Now I KNOW YOU CAN ALL REMEMBER only being 8 years old and ALLOWED to buy firecrackers!!! LOL....They would come into store about beginning of April and I LOVED the "Ladyfinger" ones (baby firecrackers). Funny how my Dad would NOT let me date till I was 16 BUT I was allowed to buy firecrackers and pack em in mud and fling them up in air at age 8. My dad used to cut a two foot piece of string and light the end then blow it out leaving the end glowing so I could light my firecrackers. He said MATCHES were dangerous .........lol go figure. | |
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Posted: 1/7/2008 7:46:49 AM | The parkade connection at Eatons went from the third floor to the parkades fourth floor. You could also use a basement walkway.
Fond memory; after Star Wars became a hit they had a "Space odessy" at the eigth floor, access was by one elevator (hand operated still!) run by a clerk wearing a silver space suit. Zip up to 8 where they sold all sorts of space toys and had a small screening room which ran various old b&w sci fi movies, also they had a landing pad on the roof for 'ufos' that you could watch on a tv screen. I think it ran for a month or so.
I have a beer stien for a Octoberfest at Manisphere 1970. The original Wild Mouse ride, which had urban legends about people being thrown off at the top turns, was gone before I was tall enough to ride it. I don't get the same sense of fun at the Ex at its new location.
Oh popsicles were in paper wrappers with an open end so you tell what flavour you were buying. Corner Solo stores. | |
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| GOD, i must be getting old...
Posted: 1/7/2008 8:07:29 AM | | 13 out of 25,but I think if I'd grown up in the city instead of the country I'd have scored a bit higher. | |
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| GOD, i must be getting old...
Posted: 1/7/2008 10:24:43 PM | | A few years ago I went out with a girl... we went to rent a movie and I found out she had never heard of Kindergarten Cop. That made me feel old. | |
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| GOD, i must be getting old...
Posted: 1/8/2008 10:00:51 PM | 11 out of 25 for me!
I was just listening to some really good tunes ...dancing around the house and working up a sweat when a song came on that I didn't particularly like so I went to switch stations and realized.........OMG! ..I was listening to the weather channel!
Now that's getting old!   | |
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| GOD, i must be getting old...
Posted: 1/9/2008 7:56:51 AM |
Corner Solo stores
My grandparents owned the solo store in St. B on Archibald, just off Marion (Wine Baril location)
They maintained a hand written filing system of store accts. for their regular customers, extending them monthly credit. I remember the whole family pitching in to do inventory by hand and recording it on sheets....yes, even us kids. We always wanted to count the candy. Go figure! For 25 cents you could get a chocolate bar or a bag of chips and a drink....and yes they had the cooler with the glass bottles.
Wow that brings back fun memories. Ok...it's official. I'm old! | |
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| GOD, i must be getting old...
Posted: 1/9/2008 8:34:03 AM | Can we all just come to the conclusion that YES YOU ARE OLD!
LMAO
OK OK relax people
(Backs out of room slowly, gets passed door and bolts) | |
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| GOD, i must be getting old...
Posted: 2/23/2008 11:49:47 AM | OMG!!!
I'm having a deja vu!
refillable brown A & W jugs...check
manisphere....check
fat sam's grand slam speak easy...check
solo stores....check
eaton's basement shopping....check
Funky <~~~ clicks her heels to return to 2008!
You can also type in old Winnipeg Photo's in your search and there is a site that will knock your socks off! | |
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| GOD, i must be getting old...
Posted: 2/25/2008 8:53:47 AM | | I have visited that site and it was a hoot......and in random access memory (formerly called "memories"), the 3 story slide behind TOPS on St James St., the Ting Tea House, Union Stock Yards on Marion, gravel roads eveywhere- with actual ditches, and last but not least............writing letters, on paper and a complete absence of telemarketing.......sigh...... | |
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