Remember when

Still have 'em. There's self serve too if you want.

 

Yep, Oregon.

 

My mom worked for Ma Bell forever. Use to go in and watch them use the switch board. 10 pound headsets is right.
Yes they plugged and unplugged cables like crazy. “Number Please” and “How May I direct your call” was always in the air. I plugged in a time or two and the reaction to the old biddies was funny. Private lines were never private. Lots of fights on party lines.
Lots of gossiping about calls..

 

Oh damn! I forgot about the gas bell.

 

https://youtube.com/shorts/iwrxSgYim3Q?si=ZUG-hStfPj_f0Vbk

 

The cigarette lighter was a hell of a lesson I remember LOL

 

There was no honor system, if you had money you could buy smokes anywhere especially machines that were usually in some corner out of site.

 

I’m old enough to know how to slide those apart add a board and make a rudimentary skateboard. I’m also old enough to know the damage those would cause when you hit gravel while skating…

 

Christmas at grandmas house!
https://images.app.goo.gl/YjR72i6wpcCTiRmf6

https://youtu.be/NbKT0gHf08A?si=QkmpeoG0aamRDbf8

 

Our earliest models were of the finest manufacturing.

 

Ah the sound of the metal wheels grinding on the pavement on an early Saturday morning! LOL

 

Kids fascination these days.......






When I was a kid, this fascinated me....

 

Anyone else have scads of these that they would use to make towers? Or was it only my grandparents that had shit like this lying around...

Various sizes, colors and casinos. All paper cups with nothing plastic.

 

Stanley Cup starts today.

The Munro table top hockey game was built from 1932-1955 in Toronto, Ontario. Mr. Munro couldn't afford to buy his kids Christmas gifts during the Depression so he built them this game and then started consigning them to Eaton's Department Store. Mrs Munro crocheted the goal nets. My wife got me this one from an antique shop 40 years ago.

 

My mom used to have a job at one of these little boxes . There was a local photography place in town that had a couple . I was considerably smaller back then but it couldnt have been more that four foot across , I had to sit in the floor , there wasnt room for two chairs . She quit after getting robbed at knife point by a guy that dropped his film off all the time , needless to say she gave his name and address to the police when they showed up.

 

When the thought of a $6 burger was the dream…

 

I remember those.

 

I remember they wouldn’t allow those at the roller rink, had to rent . I used my sister’s, cracks in sidewalks were brutal

 

We had one near our house, at the 7 Grand shopping center. It was located at 7 mile road and Grand River. It had a Great Scott grocery store on one end and a Federal’s Department store on the other end, and a Sims men’s store