Oh, how times have changed

[PringleTree]

A text conversation that I had yesterday with a 19-year-old young female friend. My bold text.

Me: "Did you submit an exclusion form for your brother for your car insurance?"
Her: "I didn't, my mom has been supposed to help me find a new insurance."
Me: "Wouldn't it just be easier to submit the form?"
Her: "Not in my opinion because I will still pay more regardless of doing it. I also have no idea how to send papers back to somewhere through the mail.
Me: "Okay, I gotta ask--you've never mailed an envelope?"
Her: "Nope, lol."

[1967redrider]

BTW- I love that Barbara Eden episode, she was a real cutie. She and Hal Linden (Barney Miller) were both born in 1931 and are still kicking.

[wlf]

And then she said : "Chat Gp transcribed my answer to the question , but I just use Turo when I need a vehicle"

Us older folks are becoming obsolete.

[OLDE CUTLER]

One day I got a call transferred to me in the shop with a young customer who had a question on adjusting an electric power tool. To make the adjustment he needed, I told him to locate the large yellow headed bolt and turn it clockwise. There was a long silent pause and then he said "which way is that?"

[GSPTOPDOG]

Times have changed for me, ... in that years ago, I used to dream of what to do with Jeannie if I found her bottle... Now I dream of what to do with all the knives I could have her make appear out of thin air....

[PringleTree]

BTW- I love that Barbara Eden episode, she was a real cutie. She and Hal Linden (Barney Miller) were both born in 1931 and are still kicking.

Yes, that episode is one of the more popular and well-known. As a brunette Barbara was also quite the looker. Her face as she gets "hot and bothered" in "The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao" (1964) is something to see. She was also a brunette in The Virginian, playing a reporter.

Chris J.

[1967redrider]

BTW- I love that Barbara Eden episode, she was a real cutie. She and Hal Linden (Barney Miller) were both born in 1931 and are still kicking.

Yes, that episode is one of the more popular and well-known. As a brunette Barbara was also quite the looker. Her face as she gets "hot and bothered" in "The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao" (1964) is something to see. She was also a brunette in The Virginian, playing a reporter.

Chris J.

I think I saw the Virginian episode too, but not the movie, which I will need to check out.

[PringleTree]

And then she said : "Chat Gp transcribed my answer to the question , but I just use Turo when I need a vehicle"

Us older folks are becoming obsolete.

Hi Lyle:

Yes. I was explaining to a young person that I still pay some bills by mail/check, and they looked at me like I was a space alien.

Chris J.

[PringleTree]

Times have changed for me, ... in that I used to dream of what to do with Jeannie if I found her bottle... Now I dream of what to do with all the knives I could have her make appear out of thin air....

Lol! Good one.

[PringleTree]

One day I got a call transferred to me in the shop with a young customer who had a question on adjusting an electric power tool. To make the adjustment he needed, I told him to locate the large yellow headed bolt and turn it clockwise. There was a long silent pause and then he said "which way is that?"

Hi OC:

When I explain to young people the meaning of the great 1970 Chicago song "25 or 6 to 4", that it refers to a time of night, I also have to ask them if they've ever used a clock or watch with a traditional face. The song makes much more sense if you've ever tried to pinpoint a time on a traditional face.

[Ridgegrass]

Regarding the intellectual capacity of the current 25 and under generation............... Aaahhh, nevermind! O'.

[OLDE CUTLER]

Happened the other day, I was talking to someone about growing up on the farm and we had a party line dial wall phone and our number had a certain ring for us that was different than anyone else in our party. And how we had local calls and long distance calls that cost extra. My 12 year old great niece, who of course has her own i phone stood and listened with her jaw on the floor.

[jerryd6818]

Happened the other day, I was talking to someone about growing up on the farm and we had a party line dial wall phone and our number had a certain ring for us that was different than anyone else in our party. And how we had local calls and long distance calls that cost extra. My 12 year old great niece, who of course has her own i phone stood and listened with her jaw on the floor.

When I was a sprout living out in the country in Southern Illinois this is what we had for a phone. It was a party line and our ring was something like two shorts and a long. Anyone on the line could pick up at any time and listen in on your conversation (and there were some who did). If the person you wanted to call, was not on your line, you had to call the operator and have her connect you. Not everyone had a phone.

[Steve Warden]

Happened the other day, I was talking to someone about growing up on the farm and we had a party line dial wall phone and our number had a certain ring for us that was different than anyone else in our party. And how we had local calls and long distance calls that cost extra. My 12 year old great niece, who of course has her own i phone stood and listened with her jaw on the floor.

When I was a sprout living out in the country in Southern Illinois this is what we had for a phone. It was a party line and our ring was something like two shorts and a long. Anyone on the line could pick up at any time and listen in on your conversation (and there were some who did). If the person you wanted to call, was not on your line, you had to call the operator and have her connect you. Not everyone had a phone.

And I bet the kids of the day couldn't imagine what it was like when there patents said, "When I was a kid, we didn't even have phones. Heck, we didn't have running water."

[bighomer]

It's kinda strange looking back on it, we had a telephone before we got electricity, we had running water, Dad would say run out to the well and get a bucket of water boy. He'd say get that coal scuttle and go to the coal pile and fill it up. Yep I'd dare say things have change at ole Homer's homestead.
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[PringleTree]

Thanks for sharing your memories everyone--great stuff. My Dad (1931-2012) spent much of his youth living with his maternal grandparents up Finney "Holler" outside Charleston, WV. He told me how he kept a bucket under his bed in the winter to avoid a trip to the outhouse on cold nights.

Chris J.

[Mumbleypeg]

I recall well when my grandparents, both maternal and paternal, had no running water, no indoor toilets, no electricity and no telephones. My paternal grandparents were the first to get electricity, then they got a party line telephone. IIRC my maternal grandparents got electricity about the same time, but did not get telephone service for many years. Thinking back on it, telephone service was probably available but they couldn’t afford it. Neither grandparents ever had “indoor plumbing”. Those under-the-bed chamber pots were important! I remember grandpa always said in the winter the outhouse was too far from the house, and in the summer it was too close.

Both grandmothers cooked on wood, or coal, stoves. My dad and his siblings pooled their money and bought grandma a new Roper electric range/oven. She didn’t like it, especially for baking, so continued to bake in the old wood stove. She had a well pump on the enclosed back porch, along with a wash basin, but she didn’t like that well for drinking (and cooking) water, so drinking water had to be carried about 100 yards to the house from another well. Drinking water was also on the porch, in a bucket with a communal dipper for drinking.

I also remember when I was a kid we had a “swamp cooler” in our living room window, and whole house attic fan. In the summer if you were lucky about midnight it got cool enough to sleep. The summer after I turned 14, dad came home from work one day and said he needed me to help him get something out of the car. It was a Fedders window unit air conditioner, to replace the old swamp cooler! Kids nowadays are incredulous when I tell them I was 14 years old before we had “air conditioning” (in Texas). Their response is typically “I would die!”

Ken

[jerryd6818]

I recall well when my grandparents, both maternal and paternal, had no running water, no indoor toilets, no electricity and no telephones. My paternal grandparents were the first to get electricity, then they got a party line telephone. IIRC my maternal grandparents got electricity about the same time, but did not get telephone service for many years. Thinking back on it, telephone service was probably available but they couldn’t afford it. Neither grandparents ever had “indoor plumbing”. Those under-the-bed chamber pots were important! I remember grandpa always said in the winter the outhouse was too far from the house, and in the summer it was too close.

Both grandmothers cooked on wood, or coal, stoves. My dad and his siblings pooled their money and bought grandma a new Roper electric range/oven. She didn’t like it, especially for baking, so continued to bake in the old wood stove. She had a well pump on the enclosed back porch, along with a wash basin, but she didn’t like that well for drinking (and cooking) water, so drinking water had to be carried about 100 yards to the house from another well. Drinking water was also on the porch, in a bucket with a communal dipper for drinking.

I also remember when I was a kid we had a “swamp cooler” in our living room window, and whole house attic fan. In the summer if you were lucky about midnight it got cool enough to sleep. The summer after I turned 14, dad came home from work one day and said he needed me to help him get something out of the car. It was a Fedders window unit air conditioner, to replace the old swamp cooler! Kids nowadays are incredulous when I tell them I was 14 years old before we had “air conditioning” (in Texas). Their response is typically “I would die!”

Ken

Sounds a lot like what I grew up with for part of my youth during the 40's when we lived over in S. Illinois. It was much better when we moved across the river into Indiana. We moved around "A LOT!!"!!

[1967redrider]

BTW- I love that Barbara Eden episode, she was a real cutie. She and Hal Linden (Barney Miller) were both born in 1931 and are still kicking.

Yes, that episode is one of the more popular and well-known. As a brunette Barbara was also quite the looker. Her face as she gets "hot and bothered" in "The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao" (1964) is something to see. She was also a brunette in The Virginian, playing a reporter.

Chris J.

Guess which episode was on tonight?

[PringleTree]

BTW- I love that Barbara Eden episode, she was a real cutie. She and Hal Linden (Barney Miller) were both born in 1931 and are still kicking.

Yes, that episode is one of the more popular and well-known. As a brunette Barbara was also quite the looker. Her face as she gets "hot and bothered" in "The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao" (1964) is something to see. She was also a brunette in The Virginian, playing a reporter.

Chris J.

Guess which episode was on tonight?

Hi John:

Damn, and I missed it! Great pics, though--thanks for sharing. She's still looking for that "friendly town".

I did watch "The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao" when it was aired on TCM about three weeks ago.

Chris J.

[Modern Slip Joints]

While I'm not old enough to have experienced most of what you guys have described, you might appreciate my mother's (1923-2023) toilet facilities on the farm. More specifically they were in a revine at the bottom of the bank at the edge of the lawn. Like all old folks the pages of last year's Sears catalog were their toilet paper. The difference was instead of sitting over a hole the out house was over a year round creek. No oder and the mess immediatly carried away. The creek emptied into salt water about a half mile away. A few youngsters who think they're helping save the planet have suggested the set up might not meet current envivomental regulations.

If you want to make the kids think you are a crazy old ludite ask them if they can get from their bed to the toiket without using their cell phone's gps traveling directions.

[1967redrider]

I remember having an outhouse at the farm close to the barn, in spite of also having an indoor bathroom. I think the outhouse went with the old log house, my dad tore both of them down when I was little and before. He did save some Chestnut 2"X6"s from the house though.

Sorry I missed "The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao." Maybe it will be on again.

[bighomer]

While I'm not old enough to have experienced most of what you guys have described, you might appreciate my mother's (1923-2023) toilet facilities on the farm. More specifically they were in a revine at the bottom of the bank at the edge of the lawn. Like all old folks the pages of last year's Sears catalog were their toilet paper. The difference was instead of sitting over a hole the out house was over a year round creek. No oder and the mess immediatly carried away. The creek emptied into salt water about a mile away. A few youngsters who think they're helping save the planet have suggested the set up might not meet current envivomental regulations.

If you want to make the kids think you are a crazy old ludite ask them if they can get from their bed to the toiket without using their cell phone's gps traveling directions.

Folks that lived along creeks around here used to say when a big rain came, "boy that was a turd floater"

[PringleTree]

I remember having an outhouse at the farm close to the barn, in spite of also having an indoor bathroom. I think the outhouse went with the old log house, my dad tore both of them down when I was little and before. He did save some Chestnut 2"X6"s from the house though.

Sorry I missed "The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao." Maybe it will be on again.

Thursday afternoon, shortly after I read your post on The Manicurist episode being aired, I turned on the tv to find The Brazos Kid episode (1964) of The Virginian being aired, featuring Barbara as guest star and with reddish/brown (chestnut) colored hair.

Chris J.

[1967redrider]

Sorry I missed "The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao." Maybe it will be on again.

Thursday afternoon, shortly after I read your post on The Manicurist episode being aired, I turned on the tv to find The Brazos Kid episode (1964) of The Virginian being aired, featuring Barbara as guest star and with reddish/brown (chestnut) colored hair.

Chris J.

I'll have to look for that one.

*Edit- found it, Season 3 Episode 6