Older than dirt

#1 · August 11, 2004, 12:51 pm

Posted by: rini <rini@...>

Some parents NEVER owned their own house

My parent's ranch-style 3 br house cost $11,000. By time they paid it off, it had cost $22,000.

but they bought a piece of colored plastic to cover the screen. The top third was blue, like the sky, and the bottom third was green, like grass. The middle third was red

That's how they did it! The old folks across the street watched Lawrance Welk in "color" and I've wondered why the color was so odd.

When color TV first came, we were the first on the block to get one. That NBC peacock was gorgeous!

Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was.

And so were bread, cakes and donuts, from the Helm's yellow panel truck. I can still hear the whistle!

Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.

And it was cool to clip playing cards with clothes pins (no dryers those days) to the back wheel frame to hit the spokes and make noise.

My score is 25 out of 25. My DD would nod knowingly!

Rini

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