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« Reply #90 on: November 15, 2007, 01:09:06 PM »
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Offline KayBayRay

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« Reply #91 on: November 15, 2007, 01:10:50 PM »
I am.  :cool:
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« Reply #92 on: November 15, 2007, 01:12:46 PM »
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No BS.  This is true.

I grew up in northern MN, near the Canadian border.  Growing up we didn't have running water in our house.  We had a hand pump in the kitchen, an outhouse, an out-building sauna (good Finns that we are/were) and a crank phone on a party line.

We took baths once a week when the sauna got heated (my dad and bothers only made enough wood in the fall for weekly saunas through the year).  Trips to the outhouse at -30F were a winter norm.

By the time I was about 10 we got indoor running water in the kitchen so as a teen I was able to wash my hair daily and after I moved away my mother finally got an indoor shower.

I had to walk 1/4 mile to the highway and stand there waiting for the bus in the winter at anywhere from +10 to -40F, often through a foot of snow or more.

My how things have changed.


Spunds like a pretty darned good childhood.  Did ya have a pond to skate on? Then it would be about perfect.
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« Reply #93 on: November 15, 2007, 01:14:59 PM »
Anyone remember these?



A Polaris Sno-Traveller.  My best friend across the highway got one when I was about 8.  It would only do about 8 mph but did we have a blast on that thing.  Of course, if we got stuck it took us all day to get it out.
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« Reply #94 on: November 15, 2007, 01:20:28 PM »
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Spunds like a pretty darned good childhood.  Did ya have a pond to skate on? Then it would be about perfect.


No, but there was a creek back through the woods that would freeze over and certain years, if the freeze/snow cycles were right, you could skate for miles up and down the creek.
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« Reply #95 on: November 15, 2007, 01:21:25 PM »
Hi Mates

How about a squad for those over 70?

Cheers


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« Reply #96 on: November 15, 2007, 01:37:14 PM »
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Didn't have a crank phone, but phone numbers were assigned to "regions"

The town I grew up in was Watertown, CT. It's telephone region was "CRestwood" so all number began with 27 (CR).

The next town over, Thomaston, was "ATwood" so all numbers began with 28 (AT).

So if someone asked you what your phone number was you would say ... "Crestwood 4-5555".

Also, if you were in the "Crestwood" region and wanted to dial another number in the "Crestwood" region you only had to dial 4-xxxx.

Most of us withing this age spread could probably relate to this ...

During the summer, I would get up and out the door at 7 am in the morning. Take off on my bike with my buds, and not have to be home until 5 pm. During that time, my mom never knew where I was and it was never a concern. Can't do that nowadays.

You just had to make sure that your arse was in the dinner chair for 5 pm tho ... else all hell broke loose ... go figure.
FR(anklin) =374-6857 was the phone number.  out of the house by seven home by five.  I wore out two schwinn varsities.  if I heard my dad whistle I was in deep kimshe.
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« Reply #97 on: November 15, 2007, 02:15:52 PM »
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 Now I have 3 HDTV's with surround sound.:)


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« Reply #98 on: November 15, 2007, 02:20:17 PM »
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if I heard my dad whistle I was in deep kimshe.


Whistle my butt................all it took was take certain look...............AND YOU KNEW   :O

Now A Days............you give your kid that Look..........kid dials 911.  Can't tell ya how many 911 calls I've been dispatched to cause some kid was in trouble with parent (s), or had just been disciplined.


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« Reply #99 on: November 15, 2007, 02:57:28 PM »
in my neighborhood the dads whistled for the boys to come home, each dad had a distinct whistle.  my dad only whistled when I messsed up and needed to get home and set things right.  you could hear his whistle two blocks away.  if I didn't hear it someone did and would cruise up with hey your dad is whistling for you.  oh ***** peddle as fast as I could for home.
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« Reply #100 on: November 15, 2007, 04:05:57 PM »
72 in two weeks
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« Reply #101 on: November 15, 2007, 04:05:59 PM »
too old
not bold
can't see
can't pee
old age is not for sissies
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« Reply #102 on: November 15, 2007, 04:40:30 PM »
52 before the month is out. Never though Pong would lead to this.
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« Reply #103 on: November 15, 2007, 05:09:22 PM »
When we were kids all we did was run and play ball. I remember loving Sundays because it was about the only night I could watch some television. Back then "Wild Kingdom" was the first and only nature show on TV. If you were lucky enough to have a color TV, and found a good enough spot for the antennas, you could also watch "The Wonderful World of Disney" on Sunday night in true color. Then you really had the cat by the hinds parts.

                      You guys remember watching Flash Gordon?? And all those other great shows? Boy, TV was TV back then and there was none of the gratuitous violence and sex in it.

                  And you'd never see a fat kid back then cause we never had any of these games and gadgets. All we had was bats and balls.

                 Any AH players in High School now have also never had a cold winter. We haven't had a truly cold winter since the '80s. And money?? We had to work for it. Nobody gave it to us and I'll bet the rest of the older guys here have been working since about 12 or 13. Or even younger cause many of us started young with paper routes.

                 Ive actually gotten 911 calls from kids who would want their old man arrested cause he cracked them one for being a screwball.

               Can you guys imagine us calling the Police, way back when, cause the old man cracked us one?:lol :lol
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« Reply #104 on: November 15, 2007, 05:14:08 PM »
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When we were kids all we did was run and play ball. I remember loving Sundays because it was about the only night I could watch some television. Back then "Wild Kingdom" was the first and only nature show on TV. If you were lucky enough to have a color TV, and found a good enough spot for the antennas, you could also watch "The Wonderful World of Disney" on Sunday night in true color. Then you really had the cat by the hinds parts.

                      You guys remember watching Flash Gordon?? And all those other great shows? Boy, TV was TV back then and there was none of the gratuitous violence and sex in it.

                  And you'd never see a fat kid back then cause we never had any of these games and gadgets. All we had was bats and balls.

                 Any AH players in High School now have also never had a cold winter. We haven't had a truly cold winter since the '80s. And money?? We had to work for it. Nobody gave it to us and I'll bet the rest of the older guys here have been working since about 12 or 13. Or even younger cause many of us started young with paper routes.

                 Ive actually gotten 911 calls from kids who would want their old man arrested cause he cracked them one for being a screwball.

               Can you guys imagine us calling the Police, way back when, cause the old man cracked us one?:lol :lol


I'm only 36, Rich.  but all this applies to me as well.:aok
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