h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well thats good to know Jazz'd.You had me worried for a minute then. Love Pinky xxx

Pinky luv, I worry Myself sometimes!

I know EXACTLY what you mean hahahaha Love Pinky xxx

Ah I feel bad for smurfles.
She is feeling down

Smurfles I am sorry I have not been available by phone too much. In the early evening and weekends the workers have been here again.
I have thought of you.

I do not have caller ID so I do not know if you have tried me. Please feel free to if you are up for it. Next week should be quieter because they are almost done!

Awwww,ABBI,.I did try to ring my friend,my e-mails are playing up for some reason,I am feeling better,and relaxing lots(think that means i'm been lazy),but it sounds better.
I,ll give you a ring next week,when the workmen are less noisy.Thanks for thinking of me.Hope you're having a good few weeks!!!xx

In 1953 The US population was less than 150 million.. Yet you knew more people then, and knew them better... And that was good.

( our city is 2.4 million now)

The average annual salary was under $3,000... Yet our parents could put some of it away for a rainy day and still live a decent life... And that was good

A loaf of bread cost about 15 cents... But it was safe for a five-year-old to skate to the store and buy one... And that was good.

Prime-Time meant I Love Lucy, Ozzie and Harriet, Gunsmoke and Lassie.. Sonobody ever heard of ratings or filters... And that was good.

We didn't have air-conditioning.. So the windows stayed up and half a
dozen mothers ran outside when you fell off your bike... And that was good.

Your teacher was either Miss Matthews or Mrs. Logan or Mr. Adkins... But not Ms Becky or Mr. Dan... And that was good.

The only hazardous material you knew about... Was a patch of grassburrs around the light pole at the corner... And that was good.

You loved to climb into a fresh bed... Because sheets were dried on the clothesline... And that was good.

People generally lived in the same hometown with their relatives.. So
"child care" meant grandparents or aunts and uncles... And that was good.

Parents were respected and their rules were law.... Children did not talk back..... and that was good.

TV was in black-and-white... But all outdoors was in glorious color....And that was certainly good.

Your Dad knew how to adjust everybody's carburetor... And the Dad next door knew how to adjust all the TV knobs.. And that was very good.

Your grandma grew snap beans in the back yard... And chickens behind the garage... And that was definitely good.

And just when you were about to do something really bad... Chances were you'd run into your Dad's high school coach... Or the nosy old lady from up the street... Or your little sister's piano teacher... Or somebody from Church.... ALL of whom knew your parents' phone number... And YOUR first name... And even THAT was good!

remember Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys,
Laurel & Hardy, Abbott & Costello, Sky King, Little Lulu comics, Brenda Starr, Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk as well as the sound of a real mower on Saturday morning, and summers filled with bike rides, playing cowboy, playing hide and seek and kick-the-can and SimonSays, baseball games, amateur shows at the local theater before the Saturday matinee, bowling and visits to the pool...and eating Kool-Aidpowder with sugar, and wax lips and bubblegum cigars

Ah! we almost lost this thread again!!!

Now that would be a shame
I was saying on another thread recently, how we used to be able to buy screws & nails ect lose by the Pound (thats Lbs to our generation)
in the good old days. Not wrapped away in a plastic bubble on a big sheet of cardboard!!
They even charge us a lot more for buying that way

Does anyone else recall any other items that we used to buy lose like that??

Ive still got a small drawer full of nuts & bolts that I bought years ago!
I think I paid £1.70 for half a pound (Lbs) of them. (about 50 in all)

Recently I saw a "packet" of them, with around 10 inside, being sold for £3+

Ah! well, thats progress
Smudger,

i still convert the prices from decimal smudger,and everythings SO expensive now!!!As for those plastic bubble things,how do they expect us ,with our arthritis,to get into the things.I always end up with a p[air of scissors....the grandchildren just tear them open!!!!

I always end up tearing these type of packaged things up as well
then you find the correct place to open as it lands in the bin

Anyone else thought of anything we used to be able to buy lose????
Smudger,

candy

cigarettees

Ah! yes Abbi, I can remember that All the sweets (candy) was in kept in big jars on the counter, and they would weigh them out for you

I can remember buying cigarettes two at a time when I used to sneak away and have a smoke while taking our dig out for a walk
Smudger,

I remember always could get a free ruler from the hardware store.
They might be 6-8 or 12 inches but often complementry. The yard sticks you had to buy.

My favourite thread is slipping off the bottom of my page.Hope everyone is well.Hope this thread stays alive ! Love Pinky xxxx

Hi Pinky
How is life treating you?
Been a bit slow but this thread will stay around for a long time to come.

Hi there pinky,abbi.I had noticed the thread was dissappearing,along with lots of friendsThanks for reviving it.I shall have to post more,but the site has been so quiet i have posted odd comments to others,and turned off again.Today was lovely,there were lots of postings to read,and now i'm running late with lunchIt's cheered up my day !!!!Lovely to "see" you both!

Its funny really, but this thread is the one that brought all my Snippets back to my memory!
It was while I was thinking back to put some thing in this thread that brought them all back

OK Who remembers the very first "transister radios"
I know Im ing, but thats only because I actually found mie the other day while looking through some drawers for torch batteries

It is a small "Sanyo" in a little leather pouch, with a small pouch on it for the head phones that came with it
Smudger,

Hi all... s es...
Been ages since I've been in here... How is everyone????
I remember the transistor radios, not sure bout first ones tho'.....I still say "wireless" at times, but got that from mam n dad...
And I still refer to the street lights as gas lights... Can just about remember the last ones around here in the 60's as a nipper...

My hubby always cals them wirelesses too!!!The grandchildren asked what a wireless was.Who remembers listening to radio luxembourg,and then radio caroline???Iuse to enjoy them both,now i never think of listening to music much,it's the television ,although we have stacks of cd's !!!The t v's just another face in the house!!!!How boring is that!!!s

Hi Sal...
I remember Luxemborge more than Caroline I think....
And who knows the first ever record to be played on radio one?????