Things Kids of Today Wouldn't Recognize

We had an old doctor at our neighborhood clinic that still came out to the house...Dr. Lowry, a woman to boot. There were not as many woman doctors that I can recall. She was old when I remember her, and must have been a real ground breaker in medical school and her training. This was in the 70s.

Anyways when several of us, out of 6 children, had strep throat, she lined us up and got out the big silver penicillin syringe from her black bag for a shot in the rear end. Ouch, those really hurt. She didn't take any fussing or complaining.

One time my father told her that he was starting to show symptoms, and she got him in line and gave him a shot too for good measure. My mom still likes to tell that story.

 

You have succeeded in making feel old. Had the milkman deliver until I was 16-17 years old, cardboard sign for the dry cleaners, 3 A&Ws in the neighboringtowns where we would occasionally eat-a real treat, maybe one Sunday a month-with the tray on Dad's window.

 

Oh yeah, always dad's window!!

 

Do you remember the free 'baby beers' you could get for the young ones?

 

No I do not.
I do remember my favorite was the root beer float. Best part was the frozen foam/ice cream that formed on the top inside of the glass.

It was a treat to go there back then.

 

We had a woman doctor here from about 1940 to 1960. Earlier, a woman doctor graduated from the University of Manitoba with my Grandfather in 1904.

 

I keep a set in my tool box that gets used about every 5 years setting the valve lash (0.008” intake and 0.016” exhaust if I remember correctly) on my truck. On occasion I’ll check spark plug gaps but when in doubt throw them out on spark plugs.

 

I actually use them all the time setting valve lash.
90% of what I do has solid roller cams so this is a must have. I bet I have no less than 10 sets of them. Long , short , narrow , tapered , bent but I almost always go back to the same set like the ones pictured.

 

How about a diaper service and cloth diapers , I can vaguely recall that.
Don't think we had the diaper service but certainly had cloth diapers.

 

Our kids were born and raised up north over 150 miles from a big town or any type of discount store. So we mostly used cloth diapers. We certainly had no diaper service, but we got pretty efficient with the process. When I brought up cloth diapers to our daughter and son-in-law they did not seem too interested in learning more, other than a cursory introduction to the concept.

One thing they did, that I guess is pretty common nowadays, was to host a "diaper party" with the dad, his friends and male family members. Everyone brings food, drink, a card with fatherly parenting advice, and lots of packages of diapers. Man, after the haul I don't think they have had to buy any diapers yet, and their daughter is over 10 months old.

 

Yep, mom made our diapers. Wonderful dust cloths after you were potty trained. My mom said due to the mess and discomfort, she thinks kids potty trained earlier back then. Wasn't so convenient and now the child doesn't stay wet. My paternal grandfather owned his own milk truck and hauled milk (in the can). Few years ago met an old man that worked for my grandpa for a week. He said my grandpa could carry a can in each hand and swing each can one handed to the top of his truck. This guy said it took both of his arms and one leg to get one can to the top rack. Was good to hear a story about that grandpa.

 

Yea I started out my kids on cloth diapers. Made good burp rags also.

 

I would guess so............................ especially when they are loaded !!!!!!

 

For a while around the time I was born, my dad had a milk run. Had a 1960 Ford 600 stake body, would pick up about 100-120 cans from 10-12 farms after morning milking, take them to the creamery 30 miles away, and return before evening milking. My uncles did most of the driving, and he sold the run after a couple of years-the bulk tanks were on the way.

 

Another thing we were laughing about today at work

How about the old newspaper looking small books they would look at to check for bad credit cards where they would look up your number before they ran it over with the carbon paper receipts.

 

Speaking of garage doors, remember the one piece lifted on a cantilever type system?