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Things Kids of Today Wouldn't Recognize

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  1. yooperdave

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    There ya go! Good one!

    There was this version of stilts also.

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    Backwoods Savage you mentioned above that "When I was a kid unfortunately I was born into a poor family."

    I think this is what made us what we are today. Strong core values, beliefs, standards etc. :handshake:
     
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    Mine were 2x2 with 2x4 block screwed on for the foot step, Dad kept moving the foot steps higher and higher for me, loved those things!!
     
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    I remember because my brothers finally caught up with me on walking on them (although they could not go as far) I then started making taller ones and taller ones. But it got to where I could no longer cut a tree because as they got strong enough so they would not bend then they were just too heavy. I can still hear, "You're going to break your neck!" when I was trying out the tall ones. But what fun that was!
     
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    She made it up all the way to a foot off the ground............................:rofl: :lol::rofl: :lol::thumbs:
     
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    yes stilts use to make them, getting on well then fall off.
     
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    It’s an interesting thought. I was explaining to my US History students a couple years ago how mail order catalogs like Sears and Roebuck were such a big deal 100 years ago, but how brick and mortar stores, malls, etc sort of put and end to the catalog shopping. Then I explained the irony of how the internet and companies like Amazon are now impacting the brick and mortar stores. Amazon is basically the modern version of the Sears and Roebuck catalog.


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    Records are apparently coming back into fashion. How many of us got rid of the old things when cassettes were popular and now they are gone as well?
     
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    Not sure if these have been mentioned or not so if they have, please overlook as there are 34 pages in this thread. Today's kids don't recognise the following either:

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    They also don't recognise this either:

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    This one is right on page one but deserves a re-post.
     
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    You are so right there.

    And how many anymore remember the days before shopping centers? Before super grocery stores?

    How many remember the days before you had to pump your own gas? Shoot, they'd even check your oil too before washing your windshield. Amazing.
     
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    Sure do remember them. Our neighborhood grocery was Hawkins Market. All the neighborhood kids got their first job there. Mr. Hawkins always hired neighborhood kids.
    Talk about costumer service. Mr. Hawkins was always piddling around the main aisle greeting costumer by their names. If the customer asked where something was, Mr. Hawkins would take them or call the nearest empoyee he saw. "Take Mrs. Such and Such to get Band-Aids." You didn't dare say, "Aisle 8, half ways down on the left lower shelf." You took them back to the Band-Aids, put them in their cart and asked if there was anything else they needed. You quickly learned or you got reamed out.
    I do remember vividly having your gas pumped. We still have a station in town that will pump your gas.
    If these stores that brag they have excellent costumer service nowadays only knew how it was back in the '60s.
     
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    Backwoods Savage jarred memory cell.
    How many remember these.

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    The gas station was one place I remember that issued them. Don't stand in the way of Mom's green stamps.
    You would put them in a book and redeem full books for stuff.
     
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    we had them over here, call green shield stamps.
     
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    Ah yes, and the Ethyl gas too. Many would not buy a large car because they had to burn Ethyl and that cost 2-4 cents more per gallon.
     
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