Do You Remember This?

[BigCiX]

 

[saptech]

i have relatives in PA (not amish) that had these till around late 1990'S, no running water or electricity. and used coal for heat and cooking, with a coal shute to the basement where they delivered it to.

I've used a few when growing up and we would visit relatives down South! I'm sure glad those days are over...

 

[saptech]

Ayeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

 

[chrlswltrs]

Amazing thinking I am only 31, and the technology we have today, yet I still remember most of the things on this thread....

 

[mikedt]

VTech Laser 310 "Color Computer" . A Hong Kong clone of the Tandy TRS-80.

 

[mikedt]

Now that looks just like the Xilinhot Bus Station toilet/washrooms.

i have relatives in PA (not amish) that had these till around late 1990'S, no running water or electricity. and used coal for heat and cooking, with a coal shute to the basement where they delivered it to.

I just spent a holiday in a grasslands village staying with friends, it's just like that there. They have electricity sometimes when they need it, which comes from a generator and the water comes from a well. Coal, wood or dried sheep manure for cooking and heatng in the winter.

 

[cwhatever]

LOL

 

[Seanette]

What is that?

 

[cwhatever]

What is that?

are you goofing?

 

[Seanette]

Nope, honestly do not know what that object is.

 

[MacFett]

Growing up we had one of those (and an outdoor shower made from wooden pallets and rubber mats from a printing press) until I was in middle school (late 80s).

What is that?

Morse code machine/telegraph

We didn't have a phone until I was in 4th or 5th grade, before that we had an intercom between our house and my uncles (1/8th of a mile away) and used Morse code on it.

 

[Seanette]

I'd honestly never seen a telegraph machine before, so thanks for the ID.

 

[cwhatever]

Growing up we had one of those (and an outdoor shower made from wooden pallets and rubber mats from a printing press) until I was in middle school (late 80s).



Morse code machine/telegraph

We didn't have a phone until I was in 4th or 5th grade, before that we had an intercom between our house and my uncles (1/8th of a mile away) and used Morse code on it.

i never had an outhouse but family in pa did. and never had cable till 2000's when i moved to fla. got my first cell in 2009 and was born in the 60's.

the telegraph, i thought i'd put up for fun and my neighbors in ct had party lines.

 

[MacFett]

never had cable till 2000's when i moved to fla.

My parents still don't have cable, they just got dial up earlier this year.

 

[cwhatever]

My parents still don't have cable, they just got dial up earlier this year.

sometimes i wish i never had all this technology? but then on another note i like it.

 

[saptech]

sometimes i wish i never had all this technology? but then on another note i like it.

I feel that way at times also. It seems like you end up leaving home with too much stuff to carry!

 

[cwhatever]

this was then.






this is what we use them for today!!!

 

[zuben el genub]

Washboards and Fels Naphtha soap worked pretty well.

 

[MacFett]

I have a wool doublet (vest) that I wear a bit and I have been looking for a washboard so I can clean it by hand.

 

[cwhatever]

I have a wool doublet (vest) that I wear a bit and I have been looking for a washboard so I can clean it by hand.

they are still everywhere, just not for the washing purpose anymore.

 

[saptech]

 

[saptech]

this was then.






this is what we use them for today!!!

Black Oak Arkansas with Jim Dandy playing the washboard...

 

[BigCiX]

 

[olbriar]

Oddly enough, I had one of these hanging in the kitchen as a child. No.. I'm old but not that old. My father loved antiques and wired one of his purchases into the bell system. You could not make a call on it but you could answer a call.
Our real phone looked very similar to this model and it set on a shelf in the hall. You had to stand there to talk.

 

[McBuzz]

I remember when I used to have 10-15 friends tops and we'd do stuff outside daily...now I have 500 on Facebook and indoors mostly... yep the future sure is friendly. Human interaction > fb anytime. I guess people forgot how to talk to each other.