Just in case you weren't feeling too old today ...

[cactusjack]

When I was little we used to go visit my grandmother on my father's side. She lived in a small farming community (Shelley) outside of Idaho Falls, ID. Her house was built in the early 1900's. It had no indoor plumbing until about 1967 or 68 when my dad and his brothers converted a bedroom into a bathroom for her. Prior to that, she had an outhouse. She had a cast iron woodburning stove in her kitchen that also served as her central heating system. It was eventually replaced with an electric stove and a gas heater. I remember she kept a roller washing machine on her back porch. In fact, we had a roller washing machine until I was maybe 4 or 5 and then my dad bought my mom a newfangled washer with a spin cycle. My mom kept the roller washer in our basement for years, I guess in case the fancy Whirlpool broke down.

[ringadingh]

Your grandmothers house sounds like our hunt camp. I like cooking on the wood stove, we do a 25lb turkey in it every year on opening day of moose season. And I actually don't mind the outhouse one bit either, I kind of like going outside and having a cigar, with the door wide open overlooking the lake. It makes me appreciate the great outdoors all the more.
The last couple years one of the guys brought up his satellite dish and a tv. We ran it off a generator and watched all the current movies at night.

[fish]

satellite dish and TV :-/ that sounds like roughing it :)

[Yellow Jacket]

50 years from now our grandkids will be doing the same thing.

It will be stuff like:

Remember when we had gas powered cars?

We used to have cell phones?

Had to actually go the the grocery store to get food and cook it at home sometimes?

Our computers were so slow and couldn't do very much?

The security lines at airports?

Grandpa actually rode a motorcycle?

The northern states and Canada had snow?

Remember all the cities that used to be on the coast before the oceans rose 200 feet?

Remember how rich the Mid-East countries were before the oil ran out?

[oledawg]

WHATABOUT them cold,cold outhouses that made ya constipated! ::)

[fish]

Originally Posted by Yellow Jacket

50 years from now our grandkids will be doing the same thing.

It will be stuff like:

Remember when we had gas powered cars?

We used to have cell phones?

Had to actually go the the grocery store to get food and cook it at home sometimes?

Our computers were so slow and couldn't do very much?

The security lines at airports?

Grandpa actually rode a motorcycle?

The northern states and Canada had snow?

Remember all the cities that used to be on the coast before the oceans rose 200 feet?

Remember how rich the Mid-East countries were before the oil ran out?

remember when California was a state before it sank in the ocean

[oledawg]

Originally Posted by fish

remember when California was a state before it sank in the ocean

I thought that was Jersey!

[phenrichs]

Originally Posted by cactusjack

Okay Bob, you just made me feel young.

My wife and I were talking about this the other day. We have 3 boys, 19, 25, and 27. They have never lived in a world without VCRs or CDs, they have never seen an analog clock in a car or on a stove, they have never seen a black and white television, they have never lived in a house without a microwave oven.

I bought my first "computer" in 1981. It was an Atari 800. They have always had a computer in the house.

They don't know what a leisure suit is, not that that's a bad thing. I'm sure if my dad hadn't passed away before they were born, they would know what a leisure suit looks like.

Alright dammit. I ain't old so I must have grown up either real poor or backwoods. I am only 31 and I can remember almost all this stuff. I was in middle school when we got our first microwave. I remember the my friends were the first in our school to get a vcr and it was HUGE. Ananlog clocks on the dash of cars all that stuff. My neighbor's dad was a milkman till they moved when I was 10. So am I old or did I grow up in the land that time forgot?

[chainsaw]

Well OP, South Dakota, HHHHMMMMMMMM.

[AlabamaNomadRider]

I'm so old I had forgotten all of those nice things. I remember listening to the radio at night while lying in bed. The station was WLS out of Chicago with Dick Biondi. Anyone ever listen to him? I also remember watching Dick Clark and American Bandstand.

[phenrichs]

I got one for ya, I don't remember this but my dad talks about it all the time....

One room school house. My dad went to one until what is now middle school and only then because the one room burnt down.

[Yellow Jacket]

Originally Posted by AlabamaNomadRider

I'm so old I had forgotten all of those nice things. I remember listening to the radio at night while lying in bed. The station was WLS out of Chicago with Dick Biondi. Anyone ever listen to him? I also remember watching Dick Clark and American Bandstand.

Man! We listened to WLS all the time in the late fifities and early sixties. They played all the latest Rock n Roll songs. It was great! I lived in southern Michigan back then. Of course, we usually had to wait until nightfall for the signal to get strong enough to pick it up.

I don't even listen to the radio now, nothing but junk that passes for music today.

[patmahoney]

Originally Posted by Ole Dawg

I just wonder how many of you remember ???
1-The Iceman - Pilot in Top Gun
2-The Breadman -
3-The Milkman - Delivers milk
4-The Eggman - John Lennon
5-The Huckster - Barrack Obama

::) And there Delivery by Horse drawn wagon! ;)

1-The Iceman - Pilot in Top Gun
2-The Breadman - ??
3-The Milkman - Delivers milk
4-The Eggman - John Lennon
5-The Huckster - Barack Obama