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Page No 2594
29th
June 2019
1st Picture. The Goons
4th Picture.
1950’s Radiogram
Grandpa
Remembers
Thanks to Steve Timms for this:-
One evening a grandson was talking to his grandfather
about current events.
The grandson asked his grandfather what he thought
about the shootings at schools, stabbings in the streets, the computer age and
just things in general.
The Grandfather replied, "Well, let me think a
minute, I was born before the introduction of:
' television
‘transistor radios
' polio shots
' frozen foods
' Xerox
' contact lenses
' Frisbees and
' the pill
There were no:
' credit cards
' laser beams or
' very few ball-point pens only fountain pens
Man had not invented :
' pantyhose
' air conditioners
' dishwashers
' clothes dryers
' and the clothes were hung out to dry in the fresh
air and
' space travel was only in Flash Gordon books.
Your Grandmother and I got married first,.. and then we
lived together..
Every family had a father and a mother.
We were before gay-rights, computer-dating, Facebook
and Twitter, dual careers, day care centres, and group therapy.
Our lives were governed by good judgment, and a lot of
common sense. We were taught to know the difference between right and wrong and
live by it and to stand up and take responsibility for our actions.
Serving your country was a privilege; living in this
country was an even bigger privilege... We thought fast food was eating half a
biscuit while running to catch the school bus.
Having a meaningful relationship meant getting along
with your cousins and other relations.
Time-sharing meant time the family spent together in
the evenings and weekends-not going out and purchasing holiday homes
We never heard of FM radios, tape decks, CDs, electric
typewriters, yogurt, or guys wearing earrings and only sailors had tatoos.
We listened to Big Bands, the Goon Show, two or three
way Family Favourites and the Pick of the Pops on our radios
If you saw anything with 'Made in Japan ' on it, it
was automatically regarded as cheap and nasty.
The term 'making out' referred to how you did on your
school exam....
Pizza Hut, McDonald's, Costa , Kentucky Fried Chicken and
instant coffee were unheard of.
You could buy a brand new Ford Prefect for £310 ...
but who could afford one?
In my day:
' "grass" was mowed,
' "coke" was a cold drink,
' "pot" was something your mother cooked in
and
' "rock music" was your grandmother's
lullaby.
' "Aids" were helpers,
' "hardware" was found in a hardware store
and
' "software" wasn't even a word.
And we were the last generation to actually believe
that a lady needed a husband to have a baby.
No wonder people call us "old and confused"
and say there is a generation gap.
How old do you think I am?
I bet you have this old man in mind....you are in for
a shock!
Read on to see -- pretty scary if you think about it
and pretty sad at the same time .
Are you ready
?????
This Man Would Be Only 70 Years Old Today.
GIVES YOU SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT...
Peter
Stay in touch
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Maureen Writes:
One thing I would like to add to the list is
going to bed in daylight on a hot summer evening and listening to manual lawn
mowers and snipping shears as my parents and the neighbours tended their lawns.
There was something musical about manual lawn mowers and the perfume of newly
cut grass. Now all you get is, on Sunday mornings a succession of electric
mowers and strimmer’s blasting an unmelodic cacophony of constant noise and if
you are unlucky to live in an highly populated area, it can continue all day.
The attached list shows that a lot on your
list is still alive and kicking especially in the backwoods of Cornwall.
There are a lot of things we do not do
anymore, mainly because they do not exist and we have progressed. We do not grind our own flour, gather berries
and nuts or hunt meat, some people still do, but on the whole we pop into the
supermarket. I am sure Mr & Mrs
Neanderthal would love to pop into a supermarket, then they could spend their
day punching numbers on a computer, working in a warehouse, directing traffic
or nursing the sick.
Life doesn't stop it changes, take No 13
from your list - Carrying plenty of change for pay phone - I personally carry
plenty of change for car parking whilst on a day out.
No 8. Classified Ad or card in the shop
window - have you not looked at the boards in the local supermarket, they are
full of classified ads. It is not a window but it is still out there.
No 16. I know I am different but only the
other day I looked through my father's address book (he died in 1981) checking
which family member had lived in Reckleford whilst researching family tree
stuff. My own address book is used all
the time as it is quicker and easier that trying to access the information on
my computer.
No 17 I still carry a Road map book in my
car and when planning a journey always refer to it as the quickest method of
getting from A to B. I confess I am an avid Google Walker so before any holiday
I check out my location and walk routes that I may use whilst away. A couple of years ago I walked the length and
breadth of New Zealand on Google Maps following the trail of my daughter and
husband who were visiting NZ and Australia for 3 months. That is progress, 27 years ago I followed her
around Australia by map alone.
No21. Encyclopaedia, why wouldn't you have
an encyclopaedia, the older the better as things change so rapidly and
sometimes I need to know the old names of things. I read Roman and Greek
Mythology to my oldest daughter from
the encyclopaedias when she was a baby
because I never learnt anything like that at school and needed to know, some of
it may psychologically gone into her brain.
I also still refer to my father's atlas which he carried with him just
after the war and documented all the tours of duty during his naval
career. The boundaries of Africa and
Europe have changed so much in my lifetime.
No 25.
Use a dictionary, mine is always beside me in the study and in fact was
used twice this morning alone.
No32.
Buying CD's and collections. I
have a CD storage bureaux on the upstairs landing with everything in there from
Military Bands, Big Bands of the 40's,Classical and Pop from the 50's, 60's,
70's and 80's. I also carry a case full
in the car and they are rotated on a regular basis. My eldest has also recently loaned me a
collection of Jazz CD's.
No 34 Making Photo Albums - well I will
hold my hand up to that - Over the last 14 years, I have had 38 International
holidays and in latter years I have kept a diaries of places visited, things I
have done and seen and even to the foods I have eaten. These are now being put onto the computer and
photo's inserted from the files; but I also have proper photographs that were
taken at the time and they are being inserted into the printed sheets. I am making hard copies of these files so
when I am old and gaga I can look at the books and it might strike a
chord. It has been great reliving these
holidays this year whilst typing them up and I have been able to add after
thoughts and renewed memories. In the
last couple of days I have been typing up our school trip to Paris in 1961. It was my very first venture abroad and I
learnt a great deal from that holiday that has held me in good stead for all
the holidays that followed. I have copied some photo's from the Blog pages.
No 35
I have never been a techy, so yes I watch programmes as they are shown,
I know no other way and to be honest most of the programmes are rubbish so the
TV is on and I am busy crafting, writing or crocheting. If I don't get a free Licence at 75 the BBC
will probably get a flea in their ear and I will put the TV out to pasture. At
the moment it is company so I get a budgie instead.
No 36
I still dial 1471 especially if someone calls and hangs up before the
answer machine kicks in.
No 39 Yes, I know I am boring, but yes I
hand wash clothes and maybe that is why I am still wearing clothes that is over
20 years old. A quick dunk in warm soapy water is all it needs not 45 minutes
churning round in a metal drum and then being spun to death and baked in a
tumbler.
No 41 May a bit old for Love letters and no
one to send them too but I use to send poetry to my last amour. OK that was 25 years ago but if I had had a
fellow, do you think I would have had all of those international holidays?
No 42
Not quite hand written essay nowadays but I have note books by the side
of chair and bed side and when the fancy takes me I sit a write about my life
things that interests me or things that irritate me. Probably no one will ever read them but it
passes the time and makes me feel better, just like have a conversation with
someone.
No 44 You really shouldn't rely on a
computer to spell for you it can go horribly wrong. This is what dictionaries are for.
No 45
It isn't quite a diary, more of a calendar, I write things down to
remind me what I have planned for each day and the pages are held on the
refrigerator by magnets. My Diary is to carry for booking appointments, so that
when some says can you do something on
this or that day, I can say no I am cat sitting for Elaine, or Crafting with
the Gaolbirds or flying to Newcastle. It
is not written on a phone or computer or it buzzes when you really don't want
it to. Told you I am not a techy.
No 46.
Yes we send postcards. If I go
out for the day with one daughter, we always send a postcard to the other to
say we miss you, wish you were here etc. This has become a feature of days out
from my Mother, if she went off for the day she sent a postcard especially if
she went to Weymouth. I have a
collection of postcards showing the clock on Weymouth beach (bit of a family
thing) So when the girls and I went, maybe, shopping in Plymouth for the day we
would send Mum a postcard. If the girls
met up for the day they would send me a card and so it went on and still does.
No 48 Hang out washing in winter. Well
living in Cornwall our winters tend to be better than our summers so it is
normal to hang washing out providing it is well pegged. Cornwall is notorious
for high winds. One miss pegged tea towel could end up in Plymouth before you
had time to rescue it.
No 50
Cornwall lives and thrives on Car Boot sales. Do remember we are some 50 years behind them
up country. We still get the odd Jumble
sale down here.
No 66
I loved the I Spy books, and they
are available on Ebay for not a lot.
No 72 I can definitely rule out this
one. When I go to dinner with my eldest
daughter we always play Mathable before and after dinner (It's like Scrabble
but with numbers). If it is a long
evening we also play Kaluki with 2 packs of cards. When I am staying with the
younger daughter we always play Kaluki before and after dinner and just
recently she has been able to buy a Mathable board so we will be playing that
next time I go without a doubt. When I
go on holiday with either daughter or both we always pack 2 sets of cards to
play Kaluki and if we can find a 4th player we will play Euchre, but not a lot
of Euchre players around these days.
News and Views:
On this day 29th June
1960-1965
On 29/06/1960 the number one single was Three Steps to Heaven - Eddie Cochran and the number one album was
South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was No Hiding Place (AR) and the box office smash was Psycho. A pound of today's money was
worth £13.68 and Burnley were on the way to becoming
the Season's Division 1 champions. The big news story of the day was Ghana and Somalia to become republics.
On 29/061961 the number one single was Runaway - Del Shannon and
the number one album was South Pacific Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Harpers West One (ATV) and the box office smash was One Hundred and One Dalmations. A pound of today's money was worth £13.25 and Tottenham Hotspur were on the way to becoming the Season's
Division 1 champions.
On 29/06/1962 the number one single was Come Outside - Mike Sarne with Wendy Richard and the number one album was West Side Story Soundtrack. The top
rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was Lawrence of Arabia. A
pound of today's money was worth £12.89
and Ipswich Town were on the way
to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.
On 29/06/1963 the number one single was I Like It - Gerry & the Pacemakers and the number one album was Please Please Me - The Beatles. The
top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Great Escape. A pound of today's
money was worth £12.64 and Everton were on the way to becoming
the Season's Division 1 champions. The big news story of the day was Zip codes introduced in US
On 29/06/1964 the number one single was It's Over - Roy Orbison and the number one album was Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones.
The top rated TV show was Club Night
(BBC) and the box office smash was Dr Strangelove. A
pound of today's money was worth £12.24
and Liverpool were on the way to
becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.
On 29/06/1965
the number one single was I'm Alive - Hollies and the number one album was The Sound of Music
Soundtrack. The top rated TV show was Coronation Street (Granada) and the box office smash was The Sound of Music. A pound of today's money was worth £11.69 and Manchester
United were on the way to becoming the Season's Division 1 champions.
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