My husband was in the kitchen the other night teaching our 20 year old son and 18 year old daughter how to make popcorn. No, not the microwave stuff or even popcorn in a popper. They were learning how to make the real McCoy, from scratch in a pot. Can you believe they didn't know??!! They and their friends think it's fabulous, like our family knows a special secret!!
That started me reminiscing about the good ole days.
Future generations won't know what these are:
- phone booths
- cabooses
- Bonanza (Little Joe)
- drug store fountains and cherry phosphates
- party phone lines
- Leisure suits
- chains on tires in the winter
Okay, I'm dating myself and to tell you the truth I won't miss the party lines and chains, but still it's fun to remember back when.
If you forgot how to make real popcorn, here's how we make it:
- 2-3 T oil in a sturdy pot or pan (we use coconut oil)
- 1 T salt mixed into the oil
- 3 kernels of popcorn
- cover the pot and turn it to high
- once the kernels pop, add a thin layer of popcorn
- cover, gently shake until the popping noise stops, then remove
- add butter and more salt (optional)
And silos. I don't see many anymore. What else will our kids and their kids miss out on?
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I was shocked when I gave my niece a birthday card and she looked puzzled at what I'd signed. "What does this say? I can't read cursive" she said.
I blinked. "It says: Happy Birthday, Amanda."
"Oh."
I had no idea they only teach kids to print. How are they going to sign contracts, checks, etc?
There are still silos all over Virginia, in particular a great silo converted into a honeymoon suite at Kelly's Ford Bed and Breakfast in Remmington, Virginia.
I'm almost 30 and I remember the days when there was no internet. I graduated highschool without having known what "IM" or "blog" was.
The movies I enjoyed as a child were free of cell phones unless you count "Coming to America" in which they were huge.
My great grandma had a rotary phone.
In 2000 I bought a caller ID for the house because it wasn't just a standard.
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My cousin's daughter was amazed with 45 records, vinyl albums and eight track tapes.
How about the old typewriters (manual) with all the messy ribbons?!
Sometimes, it freaks me out to think of how far we have come in just a few decades.
oh, ick, carbon paper. Thankfully that's in our past.
My daughter prints. I thought that was weird. I didn't know schools were teaching them that way!
Rotary phones. We used to dial with a pencil to protect our long fingernails.
My kids are still fairly young and learned cursive. The printing must be a really new thing!
Real answering machines are becoming obsolete too. Seems everyone has voice mail these days. And how long will VCRs last?
Our youngest daughter (now 25) thought carbon paper was the coolest thing ever, the first time she saw it. "You can make a copy at the same time you type or write the original? That is SO COOL!" heh
And I'm delighted to say that Butt Drugs (I am not making that up) in our little town of Corydon, Indiana, still makes cherry phosphates. :)
I had a party line when I was a kid. I think that means something different now.
I love silos. And old barns.
I used to TA for my FHA adviser and all her copies were made off a sheet that you typed the material on and then ran it through this machine that made copies. I hated making mistakes because I had to start all over. I can't remember what it was called.
Boy, I lived in Indiana for 15 years but somehow missed that town and Butt Drugs. I'll have to remind myself next time I'm back there.
Ohhhh, and please let's not let leisure suits come back. They were ugly even then. --shudder--
This was a fun post, Deb! i bet our kids won't know what a typewriter is. Everything will be computers. Heck, they might not know what stationary is. I remember getting stationary as a gift every birthday. This post makes me want to go out, buy an old tire, and set up a tire swing. Just to have a timeless plaything in the yard...
Hey...don't knock leisure suits...my hubby wore his for our wedding and I thought he looked pretty handsome in it :o)
How about Howdy Doody, Ben Casey, Dr. Marcus Welby, I Love Lucy, and 15 cent a gallon gas...drive in theatres......those were the good old days.
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