WOW! - The Year 1905

[Soldier4Christ]

I rememer the first Supermarket too, it was A&P. I really preffered going to the meat market, the fruit and vegetable market, and the old general store, oh and I almost forgot the delicatessan, I remember the cheese and salami hanging from the ceilings and I remember they used sawdust on the floor and it was always cold in there but I didn't like the poultry store across the street, (talk about RANK). I used to cover my mouth and nose every time my mom told me to go buy chicken. And I remember the penny candy (yum) mary janes were big and they had a lot of filling. I kinda mis those days. I remember our first TV it had a screen that was about 6 inches. And my mom used to listen to the soap operas on the radio. LOL

Our first supermarket was called Paul's. Until then all of our meat came from the farm. We didn't use the meat market as my mother didn't like going there. The same with the cheese and salami store, all straight from the farm. Our first TV was a 12" round b&w screen.

The good ole days.

[airIam2worship]

Our first supermarket was called Paul's. Until then all of our meat came from the farm. We didn't use the meat market as my mother didn't like going there. The same with the cheese and salami store, all straight from the farm. Our first TV was a 12" round b&w screen.

The good ole days.

Of course they were black and whit PR. 
Our second TV was a round screen too. I used to think the people on tv could see us too, (ahh innocense * sigh*).

[Soldier4Christ]

The first motorized vehicle I road in. It belonged to my grandpa.




He took me fishing in it all the time.

[Soldier4Christ]

This was one of his many Model A's. I'm not sure if I road in this particular one or not.

[Shammu]

Of course they were black and whit PR. 
Our second TV was a round screen too. I used to think the people on tv could see us too, (ahh innocense * sigh*).

I remember our first TV. It was black and white, about 20 inches.  Course that was in 1968 we finally got a TV.

[Soldier4Christ]

I remember our first TV. It was black and white, about 20 inches.  Course that was in 1968 we finally got a TV.

In 1968 we had our second color tv it was a Zenith floor model. That was one year before I joined the Navy.

[Shammu]

In 1968 we had our second color tv it was a Zenith floor model. That was one year before I joined the Navy.

Just rub it in P.R. Course we were not very well off. That TV, I bought with money from my paper route. I can remember riding my bike everywhere.  And here kids today have to ride in cars, to deliver the paper.

[Soldier4Christ]

Just rub it in P.R. Course we were not very well off. That TV, I bought with money from my paper route. I can remember riding my bike everywhere.  And here kids today have to ride in cars, to deliver the paper.

 

I had to walk my paper route and to and from the lawns I mowed and raked. I didn't have a bike. 

[Shammu]

I mowed lawns too.

I had to walk my paper route and to and from the lawns I mowed and raked. I didn't have a bike. 

Thats how I bought my bike.

[Soldier4Christ]

I mowed lawns too.Thats how I bought my bike.

All mine went for clothes and church events.

[Shammu]

All mine went for clothes and church events.

I was expected to pay, 50% for my clothing.

[livingbyfaith]

  How do you do a quote?  I forgot how. 

Re: WOW! - The Year 1905

You had this old lady stumped.  I don't think any of you were born yet in 1905!!!  I wasn't even born yet.  I remember the 50's tho.

My family didn't have a TV but my neighbor did.  It was exciting when they asked us over to see theiir 7 " one---black and white of course---in 1948.  What did we watch?  WRESTLING!!!!  The mother did a lot of yelling at the wrestlers.
She shocked me when she yelled: "Break off his arm and hit him over the head with the bloody stump"  Violent, wasn't she?

We had an ice man but he used a beat up truck.  One day he used it for ice.  Another time he was the rag man.  This was earlier than the '50's, though.  We liked the ice man and followed him.  He would give us pieces of ice. 

We were scared of the rag man (two personalities)  "Any rags; old iron" was his call.  When we heard that, the neighbor twins and I ran into their house and ducked behind the couch until he was gone.  When we were "bad" (not me!!!) we were threatened that we would be given to the rag man.

Those were the days.  Just an old timer, Joan

[nChrist]

Hello LivingByFaith,

Sister Joan, I was just thinking again about how nice it is to have you with us. I just looked at your profile and see that you have listed 75 as your age. I'm almost sure that you win the honors for being either our oldest members or one of our oldest members. We have many members who don't list their age.

I applaud you for doing all of this new-fangled Internet stuff. It's very nice to have a mature and strong Christian woman participating on Christians Unite. We do have quite a few grandparents on the forum, but most of us are 15 years or more younger than you are. Again, I applaud you for becoming involved, and it makes me happy to be able to talk with a strong Christian woman with your wisdom and maturity.

I'll  simply say that I give thanks for you being here, and I sincerely hope that you are enjoying Christians Unite. Sister Joan, I hope you don't mind me asking you to take a look in the "Women Only" area of the forum. There are many Christian women on the forum with a variety of very difficult problems. I was just thinking how wonderful it would be if you would help some of them from time to time.

Sister Joan, please let me tell you one more time how much we enjoy having you with us. I try to make it a point to read all of your posts because I enjoy them and recognize them as coming from a very sweet and mature Christian.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Romans 5:17-18 NASB  For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.  So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.

[Soldier4Christ]

Hi livingbyfaith,

I just want to say that I agree with Brother Tom's sentiments. I have read many of your posts and it is indeed great to have you here.

No most of us weren't here in 1905 but as in most places here in the U.S. there are some areas that are quite a ways behind the times. I have been to some areas that do not have the capability to have TV yet, cable or over-the-air. I remember a rag man still in 1956. Only the one we had was a pretty nice man. He also did metal collecting in addition to the rags as well as firewood. He also drove an old beatup Ford truck.



 

[Shammu]

And now, some sad news from 1905.

1905 Bloody Sunday Massacre in Russia

Well on its way to losing a war against Japan in the Far East, czarist Russia is wracked with internal discontent that finally explodes into violence in St. Petersburg in what will become known as the Bloody Sunday Massacre.

Under the weak-willed Romanov Czar Nicholas II, who ascended to the throne in 1894, Russia had become more corrupt and oppressive than ever before. Plagued by the fear that his line would not continue—his only son, Alexis, suffered from hemophilia—Nicholas fell under the influence of such unsavory characters as Grigory Rasputin, the so-called “mad monk.” Russia’s imperialist interests in Manchuria at the turn of the century brought on the Russo-Japanese War, which began in February 1904. Meanwhile, revolutionary leaders, most notably the exiled Vladimir Lenin, were gathering forces of socialist rebellion aimed at toppling the czar.

To drum up support for the unpopular war against Japan, the Russian government allowed a conference of the zemstvos, or the regional governments instituted by Nicholas’s grandfather Alexander II, in St. Petersburg in November 1904. The demands for reform made at this congress went unmet and more radical socialist and workers’ groups decided to take a different tack.

On January 22, 1905, a group of workers led by the radical priest Georgy Apollonovich Gapon marched to the czar’s Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to make their demands. Imperial forces opened fire on the demonstrators, killing and wounding hundreds. Strikes and riots broke out throughout the country in outraged response to the massacre, to which Nicholas responded by promising the formation of a series of representative assemblies, or Dumas, to work toward reform.

Internal tension in Russia continued to build over the next decade, however, as the regime proved unwilling to truly change its repressive ways and radical socialist groups, including Lenin’s Bolsheviks, became stronger, drawing ever closer to their revolutionary goals. The situation would finally come to a head more than 10 years later as Russia’s resources were stretched to the breaking point by the demands of World War I.