WOW! - The Year 1905

[airIam2worship]

  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

Sister Joan I remember the 50's, I tell you we had a rag man too I forgot all about him I was scared to death of him of him (to this day I don't know what he did with all the rags).

[airIam2worship]

Sister Joan I remember the 50's, I tell you we had a rag man too I forgot all about him I was scared to death of him of him (to this day I don't know what he did with all the rags).

I think this is what he looked like

[livingbyfaith]

I wrote a thank you all for teh kind words and lost it.  I won't even try to repeat it all.  Thanks again.

                            I would like to know how to get some neat graphics like you have,

I enjoy this site.  I'll be posting more after I get my stuff in better order.  I send to about 20 sites.  I'm trying to keep record of where I send what to so I don't sent the same one twice.

I did put a few things on the women only section.  Some pretty tough stuff.  I hope it will help others.  Main reason I am writing as God wants me to do.

Love you all with God's love, just me, the old lady turned 16!  Joan

P.S.  I tried to answer but I lost it sooooooooooooooooo.

[Soldier4Christ]

That's alright sister, I understand completely.

Some of the graphics we have here are made by some individuals here. Others are gotten off the interent. I use the google image search to get some. A few of those I modify before I use them.

[Willowbirch]

In some ways I think it has been a decrease in knowledge. Many of the young people don't know how to handle things in order to survive if the power goes off.

Except for us Y2K fanatics. We have enough red wheat berries, navy beans, corn, milk, oats, rye, etc. to get us through at least a couple years without electric...we have a BOS (spelling?) radio, you wind it up and it plays for hours...lots of sheet plastic...a hand-pump in the basement for all of our water needs...two huge mop buckets (with wringers) for washing and wringing clothes...a hand-powered washing machine (tiny, but serviceable)...meat animals...lots and lots and lots of shampoo  ...antibiotics...lists and lists of what can be eaten in case of food shortage, and how to cook it (worms go down easier with kool-aid)...generator...clothesline...hand-powered coffee grinder (can't live without coffee, right? LOL)...and all kinds of other things that take up a whole lot of room in the basement...

[Willowbirch]

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.
 

There was a 'rag man' here in my community, he passed away about six years ago...he called himself "Old Orangey", and he collected junk metal. I only saw him once, he was a friendly old black man.

[Willowbirch]

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

I don't know what year our Zenith was (80s, I think), but it was a wonderful memory; every week, Dad inevitably said, "Wow, look at that color!" The Zenith died about two years ago, and we now have a new "Philips energy star" that makes wierd roars and hisses and won't let us watch our favorite shows. Now, instead of "look at that color!", Dad says, "I never knew TVs did that until we got this one..."

[airIam2worship]

I don't know what year our Zenith was (80s, I think), but it was a wonderful memory; every week, Dad inevitably said, "Wow, look at that color!" The Zenith died about two years ago, and we now have a new "Philips energy star" that makes wierd roars and hisses and won't let us watch our favorite shows. Now, instead of "look at that color!", Dad says, "I never knew TVs did that until we got this one..."

Be careful Willow don't sit directly in front of that tv. 

[Soldier4Christ]

I wouldn't be in the same room with it.

[airIam2worship]

I wouldn't be in the same room with it.

or the same house for that matter 

[Willowbirch]

Don't worry about me...

[airIam2worship]

Don't worry about me...

    
There ya go