Picture The Poster !

Calzone - I cannot imagine the changes you will see by the time you are my age! Makes me nostalgic - starts my "remembery" going!

When I was growing up, there were no passenger jets, and no internet. If a department store was air conditioned, they advertised the fact on their store windows in large block letters with snow dripping from them.

Telephones were tied to the wall and you either talked to the operator to make a call (gave her the name of the person you were calling) or used the rotary dial (which was considered "new fangled"). My phone number in Dallas was 4 digits. There were no area codes or zip codes. Our phone was called a party line, because 4 families used it. We had to wait to use the phone until the line was clear.

School dances were sock hops. The dance our parents thought should be outlawed was The Bop.

I had a job which included being able to copy documents. I was taught to use a wet copier. First the document was exposed to light against paper which served as a negative. Then that page was placed on another sheet an immersed in a liquid developer. The 2 sheets were then pulled together through a wringer, separated, then the sheet with the copy was laid out to dry.

We would have air raid drills at school learning how to protect ourselves from a blast from an atomic bomb. At the signal, we would go into the halls and kneel facing the wall and place our hands over the back of our neck.

Even though I was quite young, I remember my job during the war. I was told to take the tin cans into the street and stomp on them to flatten them for pick up. I was told that they would be made into tanks. I also was assigned a job of working in our Victory Garden. I remember wave after wave of airplanes flying over my house in formation - P-38s and B-29s.

I remember going to the train station and watching the troop trains leaving.

I remember listening to the radio: The Lone Ranger; The Shadow; Sky King; Fibber McGee; Walter Winchell; Amos and Andy...and many more.

Sorry to rattle on...senility has its benefits!

And thank you for your kind words!

Lovely cat, MrPink2018, and thanks for sharing!




I'm 33 and we did the same thing in school. I suppose it still coincided with the final years of the Cold War, though. I never understood exactly how the procedure would help in the event of an atomic bomb being detonated nearby.

Love this photo!

It was to give the children something to do to keep their mind off the events, an anti-freakout measure. Most of us didn't realize just what would happen in a nuclear blast, most folks still don't. Do you? I had to learn to load nukes on airplanes, not as "dangerous" as opined, unless in the 1.5-3 mile blast zone....then the rads get ya after 5-10 miles. The danger is the fallout from the cloud and wind currents, otherwise you will not care for long. It's the biologics and chemicals that scare me more!

thanks pete & spruett. I'm not much to look at but the cat is beautiful.

I was disappointed, as well. With Lindor, J-Ram and the pitching, I expected at least one win. I do expect them to be even better next year, though.




Not for me...yet.

Yeah ,I guess I'm a little older than you Cameron . Started coin collecting when I was a little younger than you ( 14 )