tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31669215.post8380111428544349669..comments2024-02-02T12:19:39.504-07:00Comments on V for Victory!: Tempus FugitAnita Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305092097247290243noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31669215.post-55553283673884433162011-12-29T00:53:30.112-07:002011-12-29T00:53:30.112-07:00Mandatory for second and third class in 1967. But ...Mandatory for second and third class in 1967. But everyone was using them for first class mail by then because without them mail was taking so much longer.Banjo pickin girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06493740689193609149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31669215.post-40467710064233286452011-12-28T18:08:23.904-07:002011-12-28T18:08:23.904-07:00Yep, I was born after ZIP codes started, but I don...Yep, I was born after ZIP codes started, but I don't think they were absolutely required in the beginning. They may have been by the time I was old enough to start sending mail.Anita Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11305092097247290243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31669215.post-17213937880360595852011-12-28T18:04:23.871-07:002011-12-28T18:04:23.871-07:00ZIP code stands for Zoning Improvement Plan, I rem...ZIP code stands for Zoning Improvement Plan, I remember when they started in 1963. You must be a lot younger than I am.Banjo pickin girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06493740689193609149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31669215.post-26573253368416630992011-12-28T17:43:36.429-07:002011-12-28T17:43:36.429-07:00Okay, added a section on rotary phones.Okay, added a section on rotary phones.Anita Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11305092097247290243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31669215.post-19805589198990329692011-12-28T17:25:52.762-07:002011-12-28T17:25:52.762-07:00Ah, yes. We never had telephone exchange names in...Ah, yes. We never had telephone exchange names in my area, at least as far back as I can recall (though apparently some still survived into the '70s). However, I do remember when the area code for all of Los Angeles was 213. Then in the mid-'80s, the San Fernando Valley's area code became 818. Now I believe the area code for Reseda, where I lived, is 747.<br /><br />And ZIP codes: we always had ZIP codes, but they must not have been mandatory when I was a kid: I remember seeing television commercials encouraging the use of ZIP codes.Anita Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11305092097247290243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31669215.post-24785367097344736932011-12-28T17:12:35.915-07:002011-12-28T17:12:35.915-07:00Webcor reel to reel with Magic Eye level meter.
P...Webcor reel to reel with Magic Eye level meter.<br /><br />Phone number that started with words.<br /><br />No zip codes.<br /><br />The first Instamatic camera with single flash bulbs, not cubes.<br /><br />The first touch tone phone didn't work right in 1965 and we never had one again until the 1980's. My AT&T 100 phone has a "pulse" switch.<br /><br />The first answering machine with a wax cylinder (NOT REALLY, JUST KIDDING)Banjo pickin girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06493740689193609149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31669215.post-59970609001419921822011-12-28T13:43:00.230-07:002011-12-28T13:43:00.230-07:00Speaking of party lines, it seems they still exist...Speaking of party lines, it seems they still exist even today in isolated places. I can remember other kids talking about party lines when I was in grade school, but we weren't on one. I still remember our phone number; in fact, there is a law firm in Boise that uses that exact same number as a fax line (different area code, of course)!<br /><br />We had a TV in a fancy wooden cabinet that my father got as a Christmas bonus at work. There was also a black and white TV in the house for many years. And I, too, spent a lot of time reading actual books (and still do)!Anita Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11305092097247290243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31669215.post-28512145036116589392011-12-28T12:13:18.831-07:002011-12-28T12:13:18.831-07:00I was going to mention reel - reel and rotary phon...I was going to mention reel - reel and rotary phones, but Old Bob beat me to it. We had a party line phone, and our number was 186. <br />The first album I bought was the Beatles "Rubber Soul". We didn't have a TV until I was 15, and my dad, who hated commercials, rigged up a couple of wires (long enough to reach the couch)to a toggle switch to mute the volume - in effect, the first remote control! <br />We were too poor to buy many toys, so we played outdoors year round, also spent a lot of time reading (gasp) real books.Shirleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15454110560303310751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31669215.post-71670608530086673632011-12-28T10:59:47.382-07:002011-12-28T10:59:47.382-07:00Bob, I remember some of those things you mention t...Bob, I remember some of those things you mention too. My mother had a reel-to-reel tape recorder, and we also had rotary dial phones. (How could I forget rotary dial phones: I spent enough time on them as a kid!)Anita Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11305092097247290243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31669215.post-55600579878342615292011-12-28T07:05:30.901-07:002011-12-28T07:05:30.901-07:00WELL DONE, Anita!
I'm positively paleolithic ...WELL DONE, Anita!<br /><br />I'm positively paleolithic myself, born in 1944, grew up during the Cold War, remember (vaguely of course) the Korean War. All during the 50s, the constant threat was the Soviet Union and atom bombs. I can remember how perturbed people were when the "Commies" put up Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, in 1957. Even as late as 1961 and 1962, we had evacuation drills.<br /> <br />I was 18 at the time of the Cuban missile crisis, 19 and in the work force when President Kennedy was assassinated, 20 when the Beatles first came to the USA, and the last election I was too young to vote in was Goldwater-Johnson in 1964. Johnson ran on a peace platform and then in the spring of 1965 "escalated" the war in Vietnam. I was called for service but flunked the physical.<br /><br />Tape recorders were 7" reel-to reel; besides the 33-13 rpm LP's, popular records were 45rpm and there were still some 78rpm's around, all monophonic of course. My parents' first TV was black and white in a wooden console. Programming started about 6 am and ended at midnight with the national anthem. (Fancy that!)<br /> <br />All phones were rotary-dial land lines, and my parents had a party line. House had a coal-fired furnace, which was converted to gas about 1952 or 1953. The only powered appliance my mom had was her electric mixer, and we argued over who got to lick the beaters.<br /><br />All kid games were played outside, except for pencil-and-paper games like battleships and hangman.<br /><br />I had 12 years of Catholic education =>before Vatican II<=. I served many a predawn Mass, in Latin, starting in 1955; we were expected to have the Mass memorized and =>understand<= what we were saying (Petrum et Paulum vs. Petro et Paulo). (Ramble: at Christmas Eve Mass I didn't have a copy of the new correct translation of the Credo so I recited it in Latin.)<br /><br />I started working with mainframe computers in 1975. Now, one of my neighbors has a phone-computer which he says has more power than the system that put the guys on the moon in 1969. The first four-function calculator I ever saw, in 1964, was in the U of MN engineering bookstore for $100. I didn't have a pocket-size portable radio until 1968.<br /><br />There are so many things common then that have disappeared, and so many things common now that weren't even dreamed of when I was young.<br /><br />And I could go on forever about what seems the complete flipflop of manners and morals in the last fifty years.<br /><br />THANK YOU SO MUCH!!Old Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01678341854029479678noreply@blogger.com