A picture from the Past.
For Today:
You TYPISTS
remember typing documents with multiple carbon copies. REMEMBER fixing a mistake or adding a change
someone thought of AFTER you typed. Man
oh Man word processing is an answer to prayer.. LOL
Once at
a Real Estate closing, the contract had a small error in it. The attorney had
her secretary change it and printed a corrected one and 6 copies. It took less
than 3 minutes. There was a time the
entire contract had to be retyped because corrections were not allowed on contracts.
She
was so relieved when daddy got her a ‘wringer washing machine.’ I was about 4
yrs old the first time I got my fingers caught in the wringer rollers, OUCH! I
never did again. Now how wonderful it is to have a washer and dryer, no clothes
to ‘hang on the line!
Most
folks my age remember a pot belly stove in the living room and a wood stove
‘range’ in the kitchen. Two heated rooms in a home. Lots of those heavy quilts
to cover you in the cold Bedrooms. Everyone
hated to use the cold chamber pot after you were warm under those quilts.
Central heat was a dream come true.
When A/C’s
first came out, only the well-off folks had them. NO Schools I attended were blessed
with cool air, we had big fans on a stand to circulate the air.
Down
South especially, I watched school busses pass our school taking the black kids
to their school. I was never fortunate enough to be in an integrated school.
Before school my best friends were ‘colored’.
I am glad I did not see them have to go to separate schools. We moved to
the city at my first grade. Like it or not, integration was a very good thing.
I remember the phone when we had party lines and the operator asked, “Number Please?”
BUT this old man does not like learning the GREAT changes I must LEARN when we get a NEW phone. LOL I am sure my grandkids like those upgrades, but the changes have out-distanced my mental abilities, mostly!
NiteShipslog
PS: Once again ‘Thanks’
AGAIN to y’all for stopping by the Shipslog..
Life is getting better here. Except the new phone!!
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5 comments:
I remember mommy and her wringer machine. She got into the wringers once and I just unplugged the machine 1st thing. I remember the potbelly stove..as you said, the well off, haha ..we must have been the poorest in town, we were always last to have things.Now for new techy things..omg... first of all the world thinks everyone of us has the latest and greatest of all these and that we absolutely have top degrees in using them.I am so old school, I pay cash for everything I buy. Clerk at the grocery said, "one day you will have to use your bank card". I said that would be the day I would be eating out of their trash. LOL. Just kidding, but dang for the world to be so into card pay but always wanting our dirty old money. Jack, You know I am just poking fun at us oldsters. Happy Easter, blessings, xoxo, Susie
Susie and I have very similar memories, same wringer washers to bite the fingers, ouch! Those infernal clothes lines that whipped in the wind, ours were never tight enough to not "swing"! And OM GOSH, picking up chunks of coal to put in the cookstove, Yep, we also had a potbelly one on the porch! Also, I remember when our first home phone didn't work right, it was also a busy party line, my Dad called the company, told them to come get the phone, dig up their pole and fill in the hole in the ground ~ that was the day when the phone was out of order, my little brother Robert, fell out of the high chair, broke a glass and split his head open....Mama cried all day...oh my, no more phone calls to her family in Florida :( Robby healed up fast and got lots of pampering and extra brownies and slices of pie.) He's the one that Sherry Darnell said to him ~ Robbie "you're a pig"!!! And Robter came back with incredible sass..."A PIG SIT ON A CHAIR?" Member that JacSher? (He is still our Angel)! Love y'all Darnells
I have many memories like these too. :)
Happy Easter! He is Risen.
Ya, there's no avoiding those pot-holes in the Road of Life! Fortunately, I don't remember any real hardships -- but would be hard-pressed to do what my parents and grandparents did ... without complaint. I sure remember learning to type on a manual machine not much different than that you've pictured. And carbon paper? Not sure they print enough money to persuade me to go back. (As if I could! lol)
I remember a lot of these things from my grandparents. My parents were older when they had me - and I have to admit I was spoiled. Now I am not - lol!
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