eric":3kghlud7 said:live without electricity?? heck, my kids think cable tv is a God-given right to have. How many of ya'lls kids have ever seen a record album, especially a 45 record? My kids found my old albums when we moved last yr, and had no idea how those things worked!
On a side note, I can remember not having airconditioning, we had a water cooler up until about 1968, and I can remember getting our first color TV in about 1972 or so, I remember it was a Saturday morning, we bought it at Whites, and we came home and watched the Flintstones on it!!LOL
Campground Cattle said:Sound like your one of the boomers,
Nah, I am what they call a Tweener....barely too young for a boomer (born in '62), but definately not a GenXer either. Maybe that's my problem, I never really conformed to any particular part of society. And I have a 20 yr old daughter, goes to TCU in Ft. Worth. GO FROGS!!!
eric":kjw0w4p6 said:The blue law....was that a national thing or just in Texas? I can remember going in the little grocery store and finding complete ailes roped off because you could'nt buy certain things on Sunday. Man, how times have changed, nowadays if the store isn't open 24/7 we don't know what to do!
One of my first jobs was at a Cabell's Dairy grocer, (I was like 12/13 yrs old), my job was cleaning up and racking the coke / milk bottles and such, and the old man would only open from 7am to 7 pm Monday -Saturday. As soon as he retired and sold out, 7-11 bought the store and they immediately opened 24 hrs 7 days a week. Anyone else remember riding their bikes for miles collecting coke bottles? We used to get 3 cents for the little ones and 5 cents for the family size pop bottles! Not much $, but baseball cards only cost 5 cents back then too!
I remember having to drink the cokes at the store because we didnt want to pay the deposit on the bottle! LOL
Campground Cattle":lap9ngrb said:eric":lap9ngrb said:The blue law....was that a national thing or just in Texas? I can remember going in the little grocery store and finding complete ailes roped off because you could'nt buy certain things on Sunday. Man, how times have changed, nowadays if the store isn't open 24/7 we don't know what to do!
One of my first jobs was at a Cabell's Dairy grocer, (I was like 12/13 yrs old), my job was cleaning up and racking the coke / milk bottles and such, and the old man would only open from 7am to 7 pm Monday -Saturday. As soon as he retired and sold out, 7-11 bought the store and they immediately opened 24 hrs 7 days a week. Anyone else remember riding their bikes for miles collecting coke bottles? We used to get 3 cents for the little ones and 5 cents for the family size pop bottles! Not much $, but baseball cards only cost 5 cents back then too!
I remember having to drink the cokes at the store because we didnt want to pay the deposit on the bottle! LOL
Blue law was only Texas as far as I know