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Re: Childhood
[Re: dontomasso]
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11/20/08 03:56 PM
11/20/08 03:56 PM
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Anyone remember the show "Whirlybirds?" Heck, yea. Great show for its time. All of these memories posts, thay are so cool. It's good to know that so many of of us have shared in these things. I had forgotten about the long distance calls and having to go through the operator. Did you try that thing where you would call someone person to person and they would say they're not here and you'd say I'll call back at 1:00 and that meant that you were arriving at the airport at 1 so you didn't have to pay for the call? And remember when you would yell at someone "It's long distance, hurry up" And rotary phones. Remember the scene fron In & Out with Kevin Kline when Matt Dillon's skinny model girlfriend tries to use the rotary phone int heir motel and keeps trying to press the holes in the dial? God, how would this generation have survived back then?
Last edited by olivant; 11/20/08 03:59 PM.
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Re: Childhood
[Re: olivant]
#521287
11/20/08 04:07 PM
11/20/08 04:07 PM
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J Geoff
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you would call someone person to person and they would say they're not here and you'd say I'll call back at 1:00 and that meant that you were arriving at the airport at 1 so you didn't have to pay for the call? That reminds me when my brother was in college out of state. Collect calls cost more, so he'd place a collect call then we'd say the person wasn't available. But then we knew he was home and wanted us to call him back direct. 
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Re: Childhood
[Re: olivant]
#521288
11/20/08 04:10 PM
11/20/08 04:10 PM
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dontomasso
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Did you try that thing where you would call someone person to person and they would say they're not here and you'd say I'll call back at 1:00 and that meant that you were arriving at the airport at 1 so you didn't have to pay for the call? And remember when you would yell at someone "It's long distance, hurry up" And rotary phones. Remember the scene fron In & Out with Kevin Kline when Matt Dillon's skinny model girlfriend tries to use the rotary phone int heir motel and keeps trying to press the holes in the dial? God, how would this generation have survived back then?
Sure... that was a way to call someone to say you'd arrived safely. What my family did was use the name of the person who was calling....whoever was on the other end would say he's not here now. Yes that scene from In and Out was a hoot.
"Io sono stanco, sono imbigliato, and I wan't everyone here to know, there ain't gonna be no trouble from me..Don Corleone..Cicc' a port!"
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Re: Childhood
[Re: J Geoff]
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11/20/08 04:55 PM
11/20/08 04:55 PM
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you would call someone person to person and they would say they're not here and you'd say I'll call back at 1:00 and that meant that you were arriving at the airport at 1 so you didn't have to pay for the call? That reminds me when my brother was in college out of state. Collect calls cost more, so he'd place a collect call then we'd say the person wasn't available. But then we knew he was home and wanted us to call him back direct. My cousin used to do that with his son when the boy was in college. He would use a code name (it was stupid like John Smith or something), my cousin would say that Mr. Smith was not home, and that meant that my cousin should call his son back at the dorm. After graduation, my cousin's son was offered a job at a bank near the university. He had met a girl, and decided to live up there. The first time his now-employed son called again for "John Smith", my cousin told the operator, "Tell him that Mr. Smith is dead," and hung up the phone.
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Re: Childhood
[Re: dontomasso]
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11/20/08 05:11 PM
11/20/08 05:11 PM
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pizzaboy
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Is there any pharmacy that still serves food?
I doubt it. Remember when the department stores had cafeterias? I vividly remember eating lunch at John Wanamaker's in Cross County Shopping Center. Woolworth's had a lunch counter in Cross County, as well.
"I got news for you. If it wasn't for the toilet, there would be no books." --- George Costanza.
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Re: Childhood
[Re: pizzaboy]
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11/20/08 05:21 PM
11/20/08 05:21 PM
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dontomasso
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Remember when the department stores had cafeterias?
In a few years we'll simply say "remember when there were department stores?"
"Io sono stanco, sono imbigliato, and I wan't everyone here to know, there ain't gonna be no trouble from me..Don Corleone..Cicc' a port!"
"I stood in the courtroom like a fool."
"I am Constanza: Lord of the idiots."
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Re: Childhood
[Re: dontomasso]
#521297
11/20/08 05:23 PM
11/20/08 05:23 PM
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pizzaboy
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Remember when the department stores had cafeterias?
In a few years we'll simply say "remember when there were department stores?" No joke. Between the Internet, Wal-Marts, and the price clubs, it's almost over already.
"I got news for you. If it wasn't for the toilet, there would be no books." --- George Costanza.
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Re: Childhood
[Re: SC]
#521360
11/21/08 09:29 AM
11/21/08 09:29 AM
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The Italian Stallionette
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That sucks SC. I'll tell you, the Santa stage for kids sure doesn't last long at all. By the time the child is in kindergarten or first grade, some smart ass "killjoy" let's them know there is no Santa.  At first you tell your child that "Johnny doesn't know what he' talking about", but that only goes for so long. But, to be pushed or rushed off Santa's lap, that's awful.  On the bright side, we all live through the harsh realization that there is no Santa, and are not emotionally damaged (that I know of)  Still, I remmber he disappointment when I found out. Long live Santa!!!!!!!! TIS
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Re: Childhood
[Re: Sicilian Babe]
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11/21/08 09:49 AM
11/21/08 09:49 AM
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The Italian Stallionette
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What do you mean - there's no Santa??  WTF are you people talking about??? Oh no!!! I made SB cry. She'll be an emotional wreck now. Don't cry SB, there's still the Easter Bunny which by the way, wasn't it a little hard, even as a kid to wrap yourself around the idea of a Bunny that hops around delivering candy?). I guess we all believed though. Damn, did I ruin that now too?  TIS
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"War is over, if you want it" - John Lennon
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Re: Childhood
[Re: Yogi Barrabbas]
#521382
11/21/08 12:59 PM
11/21/08 12:59 PM
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SC
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I think Klyd mentioned the rag man. We had a rag and bone man who used to come round on his cart and collect all the old crap left out in the streets. A little off-topic for a second.... Kirk Douglas wrote a wonderful autobiography called "The Ragman's Son" (his father was a ragman). I'd recommend it highly to anyone who likes biographies! (My mother recommended it to me many years ago - her grandfather was a ragman when he first came to the U.S. in the late 1880's). Very good book!
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Re: Childhood
[Re: SC]
#521383
11/21/08 01:01 PM
11/21/08 01:01 PM
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dontomasso
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I think Klyd mentioned the rag man. We had a rag and bone man who used to come round on his cart and collect all the old crap left out in the streets. A little off-topic for a second.... Kirk Douglas wrote a wonderful autobiography called "The Ragman's Son" (his father was a ragman). I'd recommend it highly to anyone who likes biographies! (My mother recommended it to me many years ago - her grandfather was a ragman when he first came to the U.S. in the late 1880's). Very good book! Read it SC... it is a great autobiography.
"Io sono stanco, sono imbigliato, and I wan't everyone here to know, there ain't gonna be no trouble from me..Don Corleone..Cicc' a port!"
"I stood in the courtroom like a fool."
"I am Constanza: Lord of the idiots."
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