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When I was a kid...

Most of you here probably wont remember what I am referring to, but when I was very young, one of my first memories was of my Mother (who ironed other peoples laundry for extra money) ironing clothes on this big rectangular metal machine (about the size of a large freezer box).
It had a pedal that my mom would push with her foot, that would rotate these large heated metal rod rollers, which in turn would feed the laundry through the hot rollers, as she kept repositioning it. It was quite a process.
 
argedion said:
I don't remember I think that happend during one of my Blackouts :D

Can't afford it now, and Dr says to give the sweets a goodbye talk :(

What a drag it is getting old.:hello2:
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1) Im sure it did!;)
2) Listen to your Doctor.
3) Yes it is. Just remember to live every moment like "this could be the last time".
 
Does any one remember McDonalds had to change their coffee stirrers becuase they were being used as coke spoons.
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That ironing machine was called a Mangle. We also had a wringer washer. You'd start with the least dirty clothes, and wind up with the dirtiest. YOU filled it - either with a hose from a sink or by the bucket.
 
lunatic59 said:
Nah, it's human nature to remember the past more fondly than it actually was. They weren't really simpler times, it's just that the issues from those times have been worked out for the most part so we no longer see them as challenges.

When I started school, there was segregation. When I started driving, there was gasoline rationing. Interest rates were approaching 20% and unemployment was the highest since the Great Depression. The stock market was down almost 45% through the '70s (adjusted for double digit inflation) and in the aftermath of Vietnam, we were impeaching a president.

And let's not forget that pollution was at its worst in almost every major U.S. City and cancer was a death sentence.

Still want them good old days back?
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Hmmm seems we're around the same age. ;):D
 
damewolf13 said:
Most of you here probably wont remember what I am referring to, but when I was very young, one of my first memories was of my Mother (who ironed other peoples laundry for extra money) ironing clothes on this big rectangular metal machine (about the size of a large freezer box).
It had a pedal that my mom would push with her foot, that would rotate these large heated metal rod rollers, which in turn would feed the laundry through the hot rollers, as she kept repositioning it. It was quite a process.
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My Grandma spent YEARS ironing other peoples' clothes for money when I was a kid... but she sure didn't have THAT contraption. No, just a regular iron, ironing board and a lot of sweat equity. She had the soap operas on (back when they were actually sponsored by SOAP) and listened to them as she ironed.
 
TxGoat said:
HFCS wasn't used to sweeten everything from Coke to Ketchup.
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That reminds me of the whole "New Coke" debacle in the 70s.

I'm convinced in my mind that Coca Cola wanted to change the time-tested recipe from sugar to high fructose corn syrup to save money... so they hyped up New Coke: a whole new recipe!

There was public OUTRAGE. People stocked up on the old Coke.

And when no one bought the New Coke (as expected), the company went back to "Coca Cola Classic"... but THIS time, the recipe didn't have sugar in it - it now has high fructose corn syrup!

Check the ingredients on your Coca Cola Classic. It's been changed. It was all a sham, a shell game. And Coke has had HFSC in it ever since. Now the generations that remember what delicious, refreshing, SUGAR-laden Coke tasted like are dying off, leaving a population that has never known anything else.

:)
 
The_Chief said:
That reminds me of the whole "New Coke" debacle in the 70s.

I'm convinced in my mind that Coca Cola wanted to change the time-tested recipe from sugar to high fructose corn syrup to save money... so they hyped up New Coke: a whole new recipe!

There was public OUTRAGE. People stocked up on the old Coke.

And when no one bought the New Coke (as expected), the company went back to "Coca Cola Classic"... but THIS time, the recipe didn't have sugar in it - it now has high fructose corn syrup!

Check the ingredients on your Coca Cola Classic. It's been changed. It was all a sham, a shell game. And Coke has had HFSC in it ever since. Now the generations that remember what delicious, refreshing, SUGAR-laden Coke tasted like are dying off, leaving a population that has never known anything else.

:)
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lol, yeah I read a similar article. If you have any ethnic grocery stores in your area (Mexican restaurants and sometimes certain Asian restaurants) go see if they have "imported" Coca Cola in the glass bottles. Check the ingredients. They sell sugar sweetened Coke. The old taste IS there! I found the imported stuff a few years ago and when I tasted it, it was as if I went back in time. The stuff is so popular here that you can find it everywhere now.

What's sad is that the HFCS corruption is so bad that a large company like Coca Cola would rather put that garbage in its product than sweeten it with real sugar which would almost guarantee their sales would go up. It's enough to make me want to boycott all things corn. Granted that would mean that I'd have to stop filling up with gasoline since the corn industry has found a way to weasel into that industry with Ethanol...... God bless America /rant.
 
Whatever Coke had in it - the syrup stank! We had a dispenser at the ice rink. If you came in early in the morning, the syrup residue from the day before was overpowering. You'd gag. I can't drink the stuff to this day.

About the irons - my mother had a sprinkling head for a pop bottle. Then she got a steam iron.
That iron used to sit there and pffft out blasts of steam. I guess the new ones don't. I finally bought a steam generator iron.

We saved our (glass) pop bottles. We made homemade root beer. You could buy bottle caps and there was a device to recap the bottles.

We also used to have a thing called an arrowhead that fit into curtain rods to make the curtain slide on easier. I wouldn't mind having one of those back.
 
zuben el genub said:
We saved our (glass) pop bottles. We made homemade root beer. You could buy bottle caps and there was a device to recap the bottles.
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Forgot about that! My mom used to make root beer all the time, always had a basement full. It was...not root beer but still good enough to drink. Every now and again a bottle would explode and make a huge mess, hated cleaning that up!
 
The respectable thing for a kid to do was get a paper route for work. Get up at 5:00 AM before school, and ride your bike (in the dark) delivering newspapers to complete strangers in any weather.
 
1 Cup Milk
1/2 Cup Sugar
1/2 Tsp Vanilla Extract

Blend the milk, sugar and vanilla until combined and add to 3 quarts of fresh, fluffy snow, stirring to consistency.

SNOW CREAM! :D
 
Unforgiven said:
The respectable thing for a kid to do was get a paper route for work. Get up at 5:00 AM before school, and ride your bike (in the dark) delivering newspapers to complete strangers in any weather.
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Remember the ads in the back of comic books to sell a newspaper called Grit? Did anyone here actually SELL the thing? I've never seen any "grit" I couldn't eat!


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:D
 
Unforgiven said:
The respectable thing for a kid to do was get a paper route for work. Get up at 5:00 AM before school, and ride your bike (in the dark) delivering newspapers to complete strangers in any weather.
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I can't imagine what it must be like for kids today to not know the joy of exploring the outside world without fear of some stranger nabbing you. Predators have gotten so bold today that they'll abduct a kid in broad daylight.
 
Unforgiven said:
Does any one remember McDonalds had to change their coffee stirrers becuase they were being used as coke spoons.
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I remember those! Those were the best icecream spoon!! I always wonder why McD discontinued them, lol. Those damn druggies just ruin a good thing :mad:
 
Don't know if it was here or another forum, but we were discussing those little knobs you could buy years ago to attach to a steering wheel.

We called them Suicide Knobs.

Thought they went out years ago when power assist or power steering hit all vehicles, but saw a pickup truck yesterday with a brand shiny new knob installed.
 
zuben el genub said:
Don't know if it was here or another forum, but we were discussing those little knobs you could buy years ago to attach to a steering wheel.

We called them Suicide Knobs.

Thought they went out years ago when power assist or power steering hit all vehicles, but saw a pickup truck yesterday with a brand shiny new knob installed.
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We called them "necker knobs" so when you were out on a date in one of those big sedans with bench seats you could keep one hand free for ... um ... other things. :eek:
 
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