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5-digit telephone numbers

I remember the two-letter word abbreviations before the five-digit telephone numbers; when my father started in business, it was just the five digits. This telephone number is still active, and I am trying to find out if this is some sort of continuity record.
 
the day going live died

and replaced with LIVE AND KICKING was good. A bit more excitement as opposed to having a mumsy sarah green entertaining you. Emma forbes and andy parker were just what the doctor ordered. Christ im even old enough to remember the original grange hill theme tune! Oi thats my sausage! Swipe! Ha ha ha-
 
...earlier this year i was standing in front of a club and a guy looked at me and called me *daddy*. daddy?!? sure, he looked to be about 18 or 20, but daddy?
 
I too remember when phone nos. started with a word. In fact part of our exchange still uses this system. Here it was VIking2-5555, VIking5-5555, or VIking8-5555
 
Remember!!!

Jon, Now imagine how I feel, I more than old enough to be your dad, AND, gracious enough to be a GRANDAD....Your only a nipper yet...and with a Miele, so you`ve already aspired to one of life BIG goals...LOL

Seamus...nothing but a "Scouse Kiss" for your cheek...you are old when you remember, Crossroads, The Big Valley and Franny Craddock....

A few friends went out in the summer for drinks in town after the races and went to a local club, hadnt been for a while so was asked to sign up for membership....A young gum chewing, no eye contact, Goth took our details...Date of Birth....13/7/59, one said...DOB she muttered again...13/7/59...FIFTY NINE she shouted...FIFTY NINE..GOD YOURE DEAD OLD YOU LOT ARNT YOU!!!!!

The other extreme was when we where on a fantastic cruise around the Caribbean isles, the ship had stopped at Domenica and after spending a few hours on land we where all getting back on board, up the steps went a fiesty mature lady, it was very windy and we where all holding on to the guide ropes, she held on to only one rope and her hat with the other hand...the gangplank was rocking and everyone was shouting for her to "Use Both Hands" on the ropes...a big gust of wind came and her dress ended up around her shoulders and covering her face at one point...Shrieks and Gasps from the quayside....The Lady managed to compose herself and shouted to the purser...."Honey, Everything you can see its Eighty Years Old...BUT THE HATS BRAN NU.......priceless!!!

Mike, going for his Horlicks!!!
 
Only at 32, here's some things that really make me feel old:

I took pictures of my 6 year old niece with my 35mm camera. She asked to see the pictures, and was totally puzzled that she couldn't see them yet & I had to send film in for developing.

I showed my niece, familiar with I-pods, the walkman I had as a teenager. She says, "That's HUGE!" "How do you know what song is playing" " You hafta have a tape???? what's that?"

That same niece asked me "Where do black & white TV's come from?"

A Commodore 64 computer is considered collectible. The company that made them...not even in business anymore.

Listening to some 80's music, I mentioned to some teenagers that I remembered a particular AM radio station in town playing the song very often. "There was music on AM radio?"

I watched an episode on "CHiPs" on TV. I noticed all the cool cars that would be highly collectible today, that people were just driving around as everyday transportation (or being crashed!)

Telephones with real bells do not exist anymore
 
phone number exchange

I loved the old phone exchange..ours was SKyline3-7119, we also had LOcust,MOhawk. My grandmothers was SUnset...what were we thinking back then?..It was smart in away...I had a heck of a time teaching my child his phone number..it would have been much easier if we'd had a word association...I ended up making up a song with our phone number and address..I used the tune to "Jesus Loves Me". At almost 18 he mention that the other day...he still remembers the song and tune.
 
When I was going to St. Louis in June for the VCCC convention, I was waiting in the airport for Terry to arrive and chatting with a family that had just returned from Disney World. The two kids were bouncing off the walls with excitement but soon were distracted by other things so I went back to reading. A few minutes later, I heard the little girl, about 5, say "Old Man...Old Man..." Much to my horror, she was talking to ME!

My sister and her family were over one night for dinner and the phone rang. My nephew came flying down the hall to his mother - white as a sheet. He thought the Western Electric Trimline phone ringing was a fire alarm like they have at school. We had to explain why the phone made that sound instead of the electronic tones we've become too accustomed to...
 
Jon, It's not that you are so much older, it's just that those people in your class have poor memories.

Ron, you have probably discovered the interesting relationship between blessings and gratitude is that the more gratitude you offer up for your blessings, the more blessings you receive. It's like making an electric circuit complete. The electrons don't flow unless they have a complete path from the source to the recipient and back.

I hear songs on the radio from the late 60s and early 70s and think back to that stage of my life. I compare where I was then to where I am now and am overwhelmed by the blessings I have received all along the way, kinahora.
 
At 50 I don't feel like I'm 50 the way I used to think of 50 year old folk when I was 20 cept for one thing. I always swore to myself back then that when I got to be 40 plus ish I was NOT going to be one of those old geezers still hanging around in some twink nightclub looking like an old geezer. LOL. I was quite happy the other day when I popped into the Rexall and got the seniors discount, not from some young twink either but a middle aged woman, she said she knew I wasn't a senior but was gonna give it to me anyways. When I look at pics of my dad when he was in his late 30's and 40's he looks older but I think that has something to do with how people dressed back then. Besides a little box of Just For Men goes a long way.
 
Feeling old???

i just turned 35 about a month ago.A 21 yo guy I work withtold me that I was almost the same age as his mother(OMG) she started early. When I was growing up, we had one TV, a big console RCA record player combo/TV/Radio.I remeber when my Aunt Fran's New 76 "T" bird was really new. Watching Wonder Woman on Friday night( I just adore her!!) Laugh in Re runs, When Rotary phones was all there was at my house because touch tone was more expensive and new fangled as my mother put it. The only caller ID we had was picking up the phone and saying WHO IS IT! Seeing all in the Family when it was on CBS the first time and not on TV land. I don't have any grey yet, I am a red head, my hair will just turn white( So i am told.Itish grecian formula, well maybe someday. I have pants that will fit me again from 1992 and my first drivers licence in 1988. I have enclosed a scene from Wonder Woman circa 1977. Cheers, Ritchie:)

 
...and when Ma Bell would measure the ringer current draw to see if you had a phone you were not paying for....

In those days, you had a phone (where the street wiring first met with an indoor fnsihed space where the phone was located)and an extension, probably where the wiring was extended to get to a second phone-set.
 
I remember it well!!!

I remember hooking up several "illegal" extensions and my grandmother worried, for months, that the "phone police" were going to come and do something too horrific for words!

Then again, she also told me, as a very small child, that the gypsies would come and take small children away. When the gypsies did finally come knocking at our door (selling handmade lawn chairs), I climbed into the dryer to hide!! Oh how I miss my best friend/grandmother :-(

Rich
 
Feeling old

Funny this thread should come up now as I've been feeling rather old myself, lately. I guess in the Grand Cosmic Scheme, 46 really isn't all that bad. And I have my health, so that's something to be thankful for.
Oddly though, this afternoon I flashed on a picture of myself at some point in the future (next week?): a paunchy old guy with wispy hair, wearing his pants too high and buying chicken magazines at the porn shop. On a really hot Saturday night, I'll treat myself to a box of Raisinettes too.

veg
 

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