In your home have you ever had....

[Shovelhead]

Aren't most people at a class reunion generally about the same age?

EDIT: Or exactly how MANY times did you go through the 7th grade?

That was his 7th grade graduation reunion....

 

[B. Byrd]

When the TV channels signed on at about 6pm and in later years about 6am and when they signed off at about 1:00am they played the National Anthem. Gasp, how horrible!

 

[billieco]

Both....our first TV was black and white and to dial a neighbor we only had to dial 4 digits unless the exchange was different.

Same here. Some folks have never heard of that. I still remember the 4 digits.
I was my Dads remote back then. My how things have changed.

 

[57tr6]

Aren't most people at a class reunion generally about the same age?

EDIT: Or exactly how MANY times did you go through the 7th grade?

LOL.....I was wondering the same thing!

 

[Patronus]

Yep...Big black chunk of a phone that sat on the counter. FFFFFFkkk...titititittikkkk...fffffffffk...titititititikkkk

B&W tv with 5 channels...3, 5, 11, then set to UHF(or was if VHF?) and tune the other dial to 17 or...36? Then twist either the two tall antennas with the tin foil between them or the round one and when you got the channel tuned in, you lost it when you walked away from the tv half the time. And yes, they signed off with the National Anthem.

Microwave? Whut the hack is THAT?

 

[NY63]

Both. And no central heat/ac. The locks used skeleton keys too.

 

[Patronus]

No A/C...lol nope. Hard wood floors, high ceilings and hot water radiator heaters. That morning piss was at the end of a long cold run to the bathroom(which, thankfully, was IN-doors).

 

[B. Byrd]

No A/C...lol nope. Hard wood floors, high ceilings and hot water radiator heaters. That morning piss was at the end of a long cold run to the bathroom(which, thankfully, was IN-doors).

I forgot about the hot water radiator heaters. Didn't have them at home, but had them in elementary school. At home we had coal fired furnace. Periodically the coal truck would come to the house and dump a load down the coal chute to a basement coal bin. My father would go down the the basement every few hours to add coal and remove the burned residue we called clinkers, a solid chunk of stuff formed by the coal burning. I got to shovel coal when I got older.

 

[atljetmech]

Our phone number growing up was 968-0000. Try dialing that on a rotary phone and not ****ing it up!

 

[linebacker]

We had a black and white TV, I was the remote control, rabbit ear adjuster and outside antenna adjuster. (little more to the left,,whoa,,,go back a little etc, etc)
We finally got a phone when I was 13yrs old and of course it was a rotary dial and only had a 3ft cord.
We burned wood in the fireplace until we bought two gas heaters from the church when they bought new heaters.
We lived in an uninsulated old wood framed house. In the winter we put plastic over all of the windows to keep the heat in.
In the winter we had so many covers on our bed that we could barely roll over.
No a/c but we would raise the windows and install box fans.
Fond humbling memories,,,