I'm in my early 60's; here is my view on the subject:
Telephones: We had a party line; several families shared the same telephone line. Want to make a call; pick up the phone and there might be someone using the line...have to wait until they were done before you could make your call. There was always some busybody that would listen in on your conversations. A long distance call; you had to go though the telephone operator....station to station or person to person.
Television: We had a black and white TV until I was in college. I was dumbfounded when I came home my senior year in college and turned on my parent's new color TV only to learn that the movie, The Wizard of Oz was in color!! I didn't own a color TV until I was 30 years old.
Food: My mother canned everything; we never ate vegetables that were store bought( Jolly Green Giant). I can't count the number of days that I spent sitting in the garage, shucking corn to be canned. Corn, carrots, beets, whatever, my Mom canned it. Same with jellies and jams.
Bicycles: Everyone in my neighborhood had a one speed bike; if you had a 3 speed Schwinn..you were rich.
Summer Vacations: I spent most of them working on my Grandfather's farm. hoeing beans, picking raspberries(which I used to sell door to door for 35 cents a quart), picking up grade B potatoes, etc. I remember my grandfather hand milking the cows and putting the milk in the metal canisters and setting them out on the porch for the milk truck to pick them up. We had the milk truck deliver to our house and I thought it was great when the milkman would give me a chunk of ice out of his truck to suck on in the summer months. I can remember when my grandparents got an indoor bathroom...they never had a hot water heater in their house.
Every generation is different. I had it easy compared to my parents who grew up in the Great Depression. Sure, I worked to earn money when I was a kid, but I never had to work thinning sugar beets for a dollar a day like my Dad...back breaking work. I didn't have to drop out of high school to help out my parent's from losing the family farm. My parents had it a lot tougher that I did; and I went without a hell of a lot more than my children did...but that's the way I would want it..... strive to make things better for your children. That's what being a parent is all about..at least in my family.
Does this current generation have it easier...maybe...it's all relative. The employment situation the past couple of years has been tough on my kids,,much more so than when I was coming out of school and looking for a job. Technology is great and has made life a lot different than when I was a kid, but it has also brought a lot of new problems to deal with along the way.
Glasses can affect your vision; especially when they have been emptied several times......
Spring Break 2000 !!!!
Telephones: We had a party line; several families shared the same telephone line. Want to make a call; pick up the phone and there might be someone using the line...have to wait until they were done before you could make your call. There was always some busybody that would listen in on your conversations. A long distance call; you had to go though the telephone operator....station to station or person to person.
Television: We had a black and white TV until I was in college. I was dumbfounded when I came home my senior year in college and turned on my parent's new color TV only to learn that the movie, The Wizard of Oz was in color!! I didn't own a color TV until I was 30 years old.
Food: My mother canned everything; we never ate vegetables that were store bought( Jolly Green Giant). I can't count the number of days that I spent sitting in the garage, shucking corn to be canned. Corn, carrots, beets, whatever, my Mom canned it. Same with jellies and jams.
Bicycles: Everyone in my neighborhood had a one speed bike; if you had a 3 speed Schwinn..you were rich.
Summer Vacations: I spent most of them working on my Grandfather's farm. hoeing beans, picking raspberries(which I used to sell door to door for 35 cents a quart), picking up grade B potatoes, etc. I remember my grandfather hand milking the cows and putting the milk in the metal canisters and setting them out on the porch for the milk truck to pick them up. We had the milk truck deliver to our house and I thought it was great when the milkman would give me a chunk of ice out of his truck to suck on in the summer months. I can remember when my grandparents got an indoor bathroom...they never had a hot water heater in their house.
Every generation is different. I had it easy compared to my parents who grew up in the Great Depression. Sure, I worked to earn money when I was a kid, but I never had to work thinning sugar beets for a dollar a day like my Dad...back breaking work. I didn't have to drop out of high school to help out my parent's from losing the family farm. My parents had it a lot tougher that I did; and I went without a hell of a lot more than my children did...but that's the way I would want it..... strive to make things better for your children. That's what being a parent is all about..at least in my family.
Does this current generation have it easier...maybe...it's all relative. The employment situation the past couple of years has been tough on my kids,,much more so than when I was coming out of school and looking for a job. Technology is great and has made life a lot different than when I was a kid, but it has also brought a lot of new problems to deal with along the way.
Glasses can affect your vision; especially when they have been emptied several times......
Spring Break 2000 !!!!
