Pink Elephant
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Yes, I do remember the smell of mimeograph paper! The entire school office always smelled of it!Wow! I feel like a youngster! Pretty soon you ladies will be yelling at me to get off your lawn!
I do, actually remember a lot of those things, but more because we were poor and rural, not because of the age. I was firmly in the disco generation. LOL No greasers in my school - Just the poor kids and the "rich kids" and really, the rich kids weren't that rich. Joy of a small rural school was you knew everyone and had to hang out with them. Problem with a small rural school was you knew everyone and there was no one else to hang out with!
So I remember rotary phones on the wall, party lines, learning cursive, manual typewriters - and mimeograph machines! We did our school newspaper on one! Anyone remember that smell?
Do home perms smell better now? I haven't done one since the 1980's.
I remember clackers - but I never had any. I couldn't make a hula hoop stay up - even as a kid.
My mom owned a ringer washer and we hung clothes on a line - but that's because we were poor, not because of the year. We also only had a black and white TV until I was at least in high school...and we got 2 channels - CBS and NBC. ABC was on UHF, and our TV only went to channel 13.
I do remember Nixon resigning. I was 10 or 11. I remember that as the first time I saw something on TV and thought, "This is important. This is history."
That's where Dad hung his belt!
Speaking of belts - I do remember sanitary belts. Granted, they were on the way out and there were already adhesive ones, but I liked them better because I wore those granny panties that got mentioned on another thread and they weren't as secure. Then again, I had the kind of periods that made you miss 3 days of school every month. Ugh! I remember when you had to get one from a machine, they were still that kind and came with safety pins!
I LOVED Lawn Darts! I hated when they stopped selling them! I remember thinking, "Who is stupid enough to stand at both ends and throw darts at each other? This isn't rocket science!"
OHHHHHHH!
Gee, I haven't been around a home perm since the 70's, so have no idea what sort of odour they have today, but pee-ew, stinky, stinky, stinky the old ones were! So bad!
ROFL! I think the combination of the old sanitary pads (fastened with pins) and worn under granny panties is as close of an equal to old-fashioned babies cloth diapers with rubber pants as it gets! At least that's how I always felt about wearing the two together.