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<p>How is it silly?</p>
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Because it’s artificially interfering with free enterprise. If people in the other 48 states plus most countries in the world can manage to pump their own gas then they s/b able to manage it in those two states as well. If a station decides it wants to do its own pumping of gas for the customers then that’s fine but it shouldn’t be a mandate from the government. </p>
<p>But I guess this is getting far afield from the thread topic.</p>
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<p>Just for the record, Cornell admitted its first woman student in 1870.</p>
<p>When I was at {giant midwestern state U.} in 1975 ish women had just been allowed to enter the front door of the Student Union the prior year.</p>
<p>Washing hair once a week: mid 60’s big invention was some sort of powder we put in our waist long hair just at the top to take the oil out so we didn’t have to use our (yes) hot and cold running water to wash the whole head more often than necessary.</p>
<p>If you needed an abortion you went to a back alley shop or used a coat hanger and hoped not to die or be maimed. Or if you were rich you could go to Canada. Or you disappeared for a few months.</p>
<p>Fish on Fridays (Catholic neighborhoods).</p>
<p>“Get your nose outa that book and go outside and play.”</p>
<p>Mom calling you in from playing outside unsupervised with the neighborhood pack of kids for dinner.</p>
<p>I remember that dry shampoo. I also remember having a few 45’s passed down from my sister that were red and green vinyl. Savings account passbooks where every deposit was written in by hand. We started savings accounts and could deposit money via school (25 cents/wk). Handing out glass bottles of milk at lunch time to have with our brown paper back lunches. Gogo boots. Black lights. Dishwashers that you rolled across the kitchen and hooked up to the water at the sink. Door knockers–nobody I know had doorbells. We still had a treadle sewing machine, although the (very simple) electric one had been purchased for my older sister. Aluminum Christmas trees with a color wheel.</p>
<p>-Lead tinsel
-Channels 3,6,10 and UHF
-Sunday dinner at grandmother’s house
-Gene London and Sally Starr
-Ice-skating on the “crick” all day, winding your way at least a mile downstream
-Pick-up baseball games
-Swinging
-Building forts in the woods
-Holding kid carnivals, and selling your junk
-Painting on Popsicle sticks and walnuts
-Huge family picnics with kegs of birch beer
-Playing board games, and cleaning them up without being reminded to
-Writing letters to your friend who lived down the street-and mailing them
-The Charles Chips man delivering pretzels and potato chips
-Buying a giant pickle from the barrel
-Bring threatened into good behavior by Mother Superior and her Golden Brush
-Mean, nasty nuns
-Frank’s Black Cherry Wishniak soda
-Starting dinner after school while your mom was at work
-Mom and dad coming to our school events and sports very rarely
-Playing cards all the time
-Cigarette and pipe smokers everywhere
-Stamp collecting
-Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys
-The Bookmobile!</p>
<p>When I entered [big midwestern university] in 1966, men were not allowed upstairs, we women had to sign out of the dorm after 7:00 PM, and we had to be back in the dorm and signed in by 11:00 PM on weekdays and 2:00 AM on weekends.</p>
<p>Other, more enterprising women quickly learned not to sign out in the first place. Then, they could stay all night with their boyfriends.</p>
<p>I didn’t figure that out for a few years.</p>
<p>Birth control pills were common. And no one had to worry about safe sex.</p>
<p>My grandmother had access to birth control- in the thirties.</p>
<p>Slipjig, I watched Sally Starr, 3 Stooges, Clutch Cargo, every evening. Still have an autographed pic of Gene London. And, at some point in the year, our Charles Chips guy would bring fresh, still warm, glazed donuts. The Good Humor guy came around every summer afternoon- and if you begged, would give out free chips of dry ice.</p>
<p>Fuller Brush men.<br>
But hey, the “crick” - are we from the same neighborhood?</p>
<p>Add another crick resident!</p>
<p>Using the right kind of rock to draw a hopscotch grid on the sidewalk (remembered this when my kids asked for “sidewalk chalk”). </p>
<p>A glob of Dippity Do and a piece of pink hair tape to plaster down the wavy bangs overnight.</p>
<p>Being impressed that the neighbor’s car had “whitewalls”.</p>
<p>Full slips, and how racy I felt the first time I wore a half slip.</p>
<p>A circle pin on a Peter Pan collar.</p>
<p>The Jello mold that was part of every Thanksgiving meal, even though no one wanted to eat it.</p>
<p>My mother’s glee when a real washing machine replaced the one with the wringer on top.</p>
<p>Canned fruit “cocktail” with those nasty little cherries.</p>
<p>Lettuce being only iceberg lettuce.</p>
<p>Plastic rain bonnets that tied under the chin and folded up accordion-style to fit in your purse (for some reason women never carried umbrellas).</p>
<p>Yea, I grew up thinking that the only cocktails were those fruit cocktails that came out of the can and were served in little glasses with stems (same ones they served jello in). I dislike those cherries as well (not a fan of iceberg lettuce either).</p>
<p>Those rain bonnets don’t seem to have been very popular in our state, thankfully. Umbrellas aren’t either–we just get wet when it rains.</p>
<p>I also played at the crick.</p>
<p>I have never liked those cherries. I also remember having Spam for dinner once in a while.</p>
<p>And I remember my sister using baby oil for sun tanning!</p>
<p>Oh goodness yes – baby oil and the foil reflectors that people put under their chins. My sister did this for years and, unfortunately, it shows now.</p>
<p>So – 50 years from now, what will people be listing on a thread like this?? How slow and stupid our electronics were?</p>
<p>Television growing up in the Detroit area in the 1950s and 60s -</p>
<p>4 television stations - 2 (CBS), 4 (NBC), 7 (ABC) and 9 (CBC - CKLW Windsor).</p>
<p>Watching Hockey Night in Canada on Channel 9. Watching curling as well and trying to figure out what the heck it was all about.</p>
<p>In the mid-60s getting a UHF converter to watch the new channel 50 which carried the Red Wings’ games. Channel 56 was the PBS station which showed opera and symphonies - never watched it.</p>
<p>Rita Bell Prize movie - she showed a portion of a movie every afternoon intertwined with a game show of sorts.</p>
<p>Milky’s Party Time - a children’s show featuring a clown and sponsored by a local dairy.</p>
<p>Friday night fights, sponsored by Gillette Razor Blades, and the Gillette fight song</p>
<p>Howdy Doody, Mickey Mouse Club, Sky King, Captain Midnight, Popeye Cartoons, Lassie</p>
<p>Soaps on the radio, later on the tv</p>
<p>Little girls played hopscotch, jump rope (with all the sing-song rhymes) and jacks. MommaJ, I remember the rocks you could use as chalk!</p>
<p>Walking in to the doctor’s office and smelling the alcohol (oh no, a shot!!)</p>
<p>Little kids standing up in the front seat of the automobile while mom is driving (no seat belts)</p>
<p>Parents not worrying that a perv would snatch the kids off the street corner</p>
<p>Polio. . . . .</p>
<p>Radio here, my Hop-a-Long-Cassidy red and foil radio and then this thing called T.V. All we got was the Friday Night Fights. No real channels they were all so fuzzy.</p>
<p>Twenty one years ago when I moved to this outpost in the eastern med, no T.V. either except the news that came on in Greek, Turkish and English at 6 p.m. We have full cable now, but that wasn’t so long ago.</p>
<p>When we first took out a mortgage to buy our present house from a Credit Union, they had a cardboard ledger that they mailed to us every month. We included a check and mailed it back. They hand wrote the payment and mailed it back for the following month. My kids didn’t believe me until I showed it to them.</p>
<p>3bm103, my folks had one of those. </p>
<p>Paper dolls! The original Barbie. Roller skates with wooden wheels. Building snow forts. Tether ball was really big when I was a kid. Playing jacks and marbles in the school yard.</p>
<p>^^ Do boys play marbles anymore or has everything been taken over by video games and skateboards? I played marbles all the time when I was a kid - it was a big deal. And for a skateboard - mine was one I made by taking a skate apart and attaching each half to the ends of a plank. If you hit a pebble you went flying.</p>
<p>And tether ball - they must still play it in Idaho if Napoleon Dynamite is any depicted accurately.</p>