Old Fashioned Girl With Modern Spunk

Friday, August 22, 2008

LUNCH TIME! 1950

North Americans will probably be the only ones to smile at these old prices on the menu. They are at least 10 times as much now.

If you can't see the picture well, click on it, and it will open in a new window. If that's still not large enough, "snag" (copy) it and enlarge it. Remember, snagging" is the

highest modern form of compliment.

Remember Woolworths? The place where a kid's allowance could actually buy something useful! A treasure store. The first version of the dollar store, but back then we called them 5 and 10 cent stores. You know the "cent" symbol is not even on our computer keyboards anymore? I MISS IT!

For you youngsters, it looks like this:

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Saturday, August 16, 2008

Comments Made in the Year 1955 !!

sorry about this big empty space, I tried for days to delete it with no luck.

That was only 53 years ago!

'I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible to buy

a week's groceries for $20.00.'

'Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $2,000 will only buy a used one.'

'If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous.

'Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?'

'If they raise the minimum wage to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.'

'When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage.'

'Kids today are impossible. Those duck tail hair cuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls.'

'I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying DAMN in "GONE WITH THE WIND", it seems every new movie has either HELL or DAMN in it.'

'I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas.'

'Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the President.'

'I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now.'

'It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet.'

'It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work.'

'Marriage doesn't mean a thing any more, those Hollywood stars seem to be getting divorced at the drop of a hat.'

'I'm afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business.'

'Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to congress.'

'The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on.'

'There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend, it costs nearly $15.00 a night to stay in a hotel.'

'No one can afford to be sick anymore, at $35.00 a day in the hospital it's too rich for my blood.'

'If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it!'

Monday, July 28, 2008

OHH OH OH I'M SOOOO EXCITED!!!

What will they think of next?
FINALLY, A WOMEN'S REMOTE CONTROL!

I'M SO EXCITED!!!

I wish it really worked!

Now...who can I use it to control? HAHA

In case you can't see what the buttons are, they are:

top left: OFF the COUCH NOW!

top right: SET the TABLE

MENU

Dinner~Dessert~Take Me Out

HELP

Wash~Dry~Put away

THERMOSTAT (up arrow)

TOILET SEAT (down arrow)

ROMANCE (up arrow)

SEX (down arrow)

MUTE

SNORES~SPORTS

START compliments

PAUSE to apologize

STOP complaining

MAKE ME A

BATH~DRINK

~QUEEN~

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

The History Of Aprons

Remember when a woman wouldn't dare cook without an apron? An apron is the symbol now of retro/vintage women. Modern retro women often collect aprons, and give them as gifts. I saw a mom's get-together where the theme was retro, and the hostess passed out an apron to each guest to wear throughout the party and to take home.

I don't think our kids know what an apron is.

The principal use of Grandma's apron was to protect the dress underneath, but along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven.

It was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.

From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.

When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.

And when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around her arms.

Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove.

Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.

From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.

In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.

When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.

If family came to dinner, there were other aprons in the kitchen for the other 'women-folk' to help out with preparations.

When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.

It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that 'old-time apron' that served so many purposes.

Compared to today... Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool. Her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw.

They would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron. I don't think I ever caught anything from an Apron. (Of course they were washed more often than the clothes underneath.)