Wayback Machine: Techology and Other Mysteries

 

My neighbor's grandkids were visiting and they spied a box of junk she was going to donate.  Included was a rotary phone.  The boys had no idea what it was or how to use it...yes, she had to teach them how to dial.  They were so fascinated that they begged to keep the phone and of course, grandma agreed.

Did you have a party line on your phone?  We did for a while on my Nana's phone.  There was also a party line on the phone at the camp I was always sent to in the summer.

Did you have a transistor radio? 

 

I received mine at Christmas, 1965.  Weirdly, when we got the battery in it and turned it on, it played "Michelle" by the Beatles.  I thought that was pretty cool.

What about a Polaroid camera?  

I got a Polaroid Swinger a year or two later.  I think my paternal grandparents bought it for me.  You had to treat the photos with something that smelled like fish.  I still have the photos I took with that camera somewhere in the attic.

Then there is the dumb stuff we did as kids!

But the dumbest thing for this week was told to me by my husband.  We were talking about this big bar of chocolate he saw at the store and for whatever reason, it made me remember a different kind of chocolate.

"Do you remember the ex-lax chocolates when you were a kid?" I asked him.  "I remember eating one piece of my parents' and it tasted awful and I never touched it again."

My husband started laughing.  "Oh yeh, me and my brother found a box of that.  We ate the whole box."

WHAT?  Yes and apparently the boys couldn't go to school for a couple of days because well, the laxative worked.

Have a safe and happy day!