

Some things my kids will never know!

The other day I had a strange thought, there are things that are so much a part of my growing up that my kids will never experience. I’m not sure if it’s good or bad, justcoca cola the march of time. My sons are 30 and 32, but they have never had milk delivered by a milkman with the reservoir of cream on top. They have no idea who the Fuller Brush Man was or that people sold Encyclopedia Britannica door-to-door and that you bought them in installments!

I don’t think either one of them has ever dialed a rotary phone, or bought Coca-Cola in green glass bottles in a paperboard six pack carrier. If they were around when I was sorting through old family photographs, I imagine they may have seen small square black and white pictures with serrated white borders of family members they never knew. And the concept of pulling a vinyl record out of a paperboard sleeve and dropping it on a turntable is totally foreign to them.

Of course there are things in the future that they will take for granted that I can’t even imagine.  What are some of the things you remember as a kid that bring back great memories?

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Victoria Jones

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  1. Bill W. says:

    I remember all of those things. The rotary phone comment reminded me of a story I heard from a former colleague of a few years ago. His wife worked in the school library, and they had a working rotary phone under the desk that they used occasionally. One day a student asked to use a phone to call home, and she put the rotary phone on the desk. The student just stared at it; she had never seen one and didn’t know how to use it.

  2. justagirl says:

    The “THUNK” in the middle of a long song on an 8-track player.

  3. Katee Cufari says:

    Phone cords…pay phones…low gas prices….cursive is now writing..all electronic signatures. On and on…..ordering your pop on an ipad at the local sock hop Vic! Heehee

  4. jsc says:

    Typewriters and the “ring” when it “returned”, the chemically smell of mimeographed sheets handed out in school, woolworth’s (or JJ Newbury’s) lunch counter, baseball cards with the stick of gum inside.

  5. H says:

    I’m 35 and remember the fuller brush people:) though they were woman as well as men as my aunt sold it. I also remember records because I had a fisher price record player. Our rotary phone was thrown out when I was in elementary school.

  6. Kelly says:

    Almost pushing 40, BUT:
    I’ll burn songs on a cd for my sister, but still call it a “mixed tape”.

    It took awhile stop myself from telling my children I “taped” something on tv for them, because it’s “DVR-ed”.

    My kids will never know what “Be Kind, Please Rewind” means, or that godawful sound of the modem connecting to the internet.

    For that matter, email will never be special to them. It used to be thrilling to get an email. Now I’ll open my inbox to 45, most of which are junk.

    I also don’t imagine they’ll ever know the deliciousness of raw hamburger meat.

  7. Jean says:

    How about the Freihofer man with his Horse and wagon. he would look for the sign in your window, and stop so you could buy bread, cookies and cakes. also when we had to sweep the stairs every Saturday and then wash them.
    when we took short-hand in high school.