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Laugh Mar 14, 2020 at 02:31 PM
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Given the current emphasis on avoiding crowds, as a result of the coronavirus, I thought some might derive amusement from watching an old CBS "Sunday Morning" piece by (now retired) Bill Geist. Back in 2008, with fuel shortages & economic woes, people in the U.S. were encouraged to vacation at home. This is Geist's take on the concept of the "staycation":

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Anybody else remember the Russian TP shortage and food lines? That's what I think of when I see all the empty shelfs photos

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Default Mar 16, 2020 at 11:52 AM
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Some hippies I knew who used phone books for toilet paper. (I think we're getting our comeuppance for doing away with big, thick phone books )

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Default Mar 16, 2020 at 01:04 PM
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I told my wife perhaps we should begin stockpiling old newspapers...

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Default Mar 16, 2020 at 01:41 PM
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(aside: when working with elderly people who went through the depression, i noticed they often were very frugal with tp. &i think i was one of those hippies bethrags mentioned...but really a plastic bottle (like for mustard etal) with warm water (peri-botttles in nurse lingo) work pretty well)--bidet time
OTHERWISE--------------?what do I remember
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Default Mar 16, 2020 at 05:48 PM
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I actually remember when Sears and Roebuck catalog pages were used as TP. That use could be a good way to deal with junk mail.

I also remember the gas shortage. At least maybe self-isolation will cut down on gas expense now. Hubby just went to the drug store for some vitamins and such. Otherwise, he isn't getting out much and me not at all.
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Default Mar 17, 2020 at 06:49 AM
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Restricted phone time...and no TV

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Radium clock faces---radiation being "unknown"---those green glow in the dark ones

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when most places where closed on Sundays......
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Anybody remember the soaps "The Secret Storm" and the "Edge of Night"?

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I didn't watch soaps but a friend was hooked on Dark Shadows.

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Default Apr 06, 2020 at 09:00 PM
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Since more women are working, that's why there's very few soaps now, I guess.

Do you all remember when you had to go through an operator to make a long distance call? ANd you could reverse the charges, meaning the person you called had to pay for it.
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Default Apr 06, 2020 at 09:14 PM
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I do remember that and I remember there was cheating too. People would make a person to person collect call just to tell their parents or sweetheart that they got home just fine but the person would say they wouldn't accept charges but they all ready heard the message. It was common on sit-comes to do that.

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When I was little we had an Easter Egg candy bakery in town. You could go there and special order coconut cream Easter eggs with one's name inscribed on them. We were six kids and my mother always went and special ordered eggs with each of our names on them. Of course I didn't know this until I was older because they came from the Easter Bunny.

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Do You Remember Rock And Roll Radio? by the Ramones.
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Elvis Presley and The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show

I couldn't understand what the big deal was about showing Elvis below the waist when he was performing some songs.
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all of the above
Remember clipping baseball cards, with laundry clips, to bicycle spokes to make a cool sound?
and, in NY anyway, police had red lights...not blue
Yellow Checker cabs with pull up extra stool seats in the rear
The hurdy gurdy man and monkey, hot chestnuts
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The first color tv on the block
and, of course, as always, candy cigarettes...
there was something I thought of the other day that I can't retrieve right now...hmmm

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Sinclair Gas. Jenny Gas Stations on the parkways
TV....My Little Margie, Mr Ed, Queen for a Day (ugh), The Little Rascals/Our Gang, ...etc
never did get my Go Go boots...had the elephant bell bottoms
Tessie? (the doll that had the hair you could pull out to be longer)
soap---As The World Turns...& I would stop at a friends' after school to watch Dark Shadows
Playing with the mercury from broken thermometers was fun...(?toxic you say)
& all those ads on the back of matchbooks for truck driving school...etc

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