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Ever wonder how your life differs from your grandparents or parents?

Ever wonder how your life differs from your grandparents or parents?. Maybe not but… Let’s take look anyway. All girls wore ugly gym uniforms. The TV took 5 minutes to warm up. Nearly everyone’s mom was home when kids got home from school. No one owned a purebred dog.

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Ever wonder how your life differs from your grandparents or parents?

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  1. Ever wonder how your life differs from your grandparents or parents? Maybe not but… Let’s take lookanyway

  2. All girls wore ugly gym uniforms

  3. The TV took 5 minutes to warm up

  4. Nearly everyone’s mom was home when kids got home from school

  5. No one owned a purebred dog

  6. A quarter was decent allowance

  7. You’d reach in a muddy gutter for a penny

  8. Your mom wore nylons that came in 2 pieces

  9. You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped without asking, all for free AND you only paid 29 cents a gallon in the 50’s

  10. Well paid dads brought home $600 a month (1950’s)

  11. We had “PARTY” lines on our Home telephone (We all had home phones or no phone at all) • No one had a private line • You’d pick up the phone & make sure your neighbor wasn’t talking. (The “original” conference call) • There was NO call waiting

  12. The men teachers wore ties everyday and the women had their hair done daily

  13. Laundry detergent had FREE glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box as a prize.

  14. They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed and they did

  15. None asked for the car keys because they were always in the car, in the ignition and doors were never locked

  16. Kids would lie on the grass look up and say,‘That cloud looks like…”

  17. Stuff came from the store withoutSafety caps and hermetic seals because no one had been poisoned yet

  18. When the only weapons found at school a SLING SHOT

  19. When being sent to the principal’s office was NOTHING compared to the fate that awaited when you got home from school

  20. They ACTUALLY sold….

  21. CANDY CIGARETTES

  22. Glass bottles in Soda Machines

  23. And

  24. What about Cars & Gas?? • A Cadillac in the 50’s = $5,000 • NOW = $60,000 plus • Gas in the Mid 1960’s = $0.33 a gallon • NOW = $3.59 a gallon

  25. AND TheseDIDN’T EVEN EXISTin everyday homes • Microwaves • OMG..How would you make popcorn?? • Personal Computers • Handheld Cell Phones • The first were in a bag & weighted 3 lbs. • Cassette tapes • VHS, CD, DVD • What… No movie or video game rentals???

  26. Color TV • Most families had black & white TVs • Cable & Satellite TV • (Fresno had 4 channels with rabbit ear antennas • to pick up the signal) • Surround Sound – Home Entertainment We had record players • Xbox, Nintendo, Home Video Games • Digital clock radios • Central Air & Heating.. • Ahh! swamp coolers • Car air conditioning • We had 2 windows & 60 miles an hour

  27. I-anything (IPOD, MP3, etc) • TEXT MESSAGES • Coffee makers • And MORE. Life has changed fast in 40 years…. Now, Can you imagine what things will change in the next 40 years? HOW WILL YOU CHANGE?

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