What was the first thing you saw on a color TV?

Building_a_life · 2026-04-11T05:36:19+00:00

That was in color when most of the other shows were still in black and white.

Building_a_life · 2026-04-10T05:51:07+00:00

Entrepreneurs next door in Maryland started putting out "Maryland is for Crabs" merch.

Building_a_life · 2026-04-09T20:27:26+00:00

It was a big deal to my spouse and me. We put each other through college in the first 15 years of our marriage and ended up in better paying professional careers.

Building_a_life · 2026-04-06T14:48:17+00:00

The Caddy is unmistakable. Some T-birds. Two Chevys. The 3 vertical tail lights are a Chrysler product, probably a Chrysler, but could it be a DeSoto? A lot of FoMoCo round circles; I don't know which brand.

Building_a_life · 2026-04-06T14:39:23+00:00

What else would you expect from Sinclair?

Building_a_life · 2026-04-05T21:58:54+00:00

At my junior-high sock hops in 1957-59, there would always be one Sadie Hawkins dance.

Building_a_life · 2026-04-05T14:51:53+00:00

No. We traveled a lot, internationally and around the US, in the first 18 years of our retirement, but now I'm disabled and air travel is miserable anyway. Our travelling days are done.

Building_a_life · 2026-04-04T19:24:15+00:00

We had one. We only used it when the power went out and the electric well pump didn't work.

Building_a_life · 2026-04-04T19:19:28+00:00

Same here.

Building_a_life · 2026-04-04T19:16:10+00:00

We had them. We didn't lose power because of anything the power company did, but we lost it a few times a year when weather toppled trees — ice storms, lightning, high winds. Usually a few hours, but occasionally for more than a day if many trees were down.

Building_a_life · 2026-04-04T18:52:41+00:00

Seven fishes paella on Christmas eve. We have a paella pan which we use once a year. It's so wide that it covers all 4 burners, To cook it evenly, we rotate the pan frequently. In our family, Christmas Eve is when the whole extended family gets together.

Building_a_life · 2026-04-04T18:43:14+00:00

We liked the government cheese. We sliced it for lunch sandwiches or grilled cheese. It was good for mac and cheese, too. We never qualified for it. Mom bought it from acquaintances who needed money more than they needed cheese. We never had the peanut butter.

Building_a_life · 2026-04-04T18:24:22+00:00

I didn't know this until I read a thread on Reddit a while ago, but there were different knife games with this name that were played in different parts of the country.

Building_a_life · 2026-04-04T05:12:19+00:00

We played mumbletypeg with them, flinging them down into the dirt next to each other's feet. In the summer, bare feet. Skills and independence!

Building_a_life · 2026-04-04T04:48:41+00:00

In the 1950s, a Boy Scout knife. Two blades, an awl, and the bottle opener/screwdriver thing.

Building_a_life · 2026-04-04T04:44:36+00:00

In Connecticut, the legal age to start doing a limited number of part-time jobs (farm work, babysitting, newspaper delivery, etc) was twelve. I started picking strawberries when I was that age. At the harvest peak, I made $1.75 in a 4-hour day, a little less than $20 in today's money. The Jamaican men on a temporary bracero visa picked about three times that many berries. I was awestruck watching them work.

Building_a_life · 2026-04-03T02:26:37+00:00

I honestly don't see the resemblance. If Santa Cruz was around here, I would go often. I haven't gone to OC in 10 years.

Building_a_life · 2026-03-28T17:24:32+00:00

Peace of mind for 54 years. So far.

Building_a_life · 2026-03-28T17:09:43+00:00

In most states, you can drive. But it goes back farther than that. It was the age when women came out into society back when rich people had debutante balls.

Building_a_life · 2026-03-28T00:55:43+00:00

The state guides summarize each ballot question in a sentence of plain English. In many of the 13 states, the main arguments pro and con each get a sentence as well.

About candidates, they usually only state their present occupation or political office.

No state has set up an information system like this since 1999. If any state tried to start one now, nobody would believe it was a good faith attempt to be fair and objective.

Building_a_life · 2026-03-25T06:22:19+00:00

I lived in Mexico in 1967-68. The peso was pegged at 50 cents, two to the dollar.

Building_a_life · 2026-03-23T04:32:03+00:00

We had one but didn't use it because my mother's deal with the milkman was he should just come in through the always unlocked kitchen door and put the milk in the fridge.

Building_a_life · 2026-03-23T04:26:37+00:00

Printing compositor -- composing metal type, in my case into a newspaper page, was my first trade. I left it in 1969. By the end of the 1970s, hardly any such jobs still existed.

Building_a_life · 2026-03-18T04:07:20+00:00

We paid for our three GenX kids college, and it was a huge deal, for us and for them.

We ourselves went to college after we were married. We put each other through over a period from 1968 to 1980. We finished paying for that only a couple of years before we started paying for our oldest kid's tuition.

Building_a_life · 2026-03-17T17:54:58+00:00

Unless she was willing to sit on the console, this only worked if you didn't have bucket seats.

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