Ancient times

Ancient times.  Growing up in the 1950s... Yes,  in the middle of the last century... 7 decades ago... or is that 8? Electronics was a corded wall phone,  Black& white TV that got 3 channels,  and a transistor radio which was portable compared to the old plug in radio that had tubes in it.  And yes... We had electricity.  No computers,  no video games,  no cell phones, no internet, no cable TV. We did have plug in electric clocks and believe it or not wrist watches. Alarm clocks and the watches had to be wound up daily or they simply stopped. When they stopped how did we know what time it was? Well, we didn't walk outside to look at our trusty sun dial ( just kidding) ... We went into the kitchen where the one and only wall phone was and dialed that well use phone number... 844-1212. And a modern recording would tell you what the time was.  "At the tone, the time will be 9:55 and 30 seconds... beep". Yep,  it was the modern age where you could dial local numbers with out operator assistance.  For all other calls like long distance or person to person calls,  or collect calls,  you needed the operator... Just dial "O" to connect to her. We were definitely in the modern age... Now we had 7 digit phone numbers.  Still remember our old phone number from the 50s... MU6-0336. "MU" stands for "Murdock". Don't ask me,  it never made much sense to me... Then our now.  There was also a phone nunber to get local weather. The modern age of marvels. Like automatic clothes washing machines. And lawn mowers that ran on gasoline. Speaking of gasoline... Cars were big,  and by today's standards they were battleships, and got a wopping 9-12 miles per gallon. But then again, gasoline was 25 cents per gallon.   

Jump forward 65 years... Just look at us now. 

My dad's car... 1954 Chevy Belair

My mom's car ( later)  1960 Chevy station wagon. 

Countless trips, near and far,  we all piled into

the car... 2 adults... several kids...

Going everywhere and anywhere. 

Good times!