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11 Aug 2022, 9:57 pm

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I remember how much of a big deal it was when my father bought a 25-inch Zenith color TV in 1967. He also bought an Oldsmobile Delta 88 at about the same time.

In my 6-year-old mind, we were rising up in the world!

That must have been a groovy time for you. :flower:

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11 Aug 2022, 10:00 pm

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The Kinks were one of the groups which gave intellectual credibility to rock and roll during the 60s.

I agree with you there.

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11 Aug 2022, 10:01 pm

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You young'uns have no idea what "Old-Fashioned" really means! Why, when I was your age, we mixed our Old-Fashions with home-made hootch, 'cept we called it "Bathtub Gin" instead! Our bathtub was on that back porch next to the firewood and the smoked bacon, which was all we ever smoked unless there was plenty of corn-silk in the field. I remember a time when me and my cousins was smokin' corn-silk out back o'the barn readin' National Geographic and talkin' 'bout girls when a sudden rainstorm came up and drenched us all to the bone. Fortunately, we was able to git inside 'fore any of us got hit by lightning but you shoulda heard ma yellin' at us for trackin' dirt into her kitchen, bein' the kind a woman what was proud of her house-keeping.

Now, she was real old-fashioned that way.

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I Australia it mean't having an outdoor toilet/bathroom in your backyard, I recall as a child braving the rain and elements to get relieve myself. My parents thought in the 1970s having an indoor toilet was unhygienic :lol:

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11 Aug 2022, 10:03 pm

Jakki wrote:

Perhaps old fashion is a state of mind as well . Have me a computer, but I work with wood shaping tools from the 1800s in many repair projects around the house . That are inherited from a great grandfather. :mrgreen:

I agree that it is a state of mind.

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11 Aug 2022, 10:05 pm

Was it a flush toilet, or an outhouse?

I went to a summer camp in the early 70s where we used outhouses.

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11 Aug 2022, 10:08 pm

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Joe90 wrote:

I believe in gender roles.

I don't.

don't get me started...

Okay, people....Make Love Not War. :wink:

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11 Aug 2022, 10:16 pm

Fnord wrote:

Those were pretty old-fashioned things that your family did with the hootch, smoked bacon and corn-silk. You also had a respectable mother who was proud of her home keeping.

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11 Aug 2022, 10:27 pm

I think that young men and women should be joining the army and serving their countries instead of sitting in the park smoking pot all day.

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11 Aug 2022, 11:44 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:

Was it a flush toilet, or an outhouse?

I went to a summer camp in the early 70s where we used outhouses.

Yes it was flush. In the old days most suburbs used a septic tank where wastewater was collected which fed into central point collected by a truck. Nowadays everything is pumped away from indoor plumbing.

Really old houses also had outdoor showers :lol:

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11 Aug 2022, 11:47 pm

We have an outhouse and outdoor shower at my lake house ^ .
We use them when we're outside boating, or rinsing off from a swim.

There's also indoor plumbing and indoor showers with a septic tank.

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11 Aug 2022, 11:56 pm

cyberdad wrote:

kraftiekortie wrote:

Was it a flush toilet, or an outhouse?

I went to a summer camp in the early 70s where we used outhouses.

Just like the house on Green Acres.

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11 Aug 2022, 11:57 pm

IsabellaLinton wrote:

We have an outhouse and outdoor shower at my lake house ^ .
We use them when we're outside boating, or rinsing off from a swim.

There's also indoor plumbing and indoor showers with a septic tank.

I'd like to see all those artifacts.

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12 Aug 2022, 1:23 am

IsabellaLinton wrote:

We have an outhouse and outdoor shower at my lake house ^ .
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Hamptons?

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12 Aug 2022, 1:24 am

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