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Post by Kimby on Apr 9, 2011 22:47:23 GMT
I think I still have my old stamp collection somewhere stashed away...........I would give it to one of the grandkids but so far none have shown any interest in the subject. And never will, probably. Unless they turn out to be worth something! My parents have saved stamps for their entire marriage, but have put off organizing them in albums "until they get old." Now that they ARE old, though, they don't have the stamina for a project that large. Or the eyesight. |
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Post by foreverman on Apr 12, 2011 2:53:31 GMT
Many years ago in the 1960's I used to belong to a stamp club. I used to receive a box of thousands of unsorted stamps and could sort through them and pick out what I wanted for a penny a stamp. Then send the company a Postal Order for the ones I wanted and send the stamps to the next person on the list. It was all done on trust and it was a good system. I cannot really see it working these days though.........  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2011 12:05:02 GMT
I did something similar although,I was never a serious collector,I have always had a fascination and love of stamps as well as maps. There used to be an advertisement on a matchbook cover,1,000 stamps from around the world for $1.00. One would receive a small parcel chock full of stamps indeed,from all over the world. I probably still have them somewhere. Some were quite beautiful and had fantastic images of exotic plants,birds,insects etc. as well as exotic foreign languages I had no understanding of but,were very,very cool.  Remember when spools of thread were made out of wood instead of plastic? I was reminded of this when i was cleaning out my mother's house and found dozens of wooden spools of thread. ( All of which I kept of course!!! :  ) |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2011 13:35:27 GMT
I still have wooden spool somewhere as well. The minute you see one, you realize that it is a precious relic of the past.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 28, 2011 5:10:17 GMT
Just went to the dentist today, and was reminiscing with the hygienist about the old porcelain spit bowls dentists used to have. She said they were called "cuspidors" and that she doesn't miss them, as "you wouldn't believe how many people would miss the bowl and spit on the floor".
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Post by bixaorellana on May 7, 2011 17:48:19 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2011 19:57:58 GMT
Does anybody have any idea when the doctor's waiting room stopped smelling like ether? That is such an intense childhood memory.
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Post by foreverman on May 16, 2011 12:13:23 GMT
Can anyone remember when libraries had to be very quiet ??............thats gone by the board here, they even hold kids playgroups there.
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Post by rikita on May 16, 2011 16:56:29 GMT
doesn't that depend on the library? at the iberoamerican-library i got shushed by people sitting there and reading when i was speaking to the librarian too loudly... and the university libraries tend to be quiet too. small village libraries like the one my mom works in are a bit louder though, there people aren't really reading or studying there, but only taking books home and exchanging gossip.
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Post by foreverman on May 17, 2011 12:35:39 GMT
I suppose you are right, but my library still has a reading area where people can sit and study and go on the internet..............I guess noise is part and parcel of life these days.....
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2011 13:53:46 GMT
I remember when fluorescent tubes mounted in those "ice cube tray" grills seemed really modern in offices.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 17, 2011 13:58:27 GMT
I remember when fluorescent tubes mounted in those "ice cube tray" grills seemed really modern in offices. We've still got them..... |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2011 13:59:30 GMT
Do they still seem modern? |
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2011 11:00:17 GMT
I remember taking 36 pictures sometimes and then discovering that the film had not been loaded properly.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2011 13:34:38 GMT
I'm so glad we can have digital cameras nowadays. The worst disappointment for me was when I went to Paris and the same thing as you describe happened, Kerouac. The film was not loaded properly and I didn't get one single photo.  |
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Post by Kimby on May 26, 2011 22:13:41 GMT
If that happened to you once, you made damn sure it never happened again! You watched the knob to make sure it was turning when you wound the film.
My sister took a whole roll of film during her last ever visit with our grandfather in Austria while she was on a semester abroad in England. She was amazed, then shattered, when the camera registered 37, 38, 39 exposures. She was back in London by then, and Grandpa died a few months later.
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Post by rikita on May 27, 2011 10:27:57 GMT
that's sad...
the first camera i ever had was a very old one i inherited from my uncle who probably inherited it from someone else. the mechanism to transport the film in there broke at some point, so i was quite disappointed about that too, though as i was only 11 years old i forgot about it pretty soon. (though my dad got angry at the local photographer as he charged me for developing the film - he said in the case of a child you could not charge if it turns out the film is empty...)
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Post by foreverman on May 27, 2011 11:13:10 GMT
I remember when packets of crisps were sold with a separate little blue bag of salt. It never seemed to be at the top of the packet and you had to hunt around for it...............
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2011 16:20:31 GMT
Ricky, I was given my first camera at the age of 12. A good time to start and to gain a long term love of photography.
Quote from Kimby:
Absolutely. It never happened again, I always made sure I got it right after that. The saving grace was that my 17 year old cousin (who went with me to Paris at the time), gave me a copy of all the photos that she took, so all was not lost.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2011 7:12:19 GMT
I particularly remember when you often waited sometimes two weeks (or more) to finally see the pictures you had taken.
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Post by foreverman on Jun 1, 2011 10:56:32 GMT
I remember when all the photo's were black and white and you used to put them in an album using those little corner things..................
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2011 11:55:18 GMT
I particularly remember when you often waited sometimes two weeks (or more) to finally see the pictures you had taken. Oh jeez...I'm so glad we have moved on from that! |
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 1, 2011 14:55:32 GMT
I remember when all the photo's were black and white and you used to put them in an album using those little corner things.................. Remember the white ink, so you could write on that funny-textured black paper in the album? We all can remember when people didn't hand you their telephone so you could look at a photograph, or even a video, as my bus driver was doing yesterday, as he was driving. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2011 18:09:56 GMT
I wonder why the paper was black.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 1, 2011 18:35:57 GMT
I always wondered that, too.
Remember the albums that came after the tiny-corner-tab kind? They had very stiff white pages overlaid with some slightly sticky clear plastic. Eventually someone would pick up the album and all the carefully placed pictures within would fall to the floor.
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Post by foreverman on Jun 2, 2011 5:36:14 GMT
We still have all our albums covering the last 50 years..............Its surprising the amount of times our daughters and grandkids get the albums out when they visit...............
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2011 19:48:10 GMT
I recently obtained the French family albums from 60 or 70 years ago. I have scanned a certain number of the pictures (at the expense of having to pull some of those corners loose, never to be perfectly displayed again).
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2011 16:58:19 GMT
When In England recently, I obtained a very old photo of my mother when she was very small. She sits with ther father who is in full military uniform. I also found one of my dad with his huge family when he was a kid. They are both in black and white too.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2011 18:11:35 GMT
A couple of weeks ago, I saw the winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, The Tree of Life. A lot of the movie takes place in the 1950's in Texas and shows 3 brothers keeping busy all day, playing, exploring, fighting, doing stupid things, imagining things.... and not a Playstation or any other electronic device in sight. I had a similar childhood and was rarely bored -- there were so many things to do outside, both dangerous and silly, but it was part of growing up.
When I see the reliance on electronics of current generations, I do wonder sometimes how they would fare if it all of a sudden stopped working.
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Post by rikita on Jun 4, 2011 13:40:47 GMT
oh i think the children would do fine. they usually adapt quickly. teenagers or adults might have more difficulties... and most kids i know still enjoy playing outside if given the chance. problem is that depending where you live that isn't that easy...
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