Old?

[Crabbyboater]

Well, GB, we were both born in '36.  Me on a farm in Nebraska.  Doc come to our home for my birth, and later sent a bill to cover everything, including Mom's visits to him beforehand...$26.00!  I remember all on the list including the margarine kneading, no electricity, crank telephone on the wall, the outhouse. We also had a wood stove for heat and another "range" in kitchen that burned wood or coal for cooking and baking.  And here's one I haven't seen mentioned:  an ice box.  My favorite as a kid was cranking the old ice cream freezer until the contents got so stiff I couldn't turn the handle any more. Best ice cream ever!

Lots of great memories, but I'm happy I don't have to do many of those things any more.

[GrayBeard]

Speaking of turning a crank!
I remember the crankup "Victrola" grandma had...and to till their huge garden we had to turn the crank on the old tractor.

[pddesertrat]

We still crank ice cream, often.  When I was a kid, we had one that made 5 gallons!  That was a lot of hard cranking. 

[Kepy]

Another memory that I would just as soon not remember was going to the dentist.  He used a foot powered drill and it didn't have a water cooler so you could smell the stink of it drilling.

[Woodchuck]

I remember going to the dentist who had all the needles in clear display in glass jars on the shelf. Being just a small kid I asked him if he stuck them in all the way...He said, "Yes"   ... No problem getting me to brush my teeth after that! 

[Jim Finn]

I remember all of that.  I also remember that we had our teeth drilled with no Novocaine.  Pain blockers like that cost an extra dollar so we did without. First Novocaine I got was in the USAF in 1961.

[Russ C]

A simpler way of life back then, sometimes I miss it. 

[Honeycow]

I remember as a kid watching the Jetsons and thinking how cool it would be to talk to someone on the phone while seeing each other on a screen.  Hello FaceTime. I am waiting for Rosie to be invented!