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Nostalgia

What about having to defrost your refrigerator instead of it self defrosting? We used to eat up as much of the leftovers as we could and then brought out the picnic coolers and ice and put everything in it (or a few of them) while we defrosted the refrigerator. Later we had an extra refrigerator in the basement and tried to condense everything in one of them to defrost the other.
 
We still have a window air conditioner and don't have whole house air conditioning. Of course years ago cars didn't have air conditioning either and we used to open car windows with the breeze and road noise.
 
I didn't know 10 of the things. I guess that means I knew 15 of them. There were a couple I called by a different name, but knew what it was. I called the grammar phone a victrola, which was similar.
 
NotHardUp1 said:
I remember bathing in these before we had an indoor bathroom, and after we did but didn't have a tub or showere, only a commode and vanity:

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Water was heated on the cookstove in an aluminum water kettle that held about a gallon. You learned young to get on one side of it when fresh hot water was being added. :LOL: Ours looked a lot like this one, but with yellowed finish, not polished:
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My dad and his family did this in the 50s and 60s, except they didn't have a bathroom. They did it in the kitchen.
 
Rickrock said:
What about having to defrost your refrigerator instead of it self defrosting? We used to eat up as much of the leftovers as we could and then brought out the picnic coolers and ice and put everything in it (or a few of them) while we defrosted the refrigerator. Later we had an extra refrigerator in the basement and tried to condense everything in one of them to defrost the other.
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I still defrost my refrigerator :(
 
PalacePaul said:
My dad and his family did this in the 50s and 60s, except they didn't have a bathroom. They did it in the kitchen.
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Same here. We had a living room adjoining the kitchen and dining room, and it had both a floor furnace and gas space heater. The tub was set up in front of the large space heater and we were comfy enough. It was the 1960's and 70's. The kitchen and cookstove was only a couple of strides away, so easy to add hot water. I believe we emptied it by using a pail.
 
Rickrock said:
I didn't know 10 of the things. I guess that means I knew 15 of them. There were a couple I called by a different name, but knew what it was. I called the grammar phone a victrola, which was similar.
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Victrola became synonymous with a gramaphone later, much as Jell-O became synonymous with gelatin, or Coke became synonymous for a cola.

Everyone knew there were other brands, but the dominant one just became the common noun in everyday parlance.
 
Rickrock said:
We still have a window air conditioner and don't have whole house air conditioning. Of course years ago cars didn't have air conditioning either and we used to open car windows with the breeze and road noise.
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I don't have air conditioning at home. I open the windows and turn on an electric fan.

PalacePaul said:
I still defrost my refrigerator :(
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I still defrost the freezer. About once a year and it's not a huge deal.
 
I still have to defrost the freezer on the refrigerator here, although it's not by original refrigerator design, but I think wear and tear and age. I don't really defrost--I just chip the most problematic buildup away. "Someday" part of me hopes to have a better refrigerator, although I'm grateful for something "good enough" now.

At the same time, though, I wouldn't mind having a vintage refrigerator. And I've heard owners of such refrigerators swear food is kept better and apparently the energy use isn't that bad. (The real energy hogs are apparently the earlier frost free models.) The selling point for me, though, is that I think vintage appliances are more interesting than the crap they currently sell at Home Depot.
 
Getting back to the earlier posts...

I remember console TVs quite well. Both sets of grandparents had them.

I also remember those console audio systems, although I never saw one with a TV built in. I actually once had such a console, although I didn't use it much. I sometimes think it might be fun to have one again, although it would only be used as novelty item. But I have thought that it could be a nice "second system" for background music.

I think black and white TVs got mentioned. That was all my family ever had, although it was not reflection of the era so much as a reflection of the fact that my parents weren't big on TV. The last TV was bought right after Christmas, so I suspect that part of the issue for that TV was just to conserve money after the holiday season.

I remember when I was high school aged a local TV station that carried Perry Mason made a big deal when they aired the one episode shot in color. It was an interesting piece of trivia--but irrelevant at the time, since it looked like all the other episodes of Perry Mason on our TV!
 
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