Remember When!!
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I didn't take shorthand, but I did have a manual typing class in 8th grade. I'm a little older than some of you so I typed on a manual all through college and for several years after I was married. Yup = I hated the corrections on carbons. And wow - the smell of the liquid to correct mimeographs.
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Spookies, I remember getting worse and worse grades each grading period in the year long shorthand class. I think I just remembered the dictation long enough to type of the "letter" or whatever was dictated. I didn't have good ear with phonics and that is the basis for shorthand, so I never could get fast at actually taking dictation so as the class progressed and got faster, I couldn't keep up. No, never used it, but I did take a speed writing class years later that I used for awhile, but it was much different than shorthand and used actual letters. Don't remember that anymore either!!!
Ruth, I'm right with you on typewriters. I just remember typing blue dittos and coming home having blue streaks across my face!!!
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I went to an all-girls high school for the first 2 years, and they had two "paths" - college prep for the smarter ones and "secretarial" for those deemed not to be college material. Here's the dumb thing: those of us in college prep never had typing classes. I had to teach myself how to type so I could type my own term papers in college!
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My high school also had two paths. I took civics in summer school so I could take one semester of typing during the regular school year. Because I could now type my parents gave me a typewriter to take to college. My uncle was a veep in an office supply store and got a Royal manual with capped keys except the number/symbol row. His advice was that with the capped keys the only people who would borrow it would know how to type and be less likely to destroy it. Used it for years, white out and correction tape and all. Using a computer has really messed up my correct words per minute which wasn't that great to begin with!
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I must have just taken whatever classes I thought interesting. I took secretarial and college prep classes, but never went into secretarial work. I went to college my whole adult life while I worked at various jobs to pay for it. Glad I had the typing class, and with computers it has served me well!! Except, as I agree with Beaverntx, typing on computers has really messed with my speed and accuracy!! Remember on a manual typewriter how the little bell would ring as you got near the end of the line so you knew when to hit the carriage return?
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Remember decorating your bike with red, blue, and white crepe paper streamers and woven through the spokes, and riding in the Memorial Day parade!
Today we remember all those lost in defense of our country, and those who lost their lives to COVID.
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Yes, thanks to those who served.
Remember clipping playing cards on to the bike spokes with clothes pins to get an awesome noise?
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Remember picking wildflowers to decorate graves on what was once called Decoration Day? And cutting peonies and lilacs or whatever was blooming , placed in jars of water on the graves? Not one faux bloom in sight. When they wilted, they were removed.
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Remember mowing the lawn with a push mower?
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I remember when most families had station wagons. Some even had those seats that faced each other in the way back.
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Or kids riding in the back of those station wagons with no seats and no seatbelts! Yikes!
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anybody remember the old radio show "Our Miss Brooks"?
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Oh my yes and "The shadow knows"
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Speaking of shadows, did anyone watch the gothic soap opera "Dark Shadows?" Used to run off the school bus to watch the last half of the show! Barnabas Collins was so scary!!
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Yes, I remember Dark Shadows!
My mom always took a break at 1:00 to watch Days of Our Lives.
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I watched General Hospital when younger, but haven't seen in decades, then watched Days of our Lives off and on for years. It's still on at 1:00pm where I live. I'll have to tune in sometime and catch up on the story!
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It's probably all the same characters; and they probably have all been thought to be dead but actually had amnesia, and been married/divorced/remarried to the same people multiple times!
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Never could get in to any of them. Took sooooooooo long for something to be resolved/happen. Mom watched GH every day.
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Wasn't there One Life to Live?
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I still watch General Hospital!
Dark Shadows was my sister's favorite show.
Yes, One Life to Live was part of the ABC daytime line-up.
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Talking about old radio shows, anyone remember The Great Gildersleeve? Or Mr. and Mrs. North? Or Inner Sanctum (with the scary music intro?)
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Sargent Preston of the Yukon !!!
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I think I remember that One Life To LIve started when Dark Shadows ended?? Does that sound familiar to anyone? I watched One Life early on but stopped after I left for college.
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My husband and I started watching Dark Shadows on Netflix a few months ago. There are like 26 seasons! We made it about halfway through than lost interest. Might start again around Halloween. We both watched after school when we were young.0
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How about the song Night & Day? A member on another thread mentioned it and now I can't get it out of my head. Song worm.....
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🎶🎶🎶You wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent.🎶🎶 And one for Ipana? toothpaste.
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See the USA in Your Chevrolet
From the Land of Sky Blue Waters, Hamms the Beer Refreshing
Where's the beef?
Calgon, take me away!
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How about when there used to be cigarette advertising on TV? Even Virginia Slims aimed at women!!!
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The Malbouro Man
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Talk about targeting and profiling!! Virginia Slims to keep women skinny, and the manly Malbouro Man to hook the man!!!
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