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Pinball machines...and cash. Can't find a pinball machine anywhere, these days. A few weeks back, we went to the local bowling place cuz I felt like playing pinball. They had plenty of arcade games, but not a single pinball machine. So, we went to the "restaurant" to grab burgers. The restaurant is more of a sports bar with huge tv screens (projector) and a decent, if pricy, menu. After our meal, the bill was presented. We tried to pay cash, but they don't take cash, "anywhere in the building". Cards only. She said that the host that brought us to the table is supposed to tell you that. He didn't.
 
GinnyPNW said:
Pinball machines...and cash. Can't find a pinball machine anywhere, these days. A few weeks back, we went to the local bowling place cuz I felt like playing pinball. They had plenty of arcade games, but not a single pinball machine. So, we went to the "restaurant" to grab burgers. The restaurant is more of a sports bar with huge tv screens (projector) and a decent, if pricy, menu. After our meal, the bill was presented. We tried to pay cash, but they don't take cash, "anywhere in the building". Cards only. She said that the host that brought us to the table is supposed to tell you that. He didn't.
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More and more places in my area are going cashless.

I can’t believe that it is legal to refuse cash.
 
My early memories of my childhood are visiting my grandparents in new Brighton chch. Granddad came home from wwII ( 4 years in p.o.w camp in Poland) they only had an outside long drop. I hated going there.put inside one about 67'
Bet there's not many here who had to experience that.??

Russ
 
Rascal said:
My early memories of my childhood are visiting my grandparents in new Brighton chch. Granddad came home from wwII ( 4 years in p.o.w camp in Poland) they only had an outside long drop. I hated going there.put inside one about 67'
Bet there's not many here who had to experience that.??

Russ
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I assume a "long drop" is some sort of outhouse, as opposed to indoor plumbing?

I lived in a log cabin for a few years where we had an outhouse. We had an indoor toilet, but there wasn't enough water in the spring well to have running water except from early spring to early summer. The rest of the year we didn't have running water and used the outhouse. You would be surprised how quickly you can get your business done when it's -30°C outside.
 
taxlady said:
I assume a "long drop" is some sort of outhouse, as opposed to indoor plumbing?

I lived in a log cabin for a few years where we had an outhouse. We had an indoor toilet, but there wasn't enough water in the spring well to have running water except from early spring to early summer. The rest of the year we didn't have running water and used the outhouse. You would be surprised how quickly you can get your business done when it's -30°C outside.
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Yes outhouse a guy used to come around on a Sunday night to empty it. Running water inside though.
A log cabin would have been interesting?

Russ
 
My Mom used to remind me of the time in '58 (I think it was when I was 2½ years old) when we visited some relatives in N or S Dakota, out in the boondocks, that still had an outhouse, and she couldn't get me to go inside it! I don't remember that part of the trip, but I do remember the slop pots each of them kept spitting into - even the older teens. Of course, I had no idea what it was, until years later.
 
Rascal said:
Yes outhouse a guy used to come around on a Sunday night to empty it. Running water inside though.
A log cabin would have been interesting?

Russ
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It was interesting. It was a two story log cabin and all the logs were covered, both inside and out. Hiding the logs was meant to make the house look more "normal". While middle class folks might find a log cabin nostalgic, romantic, or cool, poor country folks, not so much. To the poor country folks, a log cabin was an embarrassment. We rented it from the local service station owner. It was very near the woods and wildlife ate most of the plants in the garden. We had a small herb garden near the house. Nobody seemed to eat any of the herbs, but a moose would regularly come and walk in it. We never saw the moose, but those dinner plate sized footprints were definitely moose. From their arrangement, we got the impression that the moose had been dancing. So, the only veg we could harvest was weeds like milk weed and berries from the feral raspberry bushes out back and the wild strawberries and dew berries I found when going for long walks along old logging roads. We found an edible mushroom once in a while, but not often.
 
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The rule for the long drop outhouse: Never look into the hole. It was terrifying enough to think what could be there but, if something is there when you look, you will never get it out of your mind and will test your body to see how long you can hold something.

The great-grandmother who had a gutter that would bring water from the handpump to the sink had an outhouse. It was amazing how they lived by today's standards. I have much respect for them as I know they could survive nearly anything.
 
I remember digging for the prize in a freshly opened box of cereal. And reading the back of the cereal box while having a bowl.

I also remember the razor blade slot in the medicine cabinet in the bathroom. My dad would stick his used razor blades down inside that slot and I always wondered where they went. Well recently I saw a few pics of an old house that was being remodeled and when they tore out the old medicine cabinet, there was a big pile of razor blades inside the wall. And it made me wonder how many older houses, built in the 50's and 60's, still have piles of blades behind original medicine cabinets. :unsure:
 
Linda0818 said:
I also remember the razor blade slot in the medicine cabinet in the bathroom. My dad would stick his used razor blades down inside that slot and I always wondered where they went. Well recently I saw a few pics of an old house that was being remodeled and when they tore out the old medicine cabinet, there was a big pile of razor blades inside the wall. And it made me wonder how many older houses, built in the 50's and 60's, still have piles of blades behind original medicine cabinets. :unsure:
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WOW, never heard of that! How fascinating! When I think on the houses I've know to be renovated, most from the late 50's, early 60's, there were never any comments about it.
razor disposal, who knew!
I remember saving the paper the blades came wrapped in to dispose of them. Shortly after that time there were separate slots in the plastic packages themselves to put your used blade. Just like there still are on Utility knives.

that's great Linda - Thanks!!
 
Every once in a while one of these old double edge razor blade sharpeners will turn up at an estate sale or flea market.

When you turn the handle it mimics the action of an old fashioned straight razor strop.

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I still have my grandfather's strop and small mirror he used to shave. I also have several straight razors and I know one of them was his - but unfortunately I don't know which.
 
dragnlaw said:
WOW, never heard of that! How fascinating! When I think on the houses I've know to be renovated, most from the late 50's, early 60's, there were never any comments about it.
razor disposal, who knew!
I remember saving the paper the blades came wrapped in to dispose of them. Shortly after that time there were separate slots in the plastic packages themselves to put your used blade. Just like there still are on Utility knives.

that's great Linda - Thanks!!
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:)

Here's another shot of an old medicine cabinet with the blade slot and then below it shows all the blades they found in the wall when the cabinet was ripped out.
 

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I remember it used to take ages to dial a number on the rotary phones, especially if you were calling abroad. All that time, then finding it engaged!!! Do all that all over again, wow, it was so time-consuming and nerve-wrecking. 🙄.

I still have one though, and now I love just having it sitting on my shelf, as an "antique" ornament. This one in the picture isn't mine.
 

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this was our bedroom phone for years, think my ex still has it.
Was the only phone that worked during a power failure as all the newer phones had too many electrical parts. Was great.
 
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