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On 2011-08-02, Joy wrote:
"CatNipped" wrote in message ... On 8/1/2011 8:28 PM, Cheryl wrote: On 8/1/2011 8:31 PM, CatNipped wrote: I'm so old I still shake the milk carton before pouring? How old are you? ; I'm old enough to remember having to position a portable cassette recorder next to the radio to record my favorite songs. I'd get mad when the DJ talked over the song. Yes there were records, but no way to get them to be portable. 45RPM and 33.5RPM (there was a third 'revolutions per minute' position, but I never used it and can't remember what it was for). I loved the vinyl records (I still say "album" rather than CD), scratches and all! I had a "box" phonograph and I had to put a large plastic center piece over the middle stem for 45s. It had the latest innovation - it would automatically click and let down a record onto the turn-table so you could stack up to 5 or 6 records and kick back and enjoy the tinny sounding love songs! Gosh, now I'm thinking about all the great music back then. I keep up with the current singers and songs and I like most of it (everything except Rap). But it just seems to me that now-a-days most singers rely on their looks and on the recording studio to "mix" their voices - it's rare that a singer can even play an instrument. -- Hugs, CatNipped You're a youngster! I remember when all records were 78 RPM. I still had a couple of albums of 78s until a few years ago, when I sold them. Joy Those record albums really were albums - the record sleeves were bound in a book like a photo album. Bud |
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m... On 2011-08-02, Joy wrote: "CatNipped" wrote in message ... On 8/1/2011 8:28 PM, Cheryl wrote: On 8/1/2011 8:31 PM, CatNipped wrote: I'm so old I still shake the milk carton before pouring? How old are you? ; I'm old enough to remember having to position a portable cassette recorder next to the radio to record my favorite songs. I'd get mad when the DJ talked over the song. Yes there were records, but no way to get them to be portable. 45RPM and 33.5RPM (there was a third 'revolutions per minute' position, but I never used it and can't remember what it was for). I loved the vinyl records (I still say "album" rather than CD), scratches and all! I had a "box" phonograph and I had to put a large plastic center piece over the middle stem for 45s. It had the latest innovation - it would automatically click and let down a record onto the turn-table so you could stack up to 5 or 6 records and kick back and enjoy the tinny sounding love songs! Gosh, now I'm thinking about all the great music back then. I keep up with the current singers and songs and I like most of it (everything except Rap). But it just seems to me that now-a-days most singers rely on their looks and on the recording studio to "mix" their voices - it's rare that a singer can even play an instrument. -- Hugs, CatNipped You're a youngster! I remember when all records were 78 RPM. I still had a couple of albums of 78s until a few years ago, when I sold them. Joy Those record albums really were albums - the record sleeves were bound in a book like a photo album. Bud Yup. You could buy an album of records by one performer, or with one theme, or you could buy an empty one and store singles in it. I had both kinds. Joy |
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45RPM and 33.5RPM (there was a third 'revolutions per minute' position, but I never used it and can't remember what it was for). The third is a 78 rpm. I had (have) a number of 78s. Used to have a lot of 8-track tapes as well. How about 16 mm and 8 mm home movies or Brownie cameras? What was the first toy you *really* remember receiving? Mine was a Betsy Wetsy doll. -Julie |
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CatNipped typed: I'm so old I still shake the milk carton before pouring? How old are you? ; You *shook* it??? Are you *mad*???? Back when I was a kid, Mum specifically ordered un-homoginised milk. Like her two children (my sister & I) she thought it a great treat to poik your thumb through the foil top and get the cream, her for her coffee and us two kids just to drink. As we only got one bottle of milk delivered a day, there was always a race to get the bottle when the Milko delivered it, and a stuggle to be the first one with their thumb. Mum used to go ballistic at us for opening another bottle before the last one was emptied, but eventually we realised she did the very same thing herself, but just didn't tell on herself :-) Yowie |
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On 8/2/2011 10:39 PM, Julie_Snowshoe wrote:
45RPM and 33.5RPM (there was a third 'revolutions per minute' position, but I never used it and can't remember what it was for). The third is a 78 rpm. I had (have) a number of 78s. Used to have a lot of 8-track tapes as well. How about 16 mm and 8 mm home movies or Brownie cameras? What was the first toy you *really* remember receiving? Mine was a Betsy Wetsy doll. -Julie What!!!?? So was mine! -- Hugs, CatNipped See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped See the RPCA FAQ site, created by "Yowie", maintained by Mark Edwards, at: http://www.professional-geek.net/rpcablog/ Email: L(dot)T(dot)Crews(at)comcast(dot)net |
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On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:53:21 -0500, CatNipped
wrote: Yeah, me too on the glass bottle. When I was growing up milk wasn't "homogenized". There was a thick layer of cream at the top of each bottle (my mother would pour most of that off to use in her coffee and chicory). You had to shake the bottle to mix it up. Somewhat after the introduction of homogenized milk, I spent some time with the cousins, who had a couple of shorthorn cattle. The cream come to the top of the jar in the fridge, of course. I recall using a fork to dig some out of the jar, for iced coffee. There are cream separators that spin the stuff in a bowl at high speed, with the cream slopping over the rim. At first they were powered by a horse walking in a circle. A guy named DeLaval used the first steam turbines to drive them. The nozzle design is used today in rocket engines. |
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"Richard Casady" wrote in message
... On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:53:21 -0500, CatNipped wrote: Yeah, me too on the glass bottle. When I was growing up milk wasn't "homogenized". There was a thick layer of cream at the top of each bottle (my mother would pour most of that off to use in her coffee and chicory). You had to shake the bottle to mix it up. Somewhat after the introduction of homogenized milk, I spent some time with the cousins, who had a couple of shorthorn cattle. The cream come to the top of the jar in the fridge, of course. I recall using a fork to dig some out of the jar, for iced coffee. There are cream separators that spin the stuff in a bowl at high speed, with the cream slopping over the rim. At first they were powered by a horse walking in a circle. A guy named DeLaval used the first steam turbines to drive them. The nozzle design is used today in rocket engines. My Dad worked on his father's dairy before it was closed, and came away with a souvenir. Every year as long as he lived, the family Christmas tree was "planted" in a separator bowl. Joy |
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CatNipped wrote: On 8/2/2011 2:15 PM, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote: CatNipped wrote: I'm so old I still shake the milk carton before pouring? Actually, when milk required "shaking" (before homogenization became standard) it came in glass BOTTLES, not "cartons"! Right, but now-a-days I shake a carton because I can't find it in a bottle any more. But it's homogenized, so it doesn't NEED shaking! (Actually, some health food stores DO carry unhomogenized milk, but it's in either glass or plastic bottles.) |
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On 8/3/2011 10:04 PM, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:
CatNipped wrote: On 8/2/2011 2:15 PM, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote: CatNipped wrote: I'm so old I still shake the milk carton before pouring? Actually, when milk required "shaking" (before homogenization became standard) it came in glass BOTTLES, not "cartons"! Right, but now-a-days I shake a carton because I can't find it in a bottle any more. But it's homogenized, so it doesn't NEED shaking! (Actually, some health food stores DO carry unhomogenized milk, but it's in either glass or plastic bottles.) That's the point! -- Hugs, CatNipped See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped See the RPCA FAQ site, created by "Yowie", maintained by Mark Edwards, at: http://www.professional-geek.net/rpcablog/ Email: L(dot)T(dot)Crews(at)comcast(dot)net |
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