An article by the Collin County, TX Extension Service. Thanks.

Oh yes Alexa and going even earlier than that, I remember when there was no TV so we listed to radio programs such as Ozzie & Harriet, Mr. & Mrs. North, Lux Theater, The Edgar Bergen show with Charlie McCarthy, Amos and Andy. We read books and comic such as Archie, Little Lulu, Donald Duck and played cards, jacks, pick-up sticks, Snakes and Ladders, Monopoly, hopscotch, skipped rope, and roller skated on heavy metal skates that you clamped onto your heaviest shoes using a tightening key on a cord that you hung around your neck, until you needed to tighten them again. Balloons had just been invented or reinvented after the war. Records were 78 rpm until the Long plays LPs and the 45s came out. We could play outside all day until we heard our moms standing on the back porch calling our name for us to come in. Girls all wore dresses to school and wearing trousers or slacks (as they were called) to school was forbidden except when there was deep snow. We wore gumboots over our shoes when it rained. When we picked up the phone, an operator said...'Number please', and the phone cord was black and not spring coiled. People who came to the door: the milkman, the egg man, the newspaper boy, the grocer bringing the groceries, the boy from the meat market, the laundry service with dad's white work shirts, the Watkins man, the bread man. There were no supermarkets. We fought over who could read the Sunday comics first when the weekend newspapers arrived on the front porch. And we walked miles to high school carried a load of books and an umbrella, usually open. I guess I'm going farther back in time to when most here were not yet born lol! SharonCb

Juellie, glad you liked the idea of "memories." My friend has been gone now for several years, but that memory lives on, and more scatches memories were added this holiday, when one of my DGGS (twice) bumped a candy dish off of the coffee table. Hold those little ones close. I like to remember this "Give your children roots, and wings." Sue

I just finished reading my local town paper and OMG, I can't believe how much money these cons get from their victims. One story referenced a family that used ALL their home equity to get some work done that was started, and won't be finished, unless they do it themselves. We spend an awful lot of hard-earned dollars and to think that so many cons are out there ready to take it - illegally!!! There are enough of us just here on the GW that can prove we are willing to pay the price - even those that really can't afford it. Why on earth would someone think that they would have to steal from folks!! If these people honestly start out to do a job and find they are over their heads, either in know-how or amount of work, etc., all they have to do is speak up. I'm telling you, I just wish I could DIY - I'm willing but don't always know how and really don't have help to lift and such. But I tell you, it is surely worth trying to learn. This crime just doesn't make a darn bit of sense, especially when there is so much honest money it it! OK, I'm done - this is just disgusting!!! Thanks for sharing!!