Ray From Cleveland
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'You better not be on the phone talking to a Catholic. You're going to run up the phone bill"
Those days?
In those days people didn't spend much time on the phone. In fact some homes never had a telephone in the house.
We talked about that at a family gathering one night. My niece and nephew were in disbelief of party lines. They thought it was the funniest thing they ever heard. They swore we were just making it all up.
In the 60's, most everybody had a small black and white television that only got about three or four channels, maybe two of them clear with no snow. At midnight, all the television stations signed off for the evening. They'd end playing the star spangled banner with a video of a flag blowing. Then the channel just went off the air and all you seen was snow.
In the summer time, the only thing on television were reruns. So we spent time with each other. No cable, no internet, no video games. Much of the time we spent outside. Kids would be playing with other kids, and the adults were outside either working or talking with neighbors.
If you weren't there, it was an entirely different world back then.