My great grandmother died last year. She was 100. She remembered the first radio their family had and the first time a light bulb came on in their house. She could tell you about the Great Depression and before TVA backed up Guntersville. They used to go off sand mtn to Scottsboro on a horse and wagon. It was an all day trip. She had a sharp mind up till the last year she lived. I loved to listen to her tell stories.
My great-grandmother was born in 1892 and lived to be 94. She lived out in Danville. I asked her once what she remembered as a little girl and she said that she remembered people talking about men flying in the air but it sounded far-fetched. She was talking about the Wright brothers and the first air flight.
I wish I'd asked her more about what she remembered and tape recorded or videoed it. She saw the inventions of airplanes, expansion of electricity, radio and television, expansion of telephones, World Wars I and II, Korea, Vietnam, the Depression and everything else. Her husband died in 1959 so she was a widow for the last 24-25 years of her life. Tough as a nail and sweet as could be.
They sound a lot alike. I'd give anything for her to fix me another plate of her homemade hominy, boiled taters, fried okra and her cornbread.
Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?
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#2068166 03/24/1704:26 AM03/24/1704:26 AM
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#2068223 03/24/1705:26 AM03/24/1705:26 AM
We got our first TV in 1954 when I was in the first grade. As I remember it came on about 3 o clock in the afternoon with a show called Tea Time, that my Grand mother always watched,and went off around 10 or 11. When it wasn't on, all you would see was a bulls eye with an indian on it. I remember staring at that screen forever waiting for something else to come on. The wind would blow the antenna and my Grandfather would have to go adjust it. Been a lot of changes in this old world in the last 70 years.
Grandma said...Always keep a gun close at hand, you just never know when you might run across some varmint that needs killing...
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#2068227 03/24/1705:30 AM03/24/1705:30 AM
They sound a lot alike. I'd give anything for her to fix me another plate of her homemade hominy, boiled taters, fried okra and her cornbread.
One of the chapters in a book I'm writing is about her and her kitchen, food and garden. I'll admit that I cried more than a couple of times writing it, and know I will again.
I'm thankful my uncle saved all her cast iron skillets. I wish I'd been smart enough to ask for and save her old cabinets and tools that were in her shed. I think he got a bunch of those, too. Lot of stuff she had that I wish I'd gotten that either are gone or in others' hands and I'll never see again.
"Hunting Politics are stupid!" - Farm Hunter
"Bible says you shouldn't put sugar in your cornbread." Dustin, 2013
"Best I can figure 97.365% of the general public is a paint chip eating, mouth breathing, certified dumbass." BCLC, 2020
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#2068229 03/24/1705:32 AM03/24/1705:32 AM
The commercialization of shows and television (and radio) back then was IMO far more blatant than today, too. "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" ... who the hell knew what Mutual of Omaha was? But 40 years later, I remember (and know).
"Hunting Politics are stupid!" - Farm Hunter
"Bible says you shouldn't put sugar in your cornbread." Dustin, 2013
"Best I can figure 97.365% of the general public is a paint chip eating, mouth breathing, certified dumbass." BCLC, 2020
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#2068234 03/24/1705:34 AM03/24/1705:34 AM
I remember it well. Also remember Tom and Jerry and Bugs Bunny on Saturday mornings. Too bad they deemed our cartoons to be too violent and took them off. Now look what the youth are doing. Killing,stealing,rioting .
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Two roads diverged in the woods and I took the one with deep ruts,hills and mud.It may be bumpy but WHAT A RIDE!
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#2068275 03/24/1706:28 AM03/24/1706:28 AM
And the Three Stooges and Georgia Championship Wrestling.
That was when shows came on once a week, other than some sports stuff. If you missed the Three Stooges or Georgia Championship Wrestling or Monday Night Football or All in the Family, tough. College football was two games on Saturday, two NFL games on Sunday, Monday Night Football, the Major League Baseball "Game of the Week" and ABC's Wide World of Sports for all the exotic stuff like downhill skiing, cliff diving from Mexico or desert auto racing.
And Curt Gowdy on the American Sportsman. Great show.
"Hunting Politics are stupid!" - Farm Hunter
"Bible says you shouldn't put sugar in your cornbread." Dustin, 2013
"Best I can figure 97.365% of the general public is a paint chip eating, mouth breathing, certified dumbass." BCLC, 2020
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#2068282 03/24/1706:37 AM03/24/1706:37 AM
And the Three Stooges and Georgia Championship Wrestling.
That was when shows came on once a week, other than some sports stuff. If you missed the Three Stooges or Georgia Championship Wrestling or Monday Night Football or All in the Family, tough. College football was two games on Saturday, two NFL games on Sunday, Monday Night Football, the Major League Baseball "Game of the Week" and ABC's Wide World of Sports for all the exotic stuff like downhill skiing, cliff diving from Mexico or desert auto racing.
And Curt Gowdy on the American Sportsman. Great show.
Dang straight Clem, I remember watching Pete Rose and the Big Red Machine on the Game of the Week. Wide World of Sports and American Sportsman were great shows. Good ol' days.
"Why do you ask"?
Always vote the slowest path to socialism.
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#2068287 03/24/1706:44 AM03/24/1706:44 AM
Saturday nights in Corpus Christie, TX was the first time my parents let me stay up as late as I wanted. Late night TV was Rasslin with my favorite Chief Wahoo McDaniel. After that came the weekly cheesy monster movie, which I loved, but I don't think I ever stayed awake for the whole movie.
Lord, please help us get our nation straightened out.
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#2068343 03/24/1708:16 AM03/24/1708:16 AM
I turn 40 in a couple months and I remember. I grew up an antenna turner. Dad had a Giant set of Vice grips attached to the pole that was for me to turn the pole for service. I remember how excited we were when fox 54 came on line because we got a new channel. LOL
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#2068347 03/24/1708:18 AM03/24/1708:18 AM
The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back. - Abigail van Buren
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#2068353 03/24/1708:30 AM03/24/1708:30 AM
"Oh, the stations up here they don't sign off with Dixie,
Well they did in Sweet Home Ala-bam".
Younger ones won't get that. I think signing off with Dixie might have been a radio thing. Anyone remember? I ain't as old as Troy, but pretty close.
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Registered: 11-12-2010 Posts: 12727 Loc: All in Alabama I'm 54 and I remember it. I always thought it was cool to get to stay up that late with my Daddy. I also remember when I was a kid WBAM would sign off at night playing Dixie.
Are you ignoring me?
Sorry, not ignoring you but I did miss your Dixie comment. Gimme a break, it was 5 am.
I was just wondering if Dixie was only used for radio. I can't remember if TV used it too. 2dogs, I remember WWL and WLS very well. They were about the only thing you could hear on am at night. Most vehicles either had an am radio or nothing. I can remember driving to Selma with my dad to listen to Auburn football games on the rare times they played at night. Our home radio couldn't pick it up 12 miles from town. Shug Jordan never would let Auburn put lights on the stadium while he was coach; said football was meant to be played in the sunshine.
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All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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#2068481 03/24/1711:10 AM03/24/1711:10 AM
They sound a lot alike. I'd give anything for her to fix me another plate of her homemade hominy, boiled taters, fried okra and her cornbread.
One of the chapters in a book I'm writing is about her and her kitchen, food and garden. I'll admit that I cried more than a couple of times writing it, and know I will again.
I'm thankful my uncle saved all her cast iron skillets. I wish I'd been smart enough to ask for and save her old cabinets and tools that were in her shed. I think he got a bunch of those, too. Lot of stuff she had that I wish I'd gotten that either are gone or in others' hands and I'll never see again.
I got several of her cast iron pieces. The corn muffin pans shaped like ears of corn and blue gills, and a skillet that makes the wedges of cornbread. My oldest son got her bible.
