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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited May 2020

    I didn't take shorthand, but I did have a manual typing class in 8th grade. I'm a little older than some of you so I typed on a manual all through college and for several years after I was married. Yup = I hated the corrections on carbons. And wow - the smell of the liquid to correct mimeographs.

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  • ceanna
    ceanna Member Posts: 5,270
    edited May 2020

    Spookies, I remember getting worse and worse grades each grading period in the year long shorthand class. I think I just remembered the dictation long enough to type of the "letter" or whatever was dictated. I didn't have good ear with phonics and that is the basis for shorthand, so I never could get fast at actually taking dictation so as the class progressed and got faster, I couldn't keep up. No, never used it, but I did take a speed writing class years later that I used for awhile, but it was much different than shorthand and used actual letters. Don't remember that anymore either!!!

    Ruth, I'm right with you on typewriters. I just remember typing blue dittos and coming home having blue streaks across my face!!!

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  • pingpong1953
    pingpong1953 Member Posts: 362
    edited May 2020

    I went to an all-girls high school for the first 2 years, and they had two "paths" - college prep for the smarter ones and "secretarial" for those deemed not to be college material. Here's the dumb thing: those of us in college prep never had typing classes. I had to teach myself how to type so I could type my own term papers in college!

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  • Beaverntx
    Beaverntx Member Posts: 3,183
    edited May 2020

    My high school also had two paths. I took civics in summer school so I could take one semester of typing during the regular school year. Because I could now type my parents gave me a typewriter to take to college. My uncle was a veep in an office supply store and got a Royal manual with capped keys except the number/symbol row. His advice was that with the capped keys the only people who would borrow it would know how to type and be less likely to destroy it. Used it for years, white out and correction tape and all. Using a computer has really messed up my correct words per minute which wasn't that great to begin with!

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  • ceanna
    ceanna Member Posts: 5,270
    edited May 2020

    I must have just taken whatever classes I thought interesting. I took secretarial and college prep classes, but never went into secretarial work. I went to college my whole adult life while I worked at various jobs to pay for it. Glad I had the typing class, and with computers it has served me well!! Except, as I agree with Beaverntx, typing on computers has really messed with my speed and accuracy!! Remember on a manual typewriter how the little bell would ring as you got near the end of the line so you knew when to hit the carriage return?

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  • ceanna
    ceanna Member Posts: 5,270
    edited May 2020

    Remember decorating your bike with red, blue, and white crepe paper streamers and woven through the spokes, and riding in the Memorial Day parade!


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    Today we remember all those lost in defense of our country, and those who lost their lives to COVID.

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited May 2020

    Yes, thanks to those who served.

    Remember clipping playing cards on to the bike spokes with clothes pins to get an awesome noise?

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  • grammamuses
    grammamuses Member Posts: 3,084
    edited May 2020

    Remember picking wildflowers to decorate graves on what was once called Decoration Day? And cutting peonies and lilacs or whatever was blooming , placed in jars of water on the graves? Not one faux bloom in sight. When they wilted, they were removed.

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  • Kayak2
    Kayak2 Member Posts: 8,561
    edited May 2020

    Remember mowing the lawn with a push mower?

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited May 2020

    I remember when most families had station wagons. Some even had those seats that faced each other in the way back.

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  • ceanna
    ceanna Member Posts: 5,270
    edited May 2020

    Or kids riding in the back of those station wagons with no seats and no seatbelts! Yikes!

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited May 2020

    anybody remember the old radio show "Our Miss Brooks"?

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  • Beaverntx
    Beaverntx Member Posts: 3,183
    edited May 2020

    Oh my yes and "The shadow knows"

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  • ceanna
    ceanna Member Posts: 5,270
    edited May 2020

    Speaking of shadows, did anyone watch the gothic soap opera "Dark Shadows?" Used to run off the school bus to watch the last half of the show! Barnabas Collins was so scary!!

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited May 2020

    Yes, I remember Dark Shadows!

    My mom always took a break at 1:00 to watch Days of Our Lives.

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  • ceanna
    ceanna Member Posts: 5,270
    edited May 2020

    I watched General Hospital when younger, but haven't seen in decades, then watched Days of our Lives off and on for years. It's still on at 1:00pm where I live. I'll have to tune in sometime and catch up on the story!

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited May 2020

    It's probably all the same characters; and they probably have all been thought to be dead but actually had amnesia, and been married/divorced/remarried to the same people multiple times!

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited May 2020

    Never could get in to any of them. Took sooooooooo long for something to be resolved/happen. Mom watched GH every day.

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  • Cowgirl13
    Cowgirl13 Member Posts: 1,936
    edited May 2020

    Wasn't there One Life to Live?

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  • JACK5IE
    JACK5IE Member Posts: 760
    edited May 2020

    I still watch General Hospital!

    Dark Shadows was my sister's favorite show.

    Yes, One Life to Live was part of the ABC daytime line-up.

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  • Kayak2
    Kayak2 Member Posts: 8,561
    edited May 2020

    Talking about old radio shows, anyone remember The Great Gildersleeve? Or Mr. and Mrs. North? Or Inner Sanctum (with the scary music intro?)

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited May 2020

    Sargent Preston of the Yukon !!!

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  • ceanna
    ceanna Member Posts: 5,270
    edited May 2020

    I think I remember that One Life To LIve started when Dark Shadows ended?? Does that sound familiar to anyone? I watched One Life early on but stopped after I left for college.

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  • Peregrinelady
    Peregrinelady Member Posts: 1,019
    edited May 2020
    My husband and I started watching Dark Shadows on Netflix a few months ago. There are like 26 seasons! We made it about halfway through than lost interest. Might start again around Halloween. We both watched after school when we were young.
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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited May 2020

    How about the song Night & Day? A member on another thread mentioned it and now I can't get it out of my head. Song worm.....

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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited May 2020

    🎶🎶🎶You wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent.🎶🎶 And one for Ipana? toothpaste.

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited May 2020

    See the USA in Your Chevrolet

    From the Land of Sky Blue Waters, Hamms the Beer Refreshing

    Where's the beef?

    Calgon, take me away!

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  • ceanna
    ceanna Member Posts: 5,270
    edited May 2020

    How about when there used to be cigarette advertising on TV? Even Virginia Slims aimed at women!!!

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited May 2020

    The Malbouro Man

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  • ceanna
    ceanna Member Posts: 5,270
    edited May 2020

    Talk about targeting and profiling!! Virginia Slims to keep women skinny, and the manly Malbouro Man to hook the man!!!

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