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Ditto to most all the above. I wonder if kids nowadays know why it's called a "dial" tone. Do they even know what a dial phone looks like?? I clearly remember living in a house where the "central heating" was a woodstove in the kitchen. I went to school in a school so small the the grades (1-12) were divided up into rows and there was only one teacher for ALL grades - and it was the same teacher ALL day. I went there when I was 4 years old in grade one because they needed to keep the enrollments up or face closure. Never tasted orange juice until I was in Gr. six. Try and convince a kid nowdays to drink powdered milk even if its split 50/50. Didn't go to a dentist until I was 12years old. I found a whole dollar bill once and bought enough candy that I was sick for a week after I ate it all. On our "once a month" grocery shopping trip if we were really good, we'd get a 4 pack of the round lollipops wrapped in clear cellophane (1 per kid). I ate so much cheese whiz and mayo sandwiches for lunch that to this day I can barely tolerate the sight of either.
School - no busses - you walked - period. Clothing - "hand me downs", the only new stuff I ever got were socks, underwear and the occasional pair of shoes. I didn't know until years later that we were actually poor.
I know there are still poor kids out there today - but I seriously believe the definition of poor has changed radically in 40 years.
Daryl