‘in my day’ threshold
This week I passed a threshold. The ‘in my day’ threshold. In my day…
- Phones were connected by cables to walls in the hallways of homes or in red-boxes on the street.
- Televisions had a dial with 4 positions on it, one for each of the known channels and one spare channel
And much much more or less
August 22nd, 2009
and there was nothing on the telly in between Pebble Mill At One and Play School
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August 22nd, 2009
In my day, there were TV commercials that advertised my state, North Carolina, with a nice little jingle that went something like “Operator give me 919!” because the entire state had only one area code.
Today, we have 919, 910, 336, etc, etc.
JamesNT
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August 22nd, 2009
Ah, those were the days, eh Wendy?
It’s been all down hill since the end of the
three day week.
xxx
Mort
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August 23rd, 2009
I am marked by a stubborn unwillingness to forget the past and all that was good about it. Does that make me retro-recalcitrant??
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January 16th, 2010
Sorry James, but NC never had one A/C, but 2: 704 and 919. Ironically, the ad you cite was for Carolina Telephone and about 2 years after they commissioned the jingle their area was part of the (then) new 910.
I do remember dial phones, and when you could click the receiver a few times and get an operator, and party lines (your phone line was shared with other people).
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