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[LadySarah]

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> Food
> is all of the kind we now call "fresh".

Kraft Mac 'n Cheese already existed, though.  Don't know if I'd call
that "fresh."  ;-)

I don't know if I'd call it "food" either, though.  In my life making
macaroni and cheese involved milk for a white sauce, cubed colby cheese and
the oven.

On 7/10/07, Catherine Olanich Raymond <cathy at thyrsus.com> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Garry Stahl wrote:
>
> > Entertainment and Communication:  No computer, no VCR, three channels of
> > TV if you are lucky, open broadcast reception only, and B&W at that.
>
> UHF existed when I was a kid in the late 1960s, but our set couldn't
> receive
> it reliably.
>
> [snip]
>
> > Cars?  Yea, I remember in the late sixties my Dad getting then brand new
> > Michelin radial tires with a stunning 10,000 mile warranty.  The '66
> > Galaxy 500 big enough to raise a family in, and he added after market
> > seat belts.
>
> I never got to ride in a car *with* seat belts until I bought my first car
> in
> the late 1980s.
>
> > Bias belted low mileage tires drum brakes, not likely to
> > have power anything including steering and brakes.  And believe me
> > horsing a 1960s car around with no power steering is work.  The first
> > car I got to drive was a '65 Ford 500 with no power.  Makes you
> > appreciate cars you can steer with one finger.
>
> Yes, it does indeed.  On the other hand, you could at least push-start a
> car
> with a standard transmission.
>
>
> >
> > Kitchen:  Range, plumbing, and fridge is about it for most kitchens.
> > The woman would be lucky to have a power mixer.  I remember my mother
> > using a wringer washer nearly into the 70s.
>
> So did mine.
>
>
> > And hanging clothes out to
> > dry.  The arrival of the automatic washer and dryer was big news.
>
> Agreed.
>
> > Food
> > is all of the kind we now call "fresh".
>
> Kraft Mac 'n Cheese already existed, though.  Don't know if I'd call
> that "fresh."  ;-)
>
>
> > No microfiber mops or anything
> > for that matter.  No filter on the vacuum that mainly made a lot of
> > noise and redistributed the fine dust onto higher surfaces, to be dusted
> > of course.
> >
> > I could go on and on.  1960 might have only been 47 years ago, but in
> > terms of technology it was an eon.
>
> Not that home cleaning has gotten *that* much easier since then.
> Communications, cars are noticeably different, but except for modern
> washers
> and dryers, housecleaning, even with vacuums with filters, is still the
> same
> kind of pain it was 40 years ago.
>
>
>
> --
> Cathy "sighing with disgust" Raymond <cathy at thyrsus.com>
>
> "You've got to have the proper amount of disrespect for what you do."
> -- George Mabry
>
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