Re: [lace-chat] Good old days
At 10:07 AM 5/07/2012, Martha Krieg wrote: We did not have a TV until I was 6. I remember going with my mother and brother to a neighbor's to watch the coronation of Elizabeth II. TV wasn't even here in Australia then. It came here in time for the Melbourne Olympics in 1956. But we crowded into a neighbour's sitting room to watch that. I think it was 1960 before we had one in our own home - a huge 21 Astor in its own cabinet. David in Ballarat, AUS To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace-chat] Good old days
In the Netherlands we were way behind: we did get a TV trill 1963, when I was 12. AND, to pay for the license, we had to give up our weekly Donald Duck magazine. Agnes Boddington Elloughton UK TV wasn't even here in Australia then. It came here in time for the Melbourne Olympics in 1956. But we crowded into a neighbour's sitting room to watch that. I think it was 1960 before we had one in our own home - a huge 21 Astor in its own cabinet. David in Ballarat, AUS To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace-chat] Good old days
Interestingly, it seems as though the Queen's coronation was the defining moment in the UK where the presence or absence of a TV was noted. In the US, the broadcasting of the manned space flights in 1961 and 1962 were probably the defining moment when many people without televisions realized that they would have to get them or be left out of modern communications. My mother actually worked in TV in the early 1950s, so my parents already had one before I was born, but I don't remember anyone other than high-brow types not having them by the time of the space flights. They actually wheeled a TV into the gymnasium of my elementary school and assembled us there so that we could watch one of these launches. I think it struck me as more amazing to see a TV in the school, an institution seemingly implacably opposed to TV, than to see a manned space flight. I am still reeling from the discovery that Donald Duck had a weekly magazine in the 1963. This week it was announced that New Orleans major newspaper, the Times-Picayune is going to stop publishing daily, and go to 3 times a week, making New Orleans the first major US city without a daily paper. So, now New Orleans in 2012 will be approaching the publication status of Donald Duck in 1963. Whither print media? Devon To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace-chat] Good old days
We did not have a TV until I was 6. I remember going with my mother and brother to a neighbor's to watch the coronation of Elizabeth II. -- Martha Krieg Michigan USA God expects spiritual fruits, not religious nuts. To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003/albums/most-recent
Re: [lace-chat] good old days
Alice, that was posh stuff, ready cut into little sheets. The brand I remember was Izal (sp?) which came as a roll of perforated sheets, shiny and totally non-absorbant! As the seller of the Woolworth's paper says, it made good tracing paper. Some public loos continued to have the shiny stuff years after everyone else stopped buying it in favour of absorbent tissue. Brenda On 12 Feb 2007, at 21:10, Alice Howell wrote: If you want a reminder of 'the good old days', take a look at this old pack of loo paper. http://cgi.ebay.com/1960s-Vintage-Buff-Woolworths-Square-Pack-Toilet- Paper_W0QQitemZ260085535140 I don't remember even seeing any packaged this way in the USA. Brenda in Allhallows, Kent http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace-chat] good old days
Alice, that would have been a luxury, we used to have squares of newspaper cut and hanging on a string when I was a girl. Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.441 / Virus Database: 268.17.37/682 - Release Date: 12/02/2007 13:23 To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Not 'that' old because it has the Winfield logo on it. Don't remember when they changed. We used to have Bronco at home. Mum still used it (because the tissue stuff gets too wet - TMI :-o) and I think there is still a roll in the bathroom (or had dad got rid of it, Jacquie?), and possibly some still in the bottom of the airing cupboard. Malvary in Ottawa, Ontario To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] good old days
At 08:10 AM 13/02/2007, you wrote: If you want a reminder of 'the good old days', take a look at this old pack of loo paper. http://cgi.ebay.com/1960s-Vintage-Buff-Woolworths-Square-Pack-Toilet-Paper_W0QQitemZ260085535140 I don't remember even seeing any packaged this way in the USA. Alice, that's how a lot of ours comes presented in public loos - white though. David in Ballarat - unsubbing tomorrow Alice in Oregon -- where the sun just peeked out a bit To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.441 / Virus Database: 268.17.37/682 - Release Date: 12/02/2007 1:23 PM To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
