Welcome to my attempt to spark some creativity by participating in another edition of Saturday Snapshot, hosted by Alyce, At Home With Books.
This past week, as I skimmed through my photo albums, I thought about communication and how things have changed so much since the New Millennium began.
These photos of my daughter as a pre-adolescent in the late 1980s illustrate one of the differences. Before cordless phones, user-friendly computers, cell phones, and definitely before text messaging, you could find pre-teens communicating like this…..
She had a phone in her room, too, which was kind of a novelty back then as well.
Sometimes I long for those days! LOL
(Note: after I’d scanned this photo, I noticed the bandage on her leg, and remembered that she’d had a sports injury, and the phone was even more of a lifeline).
What did the rest of you find today? Come on by and share!
So cute! Yes, I remember those days well. I also remember when my Dad got a cell phone that had the bag to carry everything in – oh, now THAT cord was huge! 🙂
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I think my first experience with those huge phones was the “car phones” that were around occasionally in the early eighties. Then later, the cell phones for everyday use got a little smaller, but were still not very common.
Thanks for stopping by, Natalie.
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Phone-attached-to- ear time? When nothing else mattered so much as friends.
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Ahhh…the good old days! I have eight brothers and sisters and as kids we would all fight over the one phone we had.
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Yes, before cordless phones, and before she had one in her bedroom, the best my daughter could do was getting a really long cord for privacy. Who knew that eventually all the kids would have their own cell phones?
Thanks for visiting and sharing the memories, Lisa.
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Oh, I remember stretching that phone cord as far as it would go! Thanks for the memories. Here’s My Saturday Snapshot
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Glad you could stop by, Paulita. I do enjoy comparing now with then. I did enjoy those designer phones from the eighties and still have a couple of them. One is a faux pay phone, and another one is a copy of those French phones.
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Yes, phones have come a long way, haven’t they? I tell my kids that texting still feels like science fiction to me.
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I hate texting! The keyboard is too small, even on the bigger ones, and my fingers are not adept at anything besides computer keyboards. Thanks for stopping by, Trish.
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I used to lay on the floor with my feet up the wall or on a chair. My mum was not thrilled.
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Ha-ha….yes, I can picture it now. My daughter seemed to live on the phone. Thanks for stopping by, Eva.
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I remember those days well! I remember the day when I got a phone in my bedroom.
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Me too, Kathy. I enjoyed having my own, just as my daughter got hers. Her first one was that Garfield one you see in the photo. Later she would go through numerous designs. Thanks for stopping by.
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Oh how sweeeet 🙂
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Thanks, Juju….I like the pink and black phone in the first photo…it was in my bedroom for awhile. I wonder what happened to it? Glad you could visit.
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I feel ya. I use to have this cool old phone I would pay big time to have back.
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We still have a landline in our house, but as you say, all the phones are cordless. The only problem is when the electricity goes out so we have one “old fashioned” phone we use in emergencies!
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I have way too many phones. The one cordless, and then a Winnie the Pooh phone in my office and a pay phone in the kitchen. But those come in handy when the power goes out.
Thanks for stopping by, Helen.
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We had a phone with a very long cord and it sat on the bar between the kitchen and the living room. I remember stretching it as far away as I could in order to have private conversations when I was a pre-teen. 🙂
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Yes, I think the one in the first photo usually sat on the bar between the kitchen and living room. Long stretchy cords were a must!
Thanks for stopping by, Alyce.
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One daughter somehow acquired a long, long cord so she could go outdoors on the deck with the phone plugged in inside the house. Was easy to trip over and disconnect. One day the extra extension disappeared and that was the end of the long, long cord.
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Ha-ha….I love these stories about the cords! They really take me back. Thanks for stopping by, Story Gal.
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We didn’t have a phone in the house until I was 17 which was 1986.
How did we manage back then lol
Have a good weekend
carol
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OMG, that must have been something! But you survived….Thanks for stopping by, Carol.
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Wonderful memories…
Here is my Saturday Snapshot post!
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Thanks for stopping by, Gautami…have a good weekend.
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Cute photo. I bet today’s teens are horrified at the thought of a phone stuck to a cord and having to stay in one place to talk!
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Yes, I’m sure they are, Leslie. Even my daughter can’t imagine such a thing (again!). Thanks for stopping by.
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Not only do I remember corded phones, I remember party lines. If I picked up on the wrong ring I would accidentally get the call for my neighbor. And remember having to pick up and listen to make sure no one was on the party line before dialing? I tried explaining that to my kids but it was all greek to them! Thanks for taking me back a few years! 🙂
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Oh, I remember party lines, too, Angie. And even having to turn a crank to get the operator, since this was pre-dial phones. Imagine that! LOL
Thanks for stopping by.
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Yeah I remember when I got my own phone! I would talk in it for hours and drive my parents crazy! (I did not have my own line)
my snapshot:
http://ratherbarefoot.blogspot.com/2011/09/saturday-snapshot-of-flowers.html
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My daughter didn’t get her own line until she was in high school. That was mostly for self-preservation, since she was always on the phone. Thanks for stopping by, Ceclia.
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Times have changed. My 87 y/old aunt still uses a rotary phone…LOL
Fun photos.
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Yes, I’ve seen a few of those around…still. The things we take for granted…
I do enjoy having some of those old corded designer phones around. I have one shaped like a pay phone from the eighties…
But I have the cordless, too. Thanks for stopping by, Diane.
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We still have corded phones. Just call us dinosaurs. Lol. Great photos. It’s nice to have pictures of “everyday” stuff. Because one of these days, whatever it is might not be that common any more.
Here’s mine: http://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2011/09/saturday-snapshot-september-3.html
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Glad you enjoyed it, Bev. I like digging for treasures in my photo albums. Thanks for stopping by.
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I remember those days. Unless you had a long cord you sometimes didn’t have any privacy!
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That’s so true, Vicki. Thanks for stopping by!
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I wonder what the next 10 years will bring us as technology keeps upgrading before long there’s going to be a Yphone out in the market. Lolz. Thanks for sharing.
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Yeah, the phones will probably be stuck to some part of our anatomy! (Literally). LOL
Thanks for stopping by, Raine.
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