Hello again, Kittens & Dawgs! I’m finding my way back to a new bloggy me, so If you’re looking for “not-so Wordless Wednesday“, then here’s where you need to be!
Years ago, I hosted Wayback Wednesday with another blogger. She used this spot to feature a song from a particular year and you know how much I love mewsic, so this was great fun. I incorporated other stuff like This Day in History or other fun trivia. This is one of those posts that sorta fell by the way when I got involved more with photography but I like the idea of sharing things from the past (short or long past) and miss doing this segment, so I’m kicking it off again while kneading in other memes I once participated in regularly.
Let’s go back, waayback to 1971!
When I was little, I remember buying soda from a vending machine such as this vintage dispenser. It wasn’t quite as cheap as this but I do recall when Pepsi and Coke was a quarter. Man, were those drinks cold! I mean icy cold! Did you ever buy soda out of a vending machine like this?
However by the time I was in the 5th grade (1971), schools had pop (aka soda pop) in cans as seen here. I was more of a Pepsi drinker than a Coke drinker, though. It seems my school had both products side by side. We also could get fountain sodas from a vending machine.
You inserted your coins in the slot, a paper cup dropped through the machine filling it with a syrupy mix and carbonation. Sometimes the cup would turn sideways and you had to be quick to fix it or your drink went everywhere! That’s about as scary as it got in my school days, too. 😀 I don’t remember if there was a brand on the vending machine at my school but I nearly always got a cherry soda. I don’t think it was cherry cola, it was just cherry flavored soda. If I’m remembering correctly, it seemed the vending machine also served hot chocolate and it was steaming hot. We didn’t need any warning to be careful with it, we knew that danger from experience and guess what? No lawsuits filed. 🙂
Here is a playlist of 10 songs from 1971. Feel free to share some of your favorite tunes from this year in comments. Perhaps, I’ll grow my playlist by borrowing from your suggestions. 😉
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Moving right along, I thought I’d make an honest attempt to rejoin Joyce in her mid-week fun of Q&A and you’re welcome tag along!
- When you think about your future what do you fear most? Hope for the most? This sounds silly but I think about growing old and not having anyone to take care of me or my husband. Part of this has to do with realizing the difficulties my father-in-law. Three years ago, my mother-in-law died. We saw a man once motivated by his passions to fix things up slide drastically as a multiple of health problems cropped up. I never thought about him being old but it’s clear that age has caught up with him and requires a constant live-in caregiver since none of us are close enough to check on him daily. It’s sad to see our parents revert to being the ones who need caring for when they did so much for us and others. My hopes naturally are for good health as we grow older and for all those I love but more importantly that those I cherish the most have their hearts right with God. Life here is temporary but life after is everlasting.
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September is National Chicken Month. How often is chicken on the menu at your house? What’s a favorite dish made with chicken? What’s something you’re a ‘chicken’ about doing or trying? We like chicken but I haven’t made chicken in a long time. One of my favorite ways to prepare chicken is to make chicken tenders. I use chicken breasts, cutting stripes, dredging in flour, and frying lightly. They reheat excellently in the oven. Another dish I like to make which was one of our favorites, a spicy cheesy chicken casserole, and it’s been many years since we’ve had it, too. Both of these entrees are high calories so that’s why I haven’t made either in such a long time but I think I shall make of these this fall. I’m a big chicken when it comes to extreme sports. You’d never catch me bungee jumping or sky diving or parasailing or rock climbing.
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What are three things you don’t own but wish you did? Three things I don’t own. A good, reliable second car for me. We’ve been a one car family for years. It’s really difficult to run our errands after DH gets off work or on the weekends. A larger house with a nice big yard. This house we long outgrew and with 38 years of marriage under our belts then we have lots of stuff with little place to put it. I’m thankful we have a house but a bigger one would make life easier. It’s hard to organize when you don’t have any place to put anything. The last thing I’d like to have is a swimming pool. Why not? If we have a bigger house with a bigger yard then a pool would be purrfect! It’s a great way to unwind in the water, plus, its great exercise and easy on the joints.
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Would you rather be a jack of all trades or a master of one? Elaborate. If you answered one, which one? A jack of all trades. My father-in-law is like this and there isn’t anything that he can’t fix or can’t build. He’s a real thinker. In his younger years, he would study on something and before you know it he knew how to solve the problem. When he was a boy, I think younger than 10, he wanted a scooter but his parents couldn’t afford to buy one. He grew up in the Depression era. Anyhow, he built one out of stuff he found around their home or along the road or where ever. In recent years, he showed us a small wooden tool box that he built when he was a boy. He was very inventive. It takes someone with a good deal of smarts to engineer and construct something practically out of nothing.
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Ketchup or mustard? On what? Ketchup for my fries and mustard for my hot dog please.
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Insert your own random thought here. The hurricane season is cooling temps off here which I really like but I feel for the folks in Houston and now for those in Florida facing one of the strongest hurricanes in years as Irma approaches. According to the projectile, this latest threat will move across east Tennessee. I’m praying for the relief efforts in Texas and saying prayers that Irma isn’t the big, bad storm that’s predicted. Be prepared. Be safe.
That’s all for now. At this time I’m unsure how often I will bring these posts to you but I experimenting with my schedule and trying to find my way back to my older style of blogging. I encourage you to keep from missing a single post to subscribe by email to get notifications of the latest mews from Curious as a Cathy. It was such a pleasure to have your visit. I hope to see you this Friday with Nikon memories of the US National Cycling Championship here in Knoxville.
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1971 was a great year! And you put together a great playlist! I forgot about Want Ads! What fun.
And also what fun was getting those cold GLASS BOTTLE pops from the pop-machine! I miss that!!! I hate drinking out of a can. I wish they’d bring bottles back. I know some companies still do use bottles but so few…
I don’t drink that much soda anyway. Rarely really. But I just might drink more if it came in bottles again!
Fun way-back!
Have a good weekend Cathy
Michele at Angels Bark
Michele,
I don’t like drinking soda from cans, either. We don’t buy canned sodas. The metal flavors the soda and then you gotta wonder what on earth the metals might be doing to your body. I recall several years ago there was a concern with drinking canned soft drinks with aluminum partials going to the brain. That’s alarming news! We aren’t huge pop drinkers but we keep the 2-liter bottles on hand and it’s all diet soda. We’re probably trading one evil for another and won’t find that out for 30 or 40 years but at least I don’t have to worry about the extra calories right now. 😀 You were talking about the glass bottles. I believe you can get them still. I’ve noticed some of the real sugar soft drinks appearing in glass bottles. I’d like to try the soda with real sugar but haven’t yet. Have you?
We will probably get some of Irma and I am none too happy. Mostly worried for my grandfather and aunt down there, as well as various other extended family. Hopes and prayers!
I worry about the elderly but in these circumstances, I’m even more concerned for them. I’ll pray for your grandfather and aunt. I know how this worries you and you may not get a chance to hear how their doing for days after Irma makes landfall. Irma looks like a big one and hopefully, y’all will be safe through her wrath! Blessings to you, my friend.
I remember the old Coke vending machines and, in fact, that is how I stood next to it. I always made sure I wore my skank outfit:) ok so I was 7 but still. Right now I just wish to get better so I can see my mom but I agree with you, I hope I will be ok when I am older to be able to care for myself the biggest being my mind. As for 3 things, I actually would like to find a way to get rid of things. I moved my mom from a 4 thousand square foot home and…that was a nightmare. I want to be able to have enough that when I downsize, I am not feeling freaked out. I want to have my health so I can go on more trips to Europe. I always wish for more stuff for my card making
Birgit,
You know, I was thinking the same thing, “Yeah, that’s the way I always stood in front of the vending machine. Looking just as sexy as the model.” lol Of course, in 1971 I was only 10. The gas station where the bus stop had a bottle vending machine like this, except I believe it was Pepsi, for the longest time. By the time I got to junior high these vintage machines disappeared. WOW, your mother has a big house. I’d love to have a 4k sq. foot home. Of course, my kids might hate that when I’m too old to do anything but then they’d have a nice place to sell or move into someday.
Good health is very important to us. If bad health is in our future, then I say, “God, take us now!” I don’t want to be a burden to DH or my children, plus it would kill me to see the suffering in their eyes.
With any hobby, you always want more stuff to make the craft fun. 🙂
I don’t remember 1971, I was 2. I can understand your fear of no one being there to take care of you when you are old, I have that fear too.
Ellen,
You’re a year older than my sister. 🙂 It’s interesting how I never thought about getting old until I witnessed the aging process with my FIL but in his case, it seemed he got “old” over night when my MIL died. Truly, truly sad to see someone go down hill that fast, too. He has a live-in caregiver for which we’re thankful. Aging stinks but the alternative stinks even worse. Oh well…we do what we can and hope for the best. I know God is watching over us.
I hope that Irma doesn’t get anywhere near you, Cathy!
Your father-in-law sounds like a wonderful, creative man. How blessed you and your husband have been to have him in your lives. I pray that you and your hubby will be kickin’ it up for a long time yet. It is not a silly worry at all. It is a normal thing to wonder how this part of our lives will go. No one wants to be alone without their beloved. {{{Hugs}}}
Have a blessed week. 🙂
Suzanne,
I think if Irma makes it to East Tennessee then she’ll bring a lot of rain, wind, and cooler temps. Compared to what those in Florida and others in line for the heaviest part of the hurricane, I think we’ll get off easy, you know? My FIL is truly a wonderful man and the sweetest, kindest person you’d want to meet. Yeah, I hope DH & I have long independent, healthy lives together. Maybe, God will decide to take us from this world at the same time because honestly we couldn’t live without the other. Which ever is left behind would literally die from a broken heart, I believe. We’re super close. Thanks for the hugs and am returning hugs to you, dear!!
Those folks need lots of prayers, that’s for sure! We’re praying that Irma and the other storms out there just go ahead and die out before they reach anybody, or anybody else if they’ve already made landfall somewhere.
Do you have any pictures of your in-laws that you could post? I’d love to see them and learn more about them.
We hope the same as you, that if we have to go, that it will be together. {{{Hugs}}}
Have a blessed day. 🙂
Suzanne,
I hope Irma isn’t as bad as they are saying and like you, I hope that Irma breaks up before making landfall in Florida. She’s already done a lot of damage. I shared photos of my in-laws after she passed in 2014 in a Wordless Wednesday Memory post. Our world was turned upside down the day she died and I don’t know if she really knew just how important she was to each of our lives. One day, we’ll see her again, though. That will be a happy reunion. 😀 TTFN, my friend. Have a good weekend!
Thanks for sharing the link with me. I’ll read it shortly. I am sure she knew how much she was loved. 🙂 Yes, what a wonderful, happy reunion that will be!
Have a blessed weekend, my friend. 🙂
You’re welcome, Suzanne!
Welcome back to the Hodgepodge! I think everyone mentioned health in some way in their answers to that first question. And Go Vols! We watched the game and I see they’re going to keep my stomach in knots again this year : ) We root for Clemson too, since they’re in our back yard. Have a great day!
Hey, Cathy… what a fun and interesting blog….When I was reading on WHP about your father-in -law it really reminded me of my dad.. also growing up during the depression and was a fix man due to necessity… he could make do with anything and create something wonderful…
People from the Depression era knew what it was like to not have anything. They made everything count. My in-laws would repair something zillion time before deciding it needs to go to the trash dump. They are/were amazing folks! Thanks for stopping by!
Welcome back. Love the playlist. Those are some of my favorites. No soda for me. Too sweet. Chicken, yes. I agree with Arlee about fear of not having enough money. Who knew you needed to plan for retirement in 1970?
Janet,
I wished we had known more about investing in the market when we first got married and did it along with socking money in his 401k. There are things I would change about them but I had to learn these things before I knew what to do. It took me long enough but I got it. This is a regret many of us have and hope our children can learn from our mistake but who am I kidding, they’ll probably make the same ones because when does a kid listen to mom and dad about the do’s and don’ts of money? lol
No cola is better than those cold ones in the bottle made with real sugar. I’m so glad that Costco started carrying those Mexican Cokes made with real cane sugar. That’s mostly what I drink now–usually one a day.
What has been concerning me about my own future of late is whether I’ll be able to afford to keep on living. I made no provisions for retirement and Social Security doesn’t go far. Hopefully I’ll stay relatively healthy so I don’t end up with a lot of medical and dental bills I can’t pay.
Arlee Bird
Tossing It Out
Lee,
We drink diet sodas with Splenda. We’ll probably learn in 30 years that it’ll cause our finger and toe nails to fall off or something bizarre. We began saving for retirement when DH started working but due to a number of layoffs over the years especially during the time we had a family to raise and a mountain of debt then we were forced to deplete one retirement source. We do have something other than SSI to fall on assuming the market doesn’t collapse but it’s scary thinking about not having finances available when we need it. All that being said, you can’t go back and do things over and worrying about it won’t change things. Hopefully, you, me and the rest who are in the same boat can happily float through the rest of life with minimal problems. I’m trusting God for continued wisdom with governing our spending and savings.
You’re back…waayyy back! This is new to me. I will have to watch it and see how it goes. The player worked for it. I lived in SE Texas back then. There was no soda pop in school. They were strict. And, it was good. ❤