FOR INSTANCE:

When I was 19, I attended John Robert Powers Modeling School. I became a Run-way/ Dept Store Fashion Model bec I want a glamorous life!

I hated it.. Run-way was rushed, impersonal, and rude store personnel!! Dept Store modeling was: at BEST - tolerable, a LOT of walking; at WORST rude & crowded at peak times & rude customers!

NDY

"BACK IN MY DAY"

When I was 19, I attended John Robert Powers Modeling School. I became a Run-way/ Dept Store Fashion Model bec I want a glamorous life!

(I hated it.. Run-way was rushed, impersonal, and rude store personnel!! Dept Store modeling was: at BEST - tolerable, a LOT of walking; at WORST rude & crowded at peak times & rude customers!)

NDY

'BACK IN MY DAY"

When I was a kid, I grew up on a farm near Punxsutawney, PA (Ground Hog Day).My Dad always had the latest electronic tech stuff. We were the only ones 'out in the Boonies' that had a record player. I LOVED this tune

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAH-HyIpneA&feature=fvwrel ghost riders in the sky (w/ghosts)

NDY

"BACK IN MY DAY"

When I was a kid, I was raised on a farm near Punxsutawney, PA. My Dad had to always have the latest electronics. We were the only ones on our road out ' in the Boonies' to have a record player! When I was a kid I Loved this tune

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWTjjm-Gg3c&feature=related

NDY

Albums. Eight Tracks, Still Have a record player. need speakers maybe i can pick some up some where..

WOW NDY just am speechless, the song-the modeling, yeah modeling is not all that glamorous sometimes I hear
Lynn-Hey 8 tracks-records-casssettes, go to record store-a retro store ? we have one here called Triple Play Records!

My memory is same on the music players-had all 3
This band my dad had records of I LOVED it-folks would have dance parties to this band
Herb Alpert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuByWtxx8QU

WOW NDY just am speechless, the song-the modeling, yeah modeling is not all that glamorous sometimes I hear
Lynn-Hey 8 tracks-records-casssettes, go to record store-a retro store ? we have one here

My memory is same on the music players-had all 3
This band my dad had records of I LOVED it-folks would have dance parties to this band
Herb Alpert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuByWtxx8QU.

The first record player I remember was a part of a console radio. It's the radio we used to "watch" in the evenings and was a big thing. It was about 3 feet wide and 3 feet tall. There was a door on the right front that opened to the radio and a similar handle on the left was pulled to bring out the player. It had a changer that could be loaded with 6 78rpm or 8 45rpm(if you put a plastic disk in the middle to handle the spindle) that would allow the records to be dropped one at a time to be played.

When I was 4 we still lived in the city. My dad had this radio/record maker. They were the old metal coiled 78rpm records. My cousin had a decent voice. My cousin would sing into the microphone and the music he sang to plus his voice the sound of his voice were transposed onto the flat coils of the record!! It was permanent but only one sided!

When we moved to the farm, 6 mos later. That's when we had our cabinet floor model radio like Foxysdad was speakin of. I remember sittin on the floor in front of it. It was still big as me when I was 6. My Dad would come home from the city on his days off. We'd all sit around & listen to Amos N Andy, Bill Stern, mystery Theater, Inner Sanctum, The Shadow Knows, The race-car races, horse races and , of course, my fav - "Fibber Magee & Molly!" Molly would say, Oh No Fibber - Don't you DARE open that closet door !!" Of course there would be the crazy sound effects! How I LOVED that!! I would jump up & down & laugh till I cried. And it would always signal the end of the program coming... Wow - We had SO much FUN with so little then!
NDY

I did car shows modeling for Chevrolet in the the 80's those were the days. No cell .

***** W A R N I N G ***** S A D T I M E *****

Headline News - on the Death of Rick Nelson, 1985

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YZxYAB2Wcg

I MEANT THIS AS A TRIBUTE BUT DIDN'T WANT TO SHOCK ANY GOOD NEIGHBORS !!

NDY

it was a sad time...

My Back in the day memory............ when I was a teenager.. we didn't have internet and cell phones... we lived in a time when our parents didn't have to be worried about us being gone all day. When I was 12, 13..... we used to go outside and play " kick the Can".. and catch lightening bugs for fun......... wow, those days are gone...... kids now spend all of their time on their cell phones with internet, or playing video games........ I wish things were the way they used to be......we didn't know what sex was all about before we were 10 years old.......

BACK IN MY DAY....

We said please and thank you, addressed the neighborhood adults as Mr. and Mrs. we respected their property and did not steal from them. If we were skating on the sidewalks and a pedestrian came by we went out around them and said have a nice day.

We wrote THANK YOU letters on stationary, and read an actual book that we held in our hands and could pass down to our kids, or loan to our friends.

Back in my day, we did not have a need for security guards in the public schools. You waited until marriage to engage in sexual activities, and wearing white on your wedding day meant something.

BACK IN MY DAY ...

Gaye reminded me of when I was small and lived on the farm when she said about " kids not knowing about sex until they were 10 yrs old"...In the barn there was the stables in the bottom part of the barn That's where the cows would hang out.. I remember when I was about 8 yrs old this Heifer was humpin a cow. I ran & got my dad bec I thought they were fightin.. My dad grinned & said, "They're not fightin - They are doin the Polka - They's dancin!"

NDY

NDY... that is TOO FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh the innocence of youth....... or what it used to be, huh?