The Year 1965

I LOVED the entry ??The Year 1906??. It made me think – even in my lifetime, what a difference there’s been! Some Good, Some Bad.

The Year 1965 My Freshman year in high school -- Never heard of pantyhose. We still wore girdles or garter belts to hold up our “nylons”. Had to wear dresses to school every day and even though mini skirts just came into style, we had to wear dresses that came to the middle of the knee.

No blow dryers for the hair. We put our hair up wet, in juice cans, for the SMOOOOOOTH Style and teased it as high as it would go. Used cans and cans of cheap and stiff hair spray (Very YUKKY!!). Women and young girls like me wore hats to church, sometimes even gloves.

I never heard of marijuana until 1967.

There were no microwave ovens

Milk still came in glass milk bottles

Only had 3 channels on TV and those were “fuzzy” if you were lucky enough to get all 3.

Sitcoms were clean and funny. (All re-runs are still fun to watch today)

Most stuff on the radio was the Farm Report about “Barrows and Gilts” ( I used to hate that!)

KOMA was the “COOL” Radio Station… Don’t know if you still get that up there, but it was out of Okalahoma City.

No cell phones – we had a “modern” rotary dial phone that I spent hours talking to Leigh Corder on. She was my very good friend … Still is!! We still had party lines. I think my neighbors must have been very annoyed at us for spending so many hours on the phone.

From Haigler, going to Denver or Lincoln was a major, major trip!!

Nobody had a computer. Computers in those days filled an entire room and were very rare.

Cars were COOL!!! You could actually tell by LOOKING, if it was a Ford, Chevy or Plymouth.

People still went to church “socials”.

People who had cows, still milked them by hand. There were “milking machines” though, by then, for some who were “fancier”.

I appreciate growing up in that era!! I think that is when the whole world started to change at a very rapid rate!! Modern technology is good and this Blog is proof of that, but I will always appreciate living through that time and the warm fuzzy memories it brings back.

Good job on the Blog, I love reading all this stuff about our family that I never heard before!!! Our mother is a True TREASURE!!!!!

Oh, and Happy, Happy Birthday to You!!!

-- Eunice (Gregory) Richard

PS: Oh!! Forgot “True Romance” was the magazine that we were NOOOOOOOT supposed to read in those days. I haven’t seen one for YEARRRRRS, bet it would be rare to even find one of those now!