Kids really had it tough in the Old Days

[KK4AMI]

These are 1920s to 1940s Pictures



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[WX7P]

Got that right, Mike.

We were "tortured" with eating off of a kitchen table with metal legs with Melmac dishes!

Our Quik was made with powdered milk!

The Horror. The Horror.

Where is that pic of the three beat up guys from? I can't tell if they're inmates or a boxing club...

[KK4AMI]

HA! They are three Princeton Sophomores after a snowball fight.

[NQ6U]

Yeah, but did they have to walk six miles through the snow (uphill both ways) to take their 200 WPM novice code test from an FCC examiner? No? Then the spoiled little bastids can just get off my lawn.

[N2RJ]

4 children for sale? Wow!

[KG4NEL]

4 children for sale? Wow!

The weemen, how much for the weemen...

[KC2KFC]

The baby in the cage hanging out the window is rather interesting. I wonder if he was afraid of heights later in life.

[NQ6U]

The baby in the cage hanging out the window is rather interesting. I wonder if he was afraid of heights later in life.

Then again, maybe he became an iron worker. You never know how these things are going to work out.

[N2CHX]

4 children for sale? Wow!

I found the pic elsewhere. Not sure if it's accurate or not, but the caption there says this:

"A penniless mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale. Chicago, 1948."

[N2CHX]

This is how kids really had it bad. The original Ronald McDonald clown:

http://i.imgur.com/rblEQ2H.jpg

[W2NAP]

I found the pic elsewhere. Not sure if it's accurate or not, but the caption there says this:

"A penniless mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale. Chicago, 1948."

quick call snoopes.

its possible I guess. but id say unlikely.

[K7SGJ]

I found the pic elsewhere. Not sure if it's accurate or not, but the caption there says this:

"A penniless mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale. Chicago, 1948."

Yes, Mom was very sensitive, but not a very good business woman. The other side of the sign says $5 each or 4 for $30.

[KG4NEL]

This is how kids really had it bad. The original Ronald McDonald clown:

http://i.imgur.com/rblEQ2H.jpg

If they brought that dude back, maybe obesity wouldn't be as big of an issue as it is :D

[KG4NEL]

quick call snoopes.

its possible I guess. but id say unlikely.

It is Chicago, after all. The house next door selling politicians just happened to be out of them that day.

[X-Rated]

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Where is that pic of the three beat up guys from? I can't tell if they're inmates or a boxing club...

One of my bosses had that photo in his office. He said they were Germans who were captured off of someplace like North Carolina from a U-boat. He had no problem with people treating my racial brothers in that manner.

[KG4CGC]

One of my bosses had that photo in his office. He said they were Germans who were captured off of someplace like North Carolina from a U-boat. He had no problem with people treating my racial brothers in that manner.

I didn't think they looked like Princeton students! The uniforms should have given that away. Submariners dress warmly especially in U-boats during WWII because there was no environmental controls except to come up every once in a while for air.

[WX7P]

I didn't think they looked like Princeton students! The uniforms should have given that away. Submariners dress warmly especially in U-boats during WWII because there was no environmental controls except to come up every once in a while for air.

Actually, I think it's legit. The guy in the center, John Poe was killed in action in WWI. He went over there as a mercenary.

http://blogs.princeton.edu/aspire/2007/12/traditions_freshmans.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Poe

[KG4CGC]

Actually, I think it's legit. The guy in the center, John Poe was killed in action in WWI. He went over there as a mercenary.

http://blogs.princeton.edu/aspire/2007/12/traditions_freshmans.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Poe
Well then, so much for my theory.
Now to postulate the existence of dog.

[NQ6U]

Now to postulate the existence of dog.

She's dyslexic.

—Pope Carlo l

[KG4CGC]

She's dyslexic.

—Pope Carlo l

ET poontang?

[KK4AMI]

The baby in the cage hanging out the window is rather interesting. I wonder if he was afraid of heights later in life.

I could not imagine the husband building that cage and the wife not asking "Are you sure it will hold?" about one million times.

[KK4AMI]

Actually, I think it's legit. The guy in the center, John Poe was killed in action in WWI. He went over there as a mercenary.

http://blogs.princeton.edu/aspire/2007/12/traditions_freshmans.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Poe

Wow you do your research! I just quoted a stupid email that my MIL sent (Which are usually wrong.)

[KK4AMI]

Wow! I think John Poe was what they called a "Man's Man". I guess he resolved to never be a burden on Social Security or Medicare (If they would have had it). Too bad they wasted the money on a Princeton Education.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Poe

[NQ6U]

ET poontang?

Not recently, no.

[N2CHX]

what they called a "Man's Man".

I hear that phrase and immediately think the man in question is gay.

[KG4CGC]

I hear that phrase and immediately think the man in question is gay.
Well if it's followed by "power bottom" then, yeah.

[KK4AMI]

I hear that phrase and immediately think the man in question is gay.

Current translation you are probably right. Back then, I would have to guess it meant slightly suicidal. I'm guessing they didn't have travel agents back then. If you wanted to see the world you had to book with Uncle Sam.

Then again... never married, always likes to hang out where the boys are, hmm.

[WX7P]

Current translation you are probably right. Back then, I would have to guess it meant slightly suicidal. I'm guessing they didn't have travel agents back then. If you wanted to see the world you had to book with Uncle Sam.

Except John Poe didn't jam with Sam.

He volunteered for the Brits.

[KK4AMI]

Except John Poe didn't jam with Sam.

He volunteered for the Brits.

Did you read his history? He was in practically everybody's Army. He did die with the Brits. He was even Edgar Allen Poe's cousin.

[X-Rated]

John Poe of the snowball fight picture has more of an upturned nose than the 2 photos in Wikipedia of him. If you look at the photo of him holding the football, his head is tilted higher than the snowball fight picture yet you can see his nostril in the snowball fight shot and not in the football shot. Seems strange.

[KC2KFC]

This is how kids really had it bad. The original Ronald McDonald clown:

http://i.imgur.com/rblEQ2H.jpg
Is that Willard Scott?

[X-Rated]

And something to catch Willard's snot.

[n2ize]

The baby in the cage hanging out the window is rather interesting. I wonder if he was afraid of heights later in life.

Might have the opposite effect. Heights may not have bothered him as he got older.

[n2ize]

Kids did have it rough in the old days. Especially poor kids. They did backbreaking farm work. They also worked in cotton and textile mills often working long hours for little pay (or for room and board) and often doing extremely dangerous jobs in and near dangerous heavy machinery and were beaten or fired if they made mistakes. Many of them were very responsible starting from a very young age, taking care of family members, younger siblings, aging folk, etc. Not to mention how many fell ill from childhood diseases that are easily treated and prevented today. If the kids of days gone by were around today kids today could sure learn a few things about hard work and responsibility from them. They did indeed have it rough.

[X-Rated]

Kids did have it rough in the old days. Especially poor kids. They did backbreaking farm work.

It's like you know the story of my life.

[n2ize]

It's like you know the story of my life.

I guess I do. I think I recall you mentioning that you lived and worked on a farm in your younger days. And although I had it easy as a child I recall stories I was told by many old timers that made me grateful that all I had to worry about as a kid was going to school and trying to get good marks. My Grandma, on my Dad's side of the family grew up on a farm in Ucrainia. She often told me stories of the hard work kids had to do. She tended the cows and had to go looking for them when they would stray off the farm. Her brothers had to handle the more backbreaking chores from the earliest break of dawn to sunset. Also as a child I spoke with old timers who worked in factories and mills when they were kids. Child labor was common then and they told me stories of kids, quite young, who worked endless hours around machinery, punished if they were tired and fell asleep. They told me stories of kids who were injured and even killed in accidents working around the heavy machinery in the mills. Yet they took their chances and did the work for the little bit of meager wages that they brought home to their families so they could have food to eat.

[w0aew]

Then the Progressives showed up, in came child labor laws, and everything went to hell.

[KK4AMI]

Might have the opposite effect. Heights may not have bothered him as he got older.

He grew up to invent the room air conditioner.

[X-Rated]

Then the Progressives showed up, in came child labor laws, and everything went to hell.

Right. It's not like hard work and danger at all times and exposure to crop chemicals and livestock hormones is bad at early ages. I think I turned out okay, You bastids.

[WX7P]

Is that Willard Scott?

Actually, it is.

[KK4AMI]

Actually, it is.

So that is the secret to living to 100, ya gotta have no shame?

[KG4NEL]

So that is the secret to living to 100, ya gotta have no shame?

You can eventually outlive any shame.

[n2ize]

He grew up to invent the room air conditioner.

I was thinking the same thing when I saw that image. :)

[n2ize]

Then the Progressives showed up, in came child labor laws, and everything went to hell.

Those dang rotten commie socialist progressives !! :)

[N2CHX]

Actually, it is.

Yup it is. :rofl: