Entertainment boxes of long ago, no weren’t TVs, electronics. In fact they didn’t need electricity. They were People Powered!
Facts: I am being above board, I am in the Golden Years
They say that, but sorry what I will be talking about were my Golden, I am a Senior Citizen.
How did my real Golden Years go as a youngster
During the day we were mostly outside playing. Hopscotch, Jump rope, make believe like cops and robber, Cowboys and Indians, and Hide & Seek, to name a few. Yes, were allowed to play with guns, I learned how to shoot real guns when I was young. No, I would not shoot something just targets. Also rode horses a lot, as you can tell I was not a city girl. I grew up in NE Montana.
Entertainment boxes were brought out after dinner
And in the winter when it was to cold to play outside
Entertainment boxes of long ago:
- Dinner had to be early so we wouldn’t miss our favorite radio program. We would huddle around the radio just like we do a TV. There was great music but also those great programs that were on in the evening. There were all couple of Mystery Theatres and there were a lot of westerns like Gene Autry and Roy Rodgers/Dale Evans. Plus comedy galore. Lot of action in those programs and some ways more fun than the Boob Tube. With the radio, you got to let your imagination open up and just see it all in your minds eye.
- Then were all of the cardboard boxes. There was so much inside to be found playing monopoly, dominoes, putting puzzles together which were places we would like to go to someday.
- Boards called cribbage and chess, we kept our minds busy there
- My favorite box, the one that had cards. We could sit hour on end playing cards, some card decks were made up for particular games, but the most used were regular cards to play pinochle, and most every card game you could think of, then out came out of the box the Poker Chips. We played different kinds of poker. I wasn’t to bad of a poker player.
Cold winters need indoor entertainment
(Great Entertainment boxes, whatever climate you live in)
The point when had to come in from the cold in the winter (we did get down to 10 below or more and the wind was blowing), we found plenty to do. No I am not from Alaska I grew up in Northeastern Montana, wide open places
We didn’t spend the whole winter inside.I remember my friends and I spent our lives most of the time, even in those cold snowy days in the winter building snow forts (we would make some pretty elaborate snow forts), ice skating (of course our rink was nothing fancy), and sometime we’d go skate on the river on the Poplar River, I even remember skating on the Missouri River, and sledding. If you were really brave you go sled down Howers Hill (now I think about it, it wasn’t even close to a hill in the Seattle area). There were also the horses that pulled us in a big wagon. Some of the boys tried having horses pulling while they were on skis, but that didn’t work very good. We could find something to do outside, nobody and no box had to entertain us.
I couldn’t do this, back then
(I was to young!) after coming in from the cold it is a good idea to sit get warmed up. And the best way would be to have a glass of Fine Wine by the Fire, but I guess back then it was a big mug hot cocoa probably with little marshmallows on the top. I like it a lot better now with the wine. Couldn’t be more relaxing and warming!
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