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Greetings 405 listener!
The 405 airs over KMMR Radio Station. At 5 Minutes past 4 PM. Normally each M-F week day of the year. Here on the website we'll get it posted for you within a few hours, normally.
Your neighbor and website maintainer,
D.J. Rasmussen
I wanna again welcome you to the 04:05 coffee break. It's Wednesday, guys. Get you a cup of coffee, glass iced tea, bottle of water, tall, cool glass of lemonade, and then spring wheat, $5.81. 550 pounds steer calf, $3.97 a pound. Butcher hog in Iowa, 55¢ a pound.
OK Solberg:And a 100lb fat lamb in Billings, $2.20 a pound. But guys, there's more, much more. Okay, all this week we are walking down memory lane. That's a lane, I love to travel. I don't know why memories of the old days are so refreshing, but they sure are.
OK Solberg:I'm sure any young people out there are wondering when will this ever end? But I hope it helps even the young to know how different things are now compared to the way they used to be. Like I told you, I found an article online that stated, you might be older than you think if you remember these events. Then it went on to mention if you remembered when the milkman delivered milk to the front door, and if you remember the first time you saw a colored TV, and also if you remember the old rotary phones with the short cords. But today, let's look at this one.
OK Solberg:You might be older than you think if you remember when you had to wait for your camera film to be developed. Guys, you know what I'm talking about. You young folk out there know this, back only twenty three years ago, and know that I was only 45, I was 45 then, back only twenty three years ago, pictures on a camera and wait till we used up the whole roll. Now the roll's varied in size. You could buy a roll of film for your camera that had only 12 exposures on it, or there were some that had 16, and if you really wanted to be fancy, you could buy a roll of film that had 24 or even 36 exposures on it.
OK Solberg:But here's the deal, you first off had to wait till you used up the whole roll, then you carefully removed the film from the camera and you either took it to a store that would develop the film, some of the bigger cities had a one hour photo processing, but mostly here in good old Malta, Montana, we had to mail the film off to a processing store and you could wait up to a week or ten days before it returned. It might sound primitive, but that's the way it was and we didn't know any better. Then guys, you have to realize sometimes none of the pictures turned out at all. You ever have that happen? Now granted, that didn't happen often, but believe me, it would happen from time to time, and then it was all for naught.
OK Solberg:But also, what would happen is the picture turned out pretty fair, but you were blinking and your eyes were closed, and can't retake the picture, the event happened fourteen days ago. Too bad, so sad. It would be fun to hear some picture developing stories from out there. It was a big deal, and it was the only way to get pictures. We had no other choice.
OK Solberg:We didn't know any better. Now the article continues with, you might be older than you think if you remember your first record player and the first record or album you ever bought. Now my folks had a stereo radio phonograph that they received as a wedding present. I still have it at my house. So I always had a record player.
OK Solberg:But I remember well the very first 45 record I ever purchased, I do. It was Doctor. Hook singing Sylvia's mother. Oh sure, you remember, don't you? Sylvia's mother said Sylvia's busy, too busy to come to the phone.
OK Solberg:Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's trying to start a new life of her own. Sylvia's mother said Sylvia's happy, so why don't you leave her alone? And the operator said 40¢ more for the next three minutes. Please, missus Avery, I just gotta talk to her. I'll only keep her a while.
OK Solberg:Please, missus Avery, I just wanna tell her goodbye. Oh, the memories. Please pull up that song and listen for old time's sake. I'll close with a bible verse from Ecclesiastes seven ten. Do not say why were the old days better than these, for it is not wise to ask such questions.
OK Solberg:Yes, sir. It's really in the bible. The old days are fun to remember, but believe me, they weren't always better, were they? The clock on the wall says I have to run. So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.