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I love this - Everythings Amazing and Nobody is Happy

People don't appreciate how far high tech has advanced.
This is a pic of my great grandpa Peter Bellert's harness shop around 1912 or so. That's him at the workbench. Pete ran the town phone exchange out of our house, the switchboard was in the living room (through the door on the back wall). The phone booth was used by people who didn't yet have phone service in their homes, if they needed to place a call they came to Pete's shop. The operator (my great aunt Kate) put the calls through and the folks paid Pete for each call. No direct dial back then - heck, not even a dial! :d
 
TARPSBird said:
People don't appreciate how far high tech has advanced.
This is a pic of my great grandpa Peter Bellert's harness shop around 1912 or so. That's him at the workbench. Pete ran the town phone exchange out of our house, the switchboard was in the living room (through the door on the back wall). The phone booth was used by people who didn't yet have phone service in their homes, if they needed to place a call they came to Pete's shop. The operator (my great aunt Kate) put the calls through and the folks paid Pete for each call. No direct dial back then - heck, not even a dial! :d
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That picture is so cool. I love his shop. I wish mine was as neat.
 
LOL.. this was so true, we have managed to raise a generation of idots..
But again these are our children, so who is to Blame???
 
That was great, lolol.. Thanks Easy Ed for that.

So true. I am constantly amazed at the technologies we are surrounded with these days. My phone for instance always has me in awe. I still cant believe they have compressed a laptop into a thing smaller then my wallet that I carry in my pocket....! How is it I can have 9 Gigs of music in it????? and several movies? And several TV shows (Stargate SGU).... and the phone still fits in there! lol....

Goodness..



Bill
 
i kinda wish my dad was still alive to see these things. he was born in 1926 and died in '82. the world changed sooo much just after he left it. it went through huge changes even during his lifetime. he was an accountant and did his work with his brain or a big clunky adding machine. there was no digital anything while he was alive.
now my calculator watch has more computing power than he had ever seen. i wonder what he mighta thought about these things
 
EasyEd~ I really enjoyed this clip! Thank you for posting it! To echo many of the similar comments below, how so very true it is. We have such amazing technology nowadays, however, the stress level of the population is through the roof.
People are never satisfied, they always want more....

Great video! I will be sharing it with family and friends.

 
EasyEd: I love it. :icon_lol: I got curious and did some YouTube browsing. Flying was something special in the 1960's and 1970's. Have a look.


[YOUTUBE]5iZV4JW0Nbo&feature[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]TR7JApjgIGw&feature[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]oHnqnyzegfc&NR[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]Uvkxa1O7Mec&feature[/YOUTUBE]
 
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