Question of the Day - Tuesday, January 10

[cassiopea]

Greetings! Happy Tuesday!




What's a sound you heard when you were young that you know longer hear?



The dialup connection noise Good times!

 

[catloverfromwayback]

A hand-push lawnmower.

 

[iPappy]

cassiopea I remember getting all frustrated when it constantly rang busy, but when the dial up connection sound finally played I felt so relieved!
I could always tell if I was outside if someone else at home was watching TV because we had one of those giant satellite dishes.

It had a very faint and distinct noise it made as it moved. I loved watching TV off of it though, you'd plug in the channel you wanted and if the dish had to move all the way across the sky, you'd sometimes catch glimpses of what other channels were playing as it moved. (My favorite channel was S3 03, 05, and 15, because it seemed like saved by the bell was on either one of those channels pretty much all day, and 90s kids gotta 90.)

 

[neely]

The sound of the old rotary telephone when you used your finger to dial.

 

[NY cat man]

The thud-thud-thud from tire chains on cars in the winter. There was no such thing as snow tires or tires with studs. If you went anywhere, and there was snow on the roads, you put on tire chains, and they had to be adjusted because they tended to loosen as you drove.

 

[susanm9006]

The sound of a summer night. We didn’t have fans so you slept with your head near a window. The ping, ping, ping of June bugs and mosquitos hitting the screen, the sound of owls and the flapping of bird wings, and the rustle of unknown creatures moving through the grass.

 

[DreamerRose]

There are a couple of sounds that can still be heard today, but I rarely hear them because of where I live. Our house growing up was on the flight path from National Airport, and the planes overhead were deafening and frequent, maybe every 15 minutes. If you were outside, conversation stopped. I've seen the house from the air flying over, that's how close the planes were. We were also located about two blocks from the fire station, and since Arlington is a high density area, fire trucks blazed down the street three or four times a night. I'm out in the far suburbs now, rarely hear a plane, and fire trucks show up silently three or four times a year.

We could also hear taps being played at Fort Myer on still summer evenings. That was a sweet, sad sound.

 

[DreamerRose]

The sound of a summer night. We didn’t have fans so you slept with your head near a window. The ping, ping, ping of June bugs and mosquitos hitting the screen, the sound of owls and the flapping of bird wings, and the rustle of unknown creatures moving through the grass.

And the fragrance of magnolias.

 

[susanm9006]

And the fragrance of magnolias.

No magnolias in Minnesota but for sure the smell of grass and flowers and , skunks.

 

[Margot Lane]

Well I used to hear spotted owls. They are still there, but have gone quiet so as not to attract attention.

 

[game misconduct]

the chatter and racket my aunts and uncles made at our yearly xmas gatherings my dad has 10 siblings counting him 5 boys 5 girls so my 5 aunts counting the some of the wives were like a flock of birds with all the noise they made add in a bunch of kids and it was chaos

 

[MoochNNoodles]

The hum of the old blower/fan thing my grandparents had to circulate the heat from their fireplace. I’ve never heard one anywhere else. It was a good white noise sound too. Id probably doze off if I did hear it now.

 

[Maria Bayote]

The sound of Crickets at night, when the world is already at a standstill and the only thing that remains in chaos is your mind.

 

[catloverfromwayback]

The hiss the blue-tongue skink that lived under the bungalow in our back yard would make when it came outside for a bit of sun and the dog or cats sniffed at it.

 

[JamesCalifornia]

~ Typewriters ...

 

[denice]

The sound of the machine at the old drugstore soda fountains that mixed malts in the old silver tins. My favorite was what we always called chocolate malts, in some places it was a black and white because it was made with vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup. There was almost a full second one in the tin which was also part of the deal. That is why when I was small and a parent was always there it was shared. That was a good thing because no one especially a small child needs all that sugar but I didn't care for the sharing idea.

 

[Boris Diamond]

Sometimes we would walk to where the air raid siren was and be under it when it was tested, which they did every Saturday at noon. It was mounted on top of a small grocery store with a residential area all around it. That thing was loud! It projected sound through a horn that rotated. This was in the 50's.

 

[NY cat man]

The sound of the machine at the old drugstore soda fountains that mixed malts in the old silver tins. My favorite was what we always called chocolate malts, in some places it was a black and white because it was made with vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup. There was almost a full second one in the tin which was also part of the deal. That is why when I was small and a parent was always there it was shared. That was a good thing because no one especially a small child needs all that sugar but I didn't care for the sharing idea.

Or how about a cherry phosphate?

 

[Neko-chan's mama]

The whirr of a huge metal fan in summer. And the howling of the neighborhood dogs when the local fire department siren went off.

 

[Katie M]

The thunk of putting a tape in a VCR.