I actually remember honest-to-God gas lights on the streets, even. I live in Germany, in a fairly big city, but back around 1960, the suburbs still had men go about each day at dusk/dawn to light/extinguish the street lights. I found it quite fascinating as a kid. By the mid-sixties, even the city limits had switched to neon.
My son always seems to think that kind of thing only happened in the Dark Ages, and is clearly boggled by the fact that his very own mother (who owns both an iPod and a cell phone) remembers this actually happening.
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ninetydegrees
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on 2005-06-29 07:56 pm (UTC)I actually remember honest-to-God gas lights on the streets, even. I live in Germany, in a fairly big city, but back around 1960, the suburbs still had men go about each day at dusk/dawn to light/extinguish the street lights. I found it quite fascinating as a kid. By the mid-sixties, even the city limits had switched to neon.
My son always seems to think that kind of thing only happened in the Dark Ages, and is clearly boggled by the fact that his very own mother (who owns both an iPod and a cell phone) remembers this actually happening.