Can you remember your first camera?
I’m old enough to remember when cameras took 35mm film canisters but have no idea what camera I was using. How you’d have to figure out if you wanted 100, 200, or 400 ISO. How you’d load one in, take a bunch of photos, then turn in the film to have it developed. Double prints meant you could share any good shots with someone else, but it also meant twice as many dud shots to throw away.
Can you remember when you had your first mobile phone?
When I say my kids look traumatized by my childhood without a phone…I swear I can’t exactly remember when I got my first one. Definitely after college but I still remember how isolated I felt teaching in my second classroom so it wasn’t in the late 90s. I do remember I had a flip phone when those felt cutting edge.
Can you remember your first car. If you don’t drive, can you remember your parents car?
My first car was a white Honda accord. It was a two door and felt very sporty. After making it through most of college I was very grateful to have transportation to help with my last year of student teaching.
What was your first job as an adult?
I graduated college and became a special education teacher in an elementary school. The children were sweet, the parents supportive, and as a bonus the school was across from a pasture so I saw cows every morning on my way to work.
Gratitude:
Laptop improvements, a washing machine and dryer (I don’t know why this one popped into my head today but I surely am), warm spring weather, and good allergy medicine.
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Riddle from the Middle 
Wonderful answers to great questions. I’ll do this one:
First camera: an Instamatic
First mobile phone: a little Motorola flip one, that slipped into my jeans pocket no problem
First car: a Pontiac Sunbird
First adult job: Paralegal in a law firm that specialized in bonds, so boring
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Hi Laura! I enjoyed this post! I definitely remember, and don’t miss, the old film cameras. It was always a surprise when you got the film developed months later! Things have certainly improved in camera technology!
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Thanks for visiting, Michelle! I remember the surprise too. I also remember debating whether it was worth the cost of developing when I stumbled across a couple of film canisters since I had zero idea what was on them. My digital camera changed *everything*.
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I used to tease my wife that she was on the show Star Trek. Her flip phone looked like the communicators that Kirk and Spock used. Of course, in reality, I was really jealous, because I wanted one too. Ha, Ha.
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oh my, yes, the flip phones were something! I remember looking at people who had them around me and thinking I wish I could be that important. Now that a phone’s attached to my hip… I don’t know anymore🤷🏻♀️. Maybe I should have been grateful for the quiet.
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AS a child I remember buying a little plastic camera. You lifted a little flap on the top and looked down through a square ‘window’ on top to see what you were taking. I honestly can’t remember whether the photo’s came out – oh that 48 hour wait – but I do remember that the camera came complete with a canister of film and licorice allsorts where the film had to go. You don’t get that today… 😜
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fun memories! In high school I worked at a camera shop where we used to develop film for other people. It was so interesting to see all the cameras that came in. Had I stumbled across one that gave me candy…it for sure would’ve been my favorite😂
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Hi Laura,
thanks for joining in and sharing your world. I could never get on with the 35mm film loading, and most of the pictures I ever took were dire.
At least with the digital one it doesn’t cost anything to have them developed only to be binned!
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so very true. My digital camera changed photography for me in every way. So grateful for it
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I do. Camera was a brownie (long before 35mm), first mobile phone was at my first career type job (I was a non-traditional college student, graduated at 38). Before the phone we used a pager and then found a payphone. Dinosaur times!
First car 1968 VW brand new. About 2,000 brand new. payment was $150 per month. First job was working for an electrical manufacturer, the company was going broke when they hired me and I worked as an expediter finding orders that were overdue. I worked with male contractors many who were incensed because their order was overdue. I tracked it down and gave them a date of shipment and followed up to make sure it happened. I was truthful with them even when the news was not good. I really liked the job a lot and got laid off after 6-8 months when the place was announcing they were closing. (Oil company would not deliver any more oil because they were so far behind).
My first computer was a Commodore 64 and then I graduated to an Apple II I think. Laptops did not appear in my house for another few years. Yes Dinosaur times it was.
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I remember pager days – I was never important enough to anyone to be needed that urgently. They seemed very grown up though. Our family had a VW bus growing up and I have fond(ish) memories of road trips in that thing. Thank you for sharing your memories here!
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my first camera was an old brownie and I even remember the first picture I ever took, a grainy black and white picture of an alligator at the zoo. I should blog this!
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Holy cow, that’s a fantastic memory! To remember not just the camera but also your first subject…I wish I could remember things like that.
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