I'm so old I remember... (cost, phones, furniture, penny)

[BlueWillowPlate]

Originally Posted by AksarbeN

I remember in the 60’s there was a “gas war” in town and the price per gal.

Remember when we did not have to pump our own gas?

I remember when matinee movies were a nickel.
My mom would give me (the oldest) 50 cents and happily get all 3 of us out of her hair during those teacher planning days when there was no school.

More recent memory: When the dollar was strong--and the euro did not exist.

[poconoproud]

I remember going to the fair - in the back of my dad's orange pick up truck.

I remember when there was no such thing as internet. (Thank goodness for Al Gore!)

I remember watching The Muppet Show after Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.

and 8 tracks.

[agreatlife]

Anyone remember 4 track tapes! How about Eskimo yoyos.

[country pride]

Well at least you can remember. Some of us cant.

[Roaddog]

Originally Posted by poconoproud

I remember going to the fair - in the back of my dad's orange pick up truck.

I remember when there was no such thing as internet. (Thank goodness for Al Gore!)

I remember watching The Muppet Show after Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.

and 8 tracks.

I was thinking about the pickup, all us kids would climb in the back and away we would go.

I remember my Dad stopping for hitchhikers

[thefer]

My parents buying A Kaiser



Just to be mean I'm not explaining any of it. You have to look it up on Google. So there.[/quote]

I had to look up Kaiser!
I'm not telling either! lol

[AksarbeN]

Good morning!

I knew what a Kaiser was!

[Tek_Freek]

Originally Posted by Steve Bagu

You guys are talking all MODERN stuff. I recall the Ice Box with 25 or 50 lb blocks of ice on top of the fridge. Bread man, Milk man, Ice man,Farmer wagon with fresh Fruit & vegetables all being pulled by a HORSE. Milk bottles with cream at the top. Going to the closed local bakery back door and pay the baker .09c for a loaf of hot bread. Going down the basement and turning the wine press full of grapes to make cider towards making WINE. Cider was delicious. One dip ice cream cone for .03c, double dip .05c, triple dip for .10c. GOOD old days. NOW you know what OLD is really like. Stefhen

Thank you for the memories. I had forgotten running out to the road to get ice chips from the iceman. The milkman leaving milk on the porch (with cream, yes!), farmer wagons, and getting a ladder so we could climb the iron rungs that were in the wooden telephone poles on our street. Good stuff.

Wow! Thanks!

[AksarbeN]

Burma Shave signs with slogans along the highways mostly along the farmers fence line and near smaller towns across the country.

[Tek_Freek]

Originally Posted by AksarbeN

I remember carbon paper! For those who don’t know what it is ~ it provides a copy of the original.

I still have some.

I remember when vacuum tubes were used in radios and tvs and the transistor just came out in a small radio.

I remember taking all the tubes out, going to the corner drug store plugging them into a big tester, then buying the one(s) needed and replacing all of the tubes before you could watch Howdy Doody.

I remember when a payphone calls was 10 cents, and phone numbers were only 4 digits.

5 digits for me: 60849. The girl I had a crush on that lived down the street. had 60489. They then added prefixes: AMherst, CHerry, etc. Ours then became 266-0849 (26 for AM).

I remember when, if you knew someones phone number, you knew what part of town they lived in.

I remember when none of our neighbors and my family had inside toilets.

Cold out there! Me too.

Originally Posted by SandyCo

I remember the typewriters with the manual carriages; you actually had to push a lever to go to the beginning of the next line! And the individual keys would get stuck together because I typed so fast.

We still have two that work: My grandfathers and my wife's parents.

I remember 45 records and LPs. I remember 8-track tapes, as brief as that was.

I have some of both, and have converted quite a bit of it to CD's.

I remember 5 cent Cokes and where the last machine was in town to get one. Thanks, Mr. Ruan. We all appreciated that machine.

Tire swings, but I think they're still around.

Putting pennies on the train tracks.

The orange, yellow, and lime green shirts and pants they made for boys in the fifties. We were such a colorful bunch!

I remember when I could spend the entire day on my own without my parents worrying about where I was. I would wish that for today's parents and children if it would come true.