I think a pack was $1.50 at Denny's, in the late 80s before they removed the machines.
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I think a pack was $1.50 at Denny's, in the late 80s before they removed the machines.
I used to pay 35 cents for a pack. That was the price of my high school lunch and milk and I sometimes bought cigarettes instead of lunch.:eek: ~Is my Mom reading this??~~ Yikes!!
I remember buying gas for 26 cents a gallon in 1974, on our way to move to Utah. That was when the gas rationing was, I think.
The house we grew up in was in Ormond Beach and pretty close to the beach. It cost my parents $17,000. That was in 1957.
This thread is taking me back.:)
That was the year I was born. Ild drive ALOT MORE if gas was that cheap.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daisy and Delilah
Me too.:D It was a little more expensive in Florida but it got cheaper and cheaper as we headed further west.Quote:
Originally Posted by blue
Hey, I actually remember these two things. A phone call being only a dime and the full service at gas stations.Quote:
Originally Posted by kokopup
Recently we stopped at a station on the motorcycle and someone came out and told us to move to another pump because we were at a full service pump (which you pay MORE for when they actually have them). Its very rare, but they are still out there.
Does anybody recall an item that we used to call a "typewriter?"
WO, I was learning to type on one of them - a solid green IBM. :D
Ah yes, learning to curve the fingers in just the right way so the teacher wouldn't smack our hands w/the ruler. Same w/penmanship in grade school. If I held my pen or pencil the way we were expected to, you couldn't read my writing. If I held it my own way, I had beautiful penmanship. That didn't matter, though. Had to do it their way or you'd have to hold out your hands and get them smacked w/the ruler across the knuckles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Willow Oak
I sure do remember. No getting out of your car in bad weather. Sigh. More people working, too. Now it seems everything is going the way of DIY.Quote:
Originally Posted by Taz_Zoee
Manual or electric???:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Willow Oak
They came in electric?Quote:
Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary
Uh oh. I'll just bet there is no one who remembers having to get off the couch, walk across the room, and turn the knob in order to change channels.
Heh heh heh, of course. Rabbit ears w/tin foil and all. In the same vein, you mentioned typewriters and before high school and learning to type, if we had a report due, we had to actually walk to the library and do research w/BOOKS! Now everything is at our fingertips w/computers and the internet and that isn't necessarily a bad thing but we sure earned our grades back then because we had to put forth the effort.Quote:
Originally Posted by Willow Oak
Around here you definitely still have a choice. There are some stations that are "full service" and some that are self-serve - and the price at the full-service is often cheaper than the self-serve! Seeing as I can pass 4 gas stations in less than a mile, I just go with whomever is least expensive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Medusa
:p Yup I do & still there was only Black & White screens.. I can remember when we got one of the first Color TVs & oh it was so Great.. Still no remotes yet.. Also remember when at night & the TV Stations went off the air = there was the Indian in the circle & the TV just bussdd.. Also by the way I do still own a Manual & Electric Type Writer..Quote:
Originally Posted by Willow Oak
As far as I know, there was only one in the entire Canton area and I'm not sure if they're still full service any more because the only reason I even stopped in there once was because I was driving on fumes. They were waaay more expensive, too, so I bought just enough gas to enable me to get to a self serve. I don't mind pumping my own gas except when the weather is awful. Plus back in the day I knew all the service people by name and we'd talk about family, etc. Now it's all in-and-out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Karen
Some of the discussions on this wayward thread have been on the cost of things today compared to yesteryear. I recall if you were talking about a $5000 car it was a Mercedes and 10,000 was a Ferrari. Now 5000 will buy nothing new and $10,000 may buy a low end Kia.
The only thing that cost less today than at any time in History is anything tied to technology, like TV's and Computers. We can thank Japan, China and Korea who we are selling our soul to. That is where all of America's wealth is going. America has THE worst trade deficit of ANY country in the world.
I'm sorry to say all these good times we are recalling are history, never
to return.
Typewriters??? :confused::rolleyes:
Ok - now I remember. Typing I was on that IBM manual, and Typing II you got the luxury of an electric.
And remember the course in Business Machines? - the 10-key adding machine and the monstrous Friden Calculator that was as big as a desk top? It would sit there and clack and grind and take 5 minutes to work an equation and spit out the answer. You could sit there and do homework for other classes while waiting for it!
I think kids should have a mandatory course in basic typing in elementary school now. They start out so early on the computer that they should be taught the proper way to navigate a keyboard.
Books? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Medusa
Now let's see, here ..., where have I heard that word before?
That is a fact. One of the sweetest things I ever experienced was finally getting that color TV.Quote:
Originally Posted by lvpets2002
That's what I have to do now, although not to change channels - but volume, on/off and everything else. :( I need a new TV!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Willow Oak
post by Pomtzu
Kids today can type faster on a phone keypad, with their thumbs, thanQuote:
I think kids should have a mandatory course in basic typing in elementary school now. They start out so early on the computer that they should be taught the proper way to navigate a keyboard.
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most could do with 10 fingers on a standard typewriter. Times are a changing.
:D :D You've got that right, but darned if I can. I watch my grandkids in amazement while they're texting! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by kokopup
This thread is cracking me up!!
We have a typewriter here in the office and one time I was using it a younger co-worker walked by and said "you know how to use that thing?". I about died.
Several years ago when I was working in child care we had a record playing during nap time. I asked one of the college students, who was working for his hours, to restart the record. He looked at me like this :confused: and said I don't know how. :eek:
Remember when drug stores were drug stores, and not mini Walmarts? And of course every one had a soda fountain where you could sit down at the counter and get sodas, shakes and sundaes.
I remember the first of the fast food burger joints where I lived, before the onslaught of McDonalds and the rest. Burgers were 15 cents or 10 for $1.00 - and they were good - not like what is typical now.
:) You watch == The Speed of Texting will be in the Olympics..:DQuote:
Originally Posted by pomtzu
Great thread....
Not to add to the pile but....
Who had a Polaroid camera?
:) Hey I have a 1950/1960? model.. The camera & lens comes out of the case like a acordian.. I also still have a 70's model that works..:D
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Originally Posted by beeniesmom
ME!!! I had one of the more expensive ones that my Dad gave me. I still have it - maybe I can sell it to a museum some day. I don't think there is even film available for them anymore - not that anyone would want it anyway. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by beeniesmom
I have a lot of dogs and cats. I have a nice bed, and I have a vague recollection of sleeping in that bed and not on the floor.
I did. Just got rid of it a few years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by beeniesmom
We had one here in Canal Fulton until just a few years ago. The same counter w/stools, etc., real ice cream, too. They sold it, though, and now it's a Thai restaurant. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by pomtzu
I remember these prices, also. And gas for 25¢/gallon.Quote:
Originally Posted by pomtzu
Ours was Hillsgrove1147R - yikes!! You are taking me way too far back, Ellie!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by pomtzu
Have you seen the movie about Rocky Point - You Have To Be This Tall? I saw it when I visited my brother in East Greenwich a few years ago. Boy, the memories it brought back. It's available on DVD now.Quote:
Originally Posted by pomtzu
:) You all know of those Bigg Fat Pickles that are $1.00 to $2.00 now == Well I can remember them at a .05 cents.. And on for another .05 cents you could have 5 pieces of candy.. It was called penny candy.. Also I can remember BirthControl Pills at .75 cents for a whole month.. Thought it was hwy robbery when they was $1.25 a month pack.. Hey this is all fun..:D
Post by BenniesMom
When I went through Navy Basic training in 1958 they were fairly new. I bought one at the PX and started taking pictures of other recruits in their uniform. In no time I was sending my friend to buy film. In just one afternoon I paid for my camera. I had a line of sailors around 100 feet long. I would snap a picture and pull the picture from the camera. While I was taking the next picture my friend was waving the one I pull from the camera,in the air, to develop it faster. We had quite an assembly line going. :DQuote:
Great thread....
Not to add to the pile but....
Who had a Polaroid camera?
Originally Posted by pomtzu View Post
My best memories as a kid was going to Mr Wombles drug store for the fountain drinks. I loved the "Vanilla Coke","Cherry Coke" and the real squeezed fountain "lime aid".Quote:
Remember when drug stores were drug stores, and not mini Walmarts? And of course every one had a soda fountain where you could sit down at the counter and get sodas, shakes and sundaes.
Today the only way to know if you are in a drug store or not is to look for the tire section. If there are tires then you are probably in Walmart. The Walgreens and Rite Aids must do alright though because you see one on every corner.
Alaska refines our own oil into gas and heating oil yet we had some of the highest prices during the fuel crisis. Its wierd.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daisy and Delilah
My stepdad still has one, and he still uses it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Willow Oak