Have you ever...

[Laura's Babies]

If you want to know how old we all are, just ask!!! LOL!

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edit... I also remember when there were no video games, no cell phones, no computers, microwaves, seat belts and NO EXCUSE was ever listened to.

[moosmom]

All of the above 'cept for the Corvair.

Remember when cigarettes were $.25/pack?

How about gasoline at $.29/gallon?

Remember the gasoline rationing??

Juicy Fruit Gum $.05/pack for 5 sticks

Bubble gum for $.01/piece

Liquor stores were open till after 10 p.m.

All stores were closed on Sundays

No such things as security or metal detectors in schools, only hallway monitors.

No such things as crossing guards. We had "safety patrols" who were older classmates that wore a bright orange strap across your chest/around your waist that had a "badge" pinned to it.

How about Atari?? Long before high-tech video games.

Learning how to type on a MANUAL typewriter.

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We were the first family on our block to get "paid tv" through Connecticut Public Television. We had a box on top of our console tv set that we could tune in and watch movies from, LOOOOOOONG before cable tv ever came into the picture.

Green Stamps - ah yes! My mother and grandmother both saved them. They got my brother's very first guitar with them. The guitar was handed down to me after my parents brought my brother a Gibson. Then I handed it down to my cousin after I got a Gibson 12 string.

Memories.....

Yeah, okay I'm a member of the club too

[Edwina's Secretary]

When I was in college I bought a 1960 Ford Fairlane. Had a hand chock in it. No radio. Big fins. I had to have seat belts installed. I drove it from Illinois to Arizona...for two and half years in Arizona and then sold it for more than I had paid.....

I furnished the kitchen (such as that was) in my first post-college apartment buying almost everything with my mother's collection of green stamps. I still have...and use...some of that stuff.

[RICHARD]

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And she also has one of those retro golden yellow tables with metal trim. I want it so bad!

Don't forget the vinyl chairs!



LB,

I was going to try and sneak "Do you remember when dirt was invented?"
for the more mature group!

[Randi]

Richard, all of the above, except for the TV channel change - we didn't even have a TV - or a telephone!! When I was a kid, there were public telephones all over the place, and I cost $0,0169 to make that call, the same as a stick of liqurice.

I also learned to type on a manual typewriter, one of the huge red or green IBM's. I was also the proud owner of a 4 track taperecorder. LOL!

John's first "computer" was a ZX81, then we got an Amstrad, running CPM.

So did you ever send a msg on a Telex? I did that too, as late as 76.

Still haven't got a diswasher, washing machine or a microwave. ... and I can do without.

[Pawsitive Thinking]

Yes to them all! I'm an oldie

[Pam]

My First Car!
A '65 ... I LOVED it - drove like a race car, good in the snow (till you packed too much snow
under the belly pan - an the lil wheels couldn't reach the ground! )

As for Ralph ... ... he sure killed the resale value on mine!

My folks had a snappy little red Corvair with white interior. Boy was that It was a breeze to park which my mom loved as she never quite mastered parallel parking. Hubby liked theirs so much that he bought a snappy little black Corvair with a white interior for our first car after we got married. It was fine except for the smoke that would occasionally come up from under the dashboard and hit us in the face as we rode down the highway. We never did find out the cause of that.

I also learned to type on a manual typewriter. I was so excited when my employer, back in the 60's, brought in all new IBM Selectrics with the changeable little balls. Thought I'd died and gone to heaven.

[RICHARD]

I was so excited when my employer, back in the 60's, brought in all new IBM Selectrics with the changeable little balls. Thought I'd died and gone to heaven.

Yep, it's all in the balls.


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LOL,
Did anyone ever do laundry in a machine that had the wringers aboove the tub?


Randi,

Dot Matrix Printers!

[critter crazy]

Used carbon paper.YES

Used a pay phone?YES

Dialed a phone?YES

Used a dial to change the TV channel?YES

Bought Cigarettes from a vending machine?NO

Played a pinball machine?YES

Drank soda from a glass bottle?YES

[Queen of Poop]

Yes to it all. I was going to mention the wringer washer but Richard beat me to it. I also recall my mom bringing in sheets off the line in winter time - frozen solid. But the best thing I recall is having to bathe in the old metal tub, that when I look at it now should be filled with ice and cold drinks, certainly I didn't fit into that!!! Oh yes, and the outhouse. I didn't experience a flush toilet until I was 10 years old - can you imagine???

Oh My Goodness, I'm OLD!!!!!

[lvpets2002]

Oh Great Richard you told my age == yes to all && even == Used Pay Phone & it was 10 cents,, The Turn Dial On Our Black & White TV,, Cigs Were 50 cents,, The Glass Coke Bottle that I Drank Out Of I turned back in for 1 cent deposit.. Good Thread & it has you to remember when!!

[borzoimom]

Remember sugar cigarrettes.. Or having a remote for your tv that had a chord that went along the floor ( that the dog chewed up) or how big it was to have a chordless phone in the house? Or the first cell phone mounted in your car,, or your computer was at work, a DOS and the computer room filled the whole room???? Or wow- new technology on this thing called a "fax".. or you had a color tv set? And you had to replace the different color bulbs, or seperate color lights on your christmas tree?

[Anita Cholaine]

Used a pay phone?

Used carbon paper?

Drank soda from a glass bottle?

We still use those here! I guess we're an old fashioned country

[Pam]

[QUOTE=RICHARD]Yep, it's all in the balls.[/quote=Richard]


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Oh Richard!



Yep I can remember watching my mom feeding clothes through those wringers.


Dot Matrix Printers!
Richard I just convinced hubby to throw ours out last year. (He tends to hang onto stuff. ) Anyway, normally anything in our trash is picked before the morning. No one wanted that printer except the trashmen! LOL!

[Laura's Babies]

Oh, I forgot to mention that I still (to this day) have a bun warmer that I got with S&H Green Stamps!