Have you ever...

[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.