showing your age...

[Medusa]

I remember in elementary school when we had a milk break in the morning. You got a half pint of milk and it came in a little milk bottle (no cartons then), and it was 2 cents.

We had the savings bond program too. You had a book that you filled with savings stamps that you purchased, and when it was full, you cashed it in for a bond (whatever the denomination of the book you filled).

Sorry if I got off track here, but this thread brings back a lot of old memories.

Yes, we had milk breaks, too. Milk was $.04 a bottle. And the savings bond program reminded me of S&H Green Stamps and later on Plaid Stamps. Remember those? They came in quite handy for trading in for household items to be given as wedding gifts. And do you recall being given glassware when you purchased gas? Some of it is selling at a premium now at antique stores.

[Willow Oak]

Yes, we had milk breaks, too. Milk was $.04 a bottle. And the savings bond program reminded me of S&H Green Stamps and later on Plaid Stamps. Remember those? They came in quite handy for trading in for household items to be given as wedding gifts. And do you recall being given glassware when you purchased gas? Some of it is selling at a premium now at antique stores.

You just opened up a whole can of worms. Gas stations? My memory fails me in many ways, but for some reason there is a snapshot image still in my mind of the Esso station and its 32 cents per gallon gas. And my dad complaining about the price of gas!

[Medusa]

Also, grocery stores gave a free book to a set of encyclopedias w/every order over a certain amount but I can't recall what amount. I acquired the entire set of encyclopedias that way from my parent's shopping. Funk and Wagnalls, I think. LOL That may have come later, I'm not sure.

[pomtzu]

Yes, we had milk breaks, too. Milk was $.04 a bottle. And the savings bond program reminded me of S&H Green Stamps and later on Plaid Stamps. Remember those? They came in quite handy for trading in for household items to be given as wedding gifts. And do you recall being given glassware when you purchased gas? Some of it is selling at a premium now at antique stores.

My Mom used to shop where they gave Green Stamps. I still have a set of pyrex mixing bowls that she got with them, and a locket too.

I remember the gas station glasses too. We had a set of really tall green glass ones, and Dad made rootbeer floats in them! That was always a big Saturday afternoon treat.

[Willow Oak]

I remember the gas station glasses too. We had a set of really tall green glass ones, and Dad made rootbeer floats in them! That was always a big Saturday afternoon treat.

Shut up! Root beer floats! I believe they were called "black cows."

I always have a Texas gallon of ice cream in the fridge and a six pack of coke (in bottles only) so that I can make a coke float about every other day.

[Medusa]

Root beer floats make me think of my ex-husband. He LOVED those things!

[Willow Oak]

Root beer floats make me think of my ex-husband.

Good thoughts?

[Willow Oak]

And at the gas station you had two choices: regular or ethyl. All the poor ladies whose names were "Ethyl" really took a beating back then.

[Randi]

OK, when I was a child, I could make a local phonecall for 0,018 USD - that is if there was a telephone at all!

And when I was an au-pair in England, I could get a chocolade bar from a machine for 6 pence.

[Willow Oak]

OK, when I was a child, I could make a local phonecall for 0,018 USD - that is if there was a telephone at all!

And when I was an au-pair in England, I could get a chocolade bar from a machine for 6 pence.

We used to have something called a telephone. Now everyone uses a cell phone. I don't even have a land line.

Also, I have noticed that phone booths seemed to have disappeared.

And ..., phones used to ring. You know: Rrrriiiiiiinnnnnggggg!

Oh yeah -- we had party lines. I used to sit and listen to the old ladies gossip about their neighbors.

Okay. I'm done.

[kokopup]

Randi I remember a phone call at a public booth costing 10 cent. You would be hard pressed to find a phone booth today. The Hersey chocolate bar cost 5 cents when I was young.

For those discussing Gas stations, do you remember that they used to pump your gas ,clean the windshield, and checked you oil as a part of the service? Then they went to full service at a premium ,or self service if you wanted the best price. I don't recall seeing a full/self in years. They are all self only now.

[Medusa]

Good thoughts?

ALWAYS.

[pomtzu]

Shut up! Root beer floats! I believe they were called "black cows."

I was born and raised in New England, and they were just "floats" up there. I think you native southerners called them "cows".

[Kfamr]

Oh man, it scares me to think if prices have inflated this high since you lot were my age, how high will they be another 20-30 years from now? Scary.

My parents were telling me when they went to buy their first home (some 25+ years ago) it cost them $27,000ish. They were freaking out wondering how they were to afford it. Now, all the houses I look at under $100,000 are run down and need a ton of work, can't get a loan on them, etc.

[Willow Oak]

Oh man, it scares me to think if prices have inflated this high since you lot were my age, how high will they be another 20-30 years from now? Scary.

My parents were telling me when they went to buy their first home (some 25+ years ago) it cost them $27,000ish. They were freaking out wondering how they were to afford it. Now, all the houses I look at under $100,000 are run down and need a ton of work, can't get a loan on them, etc.

The first new house we loved in -- brand new in a brand new subdivision: $14,000.