showing your age...

[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.

[Edwina's Secretary]

When I went to university -- tuition for a semester (in state students) was $145.00. Out of state tuition was $675.00.

And the dorm did not have phones in the rooms. Communal phones in the hallway and a switchboard in the lobby. Phone calls and visitors were announced by a buzzer system.

[Willow Oak]

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.

I helped out at a service station when I was about 12 or 13. My job was to sweep the driveway, fix flats, wash cars, etc. One day I decided to try my hand at pumping gas. On my very first customer I placed the nozzle into what I thought was the proper place located just behind the license plate.

Need I tell you?

Well, let's put it this way: I was never allowed to pump gas again.

Anyway, that little red rag hanging out of the back pocket was a real source of pride.

[pomtzu]

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.

It's illegal to pump your own gas in NJ and OR. I believe they are the only 2 states that haven't caught up with the rest of the country.


And I remember the party line phones too. You were considered somewhat well off if you had a private line. I remember thinking we were really something when we went from a 2 party to a private line.
This is scary - but I remember the old phone number. That's when you had to talk to an operator - there were no dials or dial tones. Bayview1225W. Guess I must have spent more time on the phone than I remember, if I can remember the number after all these years.

[Willow Oak]

It's illegal to pump your own gas in NJ and OR. I believe they are the only 2 states that haven't caught up with the rest of the country.


And I remember the party line phones too. You were considered somewhat well off if you had a private line. I remember thinking we were really something when we went from a 2 party to a private line.
This is scary - but I remember the old phone number. That's when you had to talk to an operator - there were no dials or dial tones. Bayview1225W. Guess I must have spent more time on the phone than I remember, if I can remember the number after all these years.

775-4810. I was around five, I guess, when we got that number.

[Edwina's Secretary]

775-4810. I was around five, I guess, when we got that number.

EXport9-6482 (399-6482)....and then when we got a princess phone with a light up dial - yee ha!

[Medusa]

It's illegal to pump your own gas in NJ and OR. I believe they are the only 2 states that haven't caught up with the rest of the country.


And I remember the party line phones too. You were considered somewhat well off if you had a private line. I remember thinking we were really something when we went from a 2 party to a private line.
This is scary - but I remember the old phone number. That's when you had to talk to an operator - there were no dials or dial tones. Bayview1225W. Guess I must have spent more time on the phone than I remember, if I can remember the number after all these years.

Our prefix was ORCHARD, so you dialed OR and then the number. When we first got our phone, I told my friend to call me and I ran home, picked up the receiver and waited. Finally I said to my mother "Nothing is happening. I can't hear anything except this sound". I wasn't even blonde then.

[Willow Oak]

Our prefix was ORCHARD, so you dialed OR and then the number. When we first got our phone, I told my friend to call me and I ran home, picked up the receiver and waited. Finally I said to my mother "Nothing is happening. I can't hear anything except this sound". I wasn't even blonde then.

Okay. I laughed.

[Grace]

And I remember the party line phones too. You were considered somewhat well off if you had a private line. I remember thinking we were really something when we went from a 2 party to a private line.
This is scary - but I remember the old phone number. That's when you had to talk to an operator - there were no dials or dial tones. Bayview1225W. Guess I must have spent more time on the phone than I remember, if I can remember the number after all these years.

Ours was Hillsgrove1147R - yikes!! You are taking me way too far back, Ellie!!!

[kokopup]

Post by BenniesMom

Great thread....

Not to add to the pile but....
Who had a Polaroid camera?

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.