showing your age...

[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.

[kokopup]

Originally Posted by pomtzu View Post

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.

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".

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.

[Taz_Zoee]

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.

Hey, I actually remember these two things. A phone call being only a dime and the full service at gas stations.
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.

[Willow Oak]

Does anybody recall an item that we used to call a "typewriter?"

[Randi]

WO, I was learning to type on one of them - a solid green IBM.

[Medusa]

Does anybody recall an item that we used to call a "typewriter?"

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.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Does anybody recall an item that we used to call a "typewriter?"

Manual or electric???

[Willow Oak]

Manual or electric???

They came in electric?

[Willow Oak]

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.

[kokopup]

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.

[blue]

Does anybody recall an item that we used to call a "typewriter?"

My stepdad still has one, and he still uses it.

[Medusa]

Hey, I actually remember these two things. A phone call being only a dime and the full service at gas stations.
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.

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.

[Karen]

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.

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.

[Medusa]

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.

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.