showing your age...

[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.

[blue]

I think a pack was $1.50 at Denny's, in the late 80s before they removed the machines.

[Daisy and Delilah]

I used to pay 35 cents for a pack. That was the price of my high school lunch and milk and I sometimes bought cigarettes instead of lunch. ~Is my Mom reading this??~~ Yikes!!

I remember buying gas for 26 cents a gallon in 1974, on our way to move to Utah. That was when the gas rationing was, I think.

The house we grew up in was in Ormond Beach and pretty close to the beach. It cost my parents $17,000. That was in 1957.

This thread is taking me back.

[blue]

I remember buying gas for 26 cents a gallon in 1974, on our way to move to Utah. That was when the gas rationing was, I think.

That was the year I was born. Ild drive ALOT MORE if gas was that cheap.

[Daisy and Delilah]

That was the year I was born. Ild drive ALOT MORE if gas was that cheap.

Me too. It was a little more expensive in Florida but it got cheaper and cheaper as we headed further west.

[blue]

Me too. It was a little more expensive in Florida but it got cheaper and cheaper as we headed further west.

Alaska refines our own oil into gas and heating oil yet we had some of the highest prices during the fuel crisis. Its wierd.

[Catlady711]

Ok so it's not cigarettes, gas, or movie prices, but when my mom delivered me in the 70's it cost her $3,000 to be in the hospital for 3 days and she had 3 different doctors checking in on her.

Fast forward the the mid 1980's when I had my tonsills out, 3 hours outpatient basis = $3,000

I can't imagine what either of those would cost today.

[Willow Oak]

Ok so it's not cigarettes, gas, or movie prices, but when my mom delivered me in the 70's it cost her $3,000 to be in the hospital for 3 days and she had 3 different doctors checking in on her.

Fast forward the the mid 1980's when I had my tonsills out, 3 hours outpatient basis = $3,000

I can't imagine what either of those would cost today.

Okay you just opened up a whole 'nother can o' worms (as we say in Missippi) now.

One June 23 of last year I went for a Thallium stress test at a hospital in Memphis. I had been complaining of back pains -- pretty severe back pains -- and the doc lined me up for the test as a precautionary measure.

I arrived for the test on Monday morning, and ...

..., I was not released from the hospital until Wednesday evening.

The whole time I was there (mostly in ICU) I kept trying to get them to let me go home. The had performed a procedure on me, and after all was said and done I could not see what all the hullabalo was about.

A few weeks later the EOB's started to arrive. Good thing I have insurance: the total hospital and doctor bill went well over six figures. Turns out I had a 99% occlusion of the LAD, the dreaded "widow maker." I survived the exact same condition that killed Tim Russert. It just so happens I was on the treadmill -- already nuclear (or is it nucular?) -- when BAM!

Anyways, that's the whole can o' worms.