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Posted: 12/7/2021 1:39:51 PM EDT
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School House Rock
Rotary Phones Columbia house 20 albums for a penny scam Milk Delivery Society NOT being fat |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 1:40:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We had a shared telephone line with several of our rural neighbors. I think it was called a "party line". People on our loop could listen in on our phone conversations and vice versa. We had a couple of ladies on our loop that would tie up the line for hours. It was a big deal when we finally got a private line. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 1:56:51 PM EDT
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Reel-to-Reel tape recorders.
Computer Punch Cards:  Attached FileFirst days of High School you handed them to you Home Room teacher. My First Job in IT had me use them to start certain Jobs. Later they weren't exactly as Punch Cards but rather as large, non-stick Post-Its with information written on them. There was at least one store-chain that had a variation of punch cards as inventory control. The cashier would take one part of the tag, you'd keep the rest in case there was to be a return. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:00:42 PM EDT
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Kellogg's Corn Flakes advertised on the back side of the box a flying model of a Cessna 172 I never followed through and received the model Cessna, it did however create a life long love of aviation and an ASEL rating in my latter years My 8 track player with Jensen Speakers was installed into my 1968 Plymouth Roadrunner -383 four on the floor enjoyable thread OP 
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:05:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Road maps Saturday movies, you got in if you brought X number of bottle caps Ash trays Smoking everywhere. Probably the only exception was Church You mentioned the smoking everywhere. My mom was a stenographer at GE in Houston in the mid 60s. There were at least 60 women in that "pool" with her. A fog hung in there.. My folks did not smoke, but even they kept ash trays for visitors. Everybody kept at least one of those huge, decorative glass ones on the coffee table. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:06:17 PM EDT
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Using a crank to start the 1946 Allis Chalmers Model M.
Tony |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:14:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 25 cent hamburgers 25 cent fries 25 cent Malts But i'm 72 Sandy's had 10-cent burgers and 15-cent cheeseburgers. That was around 1966-69. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:16:41 PM EDT
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Quote History |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:17:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Skinny people.  200 lb women were an oddity. So were 300 lb men. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:20:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Riding in the back of a pickup. (against all odds, I survived the experience) Hitchhiking to get across town. If a truck picked you up, you just hopped in the back. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:21:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 10 cent pay phone booths. Getting a meal at the counter of Woolworth stores. Watching Old Yeller at the RKO Palace on the big screen with my mom. My second job during high school was working in the kitchen at the Woolworth, being a dishwasher was one of the hardest jobs I've ever had. It made me want to be smarter so I never had to do such a terrible job again. That place did have great food though. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:22:19 PM EDT
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Every place gave away matchbooks with their advertising on them. Gas stations usually had ones with pinup girls on them.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:22:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Back around 1960, my buddies and I would take the skates apart and nail the wheel section to the bottom of a 2x4 to make skateboards. That's about when The Craze started. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:23:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: When almost all hardware and department stores sold guns. They should be sold at the hardware store, right next to all the other tools. My very first job at 15 was selling guns, and I loved it. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:25:01 PM EDT
[#15]
Marx playsets.
 
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:29:49 PM EDT
[#16]
The milk man/Glass bottles
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:30:07 PM EDT
[#17]
HBO signing off about 3am until the next afternoon.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:30:32 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:37:37 PM EDT
[#19]
Our first VCR was a Bata back when VHS and Bata still fought to see who would win.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:41:17 PM EDT
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Smoking on commercial aircraft.
The car in my avatar still has cigar lighter, floor button for high beams and gas cap behind the rear license plate. Roll up windows. Little town I live in now still gives out the white pages. My neighbor growing up had a farm with a Model A pickup that we would all pile in the back to throw out hay for the cowes |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:46:13 PM EDT
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We bought small packages of Civil War cards with a slab of gum. One side of the card was a battle scene and the other side had a paragraph describing that battle.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:49:13 PM EDT
[#22]
Hanging a canvas water bag off the antenna for a long road trip.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 2:59:01 PM EDT
[#23]
Being 8 and enjoying a pack of candy cigarettes and a bottle of sasparilla that came in those stubby brown beer bottles.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 3:05:07 PM EDT
[#24]
Bush
Drive in movies Cigarette machines Shotgun News |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 3:07:03 PM EDT
[#25]
 Cigarette vending machines |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 3:09:52 PM EDT
[#26]
From the 60s as a kid:
GI Joe action figures Playing Army, Cowboy and Indians Metal tonka trucks on a dirt hill 1st cassette recorder Sister getting boys phone numbers on the busy signal on phone Paper route's 10c bottle pop from coke machine Penny candy from Rexall Drug store or Ben and Franklin We had the best childhoods IMHO |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 3:12:05 PM EDT
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Paying up when you lost a bet.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 3:16:42 PM EDT
[#28]
Making chains using pull tabs from soda and beer cans.
Boone's Farm wine in Slurpee cups. Puka shell necklaces. Mood Rings. Pet rocks. Lite Brite. Spirograph. Cox engine airplanes and cars. Slip and slides. Water wiggles. Metal wheel skates and skateboards. Wolfman Jack. Playing baseball and football in the street on summer evenings...Car! Kick the can. Out all day until the street lights came on...better be inside by now! Listening to the sounds of the Ascot Park racetrack while falling asleep in bed. Standing up in the front seat of the family car...seat belts, what seat belts? Station wagons with rear-facing seats. Going to the drive-in in same car with the rear seats folded down and a bed for the kids. Sanding the points to get the correct gap. Pioneer stereos and Jensen speakers. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 3:22:35 PM EDT
[#29]
Coonskin hats.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 3:37:32 PM EDT
[#30]
When Topps bubble gum came with Ugly Stickers.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 3:39:08 PM EDT
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Being able to go to the airport and seeing off friends or being able to greet arriving passengers right at the gate.
Buying black powder in the grocery store. Hanging a deer rifle or bow with arrows in the quiver from a rack in your truck in the school parking lot - and no one would lose their mind! Smoking sections in restaurants and airplanes (glad they're gone). Cars didn't used to have seatbelts at all. Rockets and fins adorned cars to look spaceage (thinking of my Dad's '59 Chevy Nomad Wagon) Comic books were 12 cents a piece. Candybars were around that, too. Never heard of anybody shooting up a school when I was a kid. In college we wrote computer programs on punch cards. Texas International, Branniff, Eastern, TWA, Pan Am, Northwest - all major airlines that were huge when I was a young man that went the way of the dodo. Being able to drink alcohol at 18. "Made in Japan" was synonymous with cheap junk. Quality tools actually "Made in USA". Hell, most things back then were made in the US. Sliderules were standard tools in math and science classes. Looney Tunes and Popeye episodes from WWII which (gasp) cast Japanese and Germans in a negative light! Sambos restaurants No TV remotes - if you wanted to change the channel you had to get off your ass and actually fiddle the knob on the television set - which probably had a cabinet (on some of the bigger models) made of quality wood and was actually a piece of furniture. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 3:39:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: South African surplus m193 I the battle pack. $39/300rds. $30 from Sportsmans Guide if you used coupons and got free shipping. I remember when Sportsmans Guide was good....... |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 3:41:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: High beam switch on the floor. how about the pump on the floor for the windshield washers? |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 3:53:14 PM EDT
[#34]
Stuckey's. Their signs advertising the pecan log roll were everywhere.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 3:53:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember smoking sections I remember NOT having smoking sections |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 3:57:20 PM EDT
[#36]
Walking to the convenience store with money and a note from my mom to buy her cigarettes.
Then using any change to play the one arcade game or buy some candy. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 3:58:51 PM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Smoking on commercial aircraft. The car in my avatar still has cigar lighter, floor button for high beams and gas cap behind the rear license plate. Roll up windows. Little town I live in now still gives out the white pages. My neighbor growing up had a farm with a Model A pickup that we would all pile in the back to throw out hay for the cowes I remember feeding the cows when I was 12, by myself in an old Chevy Apache with a flatbed. I’d load the bales on back then drive out to the snow covered pasture, put it grandma gear, hop out while it was moving then crawl up on the bed and toss the hay out bit by bit making a long feed line. Then I jumped down, jumped back in the cab drove home and parked. What could go wrong? |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 4:01:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm Gen X and I remember the slot in the back of the medicine cabinet. I'm old I do not even know what it means. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 4:04:21 PM EDT
[#39]
I remember Dad handing me a $1 and saying ride your bike up to the stationary and get me a pack of Players cigarettes and there was $.01 change.
No one asked for ID. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 4:06:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm old I do not even know what it means.  |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 4:18:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: High beam switch on the floor. Starter on the floor |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 4:18:28 PM EDT
[#42]
Sambo's Retaurants.
Before the change in imagery. Best pancakes ever! |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 4:18:30 PM EDT
[#43]
Dad had to take his '57 Ford to the dealer to have factory seat belts installed
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Posted: 12/7/2021 4:35:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Clock radio in 1970 had plates w/ the time printed on them, they'd flip every minute, can't remember if they had AM, PM on them so a minimum of 720 plates. The precursor to a digital readout, only other choice was analog. 
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Posted: 12/7/2021 4:37:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Alternators were a lot easier to replace back then. Quote HistoryQuoted: Alternators were a lot easier to replace back then. And they were $10-$15 |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 4:42:14 PM EDT
[#46]
Jack Daniels and honey was perfectly normal for kids 12 and under when they had a cold.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 4:44:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryThat's it, I was 100% accurate on description but close enough I think. Excellent Kill Dozer. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 4:45:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Dad had to take his '57 Ford to the dealer to have factory seat belts installed @NAM Holy shit! I had that exact radio for years! |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 4:45:55 PM EDT
[#49]
TV listings on a single (one sided) page that you got at the checkout counter for free at Kroger.
We only got three channels back then but the listings had five channels of programming. And nothing after 11:00 |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 4:48:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We had a TV with a wired remote. Shit, taking some tubes from the TV to the hardware store to test them, then getting a new one. TV was back in action in time for Gunsmoke. |
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