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Posted: 10/15/2016 9:49:29 PM EDT
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All the talk of how much the British Pound is worth has been in the news £ately.
I can remember when £1 was worth $2.85. Real Old-timers might recall that during World War II £1 was worth $4.05 |
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Posted: 10/16/2016 12:40:51 AM EDT
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This commercial:
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Posted: 10/17/2016 4:02:45 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryWhen I was a kid it "seemed" like this one ran every ten minutes! lol I also knew all the words to this commercial by heart (Like every other kid in 1972...lol).Heck, we ALL had the erasers/pencil toppers! |
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Posted: 10/17/2016 4:17:25 AM EDT
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You could smoke in the supermarket. You could smoke in Sears. I even remember my Grandfather lighting his pipe during Catholic mass. Yes, it was an actual church, with a choir loft, and pipe organ. High mass was in Polish. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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You could smoke in Burger King. You could smoke in Sears. I even remember my Grandfather lighting his pipe during Catholic mass. Yes, it was an actual church, with a choir loft, and pipe organ. High mass was in Polish. May have already been covered since this is page one.   But I remember shopping carts having ash trays
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Posted: 10/17/2016 4:48:52 AM EDT
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I remember now
I remember how it started I cant remember yesterday I just remember doing what they told me Told me Told me Told me........... |
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Posted: 10/17/2016 4:58:22 AM EDT
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I remember as a kid traveling thru deserts as well as modern places on family trips before cell phones. Guess I was spoiled as my dad was a ham and as we were approaching a town we were gonna call it a night in my dad would have my looking up local repeaters and programming the ham for him, and having MULTIPLE folks chiming in
 Better than cell phones and Yelp
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Posted: 10/22/2016 1:04:12 PM EDT
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I remember when MUTEing the TV meant you got out of whatever you were sitting/laying in and physically going to the TV set and turning the knob or dial.
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Posted: 10/22/2016 1:09:15 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/23/2016 7:20:31 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/23/2016 7:36:08 PM EDT
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I remember when water was free and you had to pay for porn.
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Posted: 10/24/2016 5:37:32 PM EDT
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I remember commercials for the game
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Posted: 10/24/2016 11:38:44 PM EDT
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Playing WAR in the neighborhood with BB guns and no eye protection. (now they call it simunitions)
Pong Rotary phones Green stamps Cars didn't have seat belts. Walking 2 miles to school at age 7 and it was safe. Every adult in town would dime you out to your dad if they saw you do something wrong. Buying cigarettes for my mom when I was 8. Big bell pants. Roller skating rink was the place to be on Saturday night. Speed limit signs said "as fast as conditions allow"' "free range" childhood. Had to be home when the street lights came on. Putting more miles on my bicycle around town than Lance Armstrong. |
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Posted: 10/25/2016 7:17:47 PM EDT
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Rotary phones Green stamps Cars didn't have seat belts. Speed limit signs said "as fast as conditions allow"' The bold: Trucks had a Speed Limit 5 MPH Slower than cars |
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Posted: 10/25/2016 7:23:48 PM EDT
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I remember when a democrat and a communist were two different things.
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Posted: 10/25/2016 7:38:08 PM EDT
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I remember when Pringles potato chips were first advertised for sale.
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Posted: 10/25/2016 7:47:32 PM EDT
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I remember when JFK was shot
a pack of smokes cost 23 cents leaded gas was 18 cents a gallon |
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Posted: 10/25/2016 10:06:33 PM EDT
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I remember when Pringles potato chips were first advertised for sale. I remember when we got the first can of Pringles. They were OK, but they were never purchased again. The very same thing here: Bought it once, never again.
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Posted: 10/25/2016 10:29:02 PM EDT
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I remember when all vaginas had hair on them
 . Thank god that changed.
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Posted: 10/26/2016 5:43:12 PM EDT
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I can remember when 1,200 Baud modems were THE modem to have for your PC.
I can remember at least one editorial that said people cannot type that fast so why do you need a faster modem? |
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Posted: 11/3/2016 7:00:54 PM EDT
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Now that Baseball Season is over:
I can remember when Fernando Valenzuela was a rookie. The first time I saw him in a game He walked Three batters in the 1st Inning, Two in the 2nd, One in the 3rd. Some how he wasn't scored on and he won the game. He seemed easy to beat: Wait, just wait until Your Pitch comes and you either get a Walk or you knock the ball into a suborbital parabola. Looking back he wasn't much of a thrower; he DID know How To Pitch. He threw exactly what he needed to get the Batter OUT. |
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Posted: 11/3/2016 7:41:30 PM EDT
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I remember listening to baseball games on my transistor radio. Listened to Ray Lane and Ernie Harwell broadcast the Tigers. If the game was close going into the 9th inning they would say "Hold on to your Stroh's we have a close one."
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Posted: 11/3/2016 7:48:16 PM EDT
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You could smoke in Burger King. You could smoke in hospital rooms. |
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Posted: 11/3/2016 8:03:42 PM EDT
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Quote Historyyou just brought me back to 1964 |
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Posted: 11/21/2016 8:53:57 PM EDT
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I bought some ammo during the weekend.
I can remember that Every Time you bought ammunition you had to sign into a Bound Book just what you bought and how much you bought. Ammunition purchased at an Indoor Range was excluded because it was a given that you would use up That purchase of ammunition Right There and Then. 
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Posted: 11/25/2016 8:25:19 PM EDT
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 I'm remembering the 1964 Presidential Election. 4th Grade. The day After the Election we TRY to listen to a radio in class. What was then called Social Studies. There was so much static I couldn't make out a single thing said. The Teacher asked somebody what he/she just learned. She was unhappy when she was told that the Student didn't understand what was just broadcast. So one by one the entire class had to stand and say what they had just heard over the static. I didn't understand a thing. So when somebody else said that they head that LBJ was elected I just followed along. Yes, Teacher, I also heard that LBJ was elected last night.
I was honestly surprised when a couple of others said something different. 
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Posted: 12/9/2016 8:24:56 PM EDT
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The Local News had a story of this Ginormous pileup near Erie last night
I remember a snowstorm when I was of Pre-School age. I don't remember much of the storm itself but I DO remember all the dirt and ash that was spread on the roads. I looked like tons and tons of cocoa powder was spread on the streets. It might as well have been a cocoa storm that night. Literally inches and inches worth of cocoa on the ground. I can't remember seeing white anywhere. All that dark-tan snow was everywhere on the streets. No blackish spots from coal ash nor white itself from the snow, just a very dark tan colored powder everywhere. |
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Posted: 12/29/2016 7:32:19 PM EDT
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With all the stories in the National News about snowstorms causing havoc on the nation's highways...
I remember when snow was forecast people would put chains on the tires of their cars. For days afterwards you'd hear the clinking of the chains as people drove around. I cannot remember the last time I saw ANYBODY with chains on their cars tires. 
 89 Honda civic in deep snow with snow chains, blizzard of 2013 |
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Posted: 12/30/2016 3:13:25 PM EDT
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I remember when:
*Getting lucky on a date meant you got a kiss at the end of evening. *The hardware store sold .22LR out of a bowl by the cash register for a penny each. *Being 10-12 years old and buying .22 ammo at the hardware store only involved one quick call home to your mom to see if it was OK, after that GTG. *We picked up pop bottles out of the ditch along the road that had deposits of a few cents each on them to pay for our day's ammunition. *Barry Goldwater was going to be the death of us all! |
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Posted: 12/30/2016 4:07:17 PM EDT
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I remember during a gas war buying gas for 23 cents a gallon, regular price was 33 cents a gallon. There were no seat belts in cars. Converse canvas tennis shoes were top of the line in 8th grade and cost around $8 a pair. In 8th grade you had them or you weren't cool. There was penny candy and candy cigarettes. You could buy a meal at many department stores and drugstores. Ellie May on The Beverly Hillbillies was my first.
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Posted: 12/30/2016 4:20:28 PM EDT
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My first memory was probably in 1991.
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Posted: 12/30/2016 4:22:07 PM EDT
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Building forts vs my son's bunch of logs leaning on a tree. We had carpet, tarped roof, vented fireplace. it was the go to place when someone ran away.
We acquired some semi canvas trailer tarps and built a tipi that had to been 15' across, even had the 2 poles for the smoke vent at the top. |
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Posted: 12/30/2016 4:25:02 PM EDT
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Party lines.
silver coins. four cent first class postage stamps (we had three cents but I was too young) When women wore gloves and hats to go shopping. People dressed up whenever they flew. |
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Posted: 12/30/2016 4:28:22 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/30/2016 9:31:58 PM EDT
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Drugstores weren't mini-marts.
You could buy all sorts of things but outside of candy near the registers there was nothing to eat. No detergents or laundry items, no isles for games and toys. EXCEPT Many Drugstores had a soda fountain on one side. The server would pump some syrup into the glass and some seltzer water. They would stir the contents and give it to you, You would stir it with the spoon as you sipped it. Sometimes you would have some sort of ice cream dish instead of a soda. |
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Posted: 12/30/2016 9:47:15 PM EDT
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I remember calling a number, hearing the automated voice say press 1 for ____, press 2 for______, etc., then looking at my rotary dial phone and saying cot damn it!
I remember Kmart had a restaurant and there would always be a HUGE cloud of cigarette smoke above it. I remember roller skating rinks I remember when half the cars on the road were VW bugs and the other half were longer than full sized trucks. I remember having to warm the car up every morning. I remember everyone was skinnier back then or maybe it was because clothes were tighter. |
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Posted: 12/31/2016 11:37:26 PM EDT
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Watching Mummers Parade when I was young on TV. B&W of course.
For years I called New Years Day, Mummers Day. |
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Posted: 1/1/2017 2:24:49 AM EDT
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I'm a child of the sixties so that makes me an old fudd who has seen many interesting changes in our culture. But the most fascinating culture shock I had was moving to BFE or more commonly known as stevens county washington state in the early nineties. We had no 911, no street signs and still used party lines on the phone. We are still VERY redneck here. Thank God..
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Posted: 1/8/2017 10:07:41 PM EDT
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When I first started shooting I had these Interesting Ear Plugs. They had a valve in them. They were normally open. But if there was a loud enough noise they would close and close very effectively. I think these MIGHT have been them. But if you didn't keep your ear canals clean, I mean Immaculately Clean there would be accumulations of ear wax on the plugs. They weren't easy to properly clean. Eventually I threw them away. With disposable ear plugs on the market it didn't make sense to buy them again.
Until I thought of them again I didn't know they were still being made. Looking at that price I know I'm not going to buy another set. |
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Posted: 1/9/2017 1:39:09 AM EDT
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playing Missle Command on Atari with my dad the smoking section in "Grandy's" All the jacked up truckes had white spoke wheels I bought cigarettes for $2.12 for my parents regularly. I was like 6. Haley's comet Walking over a mile to and from elementary school. Wow...I had forgot all about Grandy's. I used to go there all the time with my grandparents. |
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Posted: 1/9/2017 8:41:27 PM EDT
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