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Rotary Phones Columbia house 20 albums for a penny scam Milk Delivery Society NOT being fat |
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Quoted: 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. View Quote |
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Reel-to-Reel tape recorders.
Computer Punch Cards: Attached File First 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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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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Quoted: 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 View Quote 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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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.
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Quoted: 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. View Quote 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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Our first VCR was a Bata back when VHS and Bata still fought to see who would win.
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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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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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Hanging a canvas water bag off the antenna for a long road trip.
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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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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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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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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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Stuckey's. Their signs advertising the pecan log roll were everywhere.
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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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Quoted: 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 View Quote 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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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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Sambo's Retaurants.
Before the change in imagery. Best pancakes ever! |
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Dad had to take his '57 Ford to the dealer to have factory seat belts installed
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Quoted: Alternators were a lot easier to replace back then. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Alternators were a lot easier to replace back then. And they were $10-$15 |
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Jack Daniels and honey was perfectly normal for kids 12 and under when they had a cold.
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View Quote That's it, I was 100% accurate on description but close enough I think. Excellent Kill Dozer. |
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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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