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Posted: 2/28/2016 10:05:55 AM EDT

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I remember when The Lone Ranger and The Cisco Kid were the cats ass on TV!!.............black and white TV that is!!

Posted: 2/28/2016 6:49:15 PM EDT

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I remember when The Lone Ranger and The Cisco Kid were the cats ass on TV!!.............black and white TV that is!!

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Cigarrette commercials on TV

And then came:

Posted: 2/28/2016 11:09:18 PM EDT

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I remember when the kid that bagged the groceries, for my Mom, also carried them back to the house for her! It was about a block down the alley.

Posted: 3/4/2016 8:43:28 PM EDT

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Craig Breedlove and his car was in the news....

Posted: 3/4/2016 8:56:25 PM EDT

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I remember real 1960's hippies, not these FSA douchebags that claim to be hippies.

Posted: 3/6/2016 2:11:14 PM EDT

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Going to the grocery store and getting with S&H Green Stamps or Plaid Stamps, depending upon where you shopped.
I cannot EVER remember getting a single thing with the filled books.

Posted: 3/9/2016 8:08:19 PM EDT

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I can remember when British Pound was worth US $2.85. Anybody that lived through World War II might remember the ratio was about $4.05 to one British Pound.

Also: I can remember about Japanese ¥300 Yen to one American Dollar.

Posted: 3/9/2016 8:26:01 PM EDT

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My great Aunt had a crank phone.

Posted: 3/9/2016 9:22:14 PM EDT

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I remember.....

Rotary phones
party lines
AM radio (before FM)
black & white TV
the Beatles coming to the US
No TV remotes
No computers
No Internet
No email
No text
leaded gasoline

whew

ETA: NO WALMART

Posted: 3/15/2016 7:56:56 PM EDT

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I recently received a pair of prescriptions for a painful ankle. I can remember prescriptions from the Drug Store coming, if they were in small amounts, in tiny envelopes. Roughly the size of a business cards. You should see the size of the two bottles I got. Halve there size and there would still be plenty of room inside for the pills.

Posted: 3/19/2016 8:30:58 PM EDT

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I suddenly remembered semi-animated Lampshades from the early 1960's.

Turn the lamp on and after a while the shade looked like there was some kind of animation. A waterfall or a train in motion are what I can recall. I can't find any examples of pictures out there. Anybody else remember them

Posted: 3/19/2016 9:00:16 PM EDT

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I suddenly remembered semi-animated Lampshades from the early 1960's.

Turn the lamp on and after a while the shade looked like there was some kind of animation. A waterfall or a train in motion are what I can recall. I can't find any examples of pictures out there. Anybody else remember them

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Yep. Motion lamps. Fires, trains, water. Lots of themes. I hadn't thought of those in many years.

Posted: 3/19/2016 10:33:49 PM EDT

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Yep. Motion lamps. Fires, trains, water. Lots of themes. I hadn't thought of those in many years.

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I suddenly remembered semi-animated Lampshades from the early 1960's.

Turn the lamp on and after a while the shade looked like there was some kind of animation. A waterfall or a train in motion are what I can recall. I can't find any examples of pictures out there. Anybody else remember them

Yep. Motion lamps. Fires, trains, water. Lots of themes. I hadn't thought of those in many years.

It sure fits The Thread.

I haven't thought of those lamps in Decades!

From what I've seeing was a 50's fad that ended pretty much in the early 1960's. One Example:

Posted: 3/20/2016 12:46:53 PM EDT

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Going to the grocery store and getting with S&H Green Stamps or Plaid Stamps, depending upon where you shopped.
I cannot EVER remember getting a single thing with the filled books.

https://img0.etsystatic.com/051/0/5841241/il_340x270.667600444_608f.jpg

http://www.thewellstonloop.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Stamps.jpg

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& "Top Value" stamps

Posted: 3/20/2016 1:17:14 PM EDT

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I remember when Erie-Lackawanna ran the commuter trains in New Jersey with a bar car in them so you could get liquored up before you drove home to your wife.

I remember vending machines that dropped a paper cup and filled it with seltzer and syrup to make the most vile concoction you'd ever drink because they never cleaned the machine.

I remember when Pulsar was a digital watch and you could buy one for $1,200.00.

I remember Chicken Delight.

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I remember when my math teacher had a transistor radio with an ear piece so he could listen to the Mets lose the 1973 World Series.

I also remember when this poem was published in MAD Magazine and it was relevant:

Wee Willie Winkie
Guns up and down
On his souped up Harley
Waking up the town;

If you think that Willie
Makes a racket, mister
Wait 'til Willie's brother
Turns on his transistor.

Posted: 3/20/2016 2:31:23 PM EDT

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My Granma had a wringer washing machine powered by a little gasoline engine. She'd roll it out of the garage/cellar in the back of her house, fill it with water she boiled, pull the rope to get the engine running and do the washing. Whites first and the really dirty stuff last all in the same tub full of soapy water. Rinsing and wringing came last.

If you still want your gas tank filled by an attendant move to New Jersey.

Posted: 3/20/2016 9:25:58 PM EDT

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The TV was Furniture.
cost my old man $4,285.71 in today's dollars back in 1968
.

.
found an Ad for that thing ..173 pounds of American made TV
.

Posted: 3/20/2016 9:26:48 PM EDT

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Right was Right and Wrong was Wrong

Posted: 3/20/2016 9:41:57 PM EDT

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Quiet noob.

Txl

Posted: 3/20/2016 11:05:37 PM EDT

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In-ground garbage pails with cast iron lids.

Posted: 3/22/2016 5:55:14 PM EDT

[#21]

From 1964:

Posted: 3/24/2016 8:25:36 PM EDT

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I can remember when Rap meant to lightly strike, either on a door, a window or somebody's knuckles.

Posted: 4/10/2016 9:24:04 PM EDT

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This was NOT a rerun:

Posted: 4/24/2016 4:57:11 PM EDT

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Today $35,000 will buy you a New Car.

In the mid 1960's $35,000 would have bought a Brand New home.

Posted: 4/24/2016 6:32:12 PM EDT

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Today $35,000 will buy you a New Car.

In the mid 1960's $35,000 would have bought a Brand New home.

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I live in a @3000sq/ft ranch style house, built in 1959, that cost $10,000 give or take ( might have been $12,000 now that I think about it ). I have the receipts somewhere where my dad paid around four payments and paid it off. According to a dollar calculator online, the $10,000 in 1959 would be $81,842.56 today. It's says that's at an average of 3.72% inflation.

I remember walking into the banks with my dad and him buying tons of CDs that were paying 10% or more interest Some years in the late 70s they were drawing 12%, and some in the early 80s they were drawing up to 15%. Now they draw .10-.20%. Inflation was terrible then, even a simple checking and savings account drew 5% or so.

Posted: 5/4/2016 5:56:04 PM EDT

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I can remember when coins were One Single metal: Dimes and larger were 100% silver and without a copper middle.

These coins were in circulation and were readily available:

Posted: 5/4/2016 6:01:09 PM EDT

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I remember when we could say words like "meat" and "tool" and "unit" without someone turning it into something foul.

Posted: 5/4/2016 6:07:34 PM EDT

[#28]

...floppy discs held quite a bit of downloaded porn.

A.W.D.

Posted: 5/4/2016 7:31:05 PM EDT

[#29]

I remember beatniks.

The original hippies.

Posted: 5/5/2016 10:18:02 PM EDT

[#30]

Hmmmmm

I can remember when you opened a new savings (?) account you were given gifts like a new toaster or such goody.

Posted: 5/5/2016 10:18:49 PM EDT

[#31]

Dog poop turned white

Posted: 5/5/2016 10:25:14 PM EDT

[#32]

Pepperidge Farm remembers....

Posted: 5/5/2016 10:31:18 PM EDT

[#33]

The first big screen TV sets.

Posted: 5/5/2016 10:31:18 PM EDT

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There was NO Eveready Rabbit.

You probably remember seeing the First Rabbit commercial

Posted: 5/5/2016 10:38:57 PM EDT

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I remember calling in a radio station contest to win the CARS record when it first came out... KFRC AM radio...I won the record and never heard of the CARS...came with tickets to see Corvette Summer too.
Still got the record, couldn't get anyone to take me to the flik.
Fell in love with that record....Moving in Stereo... Yep.

Posted: 5/5/2016 10:58:22 PM EDT

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I Remember it was 4th grade, We had a teacher that one particular day said that we could bring a record to school and each of us could play a song for the class,...
I have a sister that is quite a bit older than me who had some great vinyl...she played drums and I would hang out with her and listen to her shit.
On the day of school, all the other kids brought in this really gay crappy kid style music...like bay city roller kinda pop crap...kiddie stuff.
My sis let me bring a couple of her twisters...I brought Montrose and Black Sabbath.... Half way through Bad Motor Scooter the class freaked out and wanted me to turn it off..They had never heard such a thing.

ah yeah, ...guess I shouda put on Iron Man

Posted: 5/5/2016 11:03:42 PM EDT

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My dad didn't have to get up to change channels. Uhf or vhf.
I was his first remote control.

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Posted: 5/5/2016 11:05:52 PM EDT

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Gas was .17 a gallon, a new Corvette was $4400 (and so was the insurance). 8 tracks were big, FM wasn't yet. I was still in school and didn't have to worry about anything except graduating.

Posted: 5/10/2016 7:34:51 PM EDT

[#39]

CD's meant Certificate of Deposit.

The latest technological advance of Cassettes was metal tape.

I also remember 8-Track Tape.

Posted: 5/18/2016 5:54:35 PM EDT

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There was a National League and an American League.
No divisions, playoffs only happened if, by the end of the season, there was a tie in the standings.

The Three-M's during the early 1960's was Maris, Mantle and Monroe

Posted: 5/18/2016 6:01:31 PM EDT

[#41]

Collect call from Weadababy Itstsaboy

Posted: 5/26/2016 7:22:56 PM EDT

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This movie was sweeping the nation. People weren't going to be so frightened again until The Exorcist showed up.

A common comedy routine/sketch would have somebody referred to a Rosemary's other baby.

Posted: 5/30/2016 2:46:51 PM EDT

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I caught the Indie 500 yesterday.
I can remember when racing vars did NOT have wings on them

Posted: 6/19/2016 8:41:56 AM EDT

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Once Upon a Time the Le Mans Mulsanne Straight did NOT have a pair of chicanes to slow down the race cars.

Posted: 6/28/2016 8:11:30 PM EDT

[#45]

I can remember watching the Stupor Bowl when THIS commercial played for the Very First Time:

Posted: 7/5/2016 8:04:24 PM EDT

[#46]

I can remember when a Single, First Class Postage Stamp cost Under 10¢

Posted: 7/10/2016 5:42:34 PM EDT

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I remember my first camera: Kodak's Brownie Fiesta
I got it in my 1st or 2nd Grade.

The shutter was a spring.
You never had to worry about focus.
What you saw in the viewfinder was what was photographed.

The removabe flash on top was - I think- battery operated. You had to put a flashbulb inside the clips just right or else it wouldn't go off. The contents of the bulb were burned to produce the flash. You then junked the semi-molten blob into the nearest trashcan

You had to physically wind the film - 127 - with a dial until a number appeared in a little hole in the back. I forget just how many shots were on a roll of film. I recall 12 or so.

A new roll of B&W film cost 19¢. Since drug stores developed and printed the exposed roll for about $3.50 you didn't go around shooting many pictures. The average teen Today probably takes more pictures in a week with their cell phone than I probably did in a year.

This video tells what I can't:

Posted: 7/10/2016 5:47:01 PM EDT

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I can remember when gasoline was $. 20 a gallon.

Posted: 7/10/2016 6:43:06 PM EDT

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If you still want your gas tank filled by an attendant move to New Jersey.

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You see, it's not just about putting the gas in. It was Full Service, meaning you had your oil checked, air filter looked at, tires checked/filled, and all the windows cleaned while the gas was being added to the vehicle. Don't forget a little candy of some type for all the kids in the car.

Posted: 7/10/2016 6:54:12 PM EDT

[#50]

Yep...always wanted to go to the gas station with my dad and asking if he was gonna fill it up so I could get the Redline HotWheel

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