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Originally posted by Leemur:
When the Sears catalog was an amazing thing.

Yep, and the old one was taken to the Out House....

flashguy

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
I remember when skateboard wheels were steel, then clay, then urethane....

I remember when skate boards were made with a roller skate and a section of 2X4

I remember when most sports injuries were treated thusly - "Walk it off". If that didn't work, "Rub Dirt on it".

I remember when 2-strokes took over as the engine for motocross (and reigned for 40 yrs until 4-strokes were give a 2X displacement advantage).

I remember when Salisbury Beach had an amusement park with a wooden roller coaster.

I remember when Mint Juleps were 2 for a penny. And walk over to Kittredge's to get them.
https://www.oldtimecandy.com/w...dy-aisle/mint-juleps

I remember drinking straws made out of paper.

Stores closed on Sunday. One gas station open and they took turns in our small town.

On Saturday mornings, waiting for the test pattern to go away on TV.

AM radio stations signing off at sundown.

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Originally posted by Floyd D. Barber:

On Saturday mornings, waiting for the test pattern to go away on TV.

Me too...ours looked like this...never understood the indian Chief though...then again I never understood test patterns...



I'm loving this thread

Soft drinks in cans with a seam up the side, and no pull tab.
Ice cream treats in an open ended bag.

Boy, there sure are a lot of "old farts" in this thread......unfortunately, I remember all of it!!! They are very fond memories from a better time.

I remember living in Chalfont PA when it wasn't a suburb of Philadelphia. My mom was still alive. I went to a one room school with kids from 1st to 6th grade, got sick and puked,and my mom had to come to school to clean it up! Our neighbors had an outhouse, but we had indoor plumbing. Going to the grange with my dad in "downtown" Chalfont.

I remember, at 10 years old, the morning I woke up and Dad told me Mom was dead. A month later, he and I moved to my Grandmother's place near Mexican Water AZ. I still recall the shock of my first month's there.

Wow, tanks for the memories, as many were my own

Gas was .25 gallon and I couldn't afford to fill my car up.

Snow tires were expensive, so we learned to drive in the worst conditions without them.

The greasy spoon where we had breakfast every morning let us run a tab till payday.

Hitchhiking was a safe way to get where you were going.

The list could go on and on...........

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Originally posted by GT-40DOC:
Boy, there sure are a lot of "old farts" in this thread......unfortunately, I remember all of it!!! They are very fond memories from a better time.

Sure are a lot of kids these days.

I remember life with no TV. The Lone Ranger came on the radio after The Green Hornet. Saturday mornings at the movies were ten cents. Stick horses and cap pistols provided endless hours of amusement.

Gasoline was 12.9 cents, paid to a uniformed attendant wearing a tie, who greeted you, washed the windshield and windows, checked the oil and battery, and tire pressure too, then gave you a gift depending on how much gas you bought, plus Green Stamps. If we were driving to Dallas, my dad would have the car checked over the night before, with just enough gas to make it to Waco where a perpetual gas war featured gas at 9.9 cents. Trips like that were risky, flat tires, batteries give out, etc. Motorists helped each other. You would never pass someone pulled over on the side of the road without stopping to offer help.

Blacks had their own churches, cemeteries, schools, drinking fountains and rest room. Motels, too, I imagine.

My first job outside the family paid 40 cents an hour.

We used to pile into the car after supper and drive downtown to sit in front of the picture window at Sears to watch the new fangled TVs, but you couldn’t hear the sound. Get there early enough to get a good parking place in front of the store!

Friday night in the fall, everyone in town would be at the high school for the football game, unless it was away, in which case we’d be on the town square where we could listen to the play by play.

I remember whenever we got our first outhouse and we didn't have to take a crap in the woods.
I remember that our phone ring was two shorts and a long.
I remember whenever we got running water in the house instead of getting water from the well with a bail on a rope pulley.
I remember laying by the rear window of the car on the shelf behind the rear seat.
I remember my dad playing his fiddle.

I remember when we didnt have Cyber Monday !

I was born in 1979...

I remember Tet like it was yesterday.

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Originally posted by 12131:
I remember Tet like it was yesterday.

I bet that was something. You should write a story and tell us if you can.

I remember when things were made in America.

I remember taking dates out in my 38 Chrysler and thinking it was fun to take girls out in a car that was the same age I was. That was the best $65 dollar car I ever owned.

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Originally posted by Copefree:
I remember when things were made in America.

Probably one of the best ones so far.

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Originally posted by rusbro:
I remember when we believed it was safe for kids to play outside, without their parents hovering over them constantly.

...oh, and I remember when kids WANTED to play outside.

^^^^ This.

I can remember leaving the house on a summer morning and not showing at home until "the street lights came on" (the kid curfew).

After dark, we could play outside for a while longer so long as we stayed on our block.

I can remember the "rich" family on our block, who were the first to get a color tv and a window air conditioner.

I can remember walking a mile to our elementary school, even though we had to cross a "busy" street, regardless of the weather.

My earliest memory is the JFK assassination. Even though I was 4 years old, I still remember it vividly because of my mom's reaction when she heard it on the radio.