How old are you?

May 30, 2019, 09:16 AM

thomjb

How old are you?

Worked at a Gulf station where gas got down to $0.16 per gallon and we cleaned the front window, checked the oil and water and gave you Top Value stamps and maybe a free Gulf drinking glass.
No TV then one channel out of Louisville, Ky that was watchable half the time.

Dad would get me 500 .22 long rifle cartridges and never blinked an eye at the cost.

Did not have pizza till I was 16. Lots of meat and potatoes.
Fuller brush man came door to door.
Got our first big window fan and thought we were in heaven in the summmer.

May 30, 2019, 09:22 AM

Beancooker

Born in ‘74. Guess I’m a little younger than most here.

I remember my parents smoking inside the grocery store. That was common.
People smoked on airplanes.
I remember getting 33 rpm vinyl records for Christmas and always having to change the needles.
My first bike was a Team Murray.
As mentioned, Gatorade was in glass, as well as all sodas.
Soda bottles had styrofoam wrappers.
Brachs was top quality candy.
Cigarette commercials were in TV.
Liquor commercials were not allowed on TV
Our phone was a rotary dial. I remember when push button “pulse” dialing phones came out.
Drive up one hour photo booths in the parking lots at the grocery store.
Soda cans had pull tabs, and I remember when pop tops as what is now common came out.
Soda machines that you opened the narrow door and lifted the lever to dispense the soda.
My mom drove a Ford Pinto, and was always terrified of being rear ended.
Being allowed to run all over an area of about 8 blocks (very small town) and parents didn’t have to worry that someone would hurt us kids.

There are a lot of things I remember sitting here typing this. Seems like life was a little simpler and quite a bit more fun back then.

May 30, 2019, 09:49 AM

henryaz

quote:
Originally posted by darthfuster:
Our first color TV looked like this. No remote.

Our first color TV (circa 1961) came with a remote, but all it did was turn the set on/off. Kids were still the channel changers.

We had B&W TV prior to that, small (almost round) CRT in a huge wooden cabinet. I can recall watching the Nixon Checkers speech on that TV.

Green stamps.

May 30, 2019, 10:12 AM

arfmel

I remember watching Highway Patrol on TV. A gripping drama. And Three Stooges, quality entertainment.

Phone numbers with a word for the prefix: “WIndsor6-3820”.

The first McDonalds in Denver. We went a couple times, but Dad preferred Bronco Burger (they were a little less expensive).

Shakey’s Pizza Parlor, with the ragtime band. I wasn’t convinced about the palatability of pizza. I thought it smelled weird.

The lime green 1968 Ford LTD Country Squire with a V-8 and fake wood panel sides, that replaced our Chevy II wagon with the lousy six cylinder. Dad said we needed the V-8 to pull our little pop-up tent trailer up to the mountains for camp-outs. Mom dug the Ford’s air conditioned comfort, as well.

May 30, 2019, 04:05 PM

mcrimm

quote:
Originally posted by arfmel:

Phone numbers with a word for the prefix: “WIndsor6-3820”.

Ours was HEmlockX-XXXX

Shakey’s Pizza Parlor, with the ragtime band. I wasn’t convinced about the palatability of pizza. I thought it smelled weird.

Loved Shakey’s Pizza. Last one I remember was in 1978.

The lime green 1968 Ford LTD Country Squire with a V-8 and fake wood panel sides.

Mine was a lime green 1968 Ford LTD 2 door with. Vinyl top. It was fast and smooth with the 390.

May 30, 2019, 07:35 PM

Patrick-SP2022

I remember when cyclamates were banned. Soft drinks were advertising "No Cyclamates".

May 30, 2019, 08:40 PM

sjtill

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Shakey’s Pizza Parlor, with the ragtime band. I wasn’t convinced about the palatability of pizza. I thought it smelled weird.

Ok, now THAT brings back memories!
My wife of almost 50 years and I had our first date at Shakey’s in Santa Rosa, CA after watching Elia Kazan’s America, America. How’s that for a first date movie?

Next year we will celebrate the 14th anniversary of our first date.
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On February 29th.
Yes, like the Pirates of Penzance.

She was grounded for staying out too late.

May 30, 2019, 09:03 PM

ZSMICHAEL

Old enough to tell time on a analog clock, something that many millenials cannot do.

May 30, 2019, 09:36 PM

Rinehart

quote:
Originally posted by thomjb:
Worked at a Gulf station where gas got down to $0.16 per gallon and we cleaned the front window, checked the oil and water and gave you Top Value stamps and maybe a free Gulf drinking glass.
No TV then one channel out of Louisville, Ky that was watchable half the time.

Dad would get me 500 .22 long rifle cartridges and never blinked an eye at the cost.

Did not have pizza till I was 16. Lots of meat and potatoes.
Fuller brush man came door to door.
Got our first big window fan and thought we were in heaven in the summmer.

I may know why your dad didn't complain about buying you 22 ammo in those days.

Recently I bought a group of vintage ammo from a family estate sale here in the Pittsburgh PA area. Much of the ammo was from the mid 1940's up.

Most of the boxes of 22 were purchased at Kaufmann's around 1947 for .27 cents a box...

May 30, 2019, 11:12 PM

FishOn

Old enough to barely remember watching the first moon landing on our black and white Admiral 12 inch TV. We only watched Walter Cronkite on that TV and I had to sneak up early on Sat mornings to watch the forbidden cartoons before my parents woke up.

May 31, 2019, 06:25 AM

sybo

Party-lines shared by the telephone.

May 31, 2019, 09:42 AM

Sigfest

Bundling up with extra blankets, clothes when traveling during the winter weather. Even for short distances. No easy towing, not many houses on country roads and undependable cars and tires. Not very good heaters on those old cars. We never would have traveled in shorts and short sleeves.

Tractors with steel wheels. Riding on the single seat sickle arm hay mower. Picking wild blueberries near the woods. Picking wild strawberries by the train tracks. Best SB Shortcake ever. And going to DQ was a not so frequent treat. Before McDs and pizza.

Gardens the size of city blocks. Parents buying wooden outdoor furniture from traveling men from down south who had Beverly Hillbilly trucks loaded down with furniture hanging off of it.

Getting visits from cousins and relatives you saw maybe twice a year. Staying up late and talking baseball with your cousins. We knew all the players BA, pitchers W-L records and tried to stump each other.

Parents sending us out Yolcum Stretcher hunting (Snipe hunting) while they laughed uncontrollable. We had paper bags and yelled Here YS Here YS while we rattled the bags. We must have sounded like idiots.

June 03, 2019, 01:01 PM

Floyd D. Barber

Needing a key to open spam.

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June 03, 2019, 07:48 PM

flashguy

Coffee percolators.
Push reel lawnmowers.
Outhouses (OK, at my grandparents' homes).
Water wells with buckets (same as above).
Mechanical typewriters.
Mimeograph machines.
Spirit duplicators.
Carbon paper.
Pens at school that had to be dipped in ink.
Slide rules.
Drafting (drawing) with T-square and triangles.
Size 127 film.
Playing Croquet with my cousins (we each had a set and the rules were not all the same--some interesting squabbles occurred).
Making my own toys with cut-up "tin" cans, wire, flashlight bulbs, nails, and "D" cell batteries. (Got a few cuts from the metal.)
Tincture merthiolate on those cuts.

flashguy