I was there

The first time I heard Led Zeppelin it was on a transistor radio on the AM band broadcast by a station that played "Underground Music" at from 8 to 9 PM week nights. It was Communications Breakdown from the first album and it was recently released.

Sheeny man with horse drawn wagon, raiding apple/pear trees, 12 cent comics, filling up car with premium and pack of smokes for less than 5 dollars, Big Mac small fries and small coke and got change back from a dollar.

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Originally posted by bald1:

Back in my day we could watch coal being delivered for basement furnaces, carts hauling block ice fir residential delivery, and milk in glass bottles with cream floating on top delivrted to the front door.

I remember those deliveries, via 1 hp wagons.

I remember an old black man delivering vegetables from the Bronx Terminal Market to small groceries near the "El" on third Ave and 149th St in a one horse drawn wagon. In NYC.

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Greeting cars you passed by raising your index finger off the steering wheel.

One finger raised: Howdy, y'all
Two fingers: All y'all (covers multiple people in the passing truck)

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Originally posted by bald1:
Back in my day we could watch coal being delivered for basement furnaces . . .

I remember helping my grandmother (a building superintendent in the South Bronx) haul clinkers from the furnace up to the street in baby sized, but incredibly heavy, metal trash cans. And watching the coal delivery from a bobtail truck down the chute into the basement, knowing I'd be hauling it up later.

Polio vaccine in first grade, administered in the school cafetorium, on a sugar cube.

Who still has their smallpox scar?

I managed to throw my back out while sleeping.

45 ACP was $10.00 a box.

I remember the last Gemini launch. Our milk was delivered to the front steps in glass bottles. Walking to school I could walk into the dairy and buy a bottle of chocolate milk with a paper cap for a nickel. My grandparents had a phone located outside the house in the front porch. Hand crank party line. I built my first AM radio with a kit from Radio Shack.

Those were good days.

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How to Say You're Old, Without Saying You're Old

Posting a comment that doesn’t have anything to do with “saying” something—?

I miss newspapers, especially the fat Sunday one.

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Originally posted by Bytes:
I owned a Camaro Z28 with a 302. Nobody relates to that

Mine was Hugger Orange with black stripes.

Smilin’ Ed’s Gang and Pinky Lee.

Does that ever bring back memories.

^^^I can still taste that horrendous water

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
Who still has their smallpox scar?

They stopped mandating them shortly before I was born but Uncle Sam made sure I got it.

Gas was $0.48

John Glenn on the stairs - "One small step..."

Rotary phone and party line.

My friend lived across the street and was in a different state, therefore a long distance call.