you know your old when you remember...

[Dancing Fire]

buying a candy bar for 10 cents.
gas was 20 cents per gal.
a postage stamp was 5 cents.
most of the TV shows was in B&W.
there were no Japanese cars on the street.
49 cents for a banana split at Woolworth....

 

[VRBeauty]

...popsicles were 6¢ each. My brother and I used to buy one and split it - after spending forever in front of the freezer case trying to agree on a flavor.

... "keyboards" were "typewriters," and they had a ¢ key!

 

[TravelingGal]

...popsicles were 6¢ each. My brother and I used to buy one and split it - after spending forever in front of the freezer case trying to agree on a flavor.

... "keyboards" were "typewriters," and they had a ¢ key!

And you changed the font ball when you wanted to change the typeface!

I remember when call waiting came into effect...before then you had to make an emergency breakthrough. I also remember talking to phone operators.

When you could ride on the handlebars of your friend's bike without a helmet and no one looked twice.

I think I remember when postage was 3 cents?!

UHF vs VHF.

Letters.

 

[kenny]

I remember my aunt saying she gave up smoking when a pack of cigarettes hit 25 cents.

I remember the day JFK was shot.

 

[diamondringlover]

I remember penny candy and my Mom used to smoke and she would send us to the store with cash and a note and they would sell us cigarettes lol, I remember the black and white TV that just keep rolling and of course phone booths...I remember so many things that we can no longer do nor are now obsolete

 

[TravelingGal]

and when TV didn't have programming in the middle of the night.............

 

[Enerchi]

My mother would put $2 worth of gas in the car (THEY pumped) and the windshield would be washed and oil would be checked.
Comic books around 5-10 Cents.
a 45rpm record was $0.49 at Savette's (which was bought out by Zellers at some point, I think)
8 tracks
disco!!
black cat, double bubble, bazooka joe, sweet tarts, thrills gum, plastic "lips", all those disgustingly bad for you candies that you'd agonize over how to spend your $0.50!
blue eyeshadow
Barbies with changeable heads ( !) , Midge and Skipper
Romper room (the original), Captain Kangaroo, I love Lucy (the first time around, not the re runs!!) same with the Flintstones, the Jetsons, My Favourite Martian, Family Affair (with Buffy and Sissy and Uncle Keith!!), Hawaii 5-0, Ponderosa... oh my ... on and on!
Swanson's frozen dinners with the applesauce - yum!
Men always wearing sports coats a la "Mad Men"
typewriters where you had to hit the return swing bar - pre the IBM rollerball!
Telex machines...

oh my, good thread DF!! those were some mighty fine times with some cool inventions back then!!! hahahaha!

 

[TravelingGal]

Rewinding a tape with a pencil because it drained the power of your walkman (or using it to rewind one tape while the walkman did another.)

 

[soocool]

I remember those yellow disks you had to use to play 45's on your record player. I remember when I got a transistor radio for my 13th birthday and all they had were AM stations. I remember when rides, like bumper cars and a small ferris wheel would come to you neighborhood and you paid a nickel for a ride. I remember when you would get free drinking glasses in your box of detergent.

 

[Skippy123]

Rewinding a tape with a pencil because it drained the power of your walkman (or using it to rewind one tape while the walkman did another.)

me too

8 track tapes

 

[Skippy123]

Rewinding a tape with a pencil because it drained the power of your walkman (or using it to rewind one tape while the walkman did another.)

me too

8 track tapes

 

[kenny]

I got a Creepy Crawler set in the early 60s.

You pour Plastigoop into metal molds, heat them on the hotplate, cool, then peel off rubber bugs.
One of my best childhood memories.

 

[Enerchi]

Oh!!! totally remember those, Kenny!!! I always wanted an easy bake oven... who doesn't love a cake baked by a light bulb??? That's fine cuisine at that age!

 

[kenny]

Yeah, my sister got a Kenner Easy-Bake Oven, and Barbie Dolls.

My brothers would pull their heads off and chase my screaming sister around the house with headless Barbies.

 

[MissGotRocks]

Did anyone have this toy? http://www.spookshows.com/toys/vacuform/vacuform.htm

It was one of my favorites. It had plastic sheets that you heated up, then pushed down over a mold, then hand pumped an air chamber that cooled it off so you could cut the pieces out.

 

[charleston1]

Kenny, we must be around the same age as Creepy Crawlers was the best present I remember getting. Loved it

I remember when:

When the Vice Principal gave you the strap when you were bad (nooo I did not get it personally)

When the teacher smacked you with a ruler, sometimes on your shoulder or hand or even your head if you were talking and not paying attention

When you had to get your butt out of the chair and go change the channel on the tv because there were no remotes!

When theTV remote first came out it was attached by a cord to the tv and sometimes you trip over the cord.

When you opened a Potato chips bag, inside were two separate bags to keep half of your chips fresh

When no one wore seatbelts, in fact many people cut them out of their car and threw them out.
My parents stuffed the seat belt down the crack between seat and the back of the seat.

When my dad bought "Fuzzbusters" - it was a aftermarket item you bought and placed on the dash board that picked up police radar so you knew to slow down and not get a ticket

When report cards were hand written and you could change a mark of 38 to 88 with a pen

Oh what memories

 

[Dancing Fire]

school lunch was 20 cents.
the game show "what's my line?" in B&W.
when speaking on the phone... holding that heavy ear piece to your ear with one hand and the heavy mouth piece with your other hand.

 

[Dancing Fire]

Did anyone have this toy? http://www.spookshows.com/toys/vacuform/vacuform.htm

It was one of my favorites. It had plastic sheets that you heated up, then pushed down over a mold, then hand pumped an air chamber that cooled it off so you could cut the pieces out.

nahh,i ain't that old...

 

[kenny]

Kenny, we must be around the same age ...

My sincerest condolences.

 

[isaku5]

Yeah, my sister got a Kenner Easy-Bake Oven, and Barbie Dolls.

My brothers would pull their heads off and chase my screaming sister around the house with headless Barbies.

We bought our daughter an Easy Bake oven. Now that's old

 

[MissGotRocks]

Deleted - duplicate post.

 

[MissGotRocks]

school lunch was 20 cents.
the game show "what's my line?" in B&W.
when speaking on the phone... holding that heavy ear piece to your ear with one hand and the heavy mouth piece with your other hand.

Nah, you ain't that old either DF! We had a phone receiver - all one piece - you weren't around in the days of THOSE phones!

 

[davi_el_mejor]

28.8k was FAST!

 

[kenny]

DIALING a phone number.

 

[Enerchi]

A&W drive ins and root beer floats
Drive in movie theatres with those gray boxes on a wire that had to hook onto your window and had CRAAAAAAAAPPY sound!
Addressing adults by Mr & Mrs
no sidewalks on the streets
playing outside all day with your friends - and there was never a worry about pedophiles, etc. My mother had a bell she'd ring and you had better be home within a few minutes of that bell....!!!
Chatty Cathy dolls - pull a string and one of the 5 phrases would play
lincoln logs

 

[lulu]

Rmember telephone exchanges? In Detroit some of the ones I remember were WOodward, TUxedo, and TWinbrook. My mother thought Barbie was too provocative-I had a Tammy doll. (much smaller breasts)

I remember having coal delivered to the house into the coal room with a coal chute. And my grandfather shoveling it in that huge furnace that looked like an octopus.

I remember waiting in line for the polio vaccine.

 

[lulu]

Always wanted a Chatty Cathy. We used to call our friends out to play- stood by their door and called their name.

 

[MyDiamondSparkles]

No cable TV and only 3 channels with programming-- 4, 6 and 10.

We were the only family in my neighborhood with one of those newly invented items called a microwave oven. Neighbors actually came over to see it in action.

Computers were the size of your living room and only IBM owned them.

Cordless phones were twice the size of a brick. Cell phones were the size of a brick.

Growing up skipper--turn her arm and she grows an inch taller and magically grows boobs.

Piling in the trunk of the car so we could get into the drive in movie cheaper.

Mall bangs--teased and tall!

Scrunchies pony tail holders.

Acid washed jeans.

Jellies shoes--the first time they were in style.

Short shorts and the Nair hair remover to go with them.

Laura and Luke-- General Hospital. On at 3:00 pm every afternoon right after school.

TAB-- the first diet soda. Tasted like crap but we drank it to look cool, like we cared about fitting into our size 3 acid washed jeans.

Jane Fonda exercise records and tapes--Feel the burn! And all the thong leotards, white keds and matching headbands to complete the exercise look--whether or not we were actually exercising.

Now my Mom exercised to Jack LaLane--I think that was his name. She got on the floor on her back with her butt in the air pumping her legs in a bicycling motion. Her hair was in curlers with Dippity Do gel holding down her pincurls with a bit of pink tape to secure them.



Whatshername singing "Let's get physical, physical....."

 

[charleston1]

Ha Kenny, your funny
Remember getting old is no fun but it is better than the alternative (my 86 year old dad loves to tell me this).

I remember

When we got our first colour television

When we watched man walking on the moon on our black and white tv

When John Lennon died

When you were terrified of the dentist because they never froze your mouth before driling cavaties

When cars did not have air conditioning

When the milkman delivered the bottles of milk and put them in the milk box in the wall.

When i didn't get the white GOGO boots I wanted

When the Titanic Sunk No, I don't really remember that!

 

[isaku5]

You had to 'ring up' the Operator to complete your call.

Some of those operators listened in on 'prime callers' and knew the town news before it hit the newspapers.