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Sponsor |  xyzzyplugh | May 19, 2007 3:29am | good ole days,
phones, where you put your finger in the hole, and dial,
tv before remote control,
radio's with anaologue tuning, where you got all those weird noises inbetween stations,
tea before teabags, pot with a cosy, always on the table,
tables, eating together round a table,,
More please, things you used to have, |
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Sponsor | | battlecat | May 19, 2007 4:49am | oops, stil have them all...
(do have a remote control, but the thing is missing most of the time) |
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Sponsor | | rumisong | May 19, 2007 5:44am | Speaking of Telephones ...
one area code per state ...
to dial a local # only 5 digits were necessary ...
and when I was really really young - a phone # that used letters to identify part of it - called the "station code" ... Im guessing it had to do with the train station? that used to house the telegraph? which ended up being the phone company? ... like "Pennsyvania 6 - 5000" was a phone # ...
mine was "Union 3, 8309" which meant "UN3-8309" which meant "863-8309" ... (wow, I remember it to this day ;)) |
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Sponsor | | rieraci | May 19, 2007 8:24am | | When you needed a doctor, you'd call and he'd come to you with his little black bag...every neighborhood had a little mom & pop store you could walk to that had a little bit of everything in it...your reward for running to the store for your mom was a dime to get candy or a comic book...todays townhouses were yesterdays rowhouses...in the summer, all your neighbors would be sitting on their stoop or porch at night, and they knew everyone on the block (and what everyone else was up to)...you had to be home when the street lights came on...our i-pods back in the day were transistor radios...records were vinyl 45's instead of shiny cd's...kids would get into fistfights over girls instead of shooting each other over drugs...an air conditioner was a fan...the ice cream truck would roll past your street every day in the summer, bells jingling...you could kill an evening at a drive-in theater...and yes, I remember when my phone # started with "TUxedo", lol... |
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Sponsor | | vontwiss | May 25, 2007 5:42pm | Things were...so much different. Thanks for starting this! It has sent me on many trips down memory lane. I grew up in Anaheim, Califonia. Home of Disneyland. We spent our summer's going from one above ground backyard pool to the next, lot's of koolaid popsicles and chocolate covered frozen bananas. We all had bicycles, hula hoops and slinky's. Barbie Doll's and jack's were big, but I wanted a basketball. My Dad put up a hoop on the garage. (Don't see those anymore, now they all have the moveable one's in the middle of the street.) Ah! Those were the day's!
But! You know what I miss most? Everything being closed on Sunday! Sunday was a day, once a week, that you spent going to church, spending time with family and friends. Now...it is just another day to try and get everything done...
And! Does anyone else remember sitting around in the evening playing games? Everyone had a closet full of games.
Life was very different then.
Gas Station's with an attendant that pumped your gas and checked all the fluids...washed your windows.... |
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Sponsor | | rieraci | May 25, 2007 8:07pm | and only cost 35 cents a gallon! at the end of the night, we'd pool our resources and get like a $1.23 worth of gas, plenty to get us home and on the road again the next day.
did you guys have drive-in restaurants where the girls came out and got your order, then strapped a tray over your open window with the burgers? we used to hang out at "eat 'n' park", flirt with the waitresses, and generally goof a quiet summer night away. the best was when the girls were on roller skates, lol, there was food & drink scattered all over the lot. that lil experiment didn't last too long!
The milkman would deliver to your door every day. And the door wasn't locked.
Baseball teams would play doubleheaders on Sundays and holidays. Now they'd rather have Tommy John surgery than let a fan in to see two games and only charge him once. |
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Sponsor | | vontwiss | May 27, 2007 9:28pm | hmmm....drive in restaurants....My favorite was one in Kenosha Wisconsin, The Spot! The best, biggest, greasiest, cheesiest cheesburgers in the world! I got mine with pickles, onions and mustard...ahhhh!
LOL! 35 cents! Mine days of driving started around 50 cents, but my first new car was a datsun. I could drive for two weeks on a tank and I did do some sriving in those days. Remeber the gas rationing? We could get gas every other day...went by the last number of the tag. I remeber my father getting quite cranky when he told me I needed to remember to buy gas. When I said I didn't need it...and suggested he buy a car that did not use so much gas...he just got that cranky look and said, you aren't using my car if you run out of gas. Two weeks later he traded his boat for a toyota...That's a good memory! He was all smiles! Actually started competing with me to see who needed gas first...
I remember the milkman...even had one stop by at my first apartment...
Drive-in Movies! In fact, for my sisters 18th birthday, she wanted to drink Blue Nun wine and go to the drive-in. We lived in Denver, CO at that time and they had a drivein movie place with I think four screens. After you paid at the front, you could just drive from one movie to another all night. So we did! Of course we stopped at Jack in the Box on the way home!
Does anyone else think this is the most peaceful place on the internet? |
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Sponsor | | thunderbay | May 28, 2007 12:32pm | | With one Fizzy tablet, and a glass of water, you could make your own beverage. I remember the serious discussions my brothers and I had over what flavor of Fizzy tablets my mother would buy that week. |
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Sponsor | | vontwiss | May 28, 2007 9:42pm | 
My all time favorite! In fact, since I am an extreme chocolate lover, that is the only candy at the top of the list that is not chocolate. |
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