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Post by bazfaz on Oct 4, 2009 21:12:45 GMT
I remember my parents having a car with a crank.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2010 5:26:22 GMT
I remember when you could buy big dill pickles as a snack at the movies.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 8, 2010 7:45:13 GMT
I remember when kids could go to the movies unaccompanied by adults. They generally could walk there, as well.
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Post by gertie on Mar 11, 2010 15:03:35 GMT
Let me see, I remember when kids walked to school unless they lived too far away (defined as over a mile and a half) or it was raining. rolodex green financial record paper books, double sided for two sided accounting tape decks for storing data which looked about like a household freezer and cost a fortune accounting software in cobol TRS80 - my first home computer Apple IIe Nintendo pong My aunt's jubilation when it was approved for girls to wear pants, specifically jeans, to school. A&W drive ins Drive in movies that were family friendly dime stores locally owned banks Friday nights spent at the movies with friends, which we had walked to Soda sold in glass bottles you returned for the deposit Trick or treating that was real trick or treating. Of course you had to have the de rigour big orange plastic pumpkin which your mother saved for you year to year in the top of a closet. You carried it from house to house while whomever's dad you could con into it waited at the end of each street to check up on you with a paper bag for each person with their name written on it. You dropped your candy in that so the first few people on the next street would say "oh, poor thing, you just started, have a couple extra" as you headed down it. Many of the treats offered were homemade such as cookies, popcorn balls, and cupcakes. Apples and oranges were also popular. Apples, oranges, and nuts made an appearance in Christmas stockings Sorry if some of these are repeats but thought I would share the fond things I remember.
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Post by fumobici on Mar 11, 2010 19:53:02 GMT
Music on CDs, newspapers
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2010 17:35:02 GMT
I remember seeing long festoons of cassette tape along the road from assassinated jammed cassettes.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2010 21:01:28 GMT
I remember when every souvenir shop sold rolls of film.
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Post by rikita on Apr 15, 2010 16:06:49 GMT
yesterday i cycled by the place where my favourite photo-store used to be. there i usually bought film, and developed my pictures. it closed down ages ago, because most people went digital, and they did not have enough customers anymore. this was when i still had my old camera, so the last few years i went to one of those big stores that have photo developing just as one of many things they sell instead... well anyway, where the photo store used to be there's a "casino" now...
(of course there are still a lot of photo studios, but the one in question never did much of taking people's pass port pictures, but they were one of hte best ones for developing pictures...)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2010 11:38:30 GMT
State driver's licenses did not have a photo on them (real easy to go to a bar when underage,just borrow one from someone of legal age same height and color eyes).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2010 12:49:31 GMT
I remember when you always had to have a "church key" for canned beverages.
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Post by onlymark on Apr 16, 2010 13:55:01 GMT
And you had to put a hole in each side of the can to let the air in.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 16, 2010 17:08:32 GMT
fun to see this thread revived!
I went to school wearing a dress everyday (until I was about 12 and pants were allowed). In winter we wore pants under our dresses as we walked to school. For jumping rope we wore shorts under our skirts so the boys wouldn't see our underpants.
Girls "set their hair" every night - no blow driers, curling irons, or flat irons (though my grandma probably had a curling iron that you heated in the top of a glass lantern).
My one speed Schwinn had training wheels and "coaster brakes". Before that, my tricycle was made of metal, not Fisher Price plastic.
Telephones had no choice of ring tones. Our phone number had 5 digits preceeded by TE for Terrace. (I have an earlier business card from my parents' business that has a 3 digit phone number.)
My parents had an extensive collection of 78 rpm recordings that came in bound books with sleeves for 5 or more records.
Records had a "B" side that you never listened to. (How do you tell which songs are the B side of a CD?) Reel to reel tape recorders/players (I had a portable one in high school, but audiophiles used larger units).
TVs were Black and White and had 2 or three channels that signed off at midnight with the national anthem and signed on at 7AM.
You dressed up for air travel, and Europe on $5 a Day was the book we took to Europe in 1967. Most kids (and many adults) had never been on an airplane.
Mail delivery was twice a day, and stamps cost 4 US cents (penny for postcards).
Some elevators still had human operators.
Tampons didn't exist, at least not for teenaged virgins.
No one's parents were divorced, and nobody was "out of the closet". Unmarried mothers were sent away to have their babies and the babies given up for adoption.
No one neutered or spayed their pets. Or themselves. Families of 5 or more kids were the rule.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 16, 2010 17:17:42 GMT
Ski boots were leather, and laced up, with an inner and outer boot to lace. Skis were wood until Head introduced the first metal ski. Bindings were not made to release in time to prevent injury, so broken legs were very common.
Cross country skis were always wooden, sealed with pine tar, and waxed for different snow conditions - there were no waxless ski bases.
Snowshoes were made of wood and varnished strips of rawhide.
Outdoor clothing was woolen, as synthetics had yet to make the scene.
Rubber boots and galoshes.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 16, 2010 17:19:31 GMT
Weekly Reader, a newspaper distributed to schoolrooms across the US. From it, I learned about fish scale waxless ski bases and about the relocation of the Egyptian temples at Abu Simbel when the Aswan Dam started backing up the Nile into Lake Nassar.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2010 17:50:53 GMT
Bottles of milk being delivered to the door.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2010 18:56:33 GMT
I loved Weekly Reader and also a subscription thing called Highlights for Children.
At the bowling alley, one of the men at the desk wore clear nail polish on his fingernails and there was MUCH discussion about the implications among all of the people on the bowling leagues. I didn't know what they were talking about.
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Post by paristraveler on May 29, 2010 22:00:40 GMT
I remember getting all dressed up to take a bus to "town" by myself when I was 11-12 years old and it was hot and I was wearing those nylons you had to hold up with a garter belt which made the fleshy parts of the inside of my thighs bulge out and rub together so that by the time I was ready to go home I was walking bowlegged from the chafing. OMG, I have never felt such pain,exacerbated by the sweating. ;D
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2010 22:16:45 GMT
I remember when photocopies were called photostatic copies.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 3, 2010 17:10:16 GMT
I remember when home mail delivery began in my hometown. Before that, you went to the Post Office to check your box, which had a combination dial lock on the brass face of it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2010 20:14:36 GMT
As a tot, my phone number was UN3-6424 (later called 863-6424). UN stood for UNiversity, which was very strange, because there was no university for at least 100 miles.
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Post by rikita on Jun 8, 2010 19:14:38 GMT
well, we didn't have a phone until i was 14 or 15. when we had to make a phone call, we went to my grandparents, who lived about 10 minutes by bike away.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2010 19:28:15 GMT
At the office today, we were talking about the pedal-powered Singer sewing machines with which we were all familiar from early childhood, either at our parents' or grandparents' places, sometimes both.
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Post by onlymark on Jun 8, 2010 19:54:44 GMT
A hand cranked whisk. No fridge, just a block of marble in the pantry. Gas powered fridge with a pilot light. Fridge doors with a catch to shut them, when dumped usually ended up as a lethal hiding place for kids. No non-stick pans. The first iron I remember wasn't electric, you put a hot coal inside it. Braided electric cable from an appliance and a plug you wired yourself with a fuse in it. I lived in one place still with gas lamps on the walls (did have electric though) and black out curtains. Gasometers in the town centre. Radios with a cloth front where the speaker was.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 9, 2010 15:34:42 GMT
I remember when girls were only allowed to wear skirts or dresses to school. If it was really cold, we could wear pants, but with a skirt over them.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 9, 2010 15:58:12 GMT
At the office today, we were talking about the pedal-powered Singer sewing machines with which we were all familiar from early childhood, either at our parents' or grandparents' places, sometimes both. My grandpa had one of these, later electrified. They are still in demand by those who choose to live "off the grid" and survivalists who are stocking up for the collapse of society...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2010 17:15:44 GMT
I remember when people used to say "the Cameroons" because they were two different colonies.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2010 23:11:25 GMT
An old air-raid shelter I used to play in at the end of the garden.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2010 13:40:03 GMT
Mechanical slot machines that made a heavy crunching sound when you pulled the handle.
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Post by onlymark on Jun 18, 2010 15:04:13 GMT
Bus conductors, and the machine they had to issue tickets.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 18, 2010 15:35:15 GMT
Streetcar conductors. They mostly helped people on and off the cars, but also made change and gave transfers.
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