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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2010 20:11:17 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2010 20:26:00 GMT
But like, isn't that from 2010?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2010 22:57:13 GMT
I think so... I should have embellished on the pic,by saying, I remember when these were on every third or fourth corner in NYC...this is one of,if not the last of it's kind,at least in Manhattan. Malted milk shakes,sliders,fresh squeezed lemonade...Now,Starbucks rules these corners.... I try to go when ever I'm on the East Side. It's very bittersweet for me. One of my fondest memories of my father was he and I going to go see The King and I,and afterward,going to a place similar to this on the West Side.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2010 6:18:04 GMT
I remember when it was considered subversive to think that Nelson Mandela should be released from prison.
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 12, 2010 16:28:44 GMT
I remember when he went to prison..........
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2010 14:28:40 GMT
I remember steel US pennies dated 1943 because that year all of the copper was reserved for the war. Clearly there were no electromagnetic coin slots back then or they could never have been used in automatic machines. (Gum ball machines and parking meters are about the only machines that I can remember that took pennies anyway.)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2010 14:33:49 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 13, 2010 14:49:07 GMT
I remember those still being around when I was a kid. They're called "wheat pennies", aren't they? I think they have a copper wash on them, as I don't remember their being a different color from other pennies. You can kind of see it in the pictures. There were still some buffalo nickels in circulation when I was a kid, too. My grandfather used to save them in a glass jar.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2010 16:57:23 GMT
No, those pennies were a completely different color. They were easy to find in the street because a lot of people would throw them away when they got one. They considered them to be "unworthy." More for me!
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Post by mich64 on Oct 13, 2010 17:14:54 GMT
Carbon paper when typing for a Government job that made me use different colors of paper for each level of government. On top of my desk were 5 colors of "white out". White, pink, yellow, mint green and blue.
$5.00 worth of gas would last the weekend!
Learning to fix every new machine that came into the office, photocopier, fax machine, computers, scanners... And of course being the only person who could ever replace the powders, cartridges, paper or batteries.
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Post by Kimby on Oct 18, 2010 16:27:12 GMT
I remember when there was "no white" out of any color. You used a typing eraser, and usually tore a hole in the paper and had to start over with a new sheet.
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 18, 2010 16:38:04 GMT
I remember when there wasn't a fax machine..
Or a computer.........
Or even a calculator...........
There was a photocopier though but only one person was authorised to use it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2010 16:48:18 GMT
I remember shops that had manual cash registers, no electricity required.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2010 20:06:16 GMT
I remember when the doctor's office smelled like ether, which did not fill my young heart with joy.
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Post by Kimby on Oct 25, 2010 21:00:56 GMT
I remember the first calculator I ever saw. I was in college, and a friend bought one for over $100 and all it could do was add, subtract, multiply and divide. AND, it had a number entry system that required you to enter the number first and the function after, so 3 - 2 becomes 3 + 2 - ...
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Post by traveler63 on Oct 26, 2010 0:12:40 GMT
I remember when there were no photocopiers, there were duplicating or mimeograph machines. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Mimeograph,_1918.png/250px-Mimeograph,_1918.png You typed on a manual typewriter on a piece of paper that looked like wax paper only heavier. Make a mistake and you took a razor blade scraped the mistake off and used a piece of the paper to retype, or you overstruck the mistake. No kidding! You clipped the paper on the drum, put some stinky solution in the pan and fed paper into the paper holder and then you turned the drum with the handle. Most of the print was a funny color not really black.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 26, 2010 2:51:33 GMT
Hmmm. I wonder if I could still load a mimeograph stencil. The blue stuff RULED.
Remember hectographs?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2010 5:06:37 GMT
Why did children love the smell of mimeographs? The first thing you would do when the papers were passed out was stick them under your nose if they were freshly printed.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 27, 2010 6:25:24 GMT
*snork*
This will take most of us back! Woman returns to work after decades:
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2010 6:33:52 GMT
I remember when it would take the picture tube on the television more than a minute to warm up.
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Post by Kimby on Oct 27, 2010 23:23:54 GMT
Why did children love the smell of mimeographs? The first thing you would do when the papers were passed out was stick them under your nose if they were freshly printed. The pages were also damp as I recall. And in our school the ink was purple.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2010 7:59:12 GMT
I remember in the 1970's, when they were trying to save money on petroleum products and some of the LP's sold were thin and flexible -- they would bend slightly when you took them out of the jacket.
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Post by tod2 on Oct 28, 2010 8:15:25 GMT
I remember when our pens at school were a stick of wood that had a metal ending for inserting the nib which had to be changed fairly often because we pressed so hard. To write only a letter or two we had to constantly dip the nib in the inkwell. I guess it was better than writing with a feather quill! ;D
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 28, 2010 10:15:36 GMT
I remember when it would take the picture tube on the television more than a minute to warm up. I remember when we didn't have a television... We got one in 1953 for the Coronation and half the street came in to watch it. It had a tiny screen with a huge magnifying glass on 2 canvas straps that fitted over it.
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Post by myrt on Nov 11, 2010 18:22:03 GMT
Haven't read the whole thread so I hope this isn't a repeat but I remember when Libraries had dinky little tickets tucked into every book and the librarian used to pull open those huge trays to find your name....and if you asked for help they would sit on the floor with you and just grab books from everywhere...... These days Librarians are a rarity and computers run everything...and libraries are nothing like as evocative or interesting....just full of machines beeping at you and ordering you about...as is the rest of the world!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2010 18:58:14 GMT
I remember so many parents saying that their children would never have those brain depleting stupid video games. Those are the same games that have passed the Hollywood film industry in revenue -- already many years ago.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 11, 2010 20:35:52 GMT
Bless your heart, Myrt!
Remember how important you felt with your first library card? I remember the first library I used that had a computer card catalogue. It was new and confusing and the librarians(?) stayed huddled behind the main desk and were scathing to those who didn't understand the new system.
It's so true that real librarians have set untold numbers of kids on the path to loving reading and learning.
There's nothing like the pleasure of being in a library and wandering in your favorite sections or seeing a new book you've been dying to read.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Nov 11, 2010 21:16:45 GMT
I remember when I could drink 2 pints of beer on a Saturday lunchtime without falling asleep all afternoon when I got home...
I remember bus conducters who would sell you your bus ticket, deal with badly behaved passengers and help you with your bags....and when younger people would stand to let elderly ladies have their seat. ;D
When we moved to Stevenage when we first married, a library van used to park up near the local shops...it was real treat, and the librarian would look out for books that she thought that I would enjoy. ;D
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Post by onlymark on Nov 11, 2010 22:50:55 GMT
Packets of crisps with a small twist of salt in a blue wrapper.
School milk in third of a pint bottles.
The boys toilet at school being outside and across the playground.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 12, 2010 0:27:25 GMT
I can remember streetcar conductors performing all those tasks, Mick.
So strange, the differences between the US and the UK "back when". Mark, you're almost ten years younger than I, but the stuff you mention was old-fashioned and long gone when I was a kid.
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