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Posted: 10/13/2015 10:37:58 AM EDT
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I remember going to the gas station and getting a quarter tank of gas, 2 packs of smokes and having change left over from a $10 bill. I remember getting a tank of gas (~16 gallons), a pack of smokes and a soda and still getting a little bit of change left from a $20. Around $19 or so. This was in the mid 1990s. Now that would be over $50. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 11:13:05 AM EDT
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I remember those cheap thin ashtrays at McDonalds.
I remember extra long telephone cords before cordless phones were common. I remember rotary dial phones, having 4 channels, and life before the internet. I remember when kids could play cops and robbers, or army, with toy guns and nobody would bat an eye or freak out about it. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 11:36:11 AM EDT
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Cigarettes were a quarter and a gallon of regular was thirty. Premium gas was called "ethyl" or "hi-test"
You picked up the phone handset and "Central" asked "Number, please?". Our town had three-digit numbers, home was 371 and Dad's office was 103. You could also ask by a person for name. Radios took thirty seconds or so to warm up. There was no TV. Car radios made a faint buzzing sound and would kill the battery in a couple of hours or so. I'd ride my bike to the grocery store and get Dad a pack of cigarettes. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 11:44:28 AM EDT
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I remember when we didn't have any of those fancy birth control methods, like pulling out.
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Posted: 10/13/2015 11:47:27 AM EDT
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I remember when kids could play cops and robbers, or army, with toy guns and nobody would bat an eye or freak out about it. You mean like yesterday in my suburban neighborhood? |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 11:53:14 AM EDT
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My high school had a smoking area. Mine to |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 12:01:59 PM EDT
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The average woman had fewer rolls than a bakery
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Posted: 10/13/2015 12:08:58 PM EDT
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Born in 1961
Thanks for the memories fellas 
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Posted: 10/13/2015 12:22:08 PM EDT
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To the old guys...........remember those mimeograph machines? Yes...That SMELL!!! The paper has to dry, or you'd get that blue stuff on your hands. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 12:55:13 PM EDT
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I remember when the marshmallows in the Monster cereals were just tiny little marshmallows and the cereal was a circle with an "x" in it, and when Lucky Charms just had pink hearts, yellow moons, green clovers, and blue diamonds.
I remember Micronauts. I remember candy cigarettes and bubble gum cigars. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 1:07:12 PM EDT
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I remember when 7-11 was only open from 7:00 AM until 11:00 PM.
And they didn't sell gas, either. Slurpees in Baseball Trading cups. 
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Posted: 10/13/2015 3:31:00 PM EDT
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I remember toy guns that had no bright ass colors. Black and maybe some brown, and was an exact copy of the original.
Buying a pickup load of coal directly from the coal company. Can you still do that? Penny gumball machines. Dad would take me into the store, give me a handful of pennies and talked to the old people who owned the store while I tried my best to drain the machines. Oil in a can. Dad buying diesel for his sawmill from the local truck stop. His pickup looked tiny pulled up to those pumps. I also remember seeing digital readout pumps for the first time at the same place. They looked like robots to me. Dad traded an almost new Beetle for the first toyota pickup in the area. People always thought it was a Datsun. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 8:16:24 PM EDT
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Every kid had a BMX bike.
The rich kids had a Mongoose or a Red Line. I remember when it would be a challenge to find anything made in China, Taiwan, or Japan unless you were shopping the five and dime. Overhead projectors. Salvation Army drop boxes were everywhere and nobody used them as a trash can or took anything out of them. IBM cards. I always wondered what information was on those cards. The fading away of the 8 track tape when the cassette tape rose to prominence. Then the rise of the CD which I thought would never take off. |
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Posted: 10/13/2015 8:18:56 PM EDT
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I remember 15 cents gallon gas and 15 cents McD burgers.
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Posted: 10/13/2015 8:20:04 PM EDT
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I remember when.. telephones first became push buttons.. CHECK cellphones were science fiction.. CHECK you had to get up to change the channel CHECK cable tv came about..and hbo was two movies each day CHECK the first car phones rich people had...that really only worked in movies. CHECK I did a walk-a-thon CHECK shit was made in America.. CHECK. the year 2000 was like so far into the future...it would never come.CHECK Yep. |
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Posted: 10/14/2015 12:24:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember when the marshmallows in the Monster cereals were just tiny little marshmallows and the cereal was a circle with an "x" in it, and when Lucky Charms just had pink hearts, yellow moons, green clovers, and blue diamonds. I remember Micronauts. I remember candy cigarettes and bubble gum cigars. I was going to mention Micronauts, but figured it was too esoteric. I still have some of the early comic books, but no figures. |
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Posted: 10/14/2015 6:51:02 AM EDT
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I remember when people weren't offended about anything and everything. I remember when I could wear apparel with the American flag on it without people being offended or superiors worrying about it being offensive in my own country. I remember boys were boys and girls were girls, not acting like their polar opposites. I remember when our country had morale fiber and the vile behavior that seems so common and acceptable for media ratings today was a rare occurrence back then I remember tough competition in sports and other activities to motivate us to work harder to finish well instead of everyone receiving a trophy for participating. I remember youth respecting their elders and their elders not hesitating to discipline them to correct their behavior. I remember, when this country for a time felt like it was the greatest country there is THIS |
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Posted: 10/14/2015 8:14:13 AM EDT
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I remember my grandfather getting the first color TV in his area. It was really cool seeing everything in shades of green instead of black and white!
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Posted: 10/14/2015 8:29:16 AM EDT
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Garfield 1-2323
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Posted: 10/14/2015 9:09:32 AM EDT
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I remember getting a silver bullet from the Lone Ranger when the circus came to town.
Penny candy was really a penny. Practicing "duck & cover" in elementary school. Whacking the TV to get a better picture, black & white of course. If that didn't work off to the drugstore to "test the tubes". Riding a bike without some alien head helmet. Getting "the look" to behave from my father when in the backseat of the car vs. having some $2000 video screen to quite down the kids. |
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Posted: 10/14/2015 12:53:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Garfield 1-2323 Ha! That, and Go see Cal still pop in my head from time to time. |
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Posted: 10/14/2015 1:18:26 PM EDT
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I remember saving enough Blue Chip Stamps in the book, to be able to go into the store and exchange them for an American made ratchet and socket set.......
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Posted: 10/14/2015 6:42:35 PM EDT
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Garfield 1-2323 WE7-1212 got you the weather ME7-1212 got you the time. Remember the opening of the Original Thomas Crown Affair? At the tone, the time will be.... |
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Posted: 10/14/2015 11:59:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ha! That, and Go see Cal still pop in my head from time to time. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Garfield 1-2323 Ha! That, and Go see Cal still pop in my head from time to time. Guess who's got a car dealership up there? Yep, Cal Worthington. Didn't see Spot though.  |
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Posted: 10/15/2015 12:28:33 AM EDT
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I remember smoking on airplanes
I remember the small, thin metal ashtrays in fast food restaurants I remember pumping gas before you paid I remember the first vcr Dad bought. Big as a suitcase and the "remote" was wired to the unit and was a record / pause button I remember buying R12 to top off my a/c I remember buying leaded gas at the filling station for my 72 Mustang |
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Posted: 10/15/2015 12:32:56 AM EDT
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when PC modems were 110 or 300 baud....selected via a manual switch. David from Wargames is a fucking noob.
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Posted: 10/15/2015 6:34:11 PM EDT
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when PC modems were 110 or 300 baud....selected via a manual switch. David from Wargames is a fucking noob. There was No Such Thing as a Modem. 
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Posted: 10/15/2015 6:53:05 PM EDT
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I remember when hardware stores and drug stores had tube testers. Many here will have no idea what I am talking about.
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Posted: 10/15/2015 7:35:21 PM EDT
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I was in 8th grade  |
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Posted: 10/15/2015 7:44:32 PM EDT
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...when Twinkies were about 2x the size they are now
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Posted: 10/15/2015 7:45:18 PM EDT
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rotary dial phones
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Posted: 10/15/2015 7:46:17 PM EDT
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Quote Historywhatever happened to those, I vaguely remember them |
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Posted: 10/15/2015 7:51:01 PM EDT
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I remember when.. telephones first became push buttons.. cellphones were science fiction.. you had to get up to change the channel cable tv came about..and hbo was two movies each day the first car phones rich people had...that really only worked in movies. I did a walk-a-thon shit was made in America... the year 2000 was like so far into the future...it would never come. And the cable "remote" control looked like this: 
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Posted: 10/15/2015 7:54:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember driving into a gas station and the attendant would come out, pump your gas, check your oil and air pressure, take your payment, and give you a free glass with your receipt, which read $0.32 per gallon....  |
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Posted: 10/15/2015 8:01:43 PM EDT
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I remember crank telephones, Howdy Doody, 24.9 gasoline, 25 cents a pack cigarettes, motor oil in glass jars with screw on metal pour spouts, gas pumps with 5 gallon jars on top, black and white TV test patterns when the 3 stations went off the air at midnight, manual typewriters, and a host of other obscure old shit 90% of Arfcom is too young to remember.
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Posted: 10/15/2015 8:16:36 PM EDT
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I don't know what your're talking about...
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Posted: 10/15/2015 8:57:59 PM EDT
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...when Twinkies were about 2x the size they are now I remember when todays Ring Dings were called Ring Dings Juniors. They were originally about doubled in size, too.
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Posted: 10/15/2015 9:32:59 PM EDT
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Gun shows held in the high school gymnasium or their cafeteria.
Socialists where only found in the soviet union (or in spy novels) Places to shoot being close by. Not ten or twenty miles away. People at the gun shows offering great guns for decent prices and asking for trades was normal. |
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Posted: 10/15/2015 10:05:29 PM EDT
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A little country store near where we used to fish had one of these. The amount of gas you wanted was hand pumped into the calibrated glass container, then gravity drained it into the car.
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Posted: 10/15/2015 10:09:14 PM EDT
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When I was a kid I could ride down to the river on my bike with a rifle across my back and not have the SWAT team called out on me.
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Posted: 10/15/2015 10:15:54 PM EDT
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I remember checking out a top load VCR from the library because we didn't have one yet getting a dish laying in the back window of the car on trips and people not looking twice running around town with toy guns and not getting the cops called on us watching cartoon every Saturday morning and then afterwards watching Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom with my dad when I didn't have internet and spent all my free time outside and had more money |
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Posted: 10/15/2015 10:30:21 PM EDT
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GM made good cars. Sears sold guns & ammo. Reminded me of going to the mall and cutting through Woolworths to look at the 03s.
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Posted: 10/15/2015 10:38:26 PM EDT
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First Class postage for a Letter was 5¢
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Posted: 10/16/2015 8:33:53 AM EDT
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I got my first 5 speed bicycle with all the books of S&H Green Stamps my mother had saved up.
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Posted: 10/16/2015 9:30:10 AM EDT
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I remember when Radio Shack was a cool place to go into.
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Posted: 10/16/2015 9:38:21 AM EDT
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When did busy signals go away? Late 90's-00 ish I guess. Hadn't thought of those in years. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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My kids are 8 years old and have never heard a dial tone or busy signal. When did busy signals go away? Late 90's-00 ish I guess. Hadn't thought of those in years. I hate to disappoint you, but busy signals have not gone away. I remember bringing a lead pot to school, showed everyone in class how to make bullets, and each student got to take one home......and that was in California. Tony Rumore Tromix |
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Posted: 10/16/2015 10:19:05 AM EDT
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You could smoke in Burger King. and in college classrooms. when in 80 % of the city you could find a nice house at a decent price in a nice neighborhood. Now there are none. Section 8 hoodrats. Now you pay three times the price out of the city boundaries. |
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Posted: 10/16/2015 10:35:46 AM EDT
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To the old guys...........remember those mimeograph machines? 
Yes, do you know what this is? I used it all the time.
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Posted: 10/16/2015 2:39:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu3iCvAQCHgYes, do you know what this is? I used it all the time.http://www.worldmicrographics.com/gallery/Indus/4601_a3u_lg.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: To the old guys...........remember those mimeograph machines? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu3iCvAQCHgYes, do you know what this is? I used it all the time.http://www.worldmicrographics.com/gallery/Indus/4601_a3u_lg.jpg |
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Posted: 10/16/2015 3:01:03 PM EDT
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I remember when Kardashian was a small country between Romania and Transylvania.
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