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Posted: 12/7/2021 9:55:55 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:00:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Most businesses being closed Sunday. Black and white tv with rabbit ears With a wad of aluminum foil on the ends to improve reception on that one finicky channel. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:02:06 AM EDT
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During WWII the sidewalks in the winter being plowed with horses.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:03:29 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: TV remote controls. Remember our first tv with a remote. It was a BFD. 
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:06:31 AM EDT
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candy cigarettes in packs designed to look like the real thing (i remember salem and marlboro in particular)
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:08:20 AM EDT
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Road maps
Saturday movies, you got in if you brought X number of bottle caps Ash trays Smoking everywhere. Probably the only exception was Church |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:11:02 AM EDT
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Riding in the back of a pickup.
(against all odds, I survived the experience) |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:15:17 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: $79 SKS $79 case of ammunition. ???? |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:22:16 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:29:10 AM EDT
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Wow. I just saw this thread. I remember 99% of the stuff mentioned here. To
the guy that mentioned Ballantine WW2 books, yes I read them. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:33:58 AM EDT
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We had a party line.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:39:12 AM EDT
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Winter roads that actually stayed snow covered until Mother Nature said otherwise.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:50:29 AM EDT
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The smell of sawdust and oil when you walked into an old fashioned hardware store. Digging through all the old dusty boxes on the shelves of the same.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:56:24 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Tube Tops. Short Shorts. Huffy & Schwinn Bicycles made here, by us. Five different places within a block of the Courthouse that sold Firearms. Bottle Deposits and scrounging said bottles for candy money. Taking Guns to School and nobody got shot or in any trouble. Fuller Brush and Jewell Tea Men stopping @ the house. girls in tube tops and short shorts, heaven and so convenient. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 10:59:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Billie Eilish back when she had talent. https://static.spin.com/files/2019/01/billie-eilish-bury-a-friend-1548889261-1024x683.jpg Tell us you're in your 20's without telling us you're in your 20's. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 11:00:43 AM EDT
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When an average jet airliner was loud enough to shake the walls of the house from 35,000 feet.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 11:05:13 AM EDT
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Our town had gas station owners get into sales wars where they would walk out and change the price to be lower than the station just down the street. I remember getting gas for 10 cents a gallon during one of these gas wars.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 11:06:09 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We had a shared telephone line with several of our rural neighbors. I think it was called a "party line". People on our loop could listen in on our phone conversations and vice versa. We had a couple of ladies on our loop that would tie up the line for hours. It was a big deal when we finally got a private line. Same. Polite protocol was to gently lift the hand piece out of the cradle and make sure no one was on the line before you started failing. I bought my first center fire rifle, a Turkish Mauser , from a barrel at the front door of Roses Department store . Liggets Drug store had a glass case full of guns, and Panning Lumber had a good selection. Guns and ammo were just a product people had on their shelves. Kept my shotgun in the window rack of my Jeep Wagoneer all through high school. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 11:06:46 AM EDT
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Chemistry set and a wood burning kit for Christmas.
Rock-m Sock-m Robots. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 11:12:47 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Wow. I just saw this thread. I remember 99% of the stuff mentioned here. To the guy that mentioned Ballantine WW2 books, yes I read them. We all read them back then. Had pretty much the full set. Playing army as a boy with your friends with genuine WWII bringbacks. Someone had to be the Jap and lose. And I still sometimes stomp the floor for high beams to this day... |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 11:16:50 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryA pack of matches had the striker on the front. Getting a dinner plate or drinking glass for a fill-up at the gas station. Getting a towel or dinner plate in a box of soap powder. S&H or Plaid Stamps for grocery purchase and redemption centers you traded the filled books in at. Buying stamps on Fridays at school to put into the savings bond book. That little metal tab you got for your collar or lapel for donating 25 cents to the Red Cross. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 11:28:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryThat was Mom’s answer to almost everything. And if it couldn’t be treated with that, Vicks Va-Po-Rub to the rescue. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 11:32:26 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: At the farm....out house & hand pump well, old cabin with a wood burning kitchen stove with oven as the only heat in the one room cabin and finding the squirrels built a next in the pipe having smoke run you out of the house. No electricity, milking cows by hand, shaking a jar to make butter, chopping wood with an axe so we didn’t freeze at night. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 11:32:47 AM EDT
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When lesbians only liked pussy.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SocialJusticeInAction/comments/rasi16/an_actual_lesbian_in_reddits_largest_non_porn/  |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 11:39:55 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They sold a series of paperback WW II history books from a display rack at our local Quik Shop, don't recall the publisher. I believe the publisher was Ballantines Illustrated History Of The Second World War. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 11:43:12 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Guns at Sears and Montgomery Wards The creak of the wooden floors at the hardware store and the five and dime God, that took me right back there. 
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Posted: 12/7/2021 11:46:09 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: They sold a series of paperback WW II history books from a display rack at our local Quik Shop, don't recall the publisher. Ballantine........maybe. I have about 20 (?) of them....... @Morlawn66 edit: I'm WAAAAAY late on this one...
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Posted: 12/7/2021 11:52:09 AM EDT
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Six of us in the front, and only seat, of our family pickup.
Three on the tree. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 11:55:22 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By:TheOTHERmaninblack I still have one of those. Can't bring myself to throw it away. @TheOTHERmaninblack Throw it away?! Those are collectibles nowadays… |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:01:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: TV dinners. Not the microwavable ones. Hearing the sound of coffee percolating in the morning. Ah the good old Salisbury steak dinners on the tin tray with mashed potatoes and gravy and the apple or cherry pie that never got hot enough or got too hot and overflowed. The good old days were simpler times… |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:02:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No cellular phones... ...land lines even Party lines 
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:03:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Man, I hated that shit. 
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:04:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The "Colored" rest rooms and water fountains at Publix. Real M-80's (Quarter sticks), $.25 quarts of oil racked in glass jars with funnel lids at the gas station, TV tube testers, church keys, terrycloth short shorts, jiffy pop, dungarees, bubbling Christmas tree lights, ubiquitous coffee can of bacon fat on every stove, ID bracelets, Canoe cologne, double-edged razors and big cans of Charlies chips. Oh hell yeah on the terrycloth short shorts. Forgot about those, and the nylon Ocean brand ones too 
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:07:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: TVs that took a minute to "warm up" and the screen shrinking down to a little dot when you turned it off. Star Spangled Banner or an Indian and test pattern at midnight or so. Cable TV descramblers and the whackamole game. TVs that took a minute to "warm up" and the screen shrinking down to a little dot when you turned it off. Forgot about that one, I am now back at the hardware store with my Dad watching him (and him showing me how to) test tubes with the TV tube tester. Tester had a flip chart and you matched several settings to the tube and hit the button and watched the meter swing from red to yellow to green.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:07:53 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:09:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The 1973 gas lines... Sold out by 10:00 A.M., better get in line early. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:11:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: ? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Blue laws ? No beer on Sunday Working my way through the thread, probably has been answered many times. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:14:25 PM EDT
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Mentioned yet ? Calling the number for current time and temp.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:15:14 PM EDT
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I remember about 80-90% of things posted.
I would add, going to church on Sunday (morning and evening services), and Wednesday nights, and all services having lots of people. Canned meat that took a special "key". If the tab broke off, then time for improvisation at opening. Also, no pop tops on canned pasta / vegetables / fruits. Buying ammunition at the local hardware store, by the cartridge, if you couldn't afford a whole box, and doing that as a minor. Surplus snow tires as a poor man's mudgrips in Alabama. Incomplete interstate or federal highways. Many still went through the heart of cities and towns, with traffic lights on timers. Real women, no artificial / cosmetic "help", with full bush, and willing to get dirty, helping you with whatever task at hand. Good memories. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:18:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Smoking everywhere. Probably the only exception was Church LOL, if you asked for the "non smoking section", you were seated in one of three tables that were still completely surrounded by tables where everyone was smoking. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:30:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Mentioned yet ? Calling the number for current time and temp. Still done here. Still the same old number. 330-673-9811 We didn't have to dial the area code back then which was a good thing on an old rotary phone. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 12:54:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: How old do you have to be to be considered an old timer? I remember all of these I and don't really consider myself old at 55. That makes you a straddler of the big shift. When you were a kid- You parents, grand parents, and great grand parents all likely Lived in a home with a wall mounted phone Had a TV with limited channels,and not 24/7/265 broadcasts Had a record player/tape player/radio Didn’t have a VCR Didn’t have a computer Took trips using a map With figuring out where to get gas or stay on the fly, and limited 24 hour gas stations Had to use a pay phone Wrote checks Did not have or had very limited credit card use The majority of guys our age graduated high school - And then made the shift from checks to ATM to credit cards Bought a VCR Switched to CDs Got cable When we deployed we brought a book, and had no contact with home. Got a computer Got email Got a cell phone, etc. Over a ten year period or so Then we bought our first stuff off of Amazon and EBay. We switched to DVDs and Blue rays. We got onboard with mp3s and a iTunes We stopped going to get movies at blockbuster We had cars with nav We can look up anything anytime from just about anywhere Got rid of cable Got streaming It got so When we deployed we could video call home from a mature theatre or make a sat phone call to home off the coast of Somalia or whatever Over the next ten years Even if you had kids in 1985 or so, they grew up in a very different world than someone that was born 1975 or earlier. Let alone kids born 1995 and later. The life of an American born in 1965 was not very different than that of someone born in 55, 45, 35. Someone born in 95 had a different life than someone born in 85, and vastly different than 75, 65. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 1:03:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That makes you a straddler of the big shift. When you were a kid- You parents, grand parents, and great grand parents all likely Lived in a home with a wall mounted phone Had a TV with limited channels,and not 24/7/265 broadcasts Had a record player/tape player/radio Didn’t have a VCR Didn’t have a computer Took trips using a map With figuring out where to get gas or stay on the fly, and limited 24 hour gas stations Had to use a pay phone Wrote checks Did not have or had very limited credit card use All this stuff could still apply in the 1990’s. My parents still had a rotary phone til 1998, a TV that was made of wood (or fake wood, I don’t really know which one), we had a VCR but we only had like 10 tapes. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 1:07:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'll never understand why they stopped using those, it always seemed safer to me than what we have now. Quote HistoryQuoted: I'll never understand why they stopped using those, it always seemed safer to me than what we have now. There are several times where you will find yourself needing to dim the lights- At exactly the time your foot is on the clutch or you need / want to hit the clutch at the same time I still drive vintage muscle cars a handful of times a month. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 1:14:34 PM EDT
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People are talking about scrounging for pop bottles to turn them in for the deposit.
The flip side of that is that I'm old enough to remember when bottles didn't have deposits on them. And how much trash there was along roadsides. IIRC it was the very early '70s that started the "Keep America Beautiful" campaign and cleaning up the trash. It was the beginning of people taking responsibility for a section of the highways to clean up. The wife and I visited Turkey in 2015 and it reminded me, vividly, of how trashy America used to be. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 1:16:33 PM EDT
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 Statler Brothers - Do You Remember These.mpg Didn't see this posted anywhere. If I missed it well, here ya go again. 
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Posted: 12/7/2021 1:18:33 PM EDT
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TV sports that covered the whole competition not just 1% of the air time on a few chosen competitors and the other 99% on in depth life struggle crap about the chosen few followed by commentator BS.
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Posted: 12/7/2021 1:30:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: All this stuff could still apply in the 1990’s. My parents still had a rotary phone til 1998, a TV that was made of wood (or fake wood, I don’t really know which one), we had a VCR but we only had like 10 tapes. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: That makes you a straddler of the big shift. When you were a kid- You parents, grand parents, and great grand parents all likely Lived in a home with a wall mounted phone Had a TV with limited channels,and not 24/7/265 broadcasts Had a record player/tape player/radio Didn’t have a VCR Didn’t have a computer Took trips using a map With figuring out where to get gas or stay on the fly, and limited 24 hour gas stations Had to use a pay phone Wrote checks Did not have or had very limited credit card use All this stuff could still apply in the 1990’s. My parents still had a rotary phone til 1998, a TV that was made of wood (or fake wood, I don’t really know which one), we had a VCR but we only had like 10 tapes. Sure, there are plenty of hold outs. To this day my mother still does not have a car with nav or one of the plug in nav things. There is no cell coverage where she lives and she still has a landline and no cell phone. I have an aunt and uncle with no computer, no email, no cell phones, no cable, etc. But that’s different than nobody in your entire world having them. |
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Posted: 12/7/2021 1:36:11 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/7/2021 1:37:29 PM EDT
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Grandpa's razor strop. Dual-use only one of which was razor related. Don't mess with Grandpa.
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