This Is For The Older People Here

[SouthFloridawx]

Oh WOW... ya'll are old.

Your gonna get it now brent. I wouldn't go into chat tonight if I were you.

[Brent]

Oh WOW... ya'll are old.

Your gonna get it now brent. I wouldn't go into chat tonight if I were you.

[Janice]

Yeah, cause Bobbysocks is there and she is hot and mad now.....

[GalvestonDuck]

Lemme see -- Brent's list probably looks something like this:

Seeing the Star Wars re-release on the big screen, Tamagotchi pets, the Simpson trial, Heaven's Gate and the Hale-Bop comet, reading Harry Potter books, Princess Di's funeral, the WB and UPN, Oklahoma City, Windows 95, Nintendo 64's, Independence Day and Twister, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Boy Meets World, and Michael Jordan being everywhere, playing every sport.

[Brent]

Lemme see -- Brent's list probably looks something like this:

Seeing the Star Wars re-release on the big screen, Tamagotchi pets, the Simpson trial, Heaven's Gate and the Hale-Bop comet, reading Harry Potter books, Princess Di's funeral, the WB and UPN, Oklahoma City, Windows 95, Nintendo 64's, Independence Day and Twister, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Boy Meets World, and Michael Jordan being everywhere, playing every sport.

I do remember life before the internet.

[Mayberry]

Interesting topic.

Penny candy - and it really did cost just a penny! Crinolines or petticoats that we starched with sugar water. The fuller the skirt the better. Crunched when you sat down and were hell in the humid weather. How the heck old does this make me?

[Miss Mary]

Lemme see -- Brent's list probably looks something like this:

Seeing the Star Wars re-release on the big screen, Tamagotchi pets, the Simpson trial, Heaven's Gate and the Hale-Bop comet, reading Harry Potter books, Princess Di's funeral, the WB and UPN, Oklahoma City, Windows 95, Nintendo 64's, Independence Day and Twister, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Boy Meets World, and Michael Jordan being everywhere, playing every sport.

ROFLMAO! And so true......

Wait I thought of another and......I already forgot it.

LOL @ Janice admitting "I am really dating myself, but I graduated the year the Beatles came to America."

It takes guts to admit that!!!! But to make you feel better Janice, I remember when panty hose came out and I no longer had to use gartar belts - Alelulia! For the girls now.....shhhhh. I remember when a certain female product didn't come with peel off tape and sticky backs. Oh yeah, I'm old now....go ahead and say it!

Mary

[coriolis]

[quote="Miss Mary

- Glass soda bottles. My mom saved one for her ironing, by using a sprayer attachment made specifically for glass soda bottles. She just shook the water on the clothes and then ironed.

Old Fart Mary[/quote]


AAaaaccccckkkk My mom had one of them too. She had the same darn glass bottle for as long as I could remember. It was like a fixture in our basement for my whole life. After I grew up, I switched bottles on her and I still have it in my bottle collection. Every time I see it, it takes me waaaaay back.


Brent, some day you'll understand.


Old Fart Ed

[Aslkahuna]

Yep, I remember 5¢ Cokes and Candy Bars. What about the Saturday Afternoon Matinees at the movie theater? Usually a shoot-em up Western with Roy Rodgers, Hopalong Cassiday or Gene Autry. Had a cartoon and a serial (Flash Gordon, Buck Rodgers, etc.) along with it. Don't remember the price but it was under 50¢. Oh yes, and all of the cheering and firecrackers going off in the streets on the day thjat Japan announced its Surrender in WWII. The Steam locomotives on the streaminers roaring through town every day at 5pm (the Daylight) and 8 am (the Lark) on their way between SFO and LAX.

Steve

[breeze]

Wow! I remember the phone "party lines" - we had this elderly lady who would
gossip for hours, and, the rest of us on that line couldn't use the phone - LOL -
you picked up, and, people were having a conversation!

I remember a plastic green and white "record player" that we used when my
big brother brought the "newest" Beatles records (45 rpm) home.

I remember "sonic booms" that shook the whole house during the era of
the Viet Nam War. In fact, my first memories of tv was my father,
an old WWII veteran, sitting glued in front of the NBC Nightly News,
watching Vietnam War coverage - black & white.

We had a black & white tv on antenna, and, luckily, all 3 channels came in - ABC, NBC, and, CBS!

We had a big box fan in the kitchen window that pulled in cool/somewhat cool/
warm air before A/C.

No spray air-freshener, kiddies.... you struck a match in the bathroom -
that was IT!

~Annette~

[Miss Mary]

We never had a party line but I remember a friend having one. We'd want to listen in but her mom would scold us for picking up the phone. It was so tempting!

I remember having to buy your phone from AT & T and they had to install it. Later, you could buy or rent the phone from their store, but it had to come from AT & T. My ex had an old phone he rigged up in our bedroom. We were having trouble with our main phone, Cincinnati Bell arrived. And of course the repairman found the illegal phone. He confiscated it. It was an aqua desk phone, nothing to look at but at least we had two phones, without paying more for the second (montly charge to boot). Geez, I'm glad they lightened up in this dept.

Remember cozy windows on cars? They worked great, if you needed fresh air. You just had to be sure they were closed tightly when it rained or it was winter time.

Remember your first roller skates? And the key you used?

Remember when slapping a coat of paint on the basement walls and floor, putting an old couch and tables down there was enough, for a teen hangout? My friend's dad used peel and stick linoleum floor tiles, in black and white. It was pretty neat but again, this was a simple decorating trick for basements. Basements I might add, that we spent hours in and didn't complain they weren't carpeted, had new furniture or a TV that even worked! Picture the That 70s Show basement and that was pretty much what every basement I grew up in looked like.

Making prank phone calls before caller ID? Come on, you know you did it - is your refridgerator running? LOL

Remember when women and girls wore skirts or dresses to church (I was raised Catholic)? It was rare to wear pants (early 70s). Somewhere along the line it became acceptable to wear nice pants but never jeans. You could wear jeans to a special guitar Mass, organized by the youth group. That was the only way you were getting in the door in jeans. Now people wear shorts and flip flops!

Remember when women and girls wore veils in Catholic Churches? I folded mine up to a tiny sliver of it's former circle, pinning it way in back, quite low so you wouldn't see it. We hated wearing veils!

I'll think of more I'm sure but for now that's enough.

Janice - one question though - do you have a High School reunion coming up or something? All this reminiscing makes me wonder if you've been looking thru school yearbooks lately.....LOL!

Mary

[vbhoutex]

What no one remembers Drive in movies??? And the way mom wet the clothes to iron them was with a soda bottle with a sprinkler top on it. And Janice I am only five years younger than you so don't fret. Now, Pburgh, well she is a young thinker and I will leave it at that!!! Our first B&W TV was one of those futuristic looking ones with just the picture tube on top and everything else in the box under it. We finally got a color tv in 1965 I think and even then not every show was in color. I remember when the Ed Sullivan show finally went to color. I remember President Eisenhower and of course the rest since then. I remember segregated schools and seperate facilities for the "coloreds" and the "whites". And iremember almost all of the stuff stated above.

[therock1811]

I remember MTV being all music(who doesn't?), cartoons being on all day long instead of pre-schooler-appropriate programs at 12 noon, TWC being all weather(again, who doesn't), President Reagan, and TV Guides being smaller. That's about it.

[Brent]

TWC being all weather(again, who doesn't)

LOL, I feel old now. That has been so long ago. But I do remember it. I used to watch them all the time when I was at home.

[Aslkahuna]

Ah yes, the drive-in movie or the Passion Pit as we called them. Not a teenager from the late 40's into the 1960's can forget the makeout sessions there. Next year will be 50 years since I graduated from High School.

Steve

[Cookiely]

I remember when the man would come every morning and deliver fresh hot cuban bread. Also, the fruit and vegetable man would make rounds in the neighborhood. There was a truck that came that had food prepared that you could buy (yellow rice, black beans, platains, stew (yummy) in metal containers. I remember getting our first TV, the stations (2) started broadcasting at 4PM. How about the bowl of flour under the sink with a cover to make biscuits (you made a well in the center of the flour, added your milk, and good old lard). The Charlie Chips man who came to sell all kinds of goodies. I remember my mama went to answer the phone (which had different rings for different people on the party line) and I decided to help her with the laundry. My little arm went all the way through the wringer of the wringer washing machine. Gas was only 15 cents a gallon, and you got full service and tickets to the amusement park with rides or dishes or glasses with coupons. How about when we had to bring a box of food and water to school incase we were nuked by the USSR. I think about that and laugh. With Tampa having Macdill AFB and a port we would be toast. We belonged to a medical clinic (the oldest HMO in the US) a child paid fifteen cents a week to receive full medical care and an adult was 75 cents a week, and the Doctor made house calls (bless their souls). I remember teachers who were in their eighties and we would give them a hug and kiss in the morning and in the afternoon when we went home. She would line us up in the morning for health inspection. Were you clean, let me see your nails, no lice in your hair, did you have a fever or cold, were your clothes clean and shoes polished, did you have breakfast, did you bring lunch. I remember one child had the worst sty I have ever seen and she sent someone for medicine and would take care of him. A little boy in the desk behind me kept pulling my braid and the teacher caught him and took a ruler to his hand. I remember when a teacher would put you over their knee and deliver a well deserved spanking if you were disruptive. On a Saturday going to Ybor City and if we were good we could get a devil crab from the man on the bicycle with the cart. I have a professional photo of my brothers and sisters and none of us had shoes on. That should be one of those redneck jokes.

[Janice]

I remember taking the train places. I went from Iowa to California. I remember the porters in white jackets and walking to the dining room to eat. We did not have rooms, we slept in our seats.

And I remember darning my dads socks with the wood darning object that you put inside the sock.

I remember wearing a white hat to church each sunday.

Remember buying stamps at school for bonds or something?

Remember, mom bought jelly in glasses and we used to glasses to drink out of.

[Pburgh]

Steve, the Saturday matinee was $.25. My Mom would give me $1.00. The bus ride downtown was $.20 roundtrip, popcorn $.10, pop $.05, milkshake after the movie was $.20 at the malt shop. I always had money left over!!!

Crinolines - what memories those bring back. You had to wear 2 or 3 if they weren't starched enough.

Does anyone remember wearing white buck shoes??

Steve, I thought I was the oldest here. You have me beat!!!!!! Now you can't tell me you fogged up those car windows at the drive-in ------ nahhhhhh, not you. lol

[j]

I can remember packing a couple of friends in the trunk of my Ford Mustang so we could save a couple of bucks at the Drive-In, and a couple of bucks was gas for the weekend!! Ahhhhh...the good ole days.

[angelwing]

S&H green stamps! Got a lot from saving them!