Tell us you're old without telling us you're old!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

I remember duck and cover drills!

[Sneederbunk]

1. I remember Conelrad.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. Damn! You're old!

[dchill]

8. CONELRAD was born in the same year I was.

[The Magistrate]

3. Make Sure You've Got A Dime For A Phone Call, Honey

[dchill]

9. When did it go up to a dime?

[Dream Girl]

42. Put it in your penny loafer!

[calguy]

4. I watched Rin Tin Tin when I got home from school.

[padah513]

11. Kimba the White Lion

[tblue37]

5. I remember setting my hair with hard pink plastic rollers or wire rollers with prickly brushes

inside--and then sleeping on those medieval torture devices.

I also had a hair dryer with a hose and a soft plastic bonnet.

[Tadpole Raisin]

22. OMG I forgot about those!!

nt

[multigraincracker]

6. I remember waving at Ike while

he was in a parade on Rt 66 in Iowa.

[wryter2000]

54. I loved Ike

I wish we still had him around to tell the current Republicans what kind of disasters they are.

[TxGuitar]

83. They'd think he was a commie

and try to smear his "so called military record".

[wryter2000]

88. IIRC, the John Birch Society did call him a commie

We used to think of them as crackpots. Now there are worse people in the Congress.

[BarbaRosa]

7. I remember when a Monkee was a Circus Boy.

[Tomconroy]

10. Herman's Hermits was my favorite music group.

[msongs]

12. duck and cover still goes on, but now it's for quakes nt

[calguy]

13. I remember "Elvis the Pelvis"

[kozar]

14. Watching

Dark Shadows after school (5th grader)



Koz

[Shrike47]

15. I loved Fury, although there wasn't enough about the horse.

Lash Larue!

[calguy]

32. My Friend Flicka got a lot of views in our house.

[frogmarch]

16. I remember being on a ship

as it was torpedoed by an enemy submarine.

[Atticus]

17. I remember "phone benches", pieces of furniture designed to seat one and hold the

heavy black telephone handset and cradle with a thick straight six foot cord. It also had a place for the phone book, a note pad and pen. Ours also had a three minute egg timer as that's how long you could speak to someone "long distance" for the basic charge. Every minute or fraction of a minute after three cost extra.

[Demobrat]

18. My first concert was Herman's Hermits

Also my first crush.

[Tomconroy]

30. I went to a Peter Noone concert a few years back.

He is still fab!

[Tadpole Raisin]

19. We had 2 tv channels,

The American channel (had abc, cbs, and nbc prime time shows depending on the day) and a Canadian channel (I remember the friendly giant).

No need for area codes.

[CurtEastPoint]

20. As I proffered on another group today, I remember watching...

?v=1565466423

[calguy]

33. Yikes!!!!!

I remember ALL of those.

[CurtEastPoint]

35. There are others I can't remember now but.. OMG HOWDY DOODY?!?! How could I forget.

Was born in 1950

[calguy]

37. So was I

[wryter2000]

49. Yup, all of them

Bob was a photographer. He'd introduce the episode with "I think you're going to like this picture," or something like that.

Don't forget Burns and Allen!

[CurtEastPoint]

51. See? I forgot Burns and Allen, Steve Allen, Arthur Godfrey, Jack Benny!

[hedda_foil]

52. I remember

Topper


Sitting in front of the radio


Ma Perkins on he radio at lunch time


Superman


Winky Dink

[wyn borkins]

21. The Green Hornet (Radio Show)

I remember enjoying the radio show: "The Green Hornet" with crime-fighter Britt Reid and his sidekick Kato. "Hurry on now Kato, were gonna get them bad guys..."

[sanatanadharma]

23. I can't remember!

What was the question?

[markie]

27. you win!

[Freddie]

24. My phone # KE6-5419

[randr]

25. What is an inkwell?

[doc03]

26. I remember telling an operator what number

I want to call.

[rurallib]

28. We didn't have daylight time but one of the cities

that we got TV from did and the other one didn't so we could watch the same show twice.

[Mme. Defarge]

29. I remember when commercials for prescription drugs

were not permitted.

[doc03]

31. I remember the Mine Bulletin Board on the radio.

Before each shift they would read off the working conditions of each of the local coal mines. There were probably 20 of them.
Powhatten mine # 6 will work.
Powhatten mine # 6 will work.
North American Coal mine #4 will work.
North American Coal mine #4 will work.

And so on it would go on for 5 minutes or so.

[GopherGal]

34. I programmed on punch-cards

n/t

[yonder]

36. Remember when a phone no. had a prefix with letters?

The letters would represent a local area name: SK7-1212 might be for SKyline7-1212.

[sarge43]

72. Yes. TW5-3272

Mom made me memorize it. I was 5 yo.

Remember Truman's election.

[yonder]

74. That's good. Was that your real number?

I can only remember the SK7 part.

[sarge43]

77. It was.

I had just learn to print my first name and I was feeling quite grown up.

We had that number for several years, so it stayed in the long term file.

[BoomaofBandM]

38. As a girl, had to wear a skirt or a dress to school.

If it was cold (winter in WI) a girl could wear pants under her skirt or dress.

[Codifer]

39. Our first TV....

was a Hofmann. One could buy tubes for them at the market.

[3catwoman3]

40. A carton of milk at school was...

…3 cents.

(How come there is a dollar sign on my keyboard but no “cent” sign?)

[Glorfindel]

41. I remember sitting very close to the radio and listening

to "The Lone Ranger" and "Sergeant Preston of the Yukon." The excitement was almost unbearable!

[steventh]

43. Party line phone on the wall

ESplanade 3-3493

[Major Nikon]

44. My prostate swelled up like a tennis ball and I haven't pissed in 3 days

[Dream Girl]

45. I remeber cigarette commercials like Virginia Slims..."You've come a long way baby to get where

You got to to_daaaaaaay. You’re got your own cigarette now baby. You’ve come a long, long way!”

[sarge43]

73. I remember the come back

"If you're calling me baby, I still have a long way to go."

[Dream Girl]

76. Lol

[redstatebluegirl]

46. We had a party line (telephone).

You pick it the phone and somebody else is on the line.

[young_at_heart]

47. Who remembers "Portia Faces Life"?

I listened to that "soap" and others after school!

[wryter2000]

48. My parents got our first TV

So they could watch the McCarthy hearings. I asked my mother what it was all about, and she answered, "A bad man named McCarthy." I learned my liberalism early.

[katmondoo]

50. My childhood was the great Depression, after that WW2 for 5 years.

[EYESORE 9001]

53. As I settled into a camp chair the other day

I sat on my balls.
😫

[DEbluedude]

60. I hate when that happens. n/t

[jpak]

55. A tub of Icecream came with a wooden spoon

Yup

[TxGuitar]

84. and the spoon tasted terrible!

[spooky3]

86. Did you get a little vanilla slab with an orange turkey

As a Thanksgiving treat?

[JuJuChen]

56. I remember sharing an apple with some guy named Adam, went south after that

[CTyankee]

57. I remember not being able to go swimming because of Polio. You could catch it if you went to a

public pool in the neighborhood.

[William Seger]

62. Yep, and I remember getting the vaccine on a sugar cube

[Midnight Writer]

58. I lived in a house with no plumbing. Used an outhouse and an outdoor well.

All of us kids took a bath on Sunday evenings in a wash tub outside.

[msdogi]

59. my roller skates came with a key

we'd wear the key on a necklace, very cool

[Golden Raisin]

61. Miss Frances and Ding Dong School.

An early 1950's childrens' TV show which was a precursor to Romper Room, Captain Kangaroo, Kukla Fran and Ollie, and ultimately Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

63. The first vaccine shot I remember getting ...

... was in the trials for the Salk polio vaccine.

[femmedem]

64. The first album I bought with my own (allowance) money was the Carpenters.

We used to get two and a half channels--the half channel being so fuzzy as to be almost unwatchable. But I watched that half channel anyway because Star Trek was on that network and I had a crush on Spock.

Oh--and Mr. Femmedem is slightly older than me. Last night he said, "I can get with that dude Jesus."

[Chipper Chat]

65. My grandma wouldnt use any soap powder but Oxydol.

She sent me to the neighborhood for a box. I think it was 24 cents.

[sinkingfeeling]

67. I remember asking Sally, the operator, to connect me to my friend, Karen.

[NNadir]

68. I stood in line with my parents to get the Sabin polio vaccine in a sugar cube. n/t.

[Ocelot II]

69. All of the above!

Also: Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!

[DFW]

70. Some fossils I own

They used to be my house pets.

I still miss Tiggy:

[liberaltrucker]

71. Was born in the middle of Ike's first term

[DFW]

79. Young whippersnapper

I was born at the end of Truman's last term.

Nixon hadn't even made his Checkers speech yet!

[Archae]

75. My earliest memories, are mostly watching the astronauts on TV.

Stayed up all night, watching Neil and Buzz.

[Jim G.]

80. Buying A Nickel Coke Out Of A Machine...

And taking the bottle to the store & collecting a 2 cent deposit.

My earliest hustle!

[Talitha]

81. I remember Mom putting my hair in pincurls every Saturday night.

The 'big girls' (high school) wore skirts with poodles on them. Their hair was always in a pony tail and they had short little swirls of hair clipped to hang just in front of their ears - - and in order to be cool, they HAD to have a silver squeezy-clip in the swirl, holding it in place.

My older brother was a brainiac nerd and never left home without his slide rule and pocket protector for his pens.

Everyone had a skate key.

I remember combing the neighborhood for tossed pop bottles for the two cent deposit, woo-hoo!

Paper that was about the size of a cash register roll that had small dollops of candy stuck to it. Can't remember how long of a piece you got for what price, but I DO remember spitting out tiny bits of paper that were stuck to the candy after I popped it off of the paper.

And the neighborhood grocery store would let us buy half of a Popsicle for 4 cents. A full double cost 7 cents, but if all you had was a nickel....

[Fla Dem]

82. Watching Buffalo Bill and Howdy Doody

What time is it? It’s Howdy Doody Time!!!!!


https://m.

[spooky3]

85. Joe Namath was a gorgeous guy! Nt

[Shrek]

87. As a kid one of our rites of summer

Was chasing after the mosquito truck as it blasted DDT fog into the air on warm humid evenings.