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82. I changed my major from engineering to environmental/evolutionary biology after my second year.

Thu Jun 22, 2023, 07:38 PM

Jun 2023

Computers might have been the more lucrative choice.

I did briefly work for a major mainframe computer manufacturer that was slowly collapsing.

My boss let me take home electronic components that would have eventually ended up in the dumpsters anyways.

A few years after I left the entire place was torn down.

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Complete "Back in my day, we----------. Walked to school. spent the summer outside, etc. Can you [View all] debm55 Jun 2023 OP

Back in my day kids rode in the car's front seat without seat belts. sinkingfeeling Jun 2023 #1

I remember that and little kids had no car seats. Thank you sinkingfeeling. debm55 Jun 2023 #33

Could buy cigarettes at the filling station at 11 years old... mymomwasright Jun 2023 #2

Remember getting cigs for my mom at the corner grocery debm55 Jun 2023 #34

Back in the day, we rode in station wagons with rear facing seats in the back end of the car Siwsan Jun 2023 #3

The wayback, right? yorkster Jun 2023 #19

My aunt had one. I would always get car sick sitting that way. debm55 Jun 2023 #35

Back in my day we drank Bosco without milk. GreenWave Jun 2023 #4

Never had bosco. Love your post, GreenWave. debm55 Jun 2023 #36

Great Post! ProfessorGAC Jun 2023 #63

Back in the day we grew up in a cloud of cigarette smoke and no one thought anything of it. Chainfire Jun 2023 #5

So right--homes,dinners.stores. Back in the day, since I lived in a Steel Mill town, white cars had debm55 Jun 2023 #38

Back in my day, we would have newspaper delivery routes to earn money h2ebits Jun 2023 #6

I remember that. When you paid you got these stubs. Papers were wrapped in a plastic bag and put on debm55 Jun 2023 #39

We Didn't Need The Plastic Bags ProfessorGAC Jun 2023 #64

That sounds a great place to deliver papers. You made a killing on tips, I bet. debm55 Jun 2023 #67

For The Day, Yeah! ProfessorGAC Jun 2023 #73

Were you allowed to spend it? debm55 Jun 2023 #79

It Was Our Money ProfessorGAC Jun 2023 #81

I had a Pinto also. Was very scared everytime I got in. debm55 Jun 2023 #84

debm55..... Upthevibe Jun 2023 #7

Totally! (nt) Hugh_Lebowski Jun 2023 #10

Yes, indeed we did! h2ebits Jun 2023 #11

I remember that too. Would check the position of the sun to tell me when it was noon(lunch) and 6:00 debm55 Jun 2023 #40

Yes, I remember that and have a bike with foot brakes instead of the hand brakes. debm55 Jun 2023 #51

stayed out until the street lights came on yellowdogintexas Jun 2023 #8

We would catch lightning bugs, but them in our palms and watch them glow. Then we would let them go. debm55 Jun 2023 #42

we put them in jars with holes punched in the lid & made lanterns nt yellowdogintexas Jun 2023 #87

We came home from playing when the streetlights started coming on (nt) Hugh_Lebowski Jun 2023 #9

Back in my day, louslobbs Jun 2023 #12

You are so right. I do remember air raid drills, and sirens going off so everyone got off their debm55 Jun 2023 #43

...there was a smoking section in the back of all airplanes. EOM consider_this Jun 2023 #13

Never went in a plane until I was 53. But I have seen movies of that happening. debm55 Jun 2023 #44

Back in my day rownesheck Jun 2023 #14

LOL you are right. There was stupid people back then, just didn't know about them. debm55 Jun 2023 #45

I would also like to think this is STILL my day! ;-) consider_this Jun 2023 #15

Good! debm55 Jun 2023 #46

Ditto wendyb-NC Jun 2023 #16

Yep, never stayed in the house, unless a thunderstorm( I was afraid) but in the summer we still debm55 Jun 2023 #47

When my sister and I were about 9-10 years old .. Jrose Jun 2023 #17

We had the Ice Cream man. I just read the other day that Good Humor is calling it quits. I liked the debm55 Jun 2023 #48

We ate dinner as a family at the kitchen table and talked to each other Raven123 Jun 2023 #18

Yes, You don't see that anymore. Even when we go out people don't talk to each other. They are using debm55 Jun 2023 #69

Back in my day we booted up computers by entering binary instructions on the front panel switches. hunter Jun 2023 #20

hunter, did you go into the computer field when you got older? debm55 Jun 2023 #49

I changed my major from engineering to environmental/evolutionary biology after my second year. hunter Jun 2023 #82

Back in the 1970s, as a secretary... Jrose Jun 2023 #21

And created "master" documents for ones to be used repeatedly. wnylib Jun 2023 #37

I didn't know that about the "a" and "s" What I hated was pre White out you would have to use this debm55 Jun 2023 #53

I prided myself on being an "expert" at wnylib Jun 2023 #56

One of my work study programs for Penn State was a secretary. Electric typewriter--I had a Royal debm55 Jun 2023 #50

Oh dear, I also remember the White-out and lift- off-typo tape. Jrose Jun 2023 #60

We used to catch salmon in the San Lorenzo river. They're all gone Bobstandard Jun 2023 #22

Did they drain the salmon out or add chemicals to the water? That's sad. debm55 Jun 2023 #55

Back in my day we flipped baseball cards closest to the curb cachukis Jun 2023 #23

At recess, we would flip cards against the school building. Yes, I am a girl, but I loved baseball, debm55 Jun 2023 #57

Neato. cachukis Jun 2023 #58

Back in the mid-1970s moose65 Jun 2023 #24

I remember those days. I hate to say this, but I liked Roller Derby. Wasn't carried on the 4 locals. debm55 Jun 2023 #59

...had a kid in the class crippled from polio Effete Snob Jun 2023 #25

A college classmate had had polio as a kid, still walked with a brace on his leg, Ocelot II Jun 2023 #28

Effete, when I was young my cousin got polio in his legs, his dad, my uncle got in on his face. To debm55 Jun 2023 #61

We had over the shoe roller skates - key on a string around your neck. yorkster Jun 2023 #26

I had the white high top shoes with the skates attached. There was this ball like thing on the toe debm55 Jun 2023 #62

This was sidewalk skating in my childhood. I did go to yorkster Jun 2023 #77

I used my outside--wonder why my wheels always woobled debm55 Jun 2023 #80

We played outside in the summer until suppertime, went back out until sundown. Ocelot II Jun 2023 #27

Very similiar to my stories. Tell you a secret--we used to put small rocks in our hand and shake debm55 Jun 2023 #65

We didn't have a grill to throw caps in, but we'd kneel on the driveway Ocelot II Jun 2023 #71

I used to use a rock to hit them, until a spark hit me in the eye. That ended that. debm55 Jun 2023 #75

Back in the day, we would go along the city streets, and gather up the glass coke bottles and SWBTATTReg Jun 2023 #29

Hey we only got 2 cents for the coke and 5 cents for the bigger bottles like Dad's root beer and debm55 Jun 2023 #66

Never wore a helmet when bicycling. Golden Raisin Jun 2023 #30

Or knee pads or elbow pads. I remember getting my bike at Sears--$25 debm55 Jun 2023 #70

Walked uphill both ways to get to school jmowreader Jun 2023 #31

What a great post! At first I thought you were pulling my leg. debm55 Jun 2023 #72

We wanted to get sick Mr.Bill Jun 2023 #32

Our parents wanted us to get sick wnylib Jun 2023 #41

But chicken pox increases your chance of getting Shingles. Yep, no vaccines at the time. debm55 Jun 2023 #52

True about the shingles, but everyone wnylib Jun 2023 #54

Agree. But because it was a neighborhood school, the teacher would get someone to bring your debm55 Jun 2023 #74

Now that's just evil, right there. Mr.Bill Jun 2023 #76

I remember the 'Seltzer Man' Jrose Jun 2023 #68

Didn't Seltzer have a bland taste. We had Mogan David wine--very bitter. debm55 Jun 2023 #78

Back in my day... Scottie Mom Jun 2023 #83

HAHA--We had a telephone desk that you put the rotary phone on. There was a shelf for the regular debm55 Jun 2023 #86

Back in my day, 56k internet was considered "fast." sakabatou Jun 2023 #85