Life without any electronic devices (Reply #16)

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Sat Mar 4, 2017, 07:53 AM

sarge43 (28,678 posts)

16. Life without any electronic devices

No television (not in our home anyway), radios ran on vacuum tubes, did advance math calculating with a slide rule, time pieces ran on gears. Yes, computers existed, but they had no effect on our lives. Everyone of them in existence had less memory combined than this desk top.

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441 replies	Author	Time	Post
Without revealing your age.... [View all]	ButSeeYa	Mar 2017	OP
Getting off the couch to choose between three television networks.	RandySF	Mar 2017	#1
You were lucky	SCantiGOP	Jul 2017	#266
Driving around looking for a	safeinOhio	Mar 2017	#2
Free roam childhood.	Lunabell	Mar 2017	#3
I miss the fireflies.	littlemissmartypants	Mar 2017	#11
come to my house!	ginnyinWI	Mar 2017	#164
Cool. Thanks.	littlemissmartypants	Mar 2017	#174
I remember them as a child visiting my grandma in Chicago in the summer	kimbutgar	May 2018	#405
We called them Lightening Bugs..	whathehell	Oct 2018	#412
We used to catch them in jars and put them by the bed at night.	littlemissmartypants	Oct 2018	#413
I remember them being put in jars..	whathehell	Oct 2018	#414
Also "trick or treating" for hours on foot, many blocks from home with siblings...	brush	Mar 2017	#124
Trick or treating for a week.	Butterflylady	Sep 2017	#359
no parents, no fear on Halloween night.	634-5789	Jul 2020	#424
Yes, this. Six, seven years old I'd walk two blocks through suburbia to a pond, watch minnows	femmedem	Mar 2017	#208
Didnt have fireflies where I lived but I spent many hours roaming the neighborhood and the	Amaryllis	Mar 2017	#212
THAT is a big one...	pangaia	Sep 2017	#362
Female - not being allowed to wear pants in (public) school!	Freddie	Mar 2017	#4
In my high school (Australia), the girls HAD to do home ec	SwissTony	Mar 2017	#12
At my school, boys took shop	PJMcK	Mar 2017	#73
For the time my high school was enlighten	sarge43	Mar 2017	#77
We had the same deal	randr	Mar 2017	#139
Oh, no!	pnwmom	Sep 2017	#346
We were wary of one of the shop teachers	tonekat	May 2018	#392
I wasn't allowed to wear pants to school all thru high school	MadCrow	Sep 2017	#279
I remember the Principal telling a second grader she couldn't wear pants at	demigoddess	May 2020	#417
Without revealing your age....	LenaBaby61	Mar 2017	#5
I had a 4 track player in my '61 Ford Starliner	HAB911	Mar 2017	#45
Sleeping in hair rollers.	spooky3	Mar 2017	#6
Could not sleep on those plastic ones!	mgardener	Mar 2017	#19
Dippity Do	lillypaddle	Mar 2017	#38
2 colors	mgardener	Mar 2017	#43
Are you talking hair rollers or the first color TV?	LakeArenal	Mar 2017	#146
Dippity Do	lillypaddle	Mar 2017	#249
Teal too N/T	tonekat	May 2018	#393
Too funny....	MLAA	Sep 2017	#300
OMG!	llmart	Sep 2017	#382
My sister rolled her hair on orange juice cans!	MLAA	Sep 2017	#386
I rolled my hair on grape-juice cans..using liberal globs of Dippity Do	solara	Oct 2022	#438
Dippity do! It was so goopy and green!	MLAA	Oct 2022	#439
I think Dippity Do also came in pink.. but I never used that one	solara	Oct 2022	#440
What about the wire rollers with brushes inside, fixed in place by pink plastic pins. nt	tblue37	Mar 2017	#68
My mom used those to make her chin-length hair go under at the ends	marzipanni	Mar 2017	#204
Those things were torture devices!	ShazzieB	Oct 2020	#429
Me too!	tblue37	Oct 2020	#430
Yep, used those too also used 'spoolies'	solara	Oct 2022	#441
Without revealing your age....	LenaBaby61	Mar 2017	#7
Remember that every table has an ashtray and free matches?	randr	Mar 2017	#142
This could be a long list	TexasProgresive	Mar 2017	#8
This message was self-deleted by its author	Kittycow	Mar 2017	#37
Sounds just like my childhood!	PJMcK	Mar 2017	#78
Same to you PJ. Is that Patrick Joseph?	TexasProgresive	Mar 2017	#120
Nah, that's not me	PJMcK	Mar 2017	#152
The saints seem to always deny being one.	TexasProgresive	Mar 2017	#192
poodle skirts and my record player	leftofcool	Mar 2017	#9
I hesitate to presuppose what might not be understood, but...	littlemissmartypants	Mar 2017	#10
sugar cubes (polio vaccine)	gfwzig	Mar 2017	#13
I had forgotten the sugar cubes	SCantiGOP	Jul 2017	#267
I'm old enough to remember the max vaccinations immediately after	PoindexterOglethorpe	Sep 2017	#348
Watching the Beatles on Ed Sullivan	JetFuel	Mar 2017	#14
My mother was actually just the opposite	Rhiannon12866	Mar 2017	#32
My mom, too! She bought me the Veejay album "Introducing the Beatles."	Still Blue in PDX	Apr 2017	#260
Many of our parents were very young by today's standards.	hedda_foil	Apr 2018	#390
I watched Elvis Presley on the Ed Sullivan show!	whathehell	Mar 2017	#52
Yep, I was so excited about their first performance on Ed Sullivan and we all watched it. n/t	RKP5637	Mar 2017	#59
welcome to DU	gopiscrap	Mar 2017	#166
Not being able	mgardener	Mar 2017	#15
Life without any electronic devices	sarge43	Mar 2017	#16
I remember my dad taking the bad vacuum tubes from our tv down to the appliance store to get replace	dhol82	Mar 2017	#29
Yes.	rzemanfl	Mar 2017	#47
Thanks!	dhol82	Mar 2017	#61
Bwaaa! The whole theme song just came back to me!	Squinch	Mar 2017	#231
This is from Wikipedia-	rzemanfl	Mar 2017	#234
I must have caught it the second time around. Don't remember anything but the song.	Squinch	Mar 2017	#237
Does "Plunk your magic twanger froggy" mean anything to you? n/t	rzemanfl	Mar 2017	#238
No, but I saw the reference down thread.	Squinch	Mar 2017	#239
Buster Brown shoes sponsored that show. n/t	rzemanfl	Mar 2017	#241
Oh! But their commercials must have been all over for me to remember every word of the song.	Squinch	Mar 2017	#242
Andy's Gang - Andy Devine	rickford66	Sep 2017	#282
This was entertaining during Irma. n/t	rzemanfl	Sep 2017	#371
Bob would say "So you take the pie..."	EarnestPutz	Sep 2017	#318
"MOTHER, PLEASE... I'D RATHER DO IT MYSELF!!!"	ailsagirl	Apr 2017	#261
DRAMA!	tonekat	May 2018	#394
"Sure, you're tense, irritable... but don't take it out on her!"	ailsagirl	May 2018	#411
DON'T TAKE THE CAR YOU'LL KILL YOURSELF!!"	solara	Oct 2022	#437
I remember vacuum tubes and	whathehell	Mar 2017	#48
A pack of vac tubes in house	sarge43	Mar 2017	#50
Wow - interactive television!	Beartracks	Mar 2017	#130
Carbon paper. n/t	sarge43	Mar 2017	#60
I just bought some and was shocked by how expensive it was	dhol82	Mar 2017	#63
I'm surprised it's still available.	sarge43	Mar 2017	#69
I remember retyping term papers at school because I made a mistake in the last	RKP5637	Mar 2017	#75
Oh, that was the worst...	Freedomofspeech	Sep 2017	#277
Ay caramba!	PoindexterOglethorpe	Sep 2017	#327
I remember the joy when I discovered	tonekat	May 2018	#396
probably on your nose also. LOL	pangaia	Sep 2017	#364
I was finally able to track it down at Staples	dhol82	Mar 2017	#76
I was 5 when we got our first TV set, and few people we knew had one yet. nt	tblue37	Mar 2017	#72
Relatives and neighbors showed up just to check it out. n/t	sarge43	Mar 2017	#109
Oh, yes. nt	tblue37	Mar 2017	#147
Watching "Peter Pan"	PoindexterOglethorpe	Sep 2017	#328
I actually did my taxes w/o any devices this year	CountAllVotes	Mar 2017	#154
Trying to talk to...	WiffenPoof	Mar 2017	#17
Having some young kid in 1987 tell us	PoindexterOglethorpe	Sep 2017	#329
Wacky Packages!	Chasstev365	Mar 2017	#18
Let's see	rpannier	Mar 2017	#20
Telephone party lines. nt	GP6971	Mar 2017	#97
and only needing to dial 4 digits...	2naSalit	Mar 2017	#141
frontier 1956	rpannier	Mar 2017	#200
We didn't have those	2naSalit	Mar 2017	#223
Ditto plus	happy feet	Mar 2017	#21
Rotary telephone	GeoWilliam750	Mar 2017	#22
Short, striped polyester dresses with fishnets and go-go boots, white of course!	babylonsister	Mar 2017	#23
And as a male of the time, I definitely appreciated them!	malthaussen	Mar 2017	#81
Fighting off grizzly bears at school with my musket...	Cooley Hurd	Mar 2017	#24
Fake news....	pangaia	Sep 2017	#365
Party line telephone	dhol82	Mar 2017	#25
Pulling your car into a gas station....	tobefree	Mar 2017	#26
This message was self-deleted by its author	littlemissmartypants	Mar 2017	#98
I remember riding with my Dad	Rhiannon12866	Mar 2017	#248
My Dad knew the guys that ran Johnny's Esso well	SCantiGOP	Jul 2017	#268
My Dad, on the other hand, was not a car guy	Rhiannon12866	Jul 2017	#274
My dad always got 2 bucks worth of gas. On Sunday he would buy 2 bucks worth of gas and drive	doc03	Sep 2017	#288
I remember getting a ride to school with my cousin	Rhiannon12866	Sep 2017	#292
Us guys would each chip in our change and maybe come up with	doc03	Sep 2017	#294
So I guess 47-cents was quite exorbitant!	Rhiannon12866	Sep 2017	#296
I remember the full serve Flying A station	tonekat	May 2018	#397
"Ding Ding" N/T	tonekat	May 2018	#404
Interesting post, thanks.	democrank	Mar 2017	#27
We had a milkman and a "bread man"	Freddie	Mar 2017	#94
Milk wagon, bread truck, ice wagon, rag man, coal truck, and vegetable wagon	randr	Mar 2017	#143
And a seltzer man that brought chocolate and coke syrup.	bullimiami	Mar 2017	#183
We used to get a case of soda and seltzer delivered every other week.	dhol82	Mar 2017	#194
Okay? It's alright	griloco	Mar 2017	#28
Don't forget Topo Gigio...	dchill	Mar 2017	#107
Senor Wences lived to be 103.	PoindexterOglethorpe	Jun 2017	#264
Senor Wences lived to be 103.	PoindexterOglethorpe	Sep 2017	#330
ok..this is fun...	Sancho	Mar 2017	#30
AAA still does TripTiks--but now we download them	Maeve	Mar 2017	#140
I forgot creepy crawlers!!	Sancho	Mar 2017	#161
Doing "paste-up" for the school newspaper and	Silver Gaia	Mar 2017	#31
Oh the smell of rubber cement	zeusdogmom	Mar 2017	#65
Yup! Rubber cement!	Silver Gaia	Mar 2017	#71
We had mint flavored glue in art class	randr	Mar 2017	#153
Panty hose was an important aspect of mini skirts.	PoindexterOglethorpe	Sep 2017	#331
When communiques to overseas were done by telex.	DinahMoeHum	Mar 2017	#33
Yep...make a mistake	GP6971	Mar 2017	#122
Worked at a fish farm and we had a Telex.	bullimiami	Mar 2017	#184
Oh! Oh!	PoindexterOglethorpe	Sep 2017	#332
My dad's office had a Teletype Room	tonekat	May 2018	#395
Place a long distance call by telling the operator the number to bill	bucolic_frolic	Mar 2017	#34
You mentioned "catalog" and my mind immediately went to the Sears catalog. The back of it.	Squinch	Mar 2017	#35
I hope someone (Smithsonian?) has all the catalogs	sarge43	Mar 2017	#42
The Main Street of my small town in Southwest PA....	Freedomofspeech	Mar 2017	#36
Yep, just thinking back, Vietnam was really the turning point. Seems we've been fighting an uphill	RKP5637	Mar 2017	#70
No kidding.	Freedomofspeech	Mar 2017	#92
Paper drives	lillypaddle	Mar 2017	#39
I remember the Don't be a Litterbug! campaign in the early '60's	marzipanni	Mar 2017	#246
They should bring this campaign back	TuxedoKat	May 2017	#263
Fall Out shelters	padfun	Mar 2017	#40
Newspaper classified ads for jobs divided into "Male" and "Female"	whathehell	Mar 2017	#41
Along with those ads for a "Girl Friday"!	k8conant	Sep 2017	#320
Oh yeah?	whathehell	Sep 2017	#370
Oh yes..	whathehell	Oct 2020	#432
I grew up down south...	ShazzieB	Oct 2020	#428
Wow.	whathehell	Oct 2020	#431
All of the above and	Shanti Mama	Mar 2017	#44
Always being the only one of your type in every school and job	IronLionZion	Mar 2017	#46
I remember when a pay phone was still only 10 cents.	FuzzyRabbit	Sep 2017	#306
HA! I remember penny post cards.	PoindexterOglethorpe	Sep 2017	#334
WHAT??	PoindexterOglethorpe	Sep 2017	#333
It's 50 cents now	IronLionZion	Sep 2017	#367
Pay Phones	tonekat	May 2018	#398
Printed Encyclopedias (NT)	NeoGreen	Mar 2017	#49
Just think if we'd had the internet to research school projects.	Hoyt	Mar 2017	#126
TV Tube testers at the Grocery Store	JDC	Mar 2017	#51
X-ray machines in the shoe stores.	sarge43	Mar 2017	#58
Unscrewing the cap and removing the transmitter on the phone...	terip64	Mar 2017	#53
The Air Raid Sirens going off every Saturday at noon in our town for testing. n/t	RKP5637	Mar 2017	#54
Air Raid Siren	jarhead69	Sep 2017	#275
A younger person wouldn't understand	El Viejo	Mar 2017	#55
Memorizing telephone numbers.	wcast	Mar 2017	#56
Pay phones	mikeargo	Mar 2017	#57
Nuclear Drills at elementary school	iamateacher	Mar 2017	#62
First time I was sent home for "bad" behavior	randr	Mar 2017	#149
Yeah that was a good plan.	bullimiami	Mar 2017	#185
Party line telephone service	tech3149	Mar 2017	#64
S&H green stamos. Gas station attendants filling your car up and washing your windshield.	tblue37	Mar 2017	#66
Licking those stamps for your mother (in our case Blue Chip) and putting in the books	mchill	Mar 2017	#180
Republican Senator Howard Baker wanting to get to the truth in the Watergate hearings	Louis1895	Mar 2017	#67
Tangee lipstick	zeusdogmom	Mar 2017	#74
Tangee is still available from Vermont Country Store.	sarge43	Mar 2017	#79
Being a paperboy	Alpeduez21	Mar 2017	#80
Five and dime stores	pinboy3niner	Mar 2017	#82
Savings account passbooks	GP6971	Mar 2017	#119
Feeding my program into the computer.....on punch cards	AJT	Mar 2017	#83
Dropping the tray of punch cards you were carrying	sarge43	Mar 2017	#113
I remember still having a deck to IPL the mainframe as	AJT	Mar 2017	#123
Took a code writing class in the late 70's	randr	Mar 2017	#155
And waiting 24 hours (turnaround time) to find out you had one comma that made program not work	mchill	Mar 2017	#181
Writing a program in physics class and typing it into a teletype machine.	dhol82	Mar 2017	#195
Ordering items via the Sears catalog.	sinkingfeeling	Mar 2017	#84
And "Monkey Ward". nt	GP6971	Mar 2017	#117
In the spirit of the OP...	malthaussen	Mar 2017	#85
And the sad reality of smoking is that everyone knew it was dangerous.	PoindexterOglethorpe	Sep 2017	#336
Huge back seat in car - could stand up	northoftheborder	Mar 2017	#86
Eating pancakes at Sambo's completely oblivious to the racist stereotype.	Mrs. Overall	Mar 2017	#87
The waiters at Morrisons Cafeteria. Speaking of racist stereotyping.	bullimiami	Mar 2017	#186
school handouts smelling of alcohol.....	aka-chmeee	Mar 2017	#88
Mimeograph fluid. MMMMM.	bullimiami	Mar 2017	#187
I loved that smell	dhol82	Mar 2017	#196
And they were often kind of damp	Dream Girl	Mar 2017	#217
I remember many things	Polly Hennessey	Mar 2017	#89
Skates that had to be tightened with a key . . .	PoindexterOglethorpe	Sep 2017	#337
Many of my classmates were the children of small business owners	Freddie	Mar 2017	#90
Bigger is better killed our downtowns...	Freedomofspeech	Mar 2017	#95
Calling the Long Distance Operator to put through a call on Christmas	CanonRay	Mar 2017	#91
The Jewel man	mercuryblues	Mar 2017	#93
I lived in the country & we had a party line.	CrispyQ	Mar 2017	#96
I lived in Philadelphia and had a party line.	dhol82	Mar 2017	#197
Hip hugger, bell bottoms with platform sandals. eom	littlemissmartypants	Mar 2017	#99
Trucks delivering coal	GP6971	Mar 2017	#100
Burning trash in	Faux pas	Mar 2017	#101
Writing computer programs on an IBM 026 card punch	lapfog_1	Mar 2017	#102
I told my 11 year old	GWC58	Mar 2017	#103
I remember changing points and plugs.	dchill	Mar 2017	#104
Drive ins	CountAllVotes	Mar 2017	#105
I LOVE drive-ins. Amazingly enough there are 3 within a 2 hour drive from us.	WePurrsevere	Mar 2017	#116
Cigarette vending machines	Freddie	Mar 2017	#106
Early morning delivery of milk in glass bottles.	gademocrat7	Mar 2017	#108
First grade required that	littlemissmartypants	Mar 2017	#110
Where did we get cigar boxes? I'm pretty sure I had one though no one smoked. n/t	pnwmom	Sep 2017	#343
Drug store gave them away.	littlemissmartypants	Sep 2017	#374
Aha! Thanks for clearing up the mystery!	pnwmom	Sep 2017	#375
Rotary dial phone.	Historic NY	Mar 2017	#111
And the phones were all attached to the wall by a wire that carried the signal. No wireless phones.	FuzzyRabbit	Sep 2017	#310
I still have them...	Historic NY	Sep 2017	#369
Some young people may know one or two of these, IDK...	WePurrsevere	Mar 2017	#112
It was not only the TVs that needed to warm up.	PoindexterOglethorpe	Sep 2017	#338
I hadn't thought of that but it makes sense...	WePurrsevere	Sep 2017	#356
The short answer is yes.	PoindexterOglethorpe	Sep 2017	#358
Without revealing your age	Lebam in LA	Mar 2017	#114
Halloween Adults	tonekat	May 2018	#399
Turning on the car radio and waiting for the tubes to warm up. eom	guillaumeb	Mar 2017	#115
Calling time and temperature	missingthebigdog	Mar 2017	#118
You'd dial POPCORN for the time!	CountAllVotes	Mar 2017	#131
Hitchhiking. eom	littlemissmartypants	Mar 2017	#121
Out Houses, party lines, test patterns, bomb drills, punch cards, george wallace (or maybe there is	Hoyt	Mar 2017	#125
Playing golf	Lefthacker	Mar 2017	#127
The sadness of math tests tempered by	JenniferJuniper	Mar 2017	#128
Telephone party lines	Freethinker65	Mar 2017	#129
Smelling your test...	liberalmuse	Mar 2017	#132
That was mine too...	JenniferJuniper	Mar 2017	#144
Waiting by the phone for a call	DesertRat	Mar 2017	#133
These	MFM008	Mar 2017	#134
The empty bottles you put in the milk box	randr	Mar 2017	#135
Great post!	democrank	Mar 2017	#136
Apparently, 13 yr olds think the idea of a pager	dewsgirl	Mar 2017	#137
Good Humor ice cream trucks. nt	GP6971	Mar 2017	#138
Trading cards.	The Velveteen Ocelot	Mar 2017	#145
Tires with tubes. nt	GP6971	Mar 2017	#148
Following the DDT sprayer mist with our bicycles...	LakeArenal	Mar 2017	#150
Breaking therometers and playing with the mercury.	sarge43	Mar 2017	#170
I was fascinated with breaking them and playing with mercury! Thanks I forgot about that toxic joy	lunasun	Mar 2017	#210
Not dangerous unless you breathe it in or swallow it	SCantiGOP	Jul 2017	#269
I only broke one...	tonekat	May 2018	#400
Along the hazard line, in school we'd make projects by moulding asbestos clay powder. . . nt	Bernardo de La Paz	Mar 2017	#229
Local drug stores	GP6971	Mar 2017	#151
The local phamacy I use delivers for free	CountAllVotes	Mar 2017	#158
Styrofoam boater hats for candidates.	LisaM	Mar 2017	#156
Cobble stone streets	randr	Mar 2017	#157
Rolodexes and Rotary Phones	C_U_L8R	Mar 2017	#159
I worked in an office with a corded switchboard	GregD	Mar 2017	#191
I was a telephone operator when Lily Tomlin was doing her thing,	PoindexterOglethorpe	Sep 2017	#350
No yard fences and everyone's dog ran loose and un-neutered!	Laffy Kat	Mar 2017	#160
watergate	gopiscrap	Mar 2017	#162
welcome to DU fun question	gopiscrap	Mar 2017	#163
long division--with no calculator!	ginnyinWI	Mar 2017	#165
diagramming sentences	WhiteTara	Mar 2017	#172
Yes! I am just young enough not to have learned to use a slide rule,	PoindexterOglethorpe	Sep 2017	#339
Saturday morning cartoons	gopiscrap	Mar 2017	#167
Not being able to buy alcohol til 2pm on a Sunday	gopiscrap	Mar 2017	#168
We used to have blue laws in Philly	dhol82	Mar 2017	#198
Blue laws. We couldn't buy any kind of alcohol on Sunday, or anything else for that matter.	FuzzyRabbit	Sep 2017	#312
Christmas programs on TV ONLY once a year	gopiscrap	Mar 2017	#169
liberal republicans	unblock	Mar 2017	#171
Hey, I grew up in SC	SCantiGOP	Jul 2017	#270
Glass oral thermometers with mercury. nt	littlemissmartypants	Mar 2017	#173
If you missed a TV show, you were just SOL until summer reruns, if they showed it then.	50 Shades Of Blue	Mar 2017	#175
The standard season was 36, maybe 39 weeks.	PoindexterOglethorpe	Sep 2017	#340
Reading through this thread	littlemissmartypants	Mar 2017	#176
Having a 20 foot phone cord	Sedona	Mar 2017	#177
shorthand & typing class in school	Motley13	Mar 2017	#178
I took typing my Senior Year	SCantiGOP	Jul 2017	#271
Phone numbers that started with words like "Olympic" (for "OL" 65)	mchill	Mar 2017	#179
NAtional 1 6386. Call me.	bullimiami	Mar 2017	#188
Yep Olympic 8-1654 :)	mchill	Mar 2017	#190
Logan ####, don't remember the numbers	Motley13	Mar 2017	#199
Blackstone 3478	radical noodle	Mar 2017	#213
EMpire 4-2177	pinboy3niner	Mar 2017	#257
ADams 1059	FuzzyRabbit	Sep 2017	#313
LOgan 2-1926	k8conant	Sep 2017	#323
GLadstone 5-6365. My phone number from age 5 to 12. n/t	rzemanfl	Mar 2017	#240
Me too: SunSet 20281	sagesnow	Sep 2017	#291
Cleaning chalkboard erasers on the big vacuum in the janitors' closet at school. A reward	WheelWalker	Mar 2017	#182
Glass clacker balls (also called knockers) on a long string.	Mrs. Overall	Mar 2017	#189
punch cards and diskettes	GregD	Mar 2017	#193
When I started with computers we pluged wires into a board to program them.	Binkie The Clown	Sep 2017	#319
Typing term papers on a typewriter and not being able to edit! Wondering how much white out i could	Amaryllis	Mar 2017	#201
Oh! Oh! I used to type papers for other students	PoindexterOglethorpe	Sep 2017	#344
Whenever I'm watching the news I recognize	Lint Head	Mar 2017	#202
Family owned mom and pop convenience stores...	wcmagumba	Mar 2017	#203
When I was very poor, I'd turn in a silver dollar to a locally owned	PoindexterOglethorpe	Sep 2017	#345
Going to the library	GentryDixon	Mar 2017	#205
Space Food Sticks	oldtime dfl_er	Mar 2017	#206
And Tang	lapucelle	Mar 2017	#232
Found some at Costco a few weeks ago.	Ron Obvious	Mar 2017	#256
The phrase "Oh, Rochester!?"	Va Lefty	Mar 2017	#207
Yes boss?	lunasun	Mar 2017	#215
That's awesome! Thanks for the info	Va Lefty	Mar 2017	#219
"Your money or your life ....	sarge43	Mar 2017	#236
Cultural References are now more difficult.	Basic LA	Mar 2017	#209
moving the ears on the TV antenna	Fresh_Start	Mar 2017	#211
"Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!"	longship	Mar 2017	#214
Officer Joe Bolton and Captain Jack McCarthy hosting cartoons	lapucelle	Mar 2017	#233
Without revealing your age...	radical noodle	Mar 2017	#216
Rotary dial phones.	Doreen	Mar 2017	#218
Rotary phones why 212, 213 & 312 are NY, LA, Chicago area codes	MrPurple	Mar 2017	#247
I'm a former long distance operator.	PoindexterOglethorpe	Sep 2017	#355
We had a candy store and trick store in our hood. One just sold candy . The other gags and tricks	lunasun	Mar 2017	#220
Going to a movie at any time, not when it started	DeeDeeNY	Mar 2017	#221
Yes. On Saturdays we'd be dropped off at the local theater	PoindexterOglethorpe	Sep 2017	#347
American Bandstand. Howdy Doody. Lassie. When Star Trek first aired. Purple ditto sheets.	Amaryllis	Mar 2017	#222
A three scoop ice cream cone for 15 cents. Chilly Billey Cardill and	doc03	Mar 2017	#224
My parents got dressed up to go shopping all the men wore a tie and hat nt	doc03	Mar 2017	#225
Dressing up for church	Freddie	Mar 2017	#245
Suits were mandatory for church	SCantiGOP	Jul 2017	#272
Renting a rotary dial phone from the phone company	Warpy	Mar 2017	#226
I think it was when Carter was President	MrPurple	Mar 2017	#228
I remember when you wanted to change tv stations, you had to get up and do it	MrPurple	Mar 2017	#227
45 rpm singles. Some of them get vinyl, but 45s not so much.	Bernardo de La Paz	Mar 2017	#230
Winding a wristwatch...	lapucelle	Mar 2017	#235
I remember...........	napi21	Mar 2017	#243
Sex Ed.	littlemissmartypants	Mar 2017	#244
Shoe salesman ex-raying my feet	DeeDeeNY	Mar 2017	#250
ENGLISH CLASS AND SPELLING	heaven05	Mar 2017	#251
Poodle skirts	mainstreetonce	Mar 2017	#252
Sleeping	OneBlueDotBama	Mar 2017	#253
Buying cigarettes for my dad at 8 years old.	Glamrock	Mar 2017	#254
TV rabbit ears. And putting aluminum foil on same.	Still Blue in PDX	Mar 2017	#255
Long distance calls	Vanessa Rose	Mar 2017	#258
Calling collect. n/t	pnwmom	Sep 2017	#342
Yes!	PoindexterOglethorpe	Sep 2017	#357
Waiting for Sunday to call b/c the rates went down.	Totally Tunsie	Jul 2020	#420
Five cent cherry cokes at the Rexall drug store	Mendocino	Mar 2017	#259
Going down to the 7-11	duncang	Apr 2017	#262
The first year "Peter Pan" was broadcast on TV with Mary Martin as Peter Pan,	PoindexterOglethorpe	Jun 2017	#265
30 cents	SCantiGOP	Jul 2017	#273
I bought Marlboros in 1967 for about $2.00 a carton in Michigan	k8conant	Sep 2017	#324
Filmstrips in junior high.	InAbLuEsTaTe	Sep 2017	#276
I was on the AV team in elementary school:	k8conant	Sep 2017	#325
lol, me too!! Not until junior high though... guess I was a "late bloomer." (haha)	InAbLuEsTaTe	Sep 2017	#349
Waiting for the Sears Christmas catalog to come in the mail.	AJT	Sep 2017	#278
Playing in a Riverside Drive Park, New York, , circa 1950	secondwind	Sep 2017	#280
The Alexander Botts series in the Saturday Evening Post (A Caterpillar Tractor from Peoria guy.)	NBachers	Sep 2017	#281
Having to adjust twin carburetors on a Austin Healey 3000.	Enoki33	Sep 2017	#283
Watching Romper Room	MFM008	Sep 2017	#284
Paper dolls	BigMin28	Sep 2017	#285
car hops.	donco	Sep 2017	#286
Turning the car's brights off and on	defacto7	Sep 2017	#287
The smell of ditto ink on tests in school nt	doc03	Sep 2017	#289
Cap guns and candy cigarettes	NotASurfer	Sep 2017	#290
Going to a Saturday double feature buying popcorn and Good and Plentys	doc03	Sep 2017	#293
A Republican president that wasn't batshit crazy nt	doc03	Sep 2017	#295
Drive in theater. Jiffy pop popcorn and fizzies!	MLAA	Sep 2017	#297
1. Penmanship. They never heard of it	SummerSnow	Sep 2017	#298
Penny candy.	onecaliberal	Sep 2017	#299
Romper Room....and I see Suzy and Jimmy....	MLAA	Sep 2017	#301
My mother would never allow me to watch that	Warpy	Sep 2017	#309
LOL! Unfortunately my mom had a little stronger stomach. 😀	MLAA	Sep 2017	#311
The dirtiest line in television	Funtatlaguy	Sep 2017	#302
Alaska Pops!	Heartstrings	Sep 2017	#303
Seeing the Greatful Dead walll of sound tour.	mjvpi	Sep 2017	#304
Pay phones.	Willie Pep	Sep 2017	#305
Being fascinated with the drip pan under the ice box	Warpy	Sep 2017	#307
The excitement leading up to the Wonderful World of Disney every Sunday	applegrove	Sep 2017	#308
Party lines, doilies, transistor radios, and my fave, Go-Go Boots. nt	procon	Sep 2017	#314
I remember taking tubes out of the TV down to the grocery store	Binkie The Clown	Sep 2017	#315
Howdy Doody	FuzzyRabbit	Sep 2017	#316
Every time Kate Smith started singing "When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain" I knew that	Binkie The Clown	Sep 2017	#321
black and white TV....	chillfactor	Sep 2017	#317
Penny candy...	k8conant	Sep 2017	#322
Woah! best post so far.	PoindexterOglethorpe	Sep 2017	#353
Let's Pretend---a Saturday morning radio show for young children	Petrushka	Sep 2017	#326
Ringer type washing machines?	sprinkleeninow	Sep 2017	#335
Going door to door to sell Girl Scout Cookies. n/t	pnwmom	Sep 2017	#341
8 track tapes	get the red out	Sep 2017	#351
Encyclopedia Britannica	chelsea0011	Sep 2017	#352
We had World Book Encyclopedia	k8conant	Sep 2017	#372
All the copies or are you missing any? We had one of them missing copies.	chelsea0011	Sep 2017	#373
jeez, i have been doing estate sales for years. all the old shit i have seen. CRANK phone!	pansypoo53219	Sep 2017	#354
A rotary phone.	Butterflylady	Sep 2017	#360
An actual ICE BOX. with ice in it...	pangaia	Sep 2017	#361
Defrosting a freezer...	llmart	Sep 2017	#383
Oh god, yes...	pangaia	Sep 2017	#385
WOLLENSACK reel to reel..	pangaia	Sep 2017	#363
Saturday morning tv shows	nocoincidences	Sep 2017	#366
I remember all of what you all remember	riverbendviewgal	Sep 2017	#368
This message was self-deleted by its author	Fresh_Start	Sep 2017	#376
Let's see...	Snackshack	Sep 2017	#377
Horny toads	yesphan	Sep 2017	#378
How about 3 on the column?	sdfernando	Sep 2017	#379
Atari 2600 .	stonecutter357	Sep 2017	#380
Explaining to my 14 yr old what a pager was and the codes we would use	dewsgirl	Sep 2017	#381
For the women in the group...	llmart	Sep 2017	#384
Howdy Doody and Mousketeers	RandomAccess	Dec 2017	#387
CARBON PAPER !!!!!! And Mimeograph machines	RandomAccess	Dec 2017	#388
Baseball Cards in bubble gum	RandomAccess	Dec 2017	#389
13 years old:	SCantiGOP	May 2018	#391
There was such a thing as a tv repairman who actually came to your house.	Thomas Hurt	May 2018	#401
Pushing the red dot on oleo margarine to spread the coloring through the package.	wasupaloopa	May 2018	#402
Telephone party lines	wasupaloopa	May 2018	#403
Getting a clock radio with green stamps	redstateblues	May 2018	#406
Juke boxes	wryter2000	May 2018	#407
Gallon of gas 25 cents, when getting filled windows washed...	pbmus	May 2018	#408
Drive-in movie theatres. Nt	lostnfound	May 2018	#409
gas & markers used to smell good. CHRISTMAS TUNES WERE PLAYED ON CHRISMAST EVE & CHRISTMAS.	pansypoo53219	May 2018	#410
Doctor making house call when my sister	wnylib	Nov 2019	#415
Horse-drawn junk carts in the alley.	Talitha	Dec 2019	#416
not being able to talk to my grandparents for years at a time	Skittles	May 2020	#418
I teach college students, so there are MANY things...	Sparkly	Jun 2020	#419
Wearing a sugar cube corsage for Sweet 16.	Totally Tunsie	Jul 2020	#421
Opening the vent window if you were lucky enough to sit in the front seat of the car	phylny	Jul 2020	#422
I remember...	634-5789	Jul 2020	#423
Broke a bone by dropping the yellow pages on my foot	Mersky	Jul 2020	#425
It was always a HUGE deal when the new Sears catalog arrived!	TrumpVirus	Sep 2020	#426
Free stuff from gas stations (other than Green Stamps)	Auggie	Oct 2020	#427
Pressing sheets on a clothes mangle wringer.	Joinfortmill	Jan 2022	#433
These phone plugs:	El Supremo	Feb 2022	#434
I don't remember those at all.	ShazzieB	Jul 2022	#436
Anxiously Waiting	Bones1	Jun 2022	#435

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