I’m so old I remember…

[jeff_is_smiling]

The phone book attached with pages missing from being used by so many people...

 

[drobert44]

The phone book attached with pages missing from being used by so many people...

Gas was two bits.........

 

[PicassosPleasure]

Returning glass pop bottles to the store.

Setting glass milk bottles on the porch for return to the milk truck. (And pop IS the correct term! )

 

[Bluesky8888]

The Larry Ferrari Show on Sundays.

(only certain people will know what this was )

I remember

 

[ABiGuy84]

Having to write in cursive at school.

 

[PicassosPleasure]

The "board of education" that the principle used to teach unruly students with. (Ouch!)

 

[mattblueeyes720]

Blow the dust out of the Nintendo cartridges.

 

[sicpup72]

When doctors made house calls

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

Reaching underneath the passenger seat of my car to get a different cassette tape out of my tape case to put into the player...

 

[ZOEOHZOE]

flip phone

 

[Broken_paladin]

seeing the original Pete's dragon at the drive in from the cubby hole seat of my parents wood panelled station wagon.

 

[BigBallsCanuck]

flip phone

Party lines! For you youngsters that isn't a party chat group it was a phone line which we shared with our neighbours! A different ring for each household!! Yes, SHARED land lines, cell phones weren't even a dream in those days! No personal phones lol, and no privacy at all!! One rotary dial phone on the wall beside the kitchen in the main hallway where anyone in the house could hear me. Got to be a problem when I was a teen and the neighbour girls were teens and I had to ask them to hang up so I could make an important phone call!! Of course they could listen in any time they wanted to as well!!

 

[lifeis2short2b]

Crap I'm old enough

 

[bobb_sledd]

I remember when national politics wasn't a blood sport.

 

[easyoff]

I remember when national politics wasn't a blood sport.

Yep, people didn't hate their neighbors because they voted different than they did.

 

[GhostOfFAS]

Go-Bots

 

[Northernboy1956]

Telephone party lines.

Yes listening in on conversations

 

[Northernboy1956]

Rotary phones, Waiting for the TV to warm up for the picture to show up

Ed Sullivan show on Sunday

 

[Northernboy1956]

I’m so old I remember having to wait until after 7:00 PM to call long distance because it was cheaper

Yes

 

[Northernboy1956]

Atari game system

Still have mine

 

[NewEng]

I'm so old I remember very little....

 

[Northernboy1956]

I'm so old I remember very little....

Yes I am getting there

 

[jbeardo1]

Arranging to meet friends a few days in advance at a place at a time.... then just showing up there ( except of course for the one friend who is always 10 mind late, despite everyone agreeing to tell them the meet up time is 30 mins before the rest of us)

 

[Northernboy1956]

Watching scatter porn on cable. Also those messed up images but solid audio.

I remember pizza places had them. What fast food places had them?

Being served at A&W with girl's on roller skating and putting trays on the window

 

[Northernboy1956]

They were a lot more durable but sound quality was poorer and you couldn't record over them. There were 4 "tracks"...each in stereo (making 8 total) and you could repeat a single track. So for example...I had to buy Led Zeppelin 2 three times before I went vinyl...from which I could record my cassettes

Edit...you could also put it once and never hit rewind...it just kept going to the next track. After 4...it started over automatically. So Bob Seger Live Bullet could be jammed to all night.

Memories