I’m so old I remember…

[Norfolkguy49]

I'm so old I remember rumbelows

 

[joclfc]

I'm so old I remember rumbelows

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[joclfc]

Im so old I remember the power cuts in the 70's

 

[Norfolkguy49]

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Electrical store

 

[joclfc]

Im so old I remember free milk for children in school before Thatcher

 

[Baztrachian]

Things I remember:

Sitting in the back of my mom's station wagon without a seat belt. I also remember mom's 1967 Chrysler Town & Country station wagon with a 440 6-pack blowing the doors off of some kid's Mustang at a traffic light.

Tin cups as measuring cups.

The banana seat on my first bike. It was a Huffy.

My father getting a .22 bolt action rifle in the mail.

The neighbor's 1970's van with a custom paint job on the side.

Trusting the police.

Actually learning how to read, write, and compute in school.

When Washington and Lincoln had their own holidays.

Revere Ware copper bottomed pots and pans.

Actual silverware. Sterling silver and not that silver plated shit.

Men who had fought in World War One.

My dad using DDT and chlordane to kill bugs around the house.

The barrel in our back yard where we burned our trash.

Going to the butcher shop for meat, the produce shop for veggies, and the bakery for bread.

The veggies used to go in a paper bag and not a plastic bag.

Learning how to write cursive with the Palmer Method.

Plaid pants.

 

[Gamine67]

I remember going through the discount boxes of vinyl records at the Payless drugstore, with a hole punched in the corner, in search of last years hits for just $2.99

Gonga find? The Kinks - Schoolboys in Disgrace, a masterpiece theme album.

 

[Coyote100]

I remember when it was safe to take the whole family to Tijuana.

 

[joclfc]

I remember getting either drinking glasses or kitchen towels in boxes of oatmeal.
And flatware when you filled your tank with gas. At .23 cents a gallon.

Ye I remember petrol ️ in the UK under £1 a liter, also remember gallons

 

[chame1eon]

I remember having pen pals in school where you write letters to someone from another country cause you couldn't just go online and talk to people from anywhere.

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

I remember...

- walking home alone from elementary school every day
- Once home, knowing mom and dad were both at work, racing back out the door to find friends to play with
- Having my mom yell out the front door for me to come home for dinner
- Pretending I was just finishing my homework and asking if I could go out to play after dinner
- Putting on my football uniform on Sundays to watch the NFL with my dad
- Nana's Norwegian pancakes rolled up with melted butter and topped with syrup

 

[Milo9012]

I remember neon signs. They were often works of art and, if not that, they could be memorable.

 

[Milo9012]

US airline that went under in 1982

I remember Pan American Airlines.
It's so weird now to see that logo in movies like '2001 A Space Odyssey', set in a future the airline never survived to fly in.

 

[joclfc]

I remember when you could go out on a Saturday night with £20, get pissed, have a takeaway, bus home and still have change in the morning

 

[Milo9012]

Electrical store

Anyone remember TV repair shops?
They used to be a thing before TV's became disposable...

 

[Baztrachian]

Anyone remember TV repair shops?

I remember the tube testers at the grocery stores.

 

[Gamine67]

I remember neon signs. They were often works of art and, if not that, they could be memorable.

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There are efforts to preserve mid-century neon, they are Art. Tucson has done a remarkable job of preserving and relocating them.
https://preservetucson.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/the_neon_pueblo_tucsonsignguide.pdf

I remember when today’s bike path used to be a railroad line with wild blackberry bushes.

 

[NakedStoryLover]

... TVs being wheeled into the classrooms to watch the first space shuttle landing.

 

[NakedStoryLover]

Anyone remember TV repair shops?
They used to be a thing before TV's became disposable...

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And using the yellow pages

 

[inkandiridiumnibs]

Anyone remember TV repair shops?
They used to be a thing before TV's became disposable...

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Yes, in fact, there is one around the corner from my house.

 

[CuyValDar]

 

[SherlockianMan]

I'm so old I remember when Lit forums had nude pics

 

[cdstefi]

ISOIR gigs where the band was loud onstage, not just the FOH PA system. When guitarists used 100W amps and shifted air, and nobody used in-ear headphones for monitors.

Music was better when it was loud. And fuck your hearing.

 

[NakedStoryLover]

ISOIR gigs where the band was loud onstage, not just the FOH PA system. When guitarists used 100W amps and shifted air, and nobody used in-ear headphones for monitors.

Music was better when it was loud. And fuck your hearing.

It certainly fucked my hearing!

 

[Bdm20]

It certainly fucked my hearing!

What?