I’m so old I remember…

[Coyote100]

Putting the little disk on a phonograph so you couid play 45's.

 

[Strixaluco]

Just got reminded how young people think big things only started happen in recent years.

Me thinking about when Soviet Union collapsed, Berlin wall was torn down, Estonia and other Baltic countries got independence, wars in Yugoslavia, Romania revolted, South Africa ended oppression of POC.... And that's just what I'm old enough to actually remember myself, not stuff that happened when I was too young to follow or stuff that I've read but happened before my birth.

 

[joclfc]

Putting the little disk on a phonograph so you couid play 45's.

IR three settings, 33.1/3rd, 45,and 78

 

[Tweedledude]

IR glass insulators on the telephone poles

 

[joclfc]

IR glass insulators on the telephone poles

I think there's some still around by me

 

[Tweedledude]

I think there's some still around by me

Ah very cool collector items

 

[Anastasia1999]

Leatherette seats on my Dad’s car that my legs would stick to during the warmer months.

 

[Tweedledude]

Leatherette seats on my Dad’s car that my legs would stick to during the warmer months.

Ah black leather seats. In summer heat ouch

 

[nock]

I'm so old I remember.... Oh, I just forgot what I remembered

 

[UKSilverFox]

When the Cracker Jack Prize was a good one.

They used to give out cabbages when it first started Eamon Andrews.

 

[God_Above]

... arranging the big bang.

 

[AmberLGreen]

... arranging the big bang.

The Lit orgy?

 

[StrangerDuJour]

having one 3.5 inch floppy with working copies of WordStar, Lotus 1-2-3, and dBase 3 and room left over for 300 haiku.

 

[StrangerDuJour]

I'm so old I remember putting a coin on the needle to stop it from skipping.

I wonder if that would work with ... nah.

 

[Britva415]

Old Time Rock And Roll is older now than the music it was written about was when it was written.

 

[Crownvic]

American bandstand.with Dick Clark in black and white..

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

ISOIR using 45's and LP's to tape fire crackers to and throwing them like frisbees down the street to watch them blow up...

 

[Tweedledude]

William Conrad (Cannon) played the voice of Matt Dillon on the radio.

I loved that radio show

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

Attaching clothes pins and playing cards to the wheels and spokes of my bike so it sounded like my bike had an engine...

 

[Awaywego]

ISOIR: Dime drinks out of the soda machine.

 

[Waiter519123]

Soda fountain at the 5 and 10 long grant counter. 5 cent fountain drink.. torpedo bra wearing woman..

 

[God_Above]

Dinosaurs.

Pterodactyls were pterobile pets.

 

[Crownvic]

Getting dressed up to go to church on Sunday.

 

[Norfolkguy49]

Not having Internet

 

[Waiter519123]

No cell phones pay phone booths