I’m so old I remember…

[ccs29745]

Rotary phone and waiting for the line to clear to make a call.

 

[Trubbycat]

Having to cover school books with shopping bag brown paper.

 

[lacandy]

Calling the movie theater to find out what time each movie started (and forgetting by the time you got to the end and having to start all over)

 

[BongoGal]

Having to cover school books with shopping bag brown paper.

Is that no longer a thing?

 

[kathyisgr65]

Reciting the pledge of allegiance

 

[FormerAllStar2]

Is that no longer a thing?

My kids don't have textbooks.

 

[TheMrBurns]

Smoking sections in restaurants and airplanes

 

[Strixaluco]

Is that no longer a thing?

It wasn't a thing in my childhood either - we covered the books with sticky-backed plastic.

 

[LadyLascivious1]

It wasn't a thing in my childhood either - we covered the books with sticky-backed plastic.

We had both. Contact paper (sticky-backed plastic) with fun colors or patterns were in a higher cool tier than brown kraft paper book covers

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

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[jeff_is_smiling]

https://www.shutterstock.com/shutterstock/videos/1082909059/thumb/9.jpg?ip=x480

 

[Strixaluco]

We had both. Contact paper (sticky-backed plastic) with fun colors or patterns were in a higher cool tier than brown kraft paper book covers

Here it was all clear and colourless (can't see why that would be called contact paper as its obviously no paper, here it's contact plastic). I have a faint memory that my older sisters had colours and even some not see-through, but those went totally out of style before I went to school.

 

[Coyote100]

Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday saying on the early years of TV's Dragnet, "All we want are the facts, ma'am".

 

[mickyp123]

Tug Boat Annie

 

[37_ttej]

I remember when Gutenberg came up with this crazy idea for mass-producing text.
Until then the only way we could troll our friends was with individual, laboriously written messages with quills on vellum. The laundry bill from the ink spatters was horrific. Not to mention the speed of communication meant that our barbed witticisms often lost context by the time the notes were received.
Johannes said to me one day over a pint, "What if we could generate multiple versions of the same message so we can spam the fuck out of everyone?"
And the printing press was born, ushering in an age of mass misinformation unlikely to be seen again.
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60416644b68a5453a868e856/1621450844405-WFW4V5AJA2AF3X5Y1BXX/Gutenberg.jpg

 

[PersonalFavors]

Brendle's was a pretty good store to shop

We had Boscov's and Clover in the northeast. Sometimes junk but often some pretty good stuff at the right price.

 

[AlexBailey]

ISOIRW there was a student smoking area at high school.

 

[JMac20]

We had pulldown maps above the black board.

 

[AlexBailey]

We had pulldown maps above the black board.

I happen to have one of those pull down maps - a geological relief of Europe. I use it as a blackout shade and have been offered good money for it.

I remember teachers at school using a pointer on them during lectures and accidentally causing them to suddenly roll up to an explosion of laughter.

 

[AlexBailey]

ISOIRW some kids would come to high school and park on campus with rifles or shotguns in gun racks in the back window of their pickup trucks.

 

[Xenaqueen]

I had to actually get up and turn the channel on the TV., which only had about seven channels. And I had to use a dial on a landline phone.

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

ISOIR when the Mickey Mouse Club would essentially stop their show by telling the kids in the viewing audience to go wash their face and hands so the show can continue...

 

[BlueEyes1969]

ISOIR a four-way party-line on our home phone!

 

[Strixaluco]

ISOIR that I remember when McDonald's came to town.

 

[BlueEyes1969]

ISOIR when going to McDonald’s was a treat.

ISOIR paying 99 cents for a burger and fries there!