I’m so old I remember…

[CarlyAnn]

Nope, if I did I would take a pic.

 

[djole_i_mira]

Hmmmmmm......

Nobody mentioned the glee when running water came to the corner of the street and you no longer had to go to the town well for water, and wait in line to latch your bucket to the chain, in better neighborhoods, or rope in the poorer ones.

Or what about the time when your parents called the electrician to install the light bulb in the family room, so that you didn't have to burn oil?

Yeah, I remember how the neighbors made fun of us when we got our indoor bathroom, with pluming. Just imagine, doing the business, inside the house!?!


Does that make me too old?

 

[Deleted member 3041612]

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I actually have this old relic (GI Joe jeep) from the 70s that is longer than from my heel to my knee.

 

[Strixaluco]

Hmmmmmm......

Nobody mentioned the glee when running water came to the corner of the street and you no longer had to go to the town well for water, and wait in line to latch your bucket to the chain, in better neighborhoods, or rope in the poorer ones.

Or what about the time when your parents called the electrician to install the light bulb in the family room, so that you didn't have to burn oil?

Yeah, I remember how the neighbors made fun of us when we got our indoor bathroom, with pluming. Just imagine, doing the business, inside the house!?!


Does that make me too old?

Hmm. Here that would make you at least 100 years old, to have lived in a city where even better neighbourhoods didn't have water pipes.

 

[ydahecnot]

 

[lacandy]

I remember when MacDonalds started serving Happy Meals - our local one had a table with saddles for seats and if you could nab that and then have a Happy Meal life was amazing!

 

[Dribble]

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I actually have this old relic (GI Joe jeep) from the 70s that is longer than from my heel to my knee.

I had this...but I really loved the scuba gear.

 

[jaF0]

Hmm. Here that would make you at least 100 years old, to have lived in a city where even better neighbourhoods didn't have water pipes.

Those old jokes don't always work that well. I didn't have municipal water until about 2005 or so. Had a cistern and had to have water trucked in 1,000 gallons at a time.

It isn't easy to get a newer vehicle with a stick shift without special ordering one.

Ever put a smaller working TV on top of a bigger broken TV? While string tin foil for better reception?

Put a 25" color TV inside the console of a larger TV after it died.

 

[jaF0]

... when most homes didn't have color TV and only had one telephone in the house no matter how many people there were.

 

[Ssbbw4u1974]

I remember when cable boxes had a slider for changing channels. Good cartoons like the og Smurfs, strawberry shortcake craze, cabbage patch dolls... ( 1980s)

 

[Ssbbw4u1974]

Ever put a smaller working TV on top of a bigger broken TV? While string tin foil for better reception?

Rabbit ears, with foil lol

 

[munch2much]

 

[Ssbbw4u1974]

Those were good ol 8 track tapes. Horrible things, but at least you could play tunes in the car!

That is a cassette tape. Not 8 track.
Am I wrong?

 

[Shenanigans90]

Rabbit ears, with foil lol

My dad yelling for me to turn the antenna a little more.

 

[richmondman]

This is a fun thread

 

[drobert44]

Gas was two bits.

 

[ydahecnot]

 

[Joxlrg]

Tonka Trucks

 

[Bdm20]

Gas was two bits.

We’re so old we know what “two bits” means.

 

[Dribble]

That is a cassette tape. Not 8 track.
Am I wrong?

The first pile were 8-tracks. She put in a pic of a cassette because that is what she was familiar with. At least that is how I took it

 

[Dribble]

Gas was two bits.

I remember 19.9. And you got a piece of dinnerware with a fill up

 

[gga]

Red Sox fans might hate me if they knew I had this.

It's okay if you're using it as a wheel chock.

 

[Strixaluco]

Those old jokes don't always work that well. I didn't have municipal water until about 2005 or so. Had a cistern and had to have water trucked in 1,000 gallons at a time.

Here we have over 95% of the people connected to pipelines, though this is a pretty rural country. Not all municipal, coops are still very common on the countryside, though joining them to municipal works happens at times.

Of course own wells were still common in the 60's (at that time the coops started gaining popularity), but in the cities pipelines got popular fast a lot earlier. Especially in the better neighbourhoods.

It isn't easy to get a newer vehicle with a stick shift without special ordering one

Not here. Here I think you still can't even get the driving license without learning to use the stick sift. Automatic is still no as common as there over the pond.

 

[AlexBailey]

Hi beam switch on the floorboard

I had a car with a foot pedal for the windshield wipers because the automatic controls were either fast or slow, no one had figured out how to make them intermittent yet. The pedal was handy if it was only misty or a light sprinkle.

 

[Bdm20]

Here we have over 95% of the people connected to pipelines, though this is a pretty rural country. Not all municipal, coops are still very common on the countryside, though joining them to municipal works happens at times.

Of course own wells were still common in the 60's (at that time the coops started gaining popularity), but in the cities pipelines got popular fast a lot earlier. Especially in the better neighbourhoods.


Not here. Here I think you still can't even get the driving license without learning to use the stick sift. Automatic is still no as common as there over the pond.

Where is “here?”