What Do You Remember

[October46]

I remember:

rotary dial phones
party lines (telephone)
no seat belts
clothes lines
Ice boxes (refrigerators)
rag men with horse drawn carts

This is to name just a few, can you name any?

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

I remember:

rotary dial phones
party lines (telephone)
no seat belts
clothes lines
Ice boxes (refrigerators)
rag men with horse drawn carts

This is to name just a few, can you name any?

I'm not thinking this weekend.

 

[lizxxxj]

when texting got big, 911 (kind of) when mp3s came out, ummmmmm. maybe im to young for this.

 

[October46]

when texting got big, 911 (kind of) when mp3s came out, ummmmmm. maybe im to young for this.

no, your answer is correct, that is what you remember!

 

[Queersetti]

October, you might find this thread interesting:

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=993091

 

[oggbashan]

We did this a week or so ago.

I remember: Telephones without dials - you lifted the receiver and the operator answered, and for some you had to wind a handle on the side to get a bell to ring to attract the operator's attention.

TVs with BBC only, and a six or nine inch screen in a cabinet the size of a 4-drawer filing cabinet.

Crystal radio sets that needed headphones.

Flying in a commercial airliner that had propellers, and the cabin was not pressurised so had to fly around mountains, but the 18 passengers were served meals on monogrammed china plates with silver plated cutlery, on tables between the seats.

Driving cars that had to be started with a starting handle because the 6-volt batteries weren't capable of turning the engine over unless the oil was warm. It was hard work to start a four litre straight eight.

Filling bicycle tyres with straw because replacement inner tubes weren't available.

A school holiday that started at our local railway station in SE London. We had a reserved coach. It was positioned in a bay of the station. We got on, the coach was attached to the end of the next train, shunted at the London terminus, travelled around London, and was attached to the back of a London to Penzance express. The coach was slipped when the express was travelling at speed and a little tank (steam) engine collected the coach and took it to the seaside station. From the time we got on at the station next to the school until the time we arrived at our destination station we didn't have to leave the coach at any time.

Travelling on a steam-hauled Orient Express - not the modern replica, but the original.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I remember:

rotary dial phones
party lines (telephone)
no seat belts
clothes lines
Ice boxes (refrigerators)
rag men with horse drawn carts

This is to name just a few, can you name any?

I remember those things, except for the rag men. In our small town, there wouldn't have been enough business to be worthwhile, but I do remember a man with a horse-drawn wagon delivering ice for the iceboxes. I also remember scrap metal drives for the war effort. We would cut both ends off tin cans, which were actually made of steel, stamp them flat and put them out in boxes by the curb to be picked up.

The other things you have listed weren't really all that long ago. Mid-fifties for some of them and more recent for others.

 

[October46]

I remember those things, except for the rag men. In our small town, there wouldn't have been enough business to be worthwhile, but I do remember a man with a horse-drawn wagon delivering ice for the iceboxes. I also remember scrap metal drives for the war effort. We would cut both ends off tin cans, which were actually made of steel, stamp them flat and put them out in boxes by the curb to be picked up.

The other things you have listed weren't really all that long ago. Mid-fifties for some of them and more recent for others.

Like you we cut the tops of cans and inserted them into the can then flatten them for collection. We also wrapped our trash, no plastic back then, in newspaper and wrapped it with string. I did help the ice man carry ice up to my parents third floor apartment. We had a knife sharpener man also in a horse drawn cart.

 

[respeito]

i remember:

stirrup pants and slouchy socks.

aol dial-up, and that awful noise the modem made while you were waiting to connect to the internet.

the walkman and cassette tapes. (is it live, or is it memorex?)

when mtv actually showed videos all day long.

staying outside until the street lights came on.

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

Stever Urkel!

 

[October46]

i remember:

stirrup pants and slouchy socks.

aol dial-up, and that awful noise the modem made while you were waiting to connect to the internet.

the walkman and cassette tapes. (is it live, or is it memorex?)

when mtv actually showed videos all day long.

staying outside until the street lights came on.

Oh Yes, when the street light came on your mother expected you home. Jesus that was a moment from the past.

 

[Ellafun]

Phone booths.
TV dinners in aluminum pans.
Having to light the pilot of the oven every time we wanted to use it.
PF Flyers.



You might find this thread fun, too, October46:

When I Was a Kid

 

[October46]

Phone booths.
TV dinners in aluminum pans.
Having to light the pilot of the oven every time we wanted to use it.
PF Flyers.



You might find this thread fun, too, October46:

When I Was a Kid

I love that thread, did not see it, but I check it out just now and it was fun.

Also remember our walkie talkie's two tin cans with string in between!

 

[Bry1313]

Backward facing station wagons.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Black and white TV (no color), from only two networks (NBC and CBS), both of which signed off with the Star Spangled Banner at midnight.

No interstate highway system.

First class postage was three or four cents.

No direct dial long distance. All calls had to go through phone company operators.

No personal computers. For that matter there weren't any mainframes either.

Gasoline at 29 cents per gallon.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Black and white TV (no color), from only two networks (NBC and CBS), both of which signed off with the Star Spangled Banner at midnight.

No interstate highway system.

First class postage was three or four cents.

No direct dial long distance. All calls had to go through phone company operators.

No personal computers. For that matter there weren't any mainframes either.

Gasoline as 29 cents per gallon.

It was three cents and the standard stamp was a purple image of Thomas Jefferson.

"Number please"

Station wagons with wooden sides.

 

[Aquagal]

i remember:

stirrup pants and slouchy socks.

aol dial-up, and that awful noise the modem made while you were waiting to connect to the internet.

the walkman and cassette tapes. (is it live, or is it memorex?)

when mtv actually showed videos all day long.

staying outside until the street lights came on.

Just last year I saw this young woman at the gym on the treadmill with a Walkman.

Pong.

And not beer pong.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

It was three cents and the standard stamp was a purple image of Thomas Jefferson.

Exactly right! Good on ya!

 

[MNGuy]

Vinyl records
8 track tape
Mag wheels
Blue jean cut-offs
Hippies
Anti war protests
Cigarette vending machines
No AIDS, just VD
Black and white television
rotary phones
typewriters
carbon paper
electric football
The AFL
The ABA
Hitchhikers
Sears Christmas catalog

 

[Blues]

When you got color TV by putting the plastic thing on the screen with green at bottom and blue on top

 

[parodyluvr75]

Vinyl
Mixed tapes
Transistor radios
Leg warmers
chic jeans
Making halter tops out of bandanas
Big hair
Black rotary dial phones
No cellphones
Typewriters
Mood rings
Fucking creepy cabbage patch dolls
Cargo pants with 500 pockets in bright colors
Small black and white TV sets
Walking to and from school 20 miles up hill both ways

 

[Not Normal]

Black and White "portable" TV for MY room
rotary phone
TVs without remote
being the TV remote as a kid "put on channel 5"
Apple II
The introductio of CDs
3 networks plus "rerun" channels on VHF
No lights at Wrigly Field
Radio that mattered

 

[RedAllan]

Black and White tv
Two tv Channels (UK)
Valve TV's and Radios'
Vinyl records
8 Tracks
Cassettes
England actually winning the world cup.

 

[Fata Morgana]

Rag & bone men
Bus conductors and inspectors
Milk checks from the Co-op
Camp Coffee
White dog shit
Black & white telly
When Lucozade came in massive bottle with that crinkly wrapping.

 

[phrodeau]

Drive-in theaters that showed porn after midnight.