Ya Know You're Old When....

[oggbashan]

I didn't know there were still milkmen on this planet at all...

We still have milkmen but they deliver with electric milk floats.

Og

 

[LadyIlsa]

You know you're old when...

Nobody but you remembers 'Lucky Cakes' and they only cost a nickel.

You remember when a brownie with icing only cost a dime.

You remember when 'Tab' was first introduced.

You remember 'Riverview' and the 'Silver Streak'.

You remember when the 'Hula Hoop' first came out.

Some of these are local things to Chicago...'Riverview' was an amusement park, the 'Silver Streak' was a ride at 'Riverview' (roller coaster).

'Lucky Cakes' may have been a local food product, two layers of chocolate cake with cream in between. Mmmmm tasty. Kind of like SusieQs from Hostess except Lucky Cakes were round and about 4" across, 10 centimeters for you metric peeps.

-They dismantled the Silver Streak the year I was finally old enough to ride it! I was so mad at them.

-I remember the milk man coming round in the summer and giving us kids chunks of ice to suck on.

-I was watching cartoons when Kennedy was shot and my mother cried. I cried because the cartoons were off the air for the news coverage. On every station - all 3 of them!

-Ummmm - Rainbow Cones on south 92nd and Western Ave - we'd stand in line for an hour on a hot summer night for one.

-'Dark Shadows' Soap Opera after school

-Dad's Kodak box camera and 8mm movies/projector

-Aluminum Christmas Tree with the 4 color wheel

-Powder Blue tux on my date for prom that matched my dress.

-Four buttons on our first remote control Color Console TV - a Zenith

-Roe v Wade

-The Blizzard of '67 - the city shut down and us kids building snow forts

I didn't really feel old until a baby sitter asked : "Who were the Beatles?"

 

[oggbashan]

You travelled on the real Orient Express when it was steam hauled through Yugoslavia - a country that no longer exists.

Og

 

[Guest]

...when dirt asks YOU how things were in the old days.

 

[Boxlicker101]

You travelled on the real Orient Express when it was steam hauled through Yugoslavia - a country that no longer exists.

Og

Better yet, BEFORE there was a Yugoslavia.

I'm not that old, by way.

 

[cantdog]

You picked up the phone and told the operator the exchange by name, then two or three numbers, and she patched you through.

Wire recorders

Spark advance

 

[SlickTony]

I remember Dark Shadows. Yowza--was David Selby hot then or what?! And you know something? He was not only tall, but actually quite thin, but you didn't noticed that because he was in front of the camera. He's filled out a bit since then, but don't we all?

Does anyone remember Pommak? It was a carbonated apple drink, viewed as something quite sophisticated and a little daring by the people I went to middle school with. I liked it, but for some reason it didn't catch on, and the Welch's apple soda isn't nearly as good.

I remember the time President Eisenhower came to Houston. He rode in a motorcade. My mother and I were there. It was kind of thrilling, really. I haven't seen any other president in the flesh.

 

[LusciousLoralie]

Here are the 3 Stages of sexuality: Tri-weekly, try weekly, and try weakly.

I LOVE that! (plus your Burt Lancaster avatar)

Is there a thread called "you know you're a loser when . . . . ."? because my answer would be: when I know what all you "old" people are talking about but I'm only eighteen-yrs-old.

 

[oggbashan]

You had warning shots fired over your head by a member of a genuinely Fascist Police force.

Og

 

[SensualCealy]

You know you are old when...

you walk into an antique store and find alot of the things you grew up with! Egads!

C

 

[TheeGoatPig]

You know you are old when old people look young to you.

 

[DesertPirate]

Four hour party tapes on a reel to reel so drunks wouldn't scratch the records

 

[oggbashan]

You wore black face to sign coon songs at a primary school concert.

Og

PS. I still have the photo hidden away in a safe place to avoid embarrassing m daughters, not that they'd recognise me blacked up with a shiny bow tie and striped jacket.

 

[Djinn_vixen]

when you wake up at 6am instead of going to bed then

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

You realize the oldies you're you're listening to on the radio are 40+ years old, and most evoke memories going back to when they were on the top 40. (I bought some of them as 45s back then.)

 

[Belegon]

I was just thinking that you know you're old when the kids are treating the "new" songs you played in your garage band as the classics on the latest video game... *sigh*

... and there are plenty of "classic" songs on the game that came out well after my garage band stage, too...

 

[oggbashan]

When you notice that someone in the Author's Hangout who thinks she is old was born in the year you started work as a post-graduate entrant.

Og

 

[Misty_Morning]

I used to say this about my granny when she was living....


She's God's older sister.

 

[SlickTony]

You know you're getting old when dishy young guys look beyond you, past you, through you and over you, and call you "Ma'am."

But they're probably too young for you anyway.

 

[Trinique_Fire]

You start looking "31 or 32" to one of the kids, when most people guess 15 or 18.

 

[Boxlicker101]

You know you're getting old when dishy young guys look beyond you, past you, through you and over you, and call you "Ma'am."

But they're probably too young for you anyway.

As long as they're not Joliet Johnnies, they're not too young. Men 18 or 19 are at their horniest, and are usually willing to take instruction from an attractive woman in her forties or fifties or even older.

 

[SlickTony]

As long as they're not Joliet Johnnies, they're not too young. Men 18 or 19 are at their horniest, and are usually willing to take instruction from an attractive woman in her forties or fifties or even older.

Joliet Johnnies? I'm not familiar with the term, please enlighten me.

 

[Misty_Morning]

your fiance has never heard of REO Speedwagon....

 

[DesertPirate]

You remember when Og was a messboy for Noah on the Arc

 

[Misty_Morning]

You remember whaen Og was a messboy for Noah on the Arc

you probably know my Granny...she was god's older sister...think I told you about her earlier.