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  • RBeckom
    RBeckom Posts: 2,191 ✭✭✭
    School buses had gas engines and manual transmissions. Wild rides back then.
  • Toombes
    Toombes Posts: 4,506 ✭✭✭
    The Sniper:
    Poker Slob:
    No remote controls for the TV...Transistor radios...World series games played on weekday afternoons...Five and Dimes...Damn I'm old!!
    When I was a kid, I was teh remote for the TV. :-)


    Same here! "Put it on 3. Now, tune it in..."
    Gas stations had attendants who pumped your gas.
    Pay-per-view... what?
    The local pharmacy still had a soda fountain where you could buy a malted shake
    Your Mom sent you to the corner store with $2 for a loaf of bread, you bought a Pepsi and a Snickers bar with the remainder and still had change in your pocket
  • bandyt09
    bandyt09 Posts: 4,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thrifty ice cream was:

    Single - .05
    Double - .10
    Triple - .15

    Penny candy was actually a penny.
  • JCizzle
    JCizzle Posts: 1,914 ✭✭✭
    I remember when food was cheap and women were cheaper.
    Light 'em up.
  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 10,014 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ed Sullivan introducing the Beatles. July nights when every window in the house was open, every fan (metal blades with a protector cage you could fit your fist through) oscillating the warm air around and you hoped for a storm to cool the air.
    Oh, and in the evening every kid in town was OUTSIDE playing.
    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • kuzi16
    kuzi16 Posts: 14,625 ✭✭✭✭
    i know what this is:
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  • Direwolf
    Direwolf Posts: 3,493 ✭
    I remember the city putting out ther smudge pots to mark road work. no safe flashing blinking lights. We had fire!!
  • Toombes
    Toombes Posts: 4,506 ✭✭✭
    kuzi16:
    i know what this is:
    image


    Man, I haven't seen one of those in years!
  • GreenMachine
    GreenMachine Posts: 483
    I too know what that is.........It also could be a cool new logo on a t-shirt
  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 10,014 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OK, I'll admit I'm not sure, but that looks like a little diskus thing that shot out of some kind of toy gun I had about 45 years ago or so. I like the T-Shirt logo idea, too. Keep folks guessing.
    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • 0patience
    0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    kuzi16:
    i know what this is:
    image

    Yep. And may even have a few kicking around. Most likely still in the 45s.
    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • The Sniper
    The Sniper Posts: 3,910 ✭
    Remember when this...


    image


    ... was multimedia? :-)

  • 0patience
    0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    And this was your home movies?

    image

    And generally, it took a very long time before you got them developed.
    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • beatnic
    beatnic Posts: 4,133 ✭
    Younger than the polar bear. Hehehe
  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    beatnic:
    Younger than the polar bear. Hehehe


    Hell, everybody's younger than the polar bear, LOL......
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 3,917 ✭
    Eight is enough
    The Electric Company
    Hold that tiger (shirts like Izod)
    Kojak
    Bill Cosby on 8 Track
    Playing aggravation
    Klick-Klacks
    Stretch Armstrong
    Playing for 12 hours a day and only going home to eat.
    I had a plexiglass skateboard
  • Direwolf
    Direwolf Posts: 3,493 ✭
    throwing lawn darts from the roof
  • laker1963
    laker1963 Posts: 5,046
    Am I old?... Yes... now fu ck off. I am a little bit crotchity as well.
  • Direwolf
    Direwolf Posts: 3,493 ✭
    laker1963:
    Am I old?... Yes... now fu ck off. I am a little bit crotchity as well.
    Get off his property too!!!!
  • pelirrojo
    pelirrojo Posts: 1,757 ✭✭✭
    When I grew up Pluto was still a planet and trampolines didn't have safety nets, hell nothing had a safety net and helmets and pads were optional. You could walk to and from school without an escort for unnecessary fear of being kidnapped. I think I was the last generation of kids to play outside more than inside. If you weren't home your parents just walked around the block and found you at one of the neighbor's houses. Ok, I'm not really all that old.
  • laker1963
    laker1963 Posts: 5,046
    Direwolf:
    laker1963:
    Am I old?... Yes... now fu ck off. I am a little bit crotchity as well.
    Get off his property too!!!!
    That's right !!! As shole!!! LMAO
  • RBeckom
    RBeckom Posts: 2,191 ✭✭✭
    Yesterday I was young, today I am indeed old.
  • Rhamlin
    Rhamlin Posts: 9,142 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Guess I'm old, I remember when I could get a bag of chips and a bottle (glass) of pop for 35 cents. And a pack of cigs for 50 cents.

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