Remember When

[JoeyGee]

OK, I don't go back as far as some, but...

How about Monday Night Football with Alcoa Presents YOU make the call?

How about Saturday afternoons with Jim Mckay and Wide World of Sports--The Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Defeat (with the poor ski jumper wiping out...)

How about days when you went shopping, and not everyone had to carry a cup of coffee around?

How about when a cup of coffee was just black, or with cream and/or sugar? I don't even drink coffee, and I can't stand hearing about a $6.00 cup of mocha double latte expresso with skim milk froth...

[Handy Al]

Going out and collecting coke (pop) bottles and redeeming them for cash.
Using the cash to buy a paper bag full of penny candy.

[Ed62]

"Plastic man", "Vault of horrors", Captain Marvel", "Archie", "Tales from the crypt", "Inner Sanctum", "Suspense"?

Ed

[cwsmith]

Those glass milk bottles in the winter with the frozen milk pushing up in columns with the paper caps resting on top?

When fresh eggs would be delivered to your door.

When that 14-cent loaf of bread was deliverd fresh from the bakery to the store on the same day you bought it; and there was no such thing as a "best when sold by" date?

Cool cars had fender skirts, continental kits, curb feelers, suicide knobs, and a big steel visor out over the windshield.

When spot-lights on the driver's door was as common place as wing windows.

When oil was kept in quart bottes with long cone caps in racks out by the pumps and you were friends with the guy who pumped your gas and checked your oil.

When you could buy a set of snow tires and they would throw in a set of wheels for nothing.

When a trip over fifty miles almost certainly meant at least one flat and you knew how to take care of it yourself.

Sunday drives with your family just for the fun of it, because no retail stores were open that day.

When home intertainment meant listening (and staring at) the big consol radio.

The "Green Hornet", and "Welcooooome to the Inter Sanctum".

When FM was for "Long-Hair Music" only.

"Country and Western" wasn't, but "Hill Billy" music was. "The Grand Ol' Opry" from WWVA, Wheeling, West Virginia.

The family's first television in black and white. When you absolutely had to have a "TV Light" and you'd turn all the other room lights off.

When Space Patrol, Rin Tin Tin, and Sky King were the most important reasons to get out of bed on Saturday mornings.

When Mom's stayed home, Dad's worked and kid's didn't need a "play-date" to play.

Nobody you knew was unemployed, not even in the winter.

When bars were called "Beer Gardens" and store beer came in either bottles or steel cans and a "Church Key" was always requred.

When public schools had dress codes.

Black and White Saddle shoes, Penny Loafers and white socks, and belt buckles on the back of your pants.

When DA hair cuts and wearing your collar "Up" could get you into almost as much trouble as sneaking a smoke on school grounds.

When houses didn't have thermostats, but did have huge furnaces, coal bins and shovels.

"Technology" and "Electronics" were not part of our vocabulary and the telephone was about the least important thing in our lives.



CWS

[cabinetman]

"The War Of The Worlds" - The Invasion - Orson Welles
Amos and Andy
"Our Gang"
The "X-Ray" machine in shoe stores
The horse ride machine outside grocery stores

[Pappy]

When oil was kept in quart bottes with long cone caps in racks out by the pumps and you were friends with the guy who pumped your gas and checked your oil.

Plastic? How about steel cans and the oil spout was in a holder on the side of the rack. Dad cussed about the cardboard cans when they came out because they sometimes colapsed.

[tuttlejr]

A rack full of penny candy
3 nickel candy bars for 10 cents at Walgreen's
One Dollar for a carton of cigarettes.
Lunch counters at Woolworths and Walgreens
Packards, Hudsons, Nashes, Studebakers, Electric cars
Streetcars that ran on rails down the middle of the street
Steam Engines (railroad)
New Blue Sunoco unleaded gas
Amaco unleaded gas
Hadacol medicine that had alcohol in it
Free candy bar to get you out of the movies so others could get in
Candy with a kid's haircut
78 rpm records
Paul Whitman and Cab Calloway
WW I veterans
Civil War veterans
Mae West
World Fairs
Sally Rand
Burlesque shows
Kresge's five and dime stores
2 cent a day book rentals from stores
Victrolas
3% interest on mortages
Many magazines only a nickel
Greenies and Brownies for boys selling Saturday Evening Post magazine
Police Gazette
Doctors made house calls
To and from school on your own
Jack Armstrong the all american boy radio program
Crystal radio sets
Johnson Smth and Company catalogs
127 size cameras and film
Verichrome film that always took good picures
Brownie box cameras
Ingersoll dollar pocket watch
Duncan Yo Yo
Good Humor trucks

I could go on and on but this should keep you going for now.
I am also still lurking.

[rja]

The Adventures of Winky Dink
Industry on Parade

[LinuxRandal]

Taking your pop bottles back and getting them refilled.
recycling milk jugs and store bought soda bottles.
Candy counters at the 5 and dime.
Three cent stamps.
The smell of leaded gas. You know, the lead they charged extra, to add, then charged extra to remove again.

[rja]

riding the interurban

[Ed62]

Used comic books - $.02 each (no cover)

Used comic books - $.03 each (with cover)

Spending a whole day at a friend's house reading them.

[cabinetman]

Bicycles they called English racers (3 speed), skinny tires
Wire recorders
Teatherball
"Queen For A Day"
Superman (George Reeves)

[jaywood]

How about:
Trading stamps from the grocery store
When they actually had to ring-up every item in the old fashioned cash registers
"F-Troop"
"Combat"
"The Carol Burnett Show"
Christmas carolers
Getting up and walking over to the television to change channels
Hearing your voice recorded on a tape recorder
Hearing a stereo record for the first time
Home movies with no sound
Sending your film off and waiting weeks for your developed pictures/movies
Kids saying "Yes sir" and "Yes ma'am" instead up "yup" or "uh huh".
Songs being recorded with all vocals and instrumentation done in one pass

[Ed62]

How about:
Getting up and walking over to the television to change channels

Geeez! How barbaric were we?

Ed

[LinuxRandal]

I jokingly did a half hearted search two years back, and found out someone has a program where you can still turn them in. And I still have quite a few Green Stamps.