I'm so old that .. (Page 2): Takes me back. And, oleo was white and came with a packet of yellow coloring to make it look like butter.

Sendai5355 Loc: On the banks of the Pedernales River, Texas

Takes me back. And, oleo was white and came with a packet of yellow coloring to make it look like butter.

DIRTY HARRY Loc: Hartland, Michigan

And it was suppose to be a "low cost" alternative to butter.... not so any mor.

Sendai5355 wrote:

Takes me back. And, oleo was white and came with a packet of yellow coloring to make it look like butter.

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

And it was thought that it was better for you than butter.....not anymore

zebra 357 Loc: New Hampshire

sb wrote:

Hell - 8-track was new technology! I'm so old I built a crystal radio (some of you can look that up) and was thrilled when "transistor radios" came out - I had one with SEVEN transistors!

Cat whisker or diode? I've built both. Tuning coil wound on cardboard tp tube.

bobmcculloch Loc: NYC, NY

zebra 357 wrote:

Cat whisker or diode? I've built both. Tuning coil wound on cardboard tp tube.

I could never get a 'cat whisker' to work, tried several times, I remember when 'Transistors' came out big thing to be able to walk around holding it up to your ear, AM only

Halftrack

We lived near a medium sized city. When I was 4 years old we received our first telephone. We were on a 8 party line with our ring being 4 short rings. Being a party line, some "busy bodies" would listen in to our conversations. My dad would take the phone and make a sound like a bear and then say "Help" and hang up the phone. We would sometimes see a sheriff car driving through the area looking for the bear.

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

My dad was that sheriff. finally found you!

Halftrack wrote:

We lived near a medium sized city. When I was 4 years old we received our first telephone. We were on a 8 party line with our ring being 4 short rings. Being a party line, some "busy bodies" would listen in to our conversations. My dad would take the phone and make a sound like a bear and then say "Help" and hang up the phone. We would sometimes see a sheriff car driving through the area looking for the bear.

Burtzy Loc: Bronx N.Y. & Simi Valley, CA

I'm so old that my grandparents had the first television in the neighborhood (the Bronx). It came in a four foot high X three food wide X two foot deep, finely finished wooden cabinet. The screen was a six inch, round picture tube. I can only remember back to about 1950, but that television and I came into the world at about the same time. (1947)

EdJ0307 Loc: out west someplace

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alby Loc: very eastern pa.

i'm so old our tractor didn't have a starter.. hand crank only....park on a hill or get an adult to start it.

cameranut Loc: North Carolina

I'm old enough to remember when toys were made of metal. I still have a wind up horse---wind it up, set it down, then watch as it gallops. I also remember the party line. We were on a 8 party line.

traderjohn Loc: New York City

DIRTY HARRY wrote:

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Yup. In July 1960 my a$$ is heading for Marine Corp boot camp in Parris Island. I grew up in The South Bronx. We did not have a TV, phone or car. Only one kid in the neighborhood had a phone. His old man was the local bookie. If you knew someone who had a phone and wanted to call them you went to Levine's candy store and used the public phone with the little rubber fan in the corner of the booth. Then you straightened out a girls bobby pin removed the rubber tips and stuck one end in the part you talked in and scratched the other end where the metal key lock on the metal coin box was. You got a connection then your call was free. If the operator came on and said to deposit more money you repeated the process.l. A nickel was money then.

bobmcculloch Loc: NYC, NY

Burtzy wrote:

I'm so old that my grandparents had the first television in the neighborhood (the Bronx). It came in a four foot high X three food wide X two foot deep, finely finished wooden cabinet. The screen was a six inch, round picture tube. I can only remember back to about 1950, but that television and I came into the world at about the same time. (1947)

Lived in the Bronx back then, first Tv I remember was big console, Stromberg Carlson, later we had an RCA anniversary set, a bit more portable, only one adult man to lift it.

amyinsparta Loc: White county, TN

I'm old and remember most of those things. But I don't miss any of them. Who is crazy enough to miss a `65 Nash Rambler with no radio, no air conditioning, and would go from zero to 60 in around 3 minutes? Give me modern any day.

Althefarmer Loc: Somerset, Ky

Burtzy wrote:

I'm so old that my grandparents had the first television in the neighborhood (the Bronx). It came in a four foot high X three food wide X two foot deep, finely finished wooden cabinet. The screen was a six inch, round picture tube. I can only remember back to about 1950, but that television and I came into the world at about the same time. (1947)

I think I remember that TV. It was about 4 tenement bldings down the block. About 15 of us kids would gather around that little B & W screen to watch Uncle Milty.