pmorin Loc: Huntington Beach, Palm Springs

Saw an article in Apple News about this Twitter thread. Thought I might see where it leads to in this blog.

#1 - I remember when candy dots came on a paper strip at 1 penny a foot.
#2 - I remember when your ring tone was two longs and a short.

How’za bout you?

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

Seems I can’t remember a damn thing anymore 🤔🙁😢😔

Stan

Beowulf Loc: Aquidneck Island, RI

Where to begin?
- I remember gasoline at 16.9 cents p/g.
-A Saturday matinee at the local theatre included two full length action pics (western, pirates, cops & robbers, wartime, etc.), three or four cartoons, newsreel, and an action serial (Superman, Dick Tracy, Flash Gordon, etc.) all for 20 cents!
-And while there, my favorite candy, Peter Paul Mounds was 10 cents, and the size of each of the two halves was equal to two of today's Mounds halves.
-The price of a new Chevy or Ford was just under $1000.
-We were one of the first local families in 1949 to own a TV, a 12 inch RCA which weighed a ton.
Enough for now, but I could fill a notebook. I'm sure there are other UHHers who could do the same.

pmorin Loc: Huntington Beach, Palm Springs

So you really could say, “I remember when I could still remember.”
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Dean37 Loc: Fresno, CA

I remember before WWII started. We took a train, several, from Arkansas to Washington State. Every few hours a military train went past as our train sat still on a siding. The trains were carrying troops, tanks, airplanes, trucks, keeps, etc. This was in October 1941, before we were technically involved. An older gentleman would tell my older brother and me the countries the troops were from, some were Russian, Australian, Canadian, British, and other friendly countries, they were here for training.

pmorin Loc: Huntington Beach, Palm Springs

I’m sure they could! I can remember the matinee shows too. Sitting in the balcony and booing and jeering the Bad guys.

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

I remember mom giving me a quarter on Saturday, dime to get in the show 15 cents got two Tootsie Rolls and one Big Hunk. Colored sugar water in little wax bottles. Bite the end off, drink the water and chew the wax in place of gum. Candy cigarettes. Later worked in a gas station wash windows, check oil and tire pressure 15.9 a gallon for Ethyl. Salary didn't matter, I had access to tools and lift when the station closed at 9PM.

pmorin Loc: Huntington Beach, Palm Springs

Wow, you brought back that memory about the sugar water wax bottles..

pacman Loc: Toowoomba, Qld, Australia.

Dean, WW2 commenced in 1939, not 1941. Cheers.

Mr Bill 2011 Loc: southern Indiana

There were 3 phones total on our party line as I recall; I remember we answered to 2 short rings. Back in those days, our number was a simple 3 9 J.

pmorin Loc: Huntington Beach, Palm Springs

We were 2 letters and 4#’s. i don’t remember what they were tho. Standard party line was 3 people out in the boonies where we lived and nobody had a private line because there weren’t enough wires in the telephone cable for it.

Angel Star Photography Loc: Tacoma, WA

Well, to start...
I remember going to the theater with only a quarter to cover entrance and snacks.

I remember being turned loose to play, free to go anywhere in town without a worry, as long as I was back in time for dinner. Some of the towns were Waverly, Iowa; Marietta, Georgia; Montgomery, Alabama...

I remember one of my greatest joys was buying my first transistor radio with money I had earned mowing neighbors yards.

I remember, and miss, Skybars, the Seven-Up bar (especially loved the section that had the orange jelly), candy cigarettes (both the white sugar ones with the red tips and the chocolate ones wrapped with paper that looked like a cigarette)

I remember drive-in theaters and those metal, box speakers that would occasionally be removed from their poles as Dad drove away with it still hanging on the window

I remember riding in a Buick that had an antenna at the top, front center of the roof with a knob that you change the angle of the antenna.

I remember when the Chunky candy bar was much bigger and vaguely remember the commercial jingle.

My favorite shows at one time were Casey Jones, Rin Tin Tin, Sky King, The Lone Ranger, Have Gun-Will Travel, The Rifleman, The Mickey Mouse Club (my Dad would tease that I was in love with Annette)

I remember saving cereal box tops to send in for some toy of which one of them was the Kenner Erector Set (girders and panels).

And much more....

pmorin Loc: Huntington Beach, Palm Springs

We were country boys. Grandpa was a dairy farmer and we kids always helped out. Of course we really had no choice, it was required. Used to tear out of the house on or school day afternoons once homework and chores were done to go fish the streams nearby. Lots of little Brookies and Cutthroat trout in the brooks and streams out there in western Massachusetts. Down at Cheney’s Orchards we would sneak onto his pond and fish for yellow perch. As long as we were home by dark, we were good. And of course if Mr Cheney didn’t catch us.

pmorin Loc: Huntington Beach, Palm Springs

Wasn’t until I was 12 that we moved to SoCal and city life began.

camerabuff58 Loc: Ontario, Canada,

I remember multi milk