I’m old enough to remember when...... (Page 6): Hell, I got over charged, cheapest gas I bought was 24 cents pg and the movie show was 25 cents under 12 years of age.

Paradise Pirate Loc: Cape Coral, FL

Hell, I got over charged, cheapest gas I bought was 24 cents pg and the movie show was 25 cents under 12 years of age.

JoAnneK01 Loc: Lahaina, Hawaii

Remember the milkman delivering daily. Mom would order 3 qts of milk and a dozen eggs for 50 cents. Gas was $.29.9 and when the gas wars were on it would drop as low as $0.15. If we did our chores during the week my brother, sister and I would each receive $0.30 for the movies, fresh pop corn and a soda. Movies were all double matinee with cartoons and a news reel. Our phone had 4 people to a party line. Our daily newspaper (no Sunday paper) was a nickel per day or $1.00 per month.

Ava'sPapa Loc: Cheshire, Ct.

ek2lckd wrote:

mr bluster

Phineas T. ? So many great memories rushed back from reading these recollections. Baseball cards...comic books read on the shady porch in the summer...

untradeable baseball cards went right onto my bike to serenade me from the spokes...10 cent twinkies...chocolate or strawberry flavored straws...Ralphie

exclaiming " I WANT MY MAYPO!!"...Buster Brown shoes...N-E-S-T-L-E-S, nestles make the very best Chocolate (Farfo)...Kool Aid, all summer long...building model

cars that I usually left white plastic until I learned how to spray paint them...Jerry Lewis telethon...Miss America with Bert Parks...Dad's "Playboy" collection...

those really were the days...not a care in the world (SIGH)

Angel Star Photography Loc: Tacoma, WA

Ava'sPapa wrote:

Phineas T. ? So many great memories rushed back f... (show quote)

Along with Maypo there was also Ovaltine! And how many remember the Oscar Mayer wiener song?? It is amusing that the song is still in my head....)))

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

Angel Star Photography wrote:

Along with Maypo there was also Ovaltine! And how many remember the Oscar Mayer wiener song?? It is amusing that the song is still in my head....)))

I wanna' be an Oscar Mayer Weiner. Amazing, I can remember the words to songs from 1950's but I can't remember what I had for breakfast this morning.

broncomaniac Loc: Lynchburg, VA

pmorin wrote:

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?

S&H green stamps, The Penny Saver Monthly, UHF television, penny candies from mechanical candy dispensers with cranes, The Ultra Man and Captain Scarlet TV series', 25 cent loaves of bread, the milk man, dialing UL4 to call my grandmother, and WALKING to school - there were no buses.

lmTrying Loc: WV Northern Panhandle

"Oh." "Oh look!" "Oh look, Dick."

lmTrying Loc: WV Northern Panhandle

Riding my bike up to the local SOHIO station every Sunday to check if Dad's license plate was listed.

A&P grocery store (Atlantic & Pacific).

Mowing scythes, hand sickles, hand powered sheep shears.

Toys made of metal, not plastic.

no12mo

pmorin wrote:

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?

Vaguely.

no12mo

Angel Star Photography wrote:

Well, to start... br I remember going to the theat... (show quote)

I remember really enjoying the western movie series Lash La Rou. On a whim, I recently bought the entire series on a CD hoping I'd enjoy it. It was totally boring.

I remember collecting the outlines of planes and sometimes flyable versions on grey cards inside a box of Nabisco Shredded Wheat. All that went away when I got involved in ham radio and electronics as a kid

pmorin Loc: Huntington Beach, Palm Springs

no12mo wrote:

I remember really enjoying the western movie series Lash La Rou. On a whim, I recently bought the entire series on a CD hoping I'd enjoy it. It was totally boring.

I remember collecting the outlines of planes and sometimes flyable versions on grey cards inside a box of Nabisco Shredded Wheat. All that went away when I got involved in ham radio and electronics as a kid

I would add to that with my memory of the prize inside the CrackerJack boxes. Little molded plastic or metal toys, not the pieces of paper with a QR code that they put in them now.

pmorin Loc: Huntington Beach, Palm Springs

Wow. So this subject seems to be quite popular because of all us oldtimers fondly remembering our youth.
But really, I would not want to go back. For one, we wouldn’t be communicating like this. There would be no instantaneous info gathering or sharing. All of the conveniences of present day life would be gone.
No, I like these challenging times. Keeps me feeling alive.

DrDon Loc: Hingham, Ma

They movies always were played over, so you could watch the show a second time if you had the time!

rbsheridan

I remember when the Cheerios box had cut-out-and-fold western village structures printed on the back. I don't know what happened to my collection of Straight Arrow nature information cards, but I'm still the proud holder of the deed to two square inches of land in the Yukon, thanks to Nabisco Shredded Wheat.
My favorite observation about memory comes from playwright and novelist Samuel Becket: "If only I knew then what I know now...If only I knew now what I knew then!"

DickC Loc: NE Washington state

I remember!!