LoisCroft Loc: Jonesborough, Tennessee

Our ring tone was 2 longs, a short and a long and our number was 373J3. When I wanted to call my dad at work, I would pick up the phone and ask the operator to connect me with "Daddy" which worked, surprisingly!
Also remember going to the movies with a quarter. Enough to get in and get either popcorn or a drink but not both. Created quite a dilemma in my young life.

1Feathercrest Loc: NEPA

WW2 began in Europe in 1939, but the United States of America only got involved (legally by congress) after the Pearl Harbor Attack in December 1941. President Roosevelt declared "This is a day that will live in infamy".

pacman Loc: Toowoomba, Qld, Australia.

Don't wish to get into a vigorous discussion about this. WW2 began in 1939, period. Ask your neighbours in Canada. WW2 began well before the USA became involved through an unwelcome invitation. Wikipedia and international history in general will confirm this.

Billbobboy42 Loc: Center of Delmarva

And smooching in the balcony😘!

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

I remember 32 cent gas;
50 cent Saturday movie matinee as a kid;
10 cent coffee;
99 cent hamburger platters at Woolworths;
10 cent phone calls at public phone booths;
and $1.62 minimum wage...

Rich2236 Loc: E. Hampstead, New Hampshire

Oh, how I remember.
Saturday was our day. I lived in The Bronx. (That is in NYC for those who don't know...LOL) Mom would give me 15cents, and with the rest of the guys, 5 from our building, (Morty, Alan, Irwin, Pat, Me, would pick up the rest of the guys down the block and go to the Kent theater or Lowe's 167th. (via the underpass across the Grand Concourse.) We would stop off at Zikos Candy next door to the Kent, and stock up on peanuts for the movies. (movie: 10c, peanuts/candy, 5c) We would see an action double feature, 5 cartoons, 3 serials, and the MovieTone news of the day. We would sit through the double feature TWICE and get home 6 hours later and receive the wrath of our moms (with me, it was a bare bottom spanking, LOL) for staying in the theatre ALL DAY. But it was worth it, especially if it was Erroll Flynn or John Wayne (or both,)movies. And, yes, I remember most all of what everyone else has said! Memories that you take with you all your life.
Rich...

waynecrowley Loc: enerywhere/anywhere

But the U.S. wasn't in it until after Pearl Harbor was attacked Dec 7, 1941

berchman Loc: South Central PA

I remember when I lived in the Upper West Side of Manhattan and paid $61.40 in rent.

AndyT Loc: Hampstead, New Hampshire

Generally I crs, but I do remember 15 cent hamburgers at McDonald's.

FrankR Loc: NYC

I grew up in Brooklyn, at a time when the movies were a dime, so were the subway, buses and trolley cars. When some of the streets were not paved, when my grandfather and a few of his friends still took care of Victory Gardens they had started during WWII in a big empty lot. They kept their plots separated from others by putting up a wall made of old doors. I never figured out where they got them. A time when fruit and vegetable guys, the junk man, the guy who sold spumoni and Italian ices and several other vendors came around in horse drawn wagons. When Mom went to a grocery store, butcher, bakery and a fish store; there were no supermarkets. When New York was the baseball center of the world and we had three teams. Even though I was a Yankee fan, I went to more Dodger games at Ebbets Field because we weren’t allowed to go to the Bronx on the train alone at 8 or 9 years old. When we got older, like 11, we would make that hour long ride to Yankee Stadium and every once in a while during the season, when the baseball gods smiled, the Yankees and Giants were both playing at home. One a day game, the other a twilight double header, and we could go to the day game, then walk across the Macomb’s Dam Bridge and catch the second game of the double header with the other team. A time when just as much of daily life was conducted in the Sicilian language as was in English, maybe more. When everybody looked out for everybody else, watched their kids and if we messed up, somebody’s mother or father would give us a kick in the butt and then tell our parents and we would get at least one more. A time when we wouldn’t even imagine calling an adult by their first name. If it wasn’t Mr or Mrs D’Angelo, it was, “Junior’s mother, Sal’s father.” That was as familiar we got. We stood up when adults came into or left the room and didn’t join in adult conversations unless asked. Not a better or worse time but a more simple and different time.

andesbill

I knew the guy that owned the candy dot factory. A Brooklyn boy.

Jimmy T Loc: Virginia

Our phone number in Portsmouth, Va was EX(Export)XXXX.
"Gas Wars" meant $0.15/gal for "Off Brand" (Tankar) gas.
The very first "Mickey Mouse Club" broadcast.
Lastly (most importantly) my dear brothers birth in 1953
Smile,
Jimmy T Sends

LuckySpud

I remember riding my bike around looking for discarded soda bottles and turning them in to the grocery sore for 3 cents each then buying penny gum or 5 cent candy bars.

ceth512

We lived in a very small town south of Austin, TX in the mid forties. Our telephone number was simply 4.

fourlocks Loc: Londonderry, NH

I remember gas at $.27/gallon but we always put the more expensive Sunoco 260 in our bikes because it was the only brand at 100 octane.

I remember "Don the milkman" putting a glass-bottle quart of milk in our milk box, on the porch, and taking the empty bottle back to the Sealtest plant for washing and refilling.

I remember our first Corvair my father bought but it didn't have an AM radio because that was an option.