I'm so old that ...
Jan 8, 2019 13:26:04 #
Jan 8, 2019 13:41:46 #
Our phone "number" was two long and one short. You cranked a handle to ring it. You put a square card in your house front window to show the ice man how much ice you wanted -- 25, 50, 75 or 100 pound blocks. I wore corduroy pants and high tops to school -- there was a pocket on the side where you could slip in a pocket knife. My dad had an Essex automobile.
Jan 8, 2019 14:57:51 #
DIRTY HARRY wrote:
I'm so old that ... br br Pasta had not been inve... (show quote)
Interesting view from the eastern perspective.
Tacos have been around longer than any one here. They were present prior to the conquistadors in America. The word dates from the 19th century.
Funny post
Jan 8, 2019 16:13:16 #
sirlensalot
Loc: Arizona
I'm so old - I remember when images were either chiseled onto stone tablets or drawn onto papyrus! Even back then the pro-tablet crowd was aspiring towards a "paperless society".
I liked both mediums. The stone were tablets better for B&W and/or sepia images, the papyrus for color, PLUS any torn or remnant pieces worked well in the outhouse. Shortly thereafter the Sears and Montgomery Wards catalogs were produced which eliminated that need, so it eventually papyrus became extinct. That said, I hope I do not live long enough to see a true paperless society. Oh, the agony!
I liked both mediums. The stone were tablets better for B&W and/or sepia images, the papyrus for color, PLUS any torn or remnant pieces worked well in the outhouse. Shortly thereafter the Sears and Montgomery Wards catalogs were produced which eliminated that need, so it eventually papyrus became extinct. That said, I hope I do not live long enough to see a true paperless society. Oh, the agony!
Jan 8, 2019 17:02:26 #
Jan 8, 2019 17:54:48 #
DIRTY HARRY wrote:
Do you remember when "Oleo-margin" was ... (show quote)
I still remember the number: 812 ring 3--a party line with seven other houses. People “nibbed”--listened in on others’ conversations.
Jan 8, 2019 18:08:01 #
sodapop wrote:
My dad was that sheriff. finally found you!
Must be someone else. Besides, the statutes of limitation expired when I was still a boy.
Jan 8, 2019 18:25:51 #
My father ran a hardware store, which he bought from someone who retired. He had some letterhead that the store used several years before he bought it.
The phone number for the old store was 2.
At least he had someone else to talk to.
The phone number for the old store was 2.
At least he had someone else to talk to.
Jan 8, 2019 19:15:04 #
kktim
Loc: Zachary, La
I'm so old I remember when Cable use to say "We have no commercials!" to pull viewers from the regular TV. Now you can watch a 2 hr. movie in 6 hours on Cable ...so old, I remember when there was a sign in Walmart on the pole next to the cash register saying, "If there are more than 3 people in line, we will open another line!" Yeah Right!!!! ...so old I remember adjusting our tv to get it focused. Hahaaha
Jan 8, 2019 19:48:50 #
kdogg
Loc: Gallipolis Ferry WV
I remember being able to put a penny in the nickel slot on the payphone and and hit the coin return button at the right time and getting a phone call for just a penny. It was all about timing.
Jan 8, 2019 19:56:55 #
DIRTY HARRY wrote:
I'm so old that ... br br Pasta had not been inve... (show quote)
UR so old it takes you an hour and a half to watch 60 minutes....
Jan 8, 2019 20:03:34 #
DIRTY HARRY
Loc: Hartland, Michigan
I so old that I remember Naugahyde upholstery, that's before wild Naugas became extinct.
Jan 8, 2019 20:39:38 #
He’s so old his social security number is 2
He’s so old his wife elbowed him in church and told him to act his age and he died.
He’s so old his wife elbowed him in church and told him to act his age and he died.
Jan 8, 2019 20:54:05 #
Jan 8, 2019 23:23:54 #
DIRTY HARRY wrote:
I'm so old that ... br br Pasta had not been inve... (show quote)
Ah, yes, growing up in culturally starved, pre-Internet America. To quote the Dean Vernon Wormer character in National Lampoon’s ‘Animal House’, “Fat, dumb, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”
Thank God we live in the 21st century! Our youth may have been blissful ignorance, but I’d give my left whatsit to be 21 again!
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