What Do You Remember From the "Old Days"??

[Caroline13]

I will mention Good Stuff only and keep it down to 4 for now.

Telephone Operator (Number Pls)
Ball and Jacks Game
Jumping Rope
Cracker Jacks w/surprise in box

I have more for later on.

[Steve_uk]

I remember as a child proper discipline in the home and at school, going to church then Sunday school, mother mainly at home (and part of a two-parent family), respect for teachers and neighbours, playing games after school and climbing trees, not sitting in front of a screen, black and white television until the 1970s unless you went to the pictures (cinema) on Saturday nights, the only occasion when I remember eating junk food, but then people were of normal weight and not obese as more are today (not myself thankfully).

I could go on..

[ThisLittlePiggy]

Cereal Box Toys
Going Record Shopping
Playing Pinball in the Bowling Alley

[stevea]

Pez dispensers

Playing outside in the summer until the street light across from the beach came on

Climbing very high in trees in times when parents didn't know exactly where you were

The operator who asked for your number when you made a toll call

Telephone exchanges with names

Learning to drive a stick shift on my uncle's Beetle in hilly La Jolla, Calif.

Being given paregoric for an upset stomach, and putting mercurochrome on an cut finger

My mother setting ground beef out on the counter to thaw

Having a Tastykake butterscotch krimpet for dessert at lunch

Riding bikes to school with no worry of them being stolen

Playing with cap guns

Learning to read, write, and do arithmetic in school--and that's all--in the early years

Penicillin was the cure all at the doctor's office, where an office visit was probably around three dollars

And gas was 29 cents a gallon

At all businesses a person answered the phone, and virtually all businesses were local or at most regional

Bright green hula hoop

[GoldenTV]

Playing Dodge Ball in high school.

Local TV stations signing off at 2:00 am with national anthem.

Grocery stores stocking cigarettes cartons on the shelf next to food items.

Tuning to radio station WLS AM 890 in Chicago (receive this station only at night) to hear the best Rock music of 70s.

[GoldenTV]

Originally Posted by stevea

And gas was 29 cents a gallon

What year are we talking about?

The earliest gas prices I remember was 63 cents in 1978

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by Caroline13

What Do You Remember From the "Old Days"??

I mi$$ the g00d days Carole

[stevea]

Originally Posted by GoldenTV

What year are we talking about?

The earliest gas prices I remember was 63 cents in 1978

Probably the early to mid 1960s.

[stevea]

Originally Posted by GoldenTV

Playing Dodge Ball in high school.

We played Bombardment with a soccer ball; it hurt way more than the typical kickball from elementary school.

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[Caroline13]

Of course the affordable gas for the autos.

The Fairer elections in our history.

The loss of 5&10's, to so many this was a big loss.


Stevea, reading your almost page, exhausted me, so I had to stop.

[dakert]

Ha Ha the good ol' days for me is 2017-2020 (BC) great economy, not much inflation, no wars to worry about
Anyhoo, if we go back further I remember, Bactine, great music/entertainment, riding my bike, climbing roofs, trees and making forts

[KurtfromPitts]

Trading stamps such as S&H Green, Top Value, etc. issued at various retail establishments like supermarkets and gas stations.

[TSMIV]

A local burger joint called Sweet 'n Cream and a snow cone stand Ethel's Snow Cones. I would love to taste anything from those two places again! I just need a time machine to the 80's.

[Caroline13]

Originally Posted by KurtfromPitts

Trading stamps such as S&H Green, Top Value, etc. issued at various retail establishments like supermarkets and gas stations.

Oh that was a big event in our lives, and I was born in Pgh area, were the stamps a thing all over the U.S. Never thought of that...now I wonder.

[Penny Lane]

1950's;
1. Penny candy
2. Party Lines on telephones(not so good!)
3. Only 3 tv networks ABC, NBC, CBS
4. Doctor making house calls(at least our small town doctor did!)