Who remembers these things back in the day ?...come and add your own memories..

Milk delivery to the front door. TV antennas with automatic scanning for best signal, (didn't work}. The first color tv with tubes. the only things in color had to be searched out in the "TV Guide". Remember that?
Tube testers at the drug store. Pay phones. The NBC peacock coming on at I don't know, 11 or 12 midnight.
Macdonalds was 15 cents for a hamburger and 19 cents for a cheeseburger.
The list goes on
Milk delivery to the front door.

Not only do I remember it, but I was a milk delivery girl from age 12 to 14 , had to get out of bed at 4am.. delivering to 400 houses and tower blocks every morning, in all weathers, before school...
 

5¢ for a copy of the New York Times?
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My father went to the cigar store, local, on Saturday night to pick up the Sunday press. About 4 inches thick. then he would stop at the bakery to pick up hardballs, just out of the oven.
Sunday morning we didn't need to go anywhere. Read the paper, (comics) fresh bread and wait for the stations to turn on and the nbc peacock to go away.
 
My father went to the cigar store, local, on Saturday night to pick up the Sunday press. About 4 inches thick. then he would stop at the bakery to pick up hardballs, just out of the oven.
Sunday morning we didn't need to go anywhere. Read the paper, (comics) fresh bread and wait for the stations to turn on and the nbc peacock to go away.
that reminds me of.. when we as teens used to go dancing on a weekend.. we would catch the night bus home at 2am.. but before we did we'd walk over to the bakery who were just baking thousands of bread rolls to be delivered that day to bakeries all around the city.. and they would put shelves of them at an open door to cool.. and we would sometimes buy some and sometimes we'd pinch a few... but either way they were the most delicious Ambrosia to have when we got home after a long nights dancing
 
My father went to the cigar store, local, on Saturday night to pick up the Sunday press. About 4 inches thick. then he would stop at the bakery to pick up hardballs, just out of the oven.
Sunday morning we didn't need to go anywhere. Read the paper, (comics) fresh bread and wait for the stations to turn on and the nbc peacock to go away.
sorry, hard rolls, not hardballs, (thank you Microsoft spell check) what we refer to might be kaiser rolls. They were not the same as kaisers but close.
 
that reminds me of.. when we as teens used to go dancing on a weekend.. we would catch the night bus home at 2am.. but before we did we'd walk over to the bakery who were just baking thousands of bread rolls to be delivered that day to bakeries all around the city.. and they would put shelves of them at an open door to cool.. and we would sometimes buy some and sometimes we'd pinch a few... but either way they were the most delicious Ambrosia to have when we got home after a long nights dancing
nothing better than fresh baked bread!
 
This is so true... of course the tv's on trolleys in our school were much more old fashioned than this one.. but oh Joy when we went into class and saw that we were about to get 40 minutes of a tv show, even if it was an educational geographic programme..... especially as half of us went to sleep when the lights were turned down..

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This could be my Auntie... same big Back-combed hair, same Alice band.. same big earrings, same eye-make-up.... in the 60's....

her hair smelled of this glue type Hairspray which she and her friends called Laquer.. and it was always in a little plastic bottle which was really sticky..

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