I'm so old that:

ChiroDoc said:
Sure do! And you know, I liked it better there. You never had to finagle that silly lever on the steering column like you do now...:confused:
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Every time I go to turn the brights on or off, the turn signal starts. I turn on the turn signal, the brights go on. And it's about 50-50 whether the windshield wipers will also turn on. That is a very poorly designed and placed brights / turn signals / windshield wipers switch.
 
Victor said:
Manual typewriters we had. Coal burning furnace in 1968. Great aunt who remembered president McKinley . Milkmen.I have an Adlai Stevenson button. Records cost 2.50.on sale. Chuck Berry in concert. Elvis when started Hound Dog. Howdy Doody . Kukla Fran and Ollie, Range Rider on tv.
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My grand parents near Athens, Ohio had a coal burning furnace the kept the whole house real toasty! I loved visiting them. Coal burns real hot.

As a kid in the '50s I went to visit a great aunt who was 104 years old. She lived in a home. She told us that as a child she had some other kids over for a tea party. All of a sudden one of the men burst into the room and said, "Oh Lord, all is lost. Lincoln has been assassinated!" That was a remarkable story even then.
 
Flarbalard said:
I'm so old I remember baby alligators being sold in pet shops. Memory was jogged by someone else's post I saw today.
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lol yes .

My dad and I were into all types animals and think it was early 80's that regulations began .

In fact a pet store we went to ( Exotics RUS ) even sold a beaded lizard , all types bats , duprasi , bushy tailed jerboas , mongoose just to name a few .
 
Pappy said:
I remember when you could stay in the movie houses as long as you wanted. We had two. The Colonia was 16 cents and Smalleys was 14 cents.
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I can recall when either my mom or stepdad would drop me off at the movies on Sat. mid morning and I'd get to watch back to back to back cowboy movies till late in the afternoon and they'd come pick me up....figured out later in life it was so they could have a little alone time. ;)

Money was apparently tight because mom would always pop my corn at home and put in a brown paper sack for me to eat at the movies....the sack would show butter soaking through but it tasted better anyways, lots of butter and salt.
 
ChiroDoc said:
As I recall, they were just called vents. I really liked them because they let in fresh air without opening a side window. For years most cars had a "vent" knob or setting to let in fresh air from the front onto the floor. None of our cars have them now, and they probably don't make them any more. Everything has to be electric...:(
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We always called them wing windows
 
George1959 said:
My maternal grandmother was born in 1892. My paternal grandmother died when I was very young and I have only very vague memories of her. Both grandfathers died several decades before I was born.
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My paternal grandfather was born i 1896 or 8....can't quite remember, and he lived until I was 18.. and he died on a thursday in September and the very next Thursday my mother who was born in '34 died, totally unexpectedly...so we lost our grandfather and our mother within 7 days :cry:

My Paternal Great Grandfather was born in 1872... I remember him well even tho' he was killed by being run over by a bus at age 94, when i was about 12... I have no photos but this is what he looked like.. he always wore a black suit with a waistcoat... and he had white hair and a big moustache


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When I first became a state trooper, our vehicles had the large red bubble on top, but that only lasted a few years before we changed to the bar with the red, white and blue lights for awhile before changing to the low bar on top and on the inside of the windshield with the same colors, plus spot lights. We also had the old sirens that started low and went high and then back down and up again and so on. A few years later, we changed to electronic sirens that we could select different sounds.

I still remember the large red bubble on top of the vehicle being called bubblegum machines.
 
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hollydolly said:
My paternal grandfather was born i 1896 or 8....can't quite remember, and he lived until I was 18.. and he died on a thursday in September and the very next Thursday my mother who was born in '34 died, totally unexpectedly...so we lost our grandfather and our mother within 7 days :cry:

My Paternal Great Grandfather was born in 1872... I remember him well even tho' he was killed by being run over by a bus at age 94, when i was about 12... I have no photos but this is what he looked like.. he always wore black suit with a wasitcoat... and he had white hair and a moustache
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You have one heck of a memory. I will have to get the family Bible out and see if someone posted the birthdates of my ancestors. I remember my grandparents, but great grandparents, I don’t recall. I only remember my great grandfather on my dad’s side probably because he always gave my sister and I money when we went to visit him.

His wife, my great grandmother, died in the hospital from pneumonia after she had fallen and broke her hip. My sister and I were told not to take money from Pop-Pop as we called him, but he insisted, so dad would nod to us that it was ok to take the money. I remember him saying one time “You better take it while I am alive because you aren’t in my will.” Yeah, he was a little uncouth.
 
911 said:
You have one heck of a memory. I will have to get the family Bible out and see if someone posted the birthdates of my ancestors. I remember my grandparents, but great grandparents, I don’t recall. I only remember my great grandfather on my dad’s side probably because he always gave my sister and I money when we went to visit him.

His wife, my great grandmother, died in the hospital from pneumonia after she had fallen and broke her hip. My sister and I were told not to take money from Pop-Pop as we called him, but he insisted, so dad would nod to us that it was ok to take the money. I remember him saying one time “You better take it while I am alive because you aren’t in my will.” Yeah, he was a little uncouth.
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I actually have a superb memory for dates, and birthdays..... It's always been the same... ...I can't even remember my own mobile phone number, but I can tell you all the birhdays of all my ancestors.. and all the dates of singificant events.. very strange..funny how the mind works..

I was talking to my sister a few weeks ago and she doesn't even remember the grandparents much less their birthdays... I was telling her such and such a thing.. and she said...''ooh that's right we had a great uncle so & so.. I'd forgotten all about him''...
 
hollydolly said:
My paternal grandfather was born i 1896 or 8....can't quite remember, and he lived until I was 18.. and he died on a thursday in September and the very next Thursday my mother who was born in '34 died, totally unexpectedly...so we lost our grandfather and our mother within 7 days :cry:

My Paternal Great Grandfather was born in 1872... I remember him well even tho' he was killed by being run over by a bus at age 94, when i was about 12... I have no photos but this is what he looked like.. he always wore black suit with a wasitcoat... and he had white hair and a moustache


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Then your Paternal Great Grandfather looked like Charles Darwin.

Fate is strange sometimes.
Both of my parents lost one parent at a young age. My mother lost her father at age 10, my father his father in his late teens.
 
hollydolly said:
I actually have a superb memory for dates, and birthdays..... It's always been the same... ...I can't even remember my own mobile phone number, but I can tell you all the birhdays of all my ancestors.. and all the dates of singificant events.. very strange..funny how the mind works..

I was talking to my sister a few weeks ago and she doesn't even remember the grandparents much less their birthdays... I was telling her such and such a thing.. and she said...''ooh that's right we had a great uncle so & so.. I'd forgotten all about him''...
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Good for you. Talk about how the mind works, I can recite all my numbers in my wallet with my credit cards, drivers license, carry permit and my membership card to the club I am a member. But, names and even faces can be a challenge.
 

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