Tell us your old without telling us you are old......

[Rose65]

Of course, I'll start....
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We didn't have PC computers...they weren't invented yet
Only black & White TVs
Rotary dial phones
Drag racing 'real' muscle cars
$40 a week pay for 40 hours worked
Gas cost 28 cents a gallon

The noises I make when getting out of an armchair used to be for entirely different reasons!

I fall asleep within minutes if warm and comfortable, sitting up. Noise, pop music, children and over-talkative people irritate me.

 

[C50]

As a kid my friends had grandparents younger than I am now.

 

[caroln]

TV station "test patterns" broadcast before/after programming hours.

I also remember some of the TV stations playing the national anthem when they signed off for the night.

 

[Aunt Marg]

This was the school libraries when I was in the education system.

 

[Aunt Marg]

We had two of these when I was growing up, and both had the most comfy thick cushions!

It was first-come, first-serve!

 

[Aunt Marg]

Key hint re: my generation... aside from flashlights, little ran on batteries especially when it came to kids toys.

My baby brother had this and we all joined in on the fun! I remember him and dad setting it up on the kitchen table and playing for what seemed like hours.

 

[Aunt Marg]

Tinker Toys!

 

[Aunt Marg]

Aluminum Flying Saucers!

These went like the dickens down a snowy hill and they last forever!

 

[TC Steve]

I remember at age 6, going to the store to buy cigarettes for mom, and there wasn't so much as a look, a question, nothing forwarded my way, the store-owner would select the cigarettes I asked for, money was exchanged, and I was out the door as fast as I came in, on my way home to deliver the goods to mom!

As a kid I would ride my bike to the local hamburger drive-in to buy cigarettes for my brother, from the cigarette machine they had. No one ever said a word. One time my friends and I bought them for ourselves. Not for me. Never became a cigarette smoker after that.

 

[Aunt Marg]

As a kid I would ride my bike to the local hamburger drive-in to buy cigarettes for my brother, from the cigarette machine they had. No one ever said a word. One time my friends and I bought them for ourselves. Not for me. Never became a cigarette smoker after that.

I have always said that the 50's, 60's and 70's, were the very best of times and era to grow up in.

 

[Aunt Marg]

Trick-or treating meant having one of these!

I haven't seen one of these in ages! Decades!

 

[jujube]

At one point, my dad smoked cigarettes. He'd buy a pack from a machine and there would be two shiny pennies inside the cellophane as change from the (dime? quarter?) he had put in.

He'd always give me the pennies and I'd head to the nearest gumball machine.

 

[caroln]

Tinker Toys!

I used to build houses all the time with these plastic bricks. They even had windows, doors, and roofs.

 

[Aunt Marg]

I used to build houses all the time with these plastic bricks. They even had windows, doors, and roofs.
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OMG, yes! I totally remember the plastic doors, windows, and roofs!

Was so nice to be able to pass these play things down through the generations.

 

[Aunt Marg]

I remember trying to get my grandpas going! Phew!!! Weighed a ton!

 

[Kadee]

What drinking fountains we all drank out of at school right after other kids coughed spluttered all over them , I doubt if they were ever cleaned because they were outside and always covered in dust / grime
In Australia different states have different names for things , and I lived in New South Wales till I was in my mid 20’s and we called the drinking fountains bubblers however when I moved to SA they called them fountains
I still to this day call them drinking bubblers

Where I live we have one in the Main Street ( not working that dates back to the early settlement 1860 of the area I live in )

 

[Kadee]

I took this photo of a bubbler in a town in NSW last year while traveling to Queensland
town is called Hay

 

[Aunt Marg]

Back to page 4, for a moment, those retro traingular car windows worked like a charm!

Mom would keep her cigarette in close proximity to the open window, and the draw from that traingle window sucked the smoke from her cigarette straight outside as if there was a vacuum attached.

 

[Lawrence00]

Jarts

 

[hearlady]

I used to look at the clock and ask, "Is it too early for a drink?" Now I look at the clock and ask, "Is it too early to go to bed?"

 

[Aunt Marg]

Jarts

Here in Canada they were called Lawn Darts, and we played Lawn Darts all the time. Loved that outdoor game.

 

[Sippican]

I have always said that the 50's, 60's and 70's, were the very best of times and era to grow up in.

No doubt about that!
Thank God those were the days we lived in.....These days I feel sorry for young parents

 

[Aunt Marg]

No doubt about that!
Thank God those were the days we lived in.....These days I feel sorry for young parents

I agree, Sip!

Kids today have not the slightest clue what true honest-to-goodness play is, and sure, society and our world has changed, but boy, what freedom we had, and so much fun stuff to do/play with.

 

[Aunt Marg]

White shoes and this nifty stuff called - Sani-White.

 

[Sippican]

I agree, Sip!

Kids today have not the slightest clue what true honest-to-goodness play is, and sure, society and our world has changed, but boy, what freedom we had, and so much fun stuff to do/play with.

With any luck and good health, we can still do those fun things!
The idea is to die young as late as possible!