Anyone Old Enough To Remember ...?t- Page 3

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 5/14/06 at 8:46pm

VW Bugs with the engine in the back? A green one was my mom's first car. She still had it when I was little.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/14/06 at 8:49pm

Or penny candy when it WAS a penny.

Old Brownie cameras

A&W Restaurants where you would park in a space that had an intercom, and you would place your order. Then a waitress would bring it out, and put a tray that fit over your open car window.

[erikaamato]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 11:43am

Drive-in movies! I used to love those!

And although I wasn't alive in the 60's, my family used to get all dressed up - mary janes, etc. - to get on the plane in the 70's, too. Remember Eastern Airlines?? That was our favorite carrier. hehe And we still got somehwat dressed up - nice chinos and polo shirts - in the 80's. We didn't succumb to the jeans thing 'til the 90's, and we still can't bring ourselves to do the sloppy sweats thing. lol

[singingwendy]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 11:52am

"And as for crank-down windows, some of we more economically-minded folks still choose to get cars with no power package. I bought my 2003 Saturn VUE brand-new, and it's got manual locks and manual, crank-down windows. It's also a stick-shift. =)"

Erika---I don't blame you for having manual locks and windows. I am very nervous about my power doors and windows because I vividly remember my parents van getting a short circuit, and you would sit there and for no apparent reason the locks would start flicking up and down. It was sort of like sitting in Christine! LOL!

And who remembers taking family trips laying down in the back of the station wagon? We would bring our sleeping bags, books, games and we were set for a good 8 hour car ride! Of course that was before all those pesky seat belt laws were passed!

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 11:52am

Wheat paste?
How many times did we put newspaper with wheat paste on blown up ballons in elementary school art class?

do they still have that? I can still smell it....ick!

S&H Green stamps...I remember when we had enough to get just one thing...boys wanted a rowboat...girls wanted a sewing machine...came down to a house of cards, and then Marcia...

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 11:58am

I remember our old Ford Fairlane station wagon (light blue) that had a rumble seat in the back. My brother and I and the dog used to sit there on long trips to visit relatives. We would roll the back window completely down, and practically have a wind tunnel back there.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 12:00pm

We used to call it "the WAY back" and it was car sick city!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 12:15pm

Never got car sick back there, but used to fight with my bro though. SOOO many times I wanted to "help" him out that window! ;0

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 12:47pm

Some grocery stores still do the Green Stamps. I think it's Lowes. I don't remember where they are, though.

Sonic restaurants still have the parking spaces and individual intercoms. The carhops bring it to your car on a tray that fits on your window.

I went to a drive in movie when the movie Signs came out a few years back. I was somewhere in Kentucky. We sat on the tailgate of my friend's truck with snacks that were sold for much less than a regular theatre. It was SO much fun.

[Jon]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 12:54pm

Anyone remember when the only beverages sold at Broadway theatres were little cardboard cartons of "orange drink"?

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 2:40pm

when cinemas had only one - large - screen?

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 2:43pm

UHF/VHF?

[best12bars]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 2:45pm

I remember the SMELL of mimeograph paper running through the machine. Talk about a contact high. No wonder our school secretaries were always so happy.

They showed me how to run it through the machine one time, and I it was harder than it looks.

We have it so easy today!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 2:47pm

Cassettes, record albums, and those cardboard cutout records (45's) on the backs of cereal boxes like Sugar Pops. One of them was "Sugar, Sugar" by the Archies.....

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 2:50pm

I prefer a stick shift for better handling of the car. Unless you have to do lots of stop and go city driving and then it's too much of a pain in the butt. Also can be a little dangerous if you have to stop and go up a steep incline.

And who has observed the mysterious "t" that has been added to the end of this thread title on the O.T. message board?

"Anyone Old Enough To Remember ...?t "

Roxy, you playin' with us?

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 2:51pm

45's and that plastic thing you had to insert to allow them to play.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 2:57pm

Gnip-Gnop
Toss-Across
Spirograph
Merlin
Micronauts
Sit 'n' Spin (shut up)
Big Wheel
Atari

Those were some good times.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 2:59pm

I actually owned Pong...played it maybe twice. It probably cost my parents a couple hundred dollars.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 3:00pm

Wacky Packages?

[best12bars]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 3:02pm

"Wacky Packages?"

LOVED those! I used to collect the cards.

How about Freakies cereal?

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 3:05pm

Freakies? no.
Quisp? yes.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 3:05pm

Wacky Packages are back now. I loved Fruity Freakies, of course. You are what you eat.

[best12bars]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 3:07pm

Ain't it the truth.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 3:07pm

[best12bars]

Posted: 5/15/06 at 3:09pm

*sigh*

Pure heaven.