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Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#25re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/18/07 at 7:59am
I remember when this same topic gave birth to the 'adults/smoke' thread - now on version 16!
I remember our telephone extension was BElmont but I can't remember the number anymore. My grandpa had a party line but we never did.
My other grandparents had a high school next door to their house and we could sit in the back yard and watch baseball games over there. Right behind their house was a Dairy Queen and we would walk over in the evening for a treat. My grandmother always got the same thing - a lemon soda. Now I wonder how many years it's been since Dairy Queen offered sodas - let alone lemon sodas!
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mamie4 5/14/03
#26re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/18/07 at 8:46am
When remote controls consisted of a single button and made that big mechanical clunk sound
ALittleNorthofKansas
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/04
#27re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/18/07 at 8:50amWhen the phone company (Bell) was the only place you get a phone and they had to hook it up in your house and had to come to your house if you wanted it moved to another room.
beacon1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/31/04
#28re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/18/07 at 9:00am
Comics: Katzenjammer kids
TV Shows: It's About Time, My Mother the Car
Toys: Little Kiddles (I had Florence Niddle who was dressed like Florence Nightengale.)
Spirograph
Kerplunk
Clothes: Hot pants, ponchos, gaucho pants
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#29re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/18/07 at 9:14am
When Elementary Schools has "actual" playground equipment?
I remember having all sorts of fun things to play on: slides, monkey bars, a climbing thing called The Rocket, swings. Now at least at the school I went to, they've deleted them all for fear of being sued if a child got hurt. Or, I've been told Recess has been cut down to virtually nothing, to make room for more schooling. Please!
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#30re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/18/07 at 9:23am
"We dialed 4 numbers to reach our neighbors."
I remember that. But we dialed 5 numbers: the last digit of the 3 digit local exchange, then the 4 numbers of the house.
Does anyone remember days before zip codes?
An address would read: New York 27, NY
Also I'm old enough to remember at school we drank milk from paper straws rather than plastic. And our school bus had metal bars on the back of every seat (something that was spoofed in an episode of The Simpsons).
#31re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/18/07 at 9:37am
Our phone number was VIking-3-7802 in Kansas. I also remember when we stopped saying "Viking" and started saying "843-7802."
Our exchange in NYC (pre-1966) was TRafalgar, but I'm too young to remember that number, thank God.
I remember when we started using ZIP codes on letters too.
I remember the TV repair man coming to the house.
I remember the milk being delivered twice a week to our milk box on the front porch.
I remember when there were 3-5 TV channels, with an antenna, and no cable TV.
I remember when cigarettes were 50 cents a pack, and gas was 35 cents a gallon.
I remember when TV shows bragged about being broadcast "in living color." And I remember our first color TV.
I remember when movie tickets were 75 cents for kids, and $1.50 for adults.
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blueroses
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/04
#32re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/18/07 at 9:40amCandy cigarettes.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#33re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/18/07 at 9:42am
"I remember the milk being delivered twice a week to our milk box on the front porch."
We had that too. Milk was delivered in bottles. I wish my parents had kept that milk box. Long after delivery ended, we used to play with it.
I remember when school lunch boxes were made of metal and the designs on them were the Saturday morning cartoon lineup. Inside was a thermos that had a glass interior. Any kid that broke the inside of their thermos had to face very mad parents.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#34re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/18/07 at 9:44am
Yenta, we lived in the same town, but I remember when our telephones were all operator assisted. We picked up our phone and waited for the inimical "Number, please!"
And our exchange was "BEllport 7". It later changed to ATlantic 6".
JustAGuy
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/03
#35re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/18/07 at 9:45am
Penny Candy, that was really sold for a penny.
Candy Bars for a nickel
Soda or Pop, depending upon where you're from, sold for 10 cents
19 cent McDonalds hamburgers
ALittleNorthofKansas
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/04
#36re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/18/07 at 9:48amWhen gas was sold by the gallon not the litre.
JustAGuy
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/03
#37re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/18/07 at 9:52amplastic Pop Beads
#38re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/18/07 at 9:58am
the 1.98 beauty pageant
The Un-Cola
"Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders don't upset us, all we ask is you let us do it your way."
The Indian crying on the PSA to keep America beautiful
Chewels gum
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#39re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:06am
Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame bun
I once won a Big Mac for being able to sing that commercial.
JustAGuy
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/03
#40re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:26am
Cars without seatbelts.
or who sang...
See the USA in your Chevrolet
America is asking you to call
Drive your Chevrolet through the USA
America's the greatest land of all
#41re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:34amas in Beechwood 45789? Yes, I love the Carpenters with all my heart and soul!
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#42re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:43amJustAGuy - Dinah Shore always ended that jingle by throwing a big kiss out to the audience!
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mamie4 5/14/03
JustAGuy
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/03
#43re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:45amMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmuuuuuuuuuaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!
#44re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:49am
MItchell 6. My sister still has the number.
Same sister had Little Kiddles...I LOVED them!
I remember all of this crap...you guys make me feel OLD, dammit!
(and twelvy, I can hear that dude saying "brought to you in living color!")
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#45re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:50amQuisp cereal with the martian on the package
JustAGuy
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/03
#46re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/18/07 at 10:51amWinky Dink
#47re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/18/07 at 11:00am
I LOVED Quisp.
Mousetrap...and Mao Tse Tung.
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#48re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/18/07 at 11:04amMy Mousetrap never worked. It always stopped at the backflip-in-the-tub guy.
#49re: Are you old enough to remember _____________________
Posted: 7/18/07 at 11:04am
"I'm a Pepper..."
"He didn't know (didn't know) the gum was loaded!"
"It don't stick to yer face"
Shrinky Dinks
Magic Window
Villa Allegre
Big Blue Marble
Micronauts
"Up! Up! Up with people!"
"Honeycomb's big! Yeah, yeah, yeah! It's not small! No, no, no!"
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