Are you old enough to remember when................

[FiLtH]

 I remember comic books being 10 cents.  I could get a comic,and an ice cream bar for under 50 cents. wow.

[Dadsguns]

,,,, cracked plastic steering wheels in the cars from the 70s lol,

Great thread  

 

Oh man does that bring back some memories of my Dads car.... lol


Very nice guys.... all of these bring back some good memories.

[Meatwad]

I remember the penny candy but the glass bottle cokes were 35 cents each instead of 25.

A bunch of us kids would scrounge up enough loose change and go to the local meat store and get a whole little brown lunchbag sized sack full of penny candy, maybe a dollar or two worth. We would buy a soda for a quarter and find a shady place under a tree and stuff ourselves silly until our tummies couldnt take another sugar packed delight without the fear of puking it up all over everything.

Our biggest worry back then was finding something to do. Now its bills and a mortgage

Man I miss those days 

[mbailey]

 

Oh man does that bring back some memories of my Dads car.... lol


 

Lmao  Mine to My Dads 77 Merc Marquis....that thing was a battleship on land.....friggin huge. Only flaw in the thing was the cracked plastic steering wheel.

[The Fugitive]

The guy at the smoke shop would hold a "Spiderman" for me till I could get down there with my dime. Running down to get smokes for my Mom, 4 packs for a buck.

The kid down the street got a 3 speed bike (cherry picker I think it was) and we were all amazed!

Streets closed in the winter because the cars couldn't make the hills... great time sledding in the streets ... with a real sled with steel runners (Flexable Flyer)

McDonalds slogan was "change back from your dollar" You could get a burger, small fry, and a small coke for 99 cents.

Our CB radios only had 4-6 channels... if you had that many crystals to put in.

Riding in the back of a station wagon with the back window down and just sucking in the exhaust fumes. Hoping for big bumps and/or hard braking just so you COULD get thrown around inside the car.

Playing Little League ball and everyone having fun. Icecream for the winners.

Riding in the "rumble seat" to the beach in my Dads old Ford (7 years old with my 5 year old sister, no seat belts, on the highway LOL!!!)

Visiting Epcot before it was open.

I too remember the Coke machine. Ours was at the corner gas station. Always thought I'd get my hand caught in that thing.

I think I was 10 before we ever got a color TV. Rox's list is good for shows but you have to add My 3 sons, Leave it to Beaver, Gilligan's Island, and the Ghost and Mrs Muir. Later it was, It takes a thief, I Spy, and the Avengers. and in color Laugh-in and Smothers Brothers.

[Oldman731]

And I can remember where I was when President Kennedy was shot and killed.

Everyone remembers that.

Drove away from the Exxon station one day because the gas was 41 cents/gallon.  What an outrage, those SOBs will be out of business before you know it.

"King Size" cokes were something we couldn't afford.  I think they were the first 12-ounce cokes.  Same with the Hostess Twinkies, ten cents for a pair of those, a very rare treat.

Started at McDonalds wrapping hamburgers in October 1968.  Minimum wage was $1.10/hour, big deal when I got a raise to $1.15 because I could wrap so fast.  No women, men only.  The hamburgers then were $.18 each, made it a nightmare to mentally figure out what to charge the customer, so there was a matrix on each order pad.

Remember getting the Revell Fokker DRI triplane model for my birthday in July, 1959, the summer between 2d and 3d grade.  $1.98 made it the most expensive birthday present I'd ever had.  I treasured that thing.

- oldman

[bacon8tr]

Who remembers "pop rock" candy, and the inevitable dare by your buddies to pour as many packs as you could into your mouth at one time? 

[oTRALFZo]

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"King Size" cokes were something we couldn't afford.  I think they were the first 12-ounce cokes.  

Ok now I dont feel so old remembering the Coke- 3 liter bottles

[thndregg]

I'm a 1973 brat.

One of Dad's cars I remember from my early years, a '74(?) Mazda 808 two door, only yellow.


The yellow wall mount rotary phone with the 500 mile long cord in the kitchen of our 12X60 Detroiter mobile home.

We still have Dad's 1976 Chevy Luv pickup with a CJ-5 front-end (before the factory started putting in their own 4x4 package).

Of course, in the 80's, our first computer, a Commodore 64 initially with a TAPE drive. Later I got hooked on SubLogic's version of Flight Simulator.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCehXfpJVUA

[ink]

lol ya i remember my step mom giving me a note so i can get her butts at the store, she gave me two dollars and I was able to fill my pocket with  candy from the change.

[rvflyer]

As I recall, my first job at the local airport was selling Avgas 100LL for 79.9 cents a gallon...and a Cessna 150 rented for $16 per hour, Instructor added $6 per hour. Those were the days!

  No the days were when I could rent a T-craft for $4.00 hr wet and instructor cost me $5.00 hour. Soloed in 6 hours so cost me $54.00 to get my student ticket. To be fair I grew up around airplanes my dad started flying when I was 2 years old.  Cigs in the vending  machine were 25 cents. Bear in a glass was 15 cents in a mug 25 cents.

[BaldEagl]

When I grew up we had a hand pump in the kitchen for water, and outhouse for a toilet (try that at -30F in N. MN), a seperate building with a sauna and took baths once a week and a crank phone on a party line.  No joke.  My aunt and uncle had a wood fired stovetop and oven in their kitchen.

Once I grew up a little we got running water for a toilet (still relied on the sauna... no tub or shower) and a black and white TV (a HUGE Zenith console with about a 15" screen).

Once I started driving I remember gas at $0.29 per gallon.

[LLogann]

That's because you're 9 years old now................  Don't bring up watermelon that you don't know about boy.

I remember when the World trade centers collapsed.

[stealth]

You can get glass Coca Colas again for $7.00 at Target. First and last time I had one was about 8years ago.

[Brooke]

Lmao  Mine to My Dads 77 Merc Marquis....that thing was a battleship on land.....friggin huge. Only flaw in the thing was the cracked plastic steering wheel.

Heh!  I inherited a 1978 Mercury Marquis from my grandfather.  When I drove it to San Diego past the air bases, I had to wave off jets trying to land on the hood.