I Miss The Good Ol' Days, Don't You?

RondB Fan: As you are, I once was; as I am you too shall be. You either get old or get dead.

I remember having to actually getting out of the chair to change the channel - choices were only ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS...had to use the rabbit ears antennae to get reception. Actually had some good shows on. The televisions were tube (no circuit boards), thus were heavy and got hot. There were actually tv repairmen!

As for computer programming, you had to use punch cards!

Rotary dial and busy signals, lol I heard a busy signal a while back and thought what is that noise?? what does it mean?? Id not heard it in years!! lol Originally Posted by Sweet N Little

Ask a kid nowadays why we say "dial a phone number". They have no idea.

best of all, candy was 1 or 2 or 5 cents. if it were 10 cents, you'd be a splurging mofo! Originally Posted by pmdelites

My two brothers and I would beg my mother for a dollar so we could walk the three miles to the gas station and buy a bag of candy. Penny and nickel candy would fill up the little bag and we'd eat it on the way home. I'm sure the two hours of peace was worth a dollar to my mother.

I was paying for a pizza at a Little Caesars (pizza! pizza!) once and the handed the kid at the register a 2 dollar bill. He held it up to the light...(looking for that strip that wasn't there (I don't think at that time)) and then said "wait a second." He went back to get his manager as he thought it was fake. The manager came out and he and I both giggled because the kid had never seen a 2$ bill before. He was told it's real.

That happened one time also when I handed a kid a Susan B. Anthony and told him "Now make sure you don't put that in with the quarters because that's a DOLLAR coin." He had to stare at it a bit as he'd never seen one and still put it in with the quarters. I said, "Duuuuuude....you're going to accidentally give that away as a quarter and then you'll be 75 cents short." He then put it to the side.

Hilarious, no?

I remember Party Lines, 5-digit dialing, and what a miracle it was when Ma Bell put a light in the princess phone. Damn!...I'm OLD!

wow you people are really old Originally Posted by RandB fan

Heh! That reminds me of a time I was browsing around in an antique shop. The store-keeper and I got to talking and she told me (with a wink) that if you can remember it as a youth, it's called a "collectable", if you can't, then it's an antique. I thought that was kinda' cute.


SNL, a rotary phone? TFF!

"Maple 234, please operator"

"One moment please"

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Remember when gas wars meant that a gallon of gas sold for 19 cents. Used to be able to fill the tank for $2!

I remember before beer had pull-tabs, you had to have a "church key" to put those triangle-shaped holes in the top so you could drink it.

I remember before beer had pull-tabs, you had to have a "church key" to put those triangle-shaped holes in the top so you could drink it. Originally Posted by sooner70

That's before my time, but I definitely remember the pull tabs that came all the way off. You'd end up with a razor-sharp teardrop-shaped piece of aluminum that you had to dispose of. Streets and parks were often littered with them, and no one in their right mind went barefoot anywhere that teenagers or men hung out.

Those days were good and those days were old. But they werent good old days!

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