Who remembers .........

[CWGUY]

:) Who remembers -

Waiting til 7P.M. to call long distance, because it was cheaper?

[dewilson58]

And have a timer next to the phone.

[Wiserbud47]

Who remembers...

pasting S&H Green stamps in a book and when you had enough books, you went to a store and got great merchandise!

[CWGUY]

Who remembers...

pasting S&H Green stamps in a book and when you had enough books, you went to a store and got great merchandise!

:coolsmiley: Just checked with GOOGLE and you can still get them on EBay! They showed stamps, catalogs, and the signs that hung outside businesses.

Anyone remember: A&P plaid stamps? :popcorn:

[Taltarzac725]

Who remembers...

pasting S&H Green stamps in a book and when you had enough books, you went to a store and got great merchandise!

I recall that.

[Nucky]

:) Who remembers -

Waiting til 7P.M. to call long distance, because it was cheaper?

How about the dreaded Party-Line. I like the way it is now much better. My Father watched that phone bill like a hawk!

There are a lot of Who Remembers but this is a Family Oriented Forum!

Very Nice Thread! :clap2::clap2:

[jebartle]

Getting gasoline WITH oil check, tire pressure chevked,, windshield cleaned.

[CWGUY]

Getting gasoline WITH oil check, tire pressure chevked,, windshield cleaned.

:coolsmiley: And with $3.00 worth of gas ..... maybe a free drinking glass. :a040:

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

"Fill it with hi-test."

[villagetinker]

The first TV was black and white (only), rabbit ears!!, and then we got the first COLOR TV on the block!! I even remember the 4 button ultrasonic remote control, on/off, volume up/down, and change channel ( only had 2 to 13 as I recall).

[Number 10 GI]

How many remember the hand crank telephones that mounted on the wall and required you to stand to use it? When I was young we had one in our farmhouse in Iowa.

[CWGUY]

The first TV was black and white (only), rabbit ears!!, and then we got the first COLOR TV on the block!! I even remember the 4 button ultrasonic remote control, on/off, volume up/down, and change channel ( only had 2 to 13 as I recall).

:) Sometimes you would put aluminum foil on the ends for better reception. :laugh:

[Spoiler]

Who remembers when the first TV dinners came out. Aluminum foil bottom and top... Mmmm ... loved me some Salisbury steak, but don't forget to cut open a hole over the apple crisp looking goo

[dewilson58]

How many remember the hand crank telephones that mounted on the wall and required you to stand to use it? When I was young we had one in our farmhouse in Iowa.




I dew, & remember them in Iowa as well.




:coolsmiley:

[dewilson58]

The first TV was black and white (only), rabbit ears!!, and then we got the first COLOR TV on the block!! I even remember the 4 button ultrasonic remote control, on/off, volume up/down, and change channel ( only had 2 to 13 as I recall).




Don't forget the aluminum foil.

[Nucky]

I remember being The Remote! :ohdear: :1rotfl:

[thelegges]

I have heard stories, from my grandma, but no experience, of most of the posts, except B&W tv, and gas under fifty cents.

[Taltarzac725]

I remember being The Remote! :ohdear: :1rotfl:

And sometimes the antenna. Rabbit ears.

[Bay Kid]

Grandma's '49 Chevy ordered with the only options a heater and cigarette lighter.

[Bay Kid]

3 party phone lines.

[dewilson58]

Telephone booths.


Not sure what Superman is using these days.
Port-a-potty's??

[dewilson58]

I C 1 4 sale............Slide Projectors.


Get the family together, get out the screen, dim the lights and watch the family vacation.




Wait for it........wait, wait. There we go, a slide gets jammed.


Turn on the lights.

[Nucky]

How about My Dear Mom Cleaning the house on Saturday and taking a break sitting at the Kitchen Island Puffing on Kent Ciggies and warning me not to smoke. All the while an 8-Track of The Best Of Aretha Franklin playing on a loop for 10 Hours. That's something that triggers memories for me. Musica!

I really like this thread. Good Job Op.

What about when you could buy a Single Wide Manufactured Home in Orange Blossom Gardens for next to NOTHING and get picked up at the airport in a LIMO!

[Cedwards38]

Returning pop bottles to a grocery store to collect the deposit. Even walking the roads finding empties to make a little money as a kid.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Returning pop bottles to a grocery store to collect the deposit. Even walking the roads finding empties to make a little money as a kid.

That's still a thing in several states. I walk a couple bags over to the supermarket every 3 weeks for around $2 in deposit money. Pays for that week's half gallon of milk.

My grandmother told us about a few things, so I remember the stories directly from her:

1. Back before the Depression, the ice man came with horse and wagon to fill ice boxes, since refrigerators cost more than cars back then and most people didn't have them. She and her friends used to hop on the back of the wagon and steal ice chips for treats when the driver rolled past their street.

2. When my grandfather opened his dental office, telephones were still primarily owned by businesses and professional individuals; not all families had a phone and would use one at the corner market or a wealthy neighbor's house if one was needed. My grandfather was listed in his town's very first telephone directory.

[CWGUY]

:$: Coming on the Preview Plan and getting part of your money back in Village Dollars. Could use for golf, movies, bowling, restaurants like "Cafe Ole" "Augustine's" "Katie Belle's". Think we spent most of ours at Glenview C.C. because we stayed in the Carriage Houses at Sunbury. :mmmm::wine:

[CWGUY]

:ohdear: The Great Depression ended in the late 30's. I was born in the late 40's and I remember the iceman..... also the coal man. We even had a bread man with a horse drawn wagon. :icon_wink:

[Nucky]

:ohdear: The Great Depression ended in the late 30's. I was born in the late 40's and I remember the iceman..... also the coal man. We even had a bread man with a horse drawn wagon. :icon_wink:

How about the nice guy Selling Bleach on his Donkey Drawn Cart Screaming Bleach in Italian as he came down the street.

Who could forget the barf Diaper Service? There must be some big money in that BEEP! :1rotfl:

[Chi-Town]

The knife sharpening man pushing his cart down the street, and the housewives bringing their items to him.

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[CFrance]

:coolsmiley: And with $3.00 worth of gas ..... maybe a free drinking glass. :a040:
Oh, the astronaut glasses! Was that Esso?

[CFrance]

Who remembers when the first TV dinners came out. Aluminum foil bottom and top... Mmmm ... loved me some Salisbury steak, but don't forget to cut open a hole over the apple crisp looking goo
And don't forget to take it out of the box before putting it in the oven. ("It's easy," my mom told my dad as she walked out the door... "Just throw the thing in the oven!"

[eweissenbach]

I was born in '45. My dad bought a tavern in Omaha after the war and he bought an 8" screen Philco TV for the tavern and one for our home in '48. We were one of the first in Omaha to have a Tv in our home. Our whole family came over on Friday nights to watch the Friday night fights. When we moved to a farm in Mo. in '51 we were on a party line - two longs and a short!

[CWGUY]

I was born in '45. My dad bought a tavern in Omaha after the war and he bought an 8" screen Philco TV for the tavern and one for our home in '48. We were one of the first in Omaha to have a Tv in our home. Our whole family came over on Friday nights to watch the Friday night fights. When we moved to a farm in Mo. in '51 we were on a party line - two longs and a short!

I seem to remember the Friday night fights. Was it called "The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports". Have not thought of that in MANY years. I was just a little younger. :ho:

[CFrance]

I was born in '47 and remember a store that had sold televisions and had a black and white in the window that was always on. People would stand in front of the store window watching it. Nobody could find my brother one evening because he was down at the store window.

My friend had a parakeet whose cage sat on top of their black and white. This was the days before remote controls, and the parakeet learned to say, "Click, Click, Click, Click!"

[retiredguy123]

Who remembers when the first TV dinners came out. Aluminum foil bottom and top... Mmmm ... loved me some Salisbury steak, but don't forget to cut open a hole over the apple crisp looking goo
Wait a minute. I still eat those, but they come in plastic, and cook in the microwave.

[kcrazorbackfan]

Wait a minute. I still eat those, but they come in plastic, and cook in the microwave.

Same here! :clap2::clap2:

[Spoiler]

How about receiving a handwritten letter in the mail... it’s been awhile since we got anything like that...

[simpilot]

Anyone remember calling home, person to person, to a fictitious person to let them know you arrived safely avoiding a long distance charge.

[dewilson58]

Hanging clothes on the line in the backyard.


Women always wearing dresses.


"Stockings" with the seam up the back.


Full Service gas stations.
(the man in the texaco star)


Fountain soda.


Hand powered coffee grinders.

[eremite06]

How 'bout your first bicycle. I had a 26" Shelby at the age of 7. It had a headlight, taillights with turn signals, a horn and a springer shock up front. It was too heavy for me to peddle up hill.

[villagetinker]

First car, '58 Ford Fairlane (police interceptor special), guess dad never looked under the hood. First new car '66 Mustang coupe, still have a '66 Mustang (not the same one).
Screw in fuses (a true fuse box), knob and tube wiring sometimes on the outside of the wall. American Flyer trains, Lincoln logs, metal erector sets (motorized if you were lucky), tinker toys, and Sputnik.
Just some fond memories................

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Anyone remember calling home, person to person, to a fictitious person to let them know you arrived safely avoiding a long distance charge.

Our code:

Person to Person: I'm just checking in, safe and sound, no need to call back or respond.

Person to Person COLLECT: I'm checking in, but want to actually talk to you. You can either accept the charges or call me back so you can pay the normal long distance fees, not the additional collect charges (which were insanely expensive).

This was at college, where most of us didn't have our own phones and used the dorm's pay phone at the end of the hall.

[CFrance]

Thank god my mother thought it was too expensive to call me at college. Free at last!

[ColdNoMore]

Thank god my mother thought it was too expensive to call me at college. Free at last!

:coolsmiley:

[Velvet]

Bomb shelter signs near subway stops.

[villagetinker]

Bomb shelter signs near subway stops.

OMG, I forgot about those..........

[eweissenbach]

OMG, I forgot about those..........
Not me; the town I grew up in (population 714) had relatively little subway system, other than the moles.

[Fraugoofy]

This is a great thread. I remember none of these things you all talk about... since I wasn't born until almost 1970... but fun to read about them anyway!

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[Two Bills]

Bomb shelter signs near subway stops.
I grew up in London during WW2, and we had ours at the bottom of our garden.
Nothing more exiting to a five year old to come out of it in the morning and find half your house gone.
Mum was a bit p****d off though!

[Spoiler]

“ penny candy”. And sometimes you could get 2 for a penny

[Bay Kid]

Ginger snaps and sharp (blue) cheese.

[CWGUY]

Car Floor Mounted Headlight Dimmer Switches? What year did they take the High Beam/ Low Beam button off the floor and put it on the steering wheel? :shrug:

[Two Bills]

Car Floor Mounted Headlight Dimmer Switches? What year did they take the High Beam/ Low Beam button off the floor and put it on the steering wheel? :shrug:
....and vacuum windscreen wipers. Faster you went, the slower they worked!
Foot hard down on gas pedal, they stopped, lift off gas, they worked, foot hard down, they stopped, lift off gas, ad infinitum.

[CWGUY]

....and vacuum windscreen wipers. Faster you went, the slower they worked!
Foot hard down on gas pedal, they stopped, lift off gas, they worked, foot hard down, they stopped, lift off gas, ad infinitum.

:icon_wink: I just came up with another idea for a new thread after reading your reply. I will start it.... Please jump in. :)

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Bomb shelter signs near subway stops.

Many of the public schools in our state had fallout shelters in the basements. Many of those schools are still standing and in use as either schools or other education/municipal buildings. The yellow and black bomb shelter signs are still there on the corner next to the emergency entrance. I don't know if those shelters still have in them what was put in them, or if they were ever converted into storage or other kinds of rooms. But the rooms are definitely still there!

[deano_hoosier]

Dumping nickle bag of peanuts into a nickle bottle of Coke.

[CWGUY]

:popcorn: Another post on a different thread made me think of this.... Did any of the guys out there have BB gun fights with your friends as kids. My friends and I did this all the time. It's amazing we never lost an eye. We had a rule you could only shoot from the neck down. Like we hit what we aimed at! :laugh:

[CWGUY]

Dumping nickle bag of peanuts into a nickle bottle of Coke.

:) In Florida while in the USMC more than 50 years ago.

[B-flat]

29 cent per gallon of gas. Vacuum tube testers at the corner store. The egg man, the ragman, Louie the peddler selling fruits and vegetables from a truck.