What are you old enough to remember?

[+ DERRIK]

old memories

 

• my mother was my grade school nurse in Chicago.   She had polio vaccine In the freezer and took some to school each day for kids

[MiamiLooker]

1 hour ago, BtmBearDad said:

@MiamiLooker I’ll see your “Sonny who?” and go one better! 

And you did! I had to look up the reference “he had an arm like the Kaiser!” For me, though, funnier than how your alumni relations administrator reacted, was thinking how difficult it can sometimes be to describe someone with a distinguishing negative feature and be PC.

[+ augustus]

I was in Grammar School and remember visiting my aunt who worked for a furrier in NYC.  In the back, where the furs were cut and sewn into coats, there were nudie centerfolds all over the walls.  Both men and women worked back there.  I can remember the nudie centerfolds at other places too like at gas stations, auto body shops, etc.  

Edited July 15, 2022 by augustus

[BtmBearDad]

1 hour ago, MiamiLooker said:

thinking how difficult it can sometimes be to describe someone with a distinguishing negative feature and be PC.

Honestly, I don’t know if I was even thinking about being PC - I was just frustrated I couldn’t his name, and I may have pulled my arm up on the side as a visual aid of sorts 😂

[+ azdr0710]

5 hours ago, MiamiLooker said:

And the gas station bell that alerted the attendant that a car had just driven up.

that deserves a demonstration for the youngins around here.....

 

[MikeBiDude]

53 minutes ago, azdr0710 said:

that deserves a demonstration for the youngins around here.....

 

Fill ‘er up….regular or “ethyl”?

[mike carey]

Had to laugh at the incomprehension at a reference to the Kaiser. Young people these days.

I remember when LSD wasn't a drug reference but that's meaningful in AU, NZ and UK not the US. (And by LSD I meant £.s.d)

[+ Charlie]

I remember my first experience trying to deal with pounds, shillings and pence. Oh, and also my first experience with LSD.

Edited July 16, 2022 by Charlie

[mike carey]

1 minute ago, Charlie said:

I remember my first experience trying to deal with pounds, shillings and pence.

When you start with it you know no better. The one thing where it was easy was buying fruit, which at the time you bought by the piece rather than by weight. If apples were 2d each, they were 2/- (two shillings) for a dozen. I guess that worked for bread rolls (or baked goods in general) as well.

Of course back then 2d or after 14/2/66 2c was a useful amount of money (something else I remember!). Now the lowest value coin we have is 5c and 10c in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand respectively.

[Phlmuscle]

The air raid alerts and blackouts during World War 2. Also ration stamps.

[+ FreshFluff]

When bands used pay phones to promote themselves. Wait for it..

 

Edited July 19, 2022 by FreshFluff

[Boink]

[+ FreshFluff]

I remember what life was like before caller ID was widespread. 

 

[+ WilliamM]

Watching The Army McCarthy hearings on television.  Not sure I understood completely though

[+ FreshFluff]

I love that they put on a jacket and tie for this protest. 

[Flexx]

Watching the guiding light at 4. I am sure i picked up a few interesting sexual fantasies from soaps. I think I got some wardrobe ideas from Dance Fever if you find this outfit, haha I’ll wear it

[+ Lucky]

Watching Ike be inaugurated in 1952.

[BabyBoomer]

6 hours ago, Lucky said:

Watching Ike be inaugurated in 1952.

I'm sure you meant to say 1953. 

~Boomer~

[Marc in Calif]

On 4/1/2023 at 11:20 PM, Flexx said:

Watching the guiding light at 4. 

I remember when there were only four (4!) soaps on Chicago TV. They were all 15 minutes long and occupied a full hour on one channel. The sponsors were (natch!) soap companies. And the programs were apparently live, and the only music was supplied by someone playing an electric organ. 🎼 🎹

Guiding Light
Love of Life
Search for Tomorrow
The Secret Storm

[+ FreshFluff]

On 4/1/2023 at 5:23 PM, FreshFluff said:

I love that they put on a jacket and tie for this protest. 

Looks like this protest was astroturfed. From the article: “John Saxon, a math book publisher and retired Oklahoma math teacher, and about 20 others carried signs reading "The Button's Nothin' Til the Brain's Trained" and "Beware: Premature Calculator Usage May Be Harmful to Your Child's Education."”

Edited April 4, 2023 by FreshFluff

[spider]

On 7/23/2022 at 11:28 PM, Boink said:

At grandmas, in a milkglass bowl, and all stuck together in the bottom. I was partial to the raspberry ones, seen here.

[+ pepa_e_mango]

I remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

[pubic_assistance]

3 hours ago, spider said:

At grandmas, in a milkglass bowl, and all stuck together in the bottom. I was partial to the raspberry ones, seen here.

I bought some of these candies for Christmastime last year. The taste brought back many happy memories of my grandmother.

[+ Lucky]

Using my bike to deliver newspapers door to door. I had to follow specific instructions on where to leave the paper. Now they just throw it randomly at my yard as they drive by.

Then every week I had to collect the fees and found that people were often not home or made me come back later. My first experience with flaky customers of a small business.

Rain, shine, or snow.

[+ Charlie]

49 minutes ago, Lucky said:

Using my bike to deliver newspapers door to door. I had to follow specific instructions on where to leave the paper. Now they just throw it randomly at my yard as they drive by.

Then every week I had to collect the fees and found that people were often not home or made me come back later. My first experience with flaky customers of a small business.

Rain, shine, or snow.

My best friend was a newspaper delivery boy, too. He was introduced to gay sex by the teenage son of one of the customers from whom he had to collect his fees, one day when the guy's parents were not at home when he came to collect. They continued to get together for several years afterwards. My friend brought me together once with the guy, who was in his twenties by then; it was more than sixty years ago, but I still remember the guy as having the largest cock I have ever tried to suck, and I have no idea how my friend managed to do it.