+ easygoingpal Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 45 records. I didn't think they were that old but pre-covid some people in my building would hang out sometimes on Friday at the bar next door. A few years ago we were there and they were playing the sone from the late 70's baker street and a neighbor a year older than me and I were talking about it and I said I had it on a 45. A neighbor who was sitting with us who was about 25ish asked what a 45 was LOL. I thought he was joking but he was serious and he didn't know that a single song in vinyl was called a 45 and was looking it up on his phone LOL. We were telling him about having either an adapter that you put a stack of 45s on or the little disk you put in the middle. I joked and said I felt old (I was probably 51 then) I feel old and he replied "dude that is because you are old" (jokingly). His wife who is the same age was there and thought he was just messing with us about now knowing what a 45 was but he seriously didnt. My mother had a turntable that played 33 1/3 rpm... She only had a few of those records. + bashful 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Hagen Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 No gas on Sundays + Charlie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Television started in the late afternoon with someone called Pinky Lee + Charlie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Who remembers Woolworth ?. Sitting at the lunch counter and having a malted or ice cream ?. The place had wooden floors that Creaked and the store smelled like mothballs. And outside the store they had the pony rides for I believe 10 cents. What a bunch of old Queens we have become. I ate many lunches at the Woolworth's on Market St in Philadelphia when I worked downtown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 1st - An old 1949 Nash we had and how the seats all made a double bed for what were then 2-day trips to see my mother's family 150 miles away. I remember my father teaching a friend's wife how to drive on their new brown 1949 Nash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 No gas on Sundays Not only gas--very few stores of any kind were open on Sundays. In Philadelphia, bars were closed on Sundays when I first started going to them there in the mid-1960s. The only alcohol that could be served on Sunday was in private clubs or restaurants with a liquor license. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 The invention of calculators reminds me of the invention of the ball point pen. When they first appeared, teachers in my school wouldn't allow us to use them; we still had to dip our steel-tip pens in the liquid ink in the ink bottles on our desks. + Oliver 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Oliver Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 (edited) Going to the fifth game of the 1948 World Series at Cleveland Stadium. Seeing Bob Feller (Cleveland Indians) pitch against Warren Spahn (Boston Braves). I sat behind home plate with my mother while Dad was out in left field! (and BTW it was the largest crowd ever to see a baseball game - over 86,000 - they allowed fans behind the fence in the outfield.) Edited February 16, 2021 by Oliver samhexum and + Charlie 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudynate Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 it was a like a no peeing section in a pool... smoking and non-smoking on airplanes was a fairly recent innovation - late 70s. My landlord was a snobbish older gay man who quit smoking because he felt like a second-class citizen sitting in the smoking section - whatever works. I clearly remember air travel in the 60s and early 70s before they had separated smokers and non-smokers Luv2play 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudynate Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Not only gas--very few stores of any kind were open on Sundays. In Philadelphia, bars were closed on Sundays when I first started going to them there in the mid-1960s. The only alcohol that could be served on Sunday was in private clubs or restaurants with a liquor license. There was all this talk about "blue laws" and what they did and didn't allow to be sold on Sunday. + Charlie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudynate Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 My mother had a turntable that played 33 1/3 rpm... She only had a few of those records. Everybody had a turntable with that speed. Record albums made for that speed were called "long-play" records. liubit, + Charlie and Danny-Darko 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ sync Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Going to the fifth game of the 1948 World Series at Cleveland Stadium. Seeing Bob Feller (Cleveland Indians) pitch against Warren Spahn (Boston Braves). I sat behind home plate with my mother while Dad was out in left field! (and BTW it was the largest crowd ever to see a baseball game - over 86,000 - they allowed fans behind the fence in the outfield.) In those times, it was common for men to wear hats, shirts, ties, and jackets and women wear dresses and hats to baseball stadiums: How things have changed: prof and + Charlie 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seattlebottom Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 25¢ comics. Payphones. Using the yellow pages to find business info. 6 million dollar man, bionic woman, wonder woman, Charlie's Angels and Incredible Hulk. MTV actually playing music. Break dancing and parachute pants. Tom Cruise being cool. Guyana tragedy. Reagan getting shot. Pope getting shot. Challenger accident. Berlin Wall coming down. + sync 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Well, we sure do have a bunch of older folks on this forum... I'll also confess to be old enough to see live on TV Neil Armstrong take man's first steps on the moon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ azdr0710 Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 at age 5, a couple months after MLK's death, I was watching TV and news of RFK's death came on.......I said, "oh, is that show on again?" + Charlie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Well, we sure do have a bunch of older folks on this forum... I'll also confess to be old enough to see live on TV Neil Armstrong take man's first steps on the moon... Hell, I saw John Glenn's landing after he became first American to orbit the Earth in 1962; I watched live on TV in a gay bar while I was cruising. I missed the moon walk, because I was cruising in the Meat Rack on Fire Island that night. (Do I detect a pattern here?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Well, we sure do have a bunch of older folks on this forum... I'll also confess to be old enough to see live on TV Neil Armstrong take man's first steps on the moon... July 20, 1969 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harryinny Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Landing on the moon... the day JFK was killed... the telex... when faxes were wet... when men opened the door to women and stood up when a lady was sitting down at the table... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Lucky Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Where are all of the witnesses to the gay love snuck in the oddest places? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeBiDude Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 And running out of E tickets first, thus being reduced to riding the lame Main St Trolley a few times And “E ticket” didn’t mean electronic ticket ? marylander1940 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 And “E ticket” didn’t mean electronic ticket ? Only us old farts know what 'E-ticket" means from the old days. I remember when we did something thrilling in high school, we'd say "Boy, that sure was an E-ticket!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ azdr0710 Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Buff Daddy and marylander1940 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtwalker Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Regan Betamax Kid's playing outside Garbage Pail Kids Drive-In Movies marylander1940 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buff Daddy Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Who remembers Gimbel's,Gertz, Korvetts, Montgomery Ward. John bargain stores. Maybe these were only stores in NY ?♂️ jtwalker, + sync, dbar123 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buff Daddy Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Oh. And Mother's didn't work!. They stayed home and raised the kids. Every mother was home in my neighborhood except the lunch lady at school LOL. Also in NY most everything was closed on a Sunday. Just the bakery candy stores and one pharmacist a Mom and Pop operation were open on a Sunday. Danny-Darko 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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