What are you old enough to remember?

[Luv2play]

The Ford Country Squire was one sweet-looking ride for pretty much of its entire run.

1949

1991

I think the 49/ “woody” pictured above had real wood whereas the 91version below was phoney wood. Collectors will pay hundreds of thousands for the “real McCoy” but not much for the ersatz version.

Edited February 17, 2021 by Luv2play

[Merboy]

Desert Storm, VHS tapes, VCRs, Lite-Brites, Fisher-Price little people, Micro Machines, Power Wheels, Super Soakers, and Ross Perot

[Luv2play]

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?)

I remember the Soviets launching Sputnik in 1957 (I think that was the date). It was on the news on our black and white TV). The Americans went crazy.

[Luv2play]

I don't think this has been mentioned. I remember putting my feet in an x-Ray machine at the shoe store in Montreal where I grew up. There were two periscopes on top of this machine, which was the size of cigarette machine and you stood up on a platform and inserted your feet with the new shoes to see if they fit. I could look in one periscope on the top of the machine and the salesman or my mother could look in the other periscope. Really neat. We didn’t think about over exposure of x-rays in those days and my feet are still cancer free. Lol.

[MikeBiDude]

Desert Storm, VHS tapes, VCRs, Lite-Brites, Fisher-Price little people, Micro Machines, Power Wheels, Super Soakers, and Ross Perot

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[prof]

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...

You youngster! I watched it just before leaving for the graveyard shift of my college summer job.

[+ jeezopete]

Captain Kangaroo

Dark Shadows on TV when I got home from school

Totie Fields

a transistor radio made for mounting on my bike's handlebars

penny loafers (with pennies inserted of course)

Burger Chef, the first fast food restaurant to open in our town

fishing with cane poles

Mom's cabinet stereo in the living room

[+ WilliamM]

When newspapers published a breakdown of the first half of the twentieth century in 1950

 

The Ford 50th Anniversary Show on NBC and CBS in 1953 with Edward R. Murrow and Oscar Hammerstein 2nd in the late Spring of 1953.

[+ bashful]

My mother had a turntable that played 33 1/3 rpm... She only had a few of those records.

 

I remember those little disks that you stuck in the middle of 45s so you could play them on the turntable of a record player that accommodated albums (33 1/3).

[MikeBiDude]

I remember those little disks that you stuck in the middle of 45s so you could play them on the turntable of a record player that accommodated albums (33 1/3).

Weren’t 78’s ahead of all them? My grandparents left boxes of 78’s to the grandkids!

78’s history

[+ bashful]

Burger Chef, the first fast food restaurant to open in our town

 

We had a Henry's Hamburgers a block from our house. It was a mid-west chain that met it's demise when some franchise units were using horse meat as an ingredient.

[Merboy]

I guess one day the young'uns will be asking me if I really was alive when the Internet first went into people's homes and I'll say "Yep, my little grasshoppin' whippersnapper.... I was!"

[+ bashful]

Montgomery Ward

 

It was the go-to store for our family. It was nearby at Grand River and Greenfield. I thought the store was huge. Basement, 1st floor, Mezzanine, 3rd floor, and annex. Except for groceries, and lumber, could buy just about everything there, including grave headstones.

 

Every year before school started, Mom would take me there, a new pair of shoes, a shirt, maybe two, and pair of slacks, maybe two, and the rest of my school clothes were my older brother's hand me downs Mom would alter to fit on her sewing machine.

 

Thanks for the memory.

[Leyte2019]

Gilligan's Island, Bewitched, I Spy, Moon Landing, Release of Penny Lane, Hey Jude, Let it Be, Laugh In, Red Skelton, Glen Campbell

 

4 to5 hurricanes a year, sand dune beaches with tons of sand crabs, gulf houses, not tacky condominiums

 

Republican ridicule of Democratic yahoo demagogues like George Wallace and Lester Maddox

 

A white upper middle class socially liberal, moderate GOP

 

Big ass station wagons as the car of choice for affluent white housewives

 

Edited to add mass consumption of candy cigarettes, Koogle peanut butter, and Wacky Packages

Edited February 17, 2021 by Leyte2019

[BSR]

I remember ordering from mail order catalogs. I'd be so happy when LL Bean sent their really thick catalog with almost everything they sold. I also loved getting the International Male catalog, even though I never ordered anything from them.

 

I know, I'm not really going back that many years, but ordering from catalogs, as opposed to online like we all do now, feels like it was ages ago.

[marylander1940]

Desert Storm, VHS tapes, VCRs, Lite-Brites, Fisher-Price little people, Micro Machines, Power Wheels, Super Soakers, and Ross Perot

 

you're so young!

[+ Topseed]

In my Catholic grade school: crawling underneath our desks as part of a nuclear fallout drill. (Yes, really. I couldn't make this up if I wanted to.)

[+ bashful]

TVs brought into our classrooms so we could watch the '68 World Series (in black and white). Tigers won !!! (in case you forgot)

[+ bashful]

In my Catholic grade school: crawling underneath our desks as part of a nuclear fallout drill. (Yes, really. I couldn't make this up if I wanted to.)

 

In our drills, they herded us to the basement.

[dbar123]

Two other things I miss

Going to NYC and eating at the Horn and Hardart Automat. (As well as Howard Johnson’s)

 

Also miss the days when credit cards were small metal plates and when you bought something they would take an imprint of the card

Edited February 17, 2021 by dbar123

[prof]

In my Catholic grade school: crawling underneath our desks as part of a nuclear fallout drill. (Yes, really. I couldn't make this up if I wanted to.)

All the schools in my hometown had those drills, whether public or pvt. It was the times.

[thickornotatall]

All the schools in my hometown had those drills, whether public or pvt. It was the times.

We went to the basement in our school and sat on the floor in alphabetical order...The voting machines were stored there as well as barrels marked water and crackers...

[jtwalker]

Montgomery Ward

 

Montgomery Ward still lives! LOL https://www.wards.com/ I found this site because of this thread and there was a Packard Bell computer on the home page. It was like taking a trip to the past.

[+ azdr0710]

Also miss the days when credit cards were small metal plates and when you bought something they would take an imprint of the card

 

[+ azdr0710]

I've posted this before, but always worth a laugh if you have ten minutes to spare.......stick with it to the end.....