What do you remember?

Shale wrote:OK, I already wrote about this years ago.

YOU KNOW YOU'RE GETTING OLD IF:

You collected soft drink bottles for their two-cent deposit, and you could buy something with two cents.

There was an "ice box" in your kitchen. (Not quite but I remember getting milk delivered from an actual milkman to the small metal box on the porch)

You remember people saying "I Like Ike." (Not quite)

You feel you personally know Howdy Doody, Clarabelle, or Buffalo Bob. (Not quite)

You remember not having television and you listened to shows on the radio. (No but I remember when we only had channels 2,4,5,7,9,11 and sometimes 13 and that we had to get up off our butts to turn the TV off and on or change the channel and if we got to stay up past midnight we heard the station play the Star Spangled Banner and then could watch a test pattern)

You watched black and white movies at the theater. (Possibly)

You watched movies that weren't rated - and didn't need to be. (Yep)

The first stereo album (vinyl) you heard was a sound track of trains, planes, and thunderstorms. (Nope)

You rode the Illinois Central "City of New Orleans" when it was the best way to get from Chicago to New Orleans. (Nope)

You traveled cross-country by car (58 Oldsmobile) on a U.S. Highway. (Nope but I did travel 3/4 of the way on a train)

Traveling by airliner was uncommon, and they all had propellers. (I did fly on a non-jet but I'm too young to remember it)

You used a white or colored restroom or drank from a white or colored drinking fountain. (Nope. I grew up in the north)

Your first "Pizza Pie" was a memorable experience. (I didn't like pizza when I was a child)

You bought cigarettes at 30 cents a pack (with no health warning) or a Coca Cola for 6 cents a bottle or a hair cut for 25 cents.

You bought gasoline at less than 30 cents a gallon at a "service station" where they pumped the gas, washed your windshield, and checked your oil.

You worked for a minimum wage of $1.65 an hour, and lived comfortably on it.

You ate one of MacDonald's first million hamburgers. (Not quite the first million)

You looked at Playboy centerfolds that didn't show pubic hair. ()

You got excited listening to the public address speaker in school as Alan Shepard went into space on a 15-minute flight in a Mercury capsule.

Alan Smithee wrote: I remember baseball trading cards and attaching one to the spokes of your bicycle tire with a wooden clothes pin so it sounded like a "motorcycle". (Did That)

I remember a time without area codes or zip codes and when the telephone exchanges were things like Murray Hill (MU) and Audubon (AU).
When I was a kid in St. Louis it was Chestnut (CH) and when we moved to the 'burbs it was Harrison (HA).

Suzi wrote:And by the way I remember 'pulling the chain', most of you won't even know what that means. Shale might know.

I don't remember it in any place in the U.S. but did encounter it in Europe in the '60s & '70s.

BTW, when I was a kid in an old inner city neighborhood, we did not have a hot water heater. Bath water was heated in a big kettle on the kitchen stove. But we did otherwise have indoor plumbing.

Our neighbors had an outhouse!

It was the only one on the block (can't imagine when every tenement had outhouses in the summer) There must have been a law passed because I remember when our neighbor had a toilet installed right in the middle of the room with a curtain around it. Guess they eventually built a bathroom around it.

Shale wrote:

I don't remember it in any place in the U.S. but did encounter it in Europe in the '60s & '70s.

BTW, when I was a kid in an old inner city neighborhood, we did not have a hot water heater (Of course not. Why do you need to heat hot water? ) Bath water was heated in a big kettle on the kitchen stove. But we did otherwise have indoor plumbing.

Our neighbors had an outhouse!

It was the only one on the block (can't imagine when every tenement had outhouses in the summer) There must have been a law passed because I remember when our neighbor had a toilet installed right in the middle of the room with a curtain around it. Guess they eventually built a bathroom around it.

Alan Smithee wrote: (Of course not. Why do you need to heat hot water? )

CeCe wrote:I remember when ... You could take knitting needles on planes

Car seats weren't required by law
Cigarettes could be bought in vending machines