<p>The Dad, I still call them transistor radios - don’t know the difference!</p>
<p>Anyone remember candy cigarettes? And little wax coke bottles filled with sweet liquid (can’t remember what was inside).</p>
<p>We had these kinds of tablets your put in water and made rootbeer</p>
<p>yum</p>
<p>Pixi-stix, Turkish Taffy, SweeTarts, those long strips of paper with dot candies on them, pretzel rods for a penny, red licorice shoelaces, it’s a wonder any of our generation still has their own teeth! </p>
<p>Mister Softee and Good Humor trucks competing for our business everyday.</p>
<p>Ahhh, the good old days. :)</p>
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<p>And the test patterns of some of those five channels that were seen when the station stopped broadcasting.</p>
<p>And when you had to take the tubes out of the TV set to bring to the store for testing.</p>
<p>wax bottles with some kind of liquid inside that your mom wouldn’t let you buy, and the guy who sold them that she wouldn’t let you buy anything from. penny candies, sure, and those little dots of candy on a strip. $ 10 or less US Keds, the originals. roller skates with keys and scooters made from two old boxes and an old skate (or maybe a not-so-old skate that someone “lost”)</p>
<p>Ah yes, I remember them well!</p>
<p>And feeling old the first time some kid called you “sir” or “ma’am”.</p>
<p>I remember the first moon landing – we watched it on TV and then went outside to look up at the moon. It still seems remarkable to me!</p>
<p>How about:</p>
<p>When TV repairmen would come to your house.</p>
<p>When the milkman would leave glass quarts of milk on your porch</p>
<p>When the Oscar Meyer Wienie mobile would come to your neighborhood and hand out wienie whistles… yeah!</p>
<p>Count me in for the kleenex bobby pinned to my hair, the bubble-do with bow, and rolling my hair on tuna-fish cans!</p>
<p>Dial telephones? Female unmentionables being wrapped in plain white paper?</p>
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<p>I remember when department store sales people used to write up your purchases on a sales pad. </p>
<p>I remember carbon paper!!! When did we stop using that and go to paperless carbon?</p>
<p>FIZZIES@@@ That was it!!</p>
<p>Wow, they were the best, you could put them on your tongue!!!1</p>
<p>And remember no non-fat stuff, it was full fat or skim milk, and everything else was fat</p>
<p>And then there wsa TAB, which tastes like drano</p>
<p>ugh we had * powdered* milk that my mother bought in an effort to be thrifty apparently ( this is while she spent money on Tang and Space Food sticks- not to mention cheese in a little glass!)
Whats worse is she would cut it with actual homo milk thereby making the whole thing undrinkable-</p>
<p>My H had a dad who delievered milk so they had actual whole milk and ice cream and Butter!</p>
<p>Tookie, pre-transistor radios used vacuum tube technology and weren’t portable beyond the length of an extension cord. Of course, these days you’d get a gajillion transistors on a single chip.</p>
<p>CGM: Tab still tastes like Drano. Over.</p>
<p>I still see Tab in stores (I wonder who buys the stuff – I mean, who would pick Tab over Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi???)</p>
<p>I am so old that I remember when we could get 5 gallons of gas for one dollar. </p>
<p>Now, we’re supposed to be happy that gas is not $5 for one one gallon!</p>
<p>WHO still has a mailbox slot in or near their front door??? </p>
<p>People are lucky if the mailman actually gets out of the truck and comes near the house. Some homes have “centralized” mail boxes at the ends of their streets.</p>
<p>I am so old that I remember going to my grandpa’s house and he had a party line.</p>
<p>I miss breakfasts that consisted of Tang and Poptarts ;)</p>
<p>while I might admit to eating hostess pies on the way home from junior high ( yum- chemical apples!)I seriously never could stand pop tarts- my younger sister really loved them though- but then she also liked cap’n crunch - how can something possibly taste * sweeter* than plain sugar?
( I didn’t like Tang either- my brother prefers it to orange juice- don’t ask me why- now that I think of it- I was always the odd person out- I was a vegetarian when I was in junior high- and made stuff with carob & rice syrup for the teachers at christmas time instead of christmas cookies like everyone else)</p>
<p>well i live in the city- the mail person drives a truck and walks up and down the street-my mailbox is next to my front door
where I grew up the mailboxes were at the end of our driveways</p>
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<p>You know you are old when people tell you</p>
<p>You look good for a person your age :eek:</p>
<p>Has anyone here ever experienced a “house call” from their doctor?</p>