I remember when.....

[hrh_disney_queen]

Jumpsuits for women! Not coveralls like mechanics wore, but fashionable form fitting one piece (usually denim) snap up the front suits. Also hot pants with boots. I can't believe what my mom used to let me wear to school!

 

[focusondisney]

Jumpsuits for women! Not coveralls like mechanics wore, but fashionable form fitting one piece (usually denim) snap up the front suits. Also hot pants with boots. I can't believe what my mom used to let me wear to school!

Yep, I think that all the time, what were my parents thinking to let us out of the house in those. I also had "sizzler" outfits, very very short dresses with co ordinated panties!

I remember when girls couldn't wear pants to school, only skirts or dresses. In the winter, you could wear a pair of pants to school but had to take them off in the "coat room".

And we had "gym suits". Those one piece awful, UGLY elastic waisted, snap up the front blue suits!

We also had the pliers to change the channels on the TV. We also would have 2 TVs , one on top of the other sometimes. The sound would work on one, the picture would work on the other. We couldn't always afford to get the thing fixed!

I remember the adults playing cards late into the night at family parties. If you were lucky, they'd play something the kids knew, so we could all play.

Piling as many people as you could into the car. "Way back" in the station wagon always made me car sick!

Metal roller skates that fit over your sneakers. You needed your skate key to tighten them up!

I could go on & on! Thanks for the memories!

 

[LiLIrishChick63]

there was no DSL internet, it was all dial up. and if someone was using the computer, you couldn't use the phone at the same time.

i was one of few of my friends who, in high school, had a cell phone. and since hardly anyone had them, there was never an issue with me using it during school hours. i don't think the phone even had the option of "texting" or whatever.

 

[Liberty Belle]

I was telling my daughter about party lines the other day and only having to dial 4 digits in town. I also told her about the good old days when we had cords on the phone and could only pace as far as the length of the cord. She rolled her eyes at me!

I think it's funny the lengths we went to when we were kids to see if school was closed for a snow day. Growing up in a small town pretty far from "the city," we weren't a huge priority for the TV stations and radio stations. We'd see snow on the ground, wake up and turn on the TV and wait for them to read off the list of closings. Likewise with the radio. If you stepped away for a second, you'd swear that you must have missed your school and you'd wait again. Nowadays my DD get a text message from the school and back to sleep she goes!!

I was also talking about how, when I was a kid, they would have a Donkey Basketball exhibition game at school every few years or so. If you've never seen Doney Basketball... well.... I have nothing more to say about that! Guess I really grew up in the sticks.

It seems like by the time I got there you had to dial five numbers - 7+### for C'ton and ?+### for Ghent.

I remember when in certain parts of town, you could only get WIKI on the radio. Remember...shoot, I think his name was Gary? He was a DJ there.

 

[denisem]

For your viewing pleasure...I present a favorite website "It Came From the 1971 Sears Catalog":

http://www.aperfectworld.org/sears.html

 

[Missy1961]

When we were kids (My older brother is 52, I'm almost 49, my baby sister turns 40 in September, we live in suburban NY), there weren't many restaurants where the whole family could go out to dinner. Every place was fancy, and you just didn't take your kids out to eat. The only time we went out to dinner, it was my grandma's birthday, and we would take her to a Chinese restaurant. Then gradually, the chain restaurants arrived, and we could go out together. I know a lot of people hate the chains, but for this reason I love them: I can take my nieces & nephews out to dinner & no-one gets upset if they talk a lot. (and those kids can talk!)

I also remember rotary phones, 8 tracks, transistor radios (I remember taking mine to the beach), banana seats on bikes, being scared to death by the flying monkeys of Wizard of Oz. Who remembers when the World Series was played in the day time? I do, because the Mets won the World Series in 1969 while we were in school!

How about watching Apollo 11 & men walking on the moon? How about Apollo 13 & worrying that the astronauts would make it home safely?

 

[stahshee]

cb radio
tandy 1000
pay phones
Christmas partys in school not holiday partys

 

[LiLIrishChick63]

cb radio
tandy 1000
pay phones
Christmas partys in school not holiday partys

wow i totally forgot, my dad had a cb radio in his truck when i was younger, i loved that thing. my uncle had one too so he'd always talk to me on it lol

 

[golfgal]

For your viewing pleasure...I present a favorite website "It Came From the 1971 Sears Catalog":

http://www.aperfectworld.org/sears.html

I bet if I dug out old pictures I would find myself is many of those same outfits .

 

[Inigo]

I bet if I dug out old pictures I would find myself is many of those same outfits .

I stumbled the page to my DD19 with the message that this catalog explains why I'm so warped: I had to wear these clothes!


*http://www.stumbleupon.com is a wonderful way to find weird or interesting websites.

 

[bigbabyblues]

This is embarrassing, just five years ago one of our cars still had the crank windows and our nine year old van has the manual locks. Heck, it was until last year when my 15 year old car died and bought my DD a used car did we get the power locks.


We're very behind the times.

Don't feel bad.....we've got a 1995 Dodge Neon in our driveway that DH stopped driving the week before last when he finally broke down and got a something else.....the Neon has hand-crank windows, no power anything, and no a/c. It may HAVE a/c, but it sure doesn't work, and hasn't since we've had the car.

 

[heaven2dc]

Wow - I remember almost everything listed here so far!! That really shows my age - haha. Here's my list:

actually writing a letter on paper and putting it in the mail.
drinking cold coffee (before microwaves)
waiting a week for my film to be developed
transistor radios with only am channels

 

[JOCAmom]

No UPC scanners! I worked retail right out of high school, and had to learn what the million buttons on the cash registers were all for. Grocery stockers had to stamp prices on everything, and the cashiers practically memorized all the prices.

I worked in a grocery store like this. It was really a produce store with a few grocery isles thrown in. And we learned to work most of the other departments. It was nothing to work the register, wrap produce and stock the shelves all in one night.

I remember when we first go the scanners. We hated them. We could all work much faster ringing it up by hand. Didn't even have to look at the keypad on the register either.

 

[Pikester]

For those of you talking about glass bottles of soda...I remember getting the little glass bottles of soda with the screw cap (I'm 36). My Dad would have my Mom drive to this one store because they always had Coke in the glass bottles and he too said that it tasted better then in the can.

I remember so much of what everyone else has said.

Riding in the back of my Dad's pickup that had a cap on it with a bunch of friends to the amusement park.

When Typing became Keyboarding at school.

Watching War Games in computer class to see the "computer".

Using the pay phone in the school lobby to call the parents.

Watching my friend lather up with the baby oil and laying on her foil tanning blanket.

Going out for McDs or pizza once a week on grocery shopping night.

My Grandmother had a party line.

I too played outside till dusk and you could here my mother throughout the whole neighborhood when it was time to come home.

Clogs and Dr Sholls.

Jellie shoes and banana clips.

Checked black and purple shirt with collar flipped up and a sweater vest over it to go with my black leggings and two pairs of socks and hi-top Reebocks. Feathered back hair that was pulled back with a clip on one side of my head and earrings that hung down to my shoulders.

Denim Jacket with pins all over the front.

Good times, Good times.

 

[kaytieeldr]

For those of you talking about glass bottles of soda...I remember getting the little glass bottles of soda with the screw cap (I'm 36).

A mere child When we were your age, you couldn't simply unscrew that cap. You needed a bottle opener (church key). I'm not talking about screw-top bottles, with 'threading' on both the bottle and the inside of the cap. I mean the small caps like you still find on beer bottled but you can twist off now? Not when I was your age Bottle opener; careful coordination/timing between hand, counter edge, and bottle cap; or VERY careful breaking of bottle neck... no, I'm joking on that last one!

 

[Pikester]

Oh yeah, in High School I worked at a local clothing store that had an old fashion register. The buttons where lined up from 10$, $20, $30, etc then the next row was from $1 and up to $9 and then you had the next two rows for the cents. You pushed all the buttons down to make up the price and then hit the big button that rang it up. Then you started all over again for the next item. Once you were done you hit the total button, then the big button and then the drawer would pop open. If the power went out there was an area on the side that you could attach a hand crank to run the register.

 

[tink1969]

Boy does this thread bring back lots of memories!

I remember.......

School House Rock
Paying by check at a retail store
retails stores closed on Sundays
The Rocky Horror Picture Show was a 'must see'
Gold Rush gum
Popeye Cigarette candy (now just Popeye Candy sticks)

 

[MUFFYCAT]

For your viewing pleasure...I present a favorite website "It Came From the 1971 Sears Catalog":

http://www.aperfectworld.org/sears.html

That was great, thank so much.

Oh yeah, in High School I worked a local clothing store that had an old fashion register. The buttons where lined up from 10$, $20, $30, etc then the next row was from $1 and up to $9 and then you hd the next two rows for the cents. You push all the buttons down to make up the price and then hit the a big button that rang it up. Then you started all over again for the next up. Once you were done you hit the tital button, then the big button and then the drawer would pop open. If the power went out there was an area on the side that you could attach a hand crank to run the register.

I remember those cash registers. I use to add the amounts in head before it came to a total.Now, I wouldn't trust my "Mental Math".
I love it now when I give the cashier to round out change so I don't have alot of pennies or to the dearest dollar, they look at you because they don't know what to give you.

We had a rotary phone in the kitchen when we moved here in 1987 and kept it for long time because it was it wouldn't die. My kids friends never saw one and would look at it and not know how to use it. That in itself was well worth to keep it ... just to see the expressions on their face.

 

[Mommytobree]

When I wanted be able to listen to my favorite song on my walk-man-that's a portable tape player folks-we didn't have Itunes, we had to spend the day in the house until the radio DJ would finally bestow his pity on us and play the song while I dashed into my room to hit the record button, usually smashing a body part into something from my mad dash. And to be super nice, the radio DJ would usually talk over the first few lyrics of the song

 

[golfgal]

Boy does this thread bring back lots of memories!

I remember.......

School House Rock
Paying by check at a retail store
retails stores closed on Sundays
The Rocky Horror Picture Show was a 'must see'
Gold Rush gum
Popeye Cigarette candy (now just Popeye Candy sticks)

I remember these as well-"I'm only a bill", "Conjunction Junction what's your function?", etc. It's amazing how well these stay with people.