Remember When.....?

[mtblujeans]

I remember living in southern California in the early 1970's when Sees suckers went from 10 cents a piece to 2 for a quarter....and we thought that was harsh!

What do you remember that has changed from when you were growing up??

 

[Obi-Wan Pinobi]

My dad was in the Army and we lived in Germany for three years in the early 1970s, from just before I turned 6 to just before I turned 9. Over there, we only had one tv channel, Armed Forces TV. Then we moved back to the states and had the big three networks plus PBS plus a few independent stations. Now, basic cable has well over 50 channels, including 5 solely for news (if you count Headline News and CNBC).

Oh, and I remember when comic books were 25 cents. They're 10 times that now.

 

[CA Disney Fans]

I remember when unleaded gas was under $1/gallon.

 

[MsDisney23]

I remember the 5 cent stanp, and a loaf of bread for $0.55 cents!

 

[Shelby5514]

I remember when unleaded gas was under $1/gallon.

When I first started to drive the price of gas was 79 cents/gallon. I remember when it went over $1.00 and everyone was having a cow!

Pop/Soda was 25 cents a can, or you bought it by the case, which was 8 bottles that you paid a deposit for!

 

[KingsFanInRI]

I have paid as little as $.59.9 for gas since I started driving (in 1986). I could fill the tank in my mother's Mitsubishi Tredia for $6.00.

I remember buying a box of baseball cards (36 packs, 15 cards per pack) for $9.00, and just today I paid $11.00 for ONE PACK (5 cards)!

I also remember that when I first moved to MA you could walk up to Fenway Park and buy tickets for that night's game; now getting into Fenway takes an act of Congress.

I remember the lettered tickets for DisneyLand.

 

[nwdisgal]

I remember Tab in glass bottles and of course I remember my buddy here in my siggie:

 

[ColoradoBuffaloMom]

When I first started to drive in 1975 gas was less than $.50 a gallon. In fact when I was little I remember they gave you drinking glasses when you filled up your gas tank.

I also remember getting $.50/hour to babysit and was thrilled when I started getting $.75/hour.

I'm old

 

[mtblujeans]

My dad was in the Army and we lived in Germany for three years in the early 1970s, from just before I turned 6 to just before I turned 9. Over there, we only had one tv channel, Armed Forces TV. Then we moved back to the states and had the big three networks plus PBS plus a few independent stations. Now, basic cable has well over 50 channels, including 5 solely for news (if you count Headline News and CNBC).

Oh, and I remember when comic books were 25 cents. They're 10 times that now.

AND....German TV didn't start broadcasting until noon!

 

[SunFloridaDisney]

When I first started to drive in 1975 gas was less than $.50 a gallon.
I also remember getting $.50/hour to babysit and was thrilled when I started getting $.75/hour.

I'm old

Me too!! On New Year's eve I got $1 an hour. That was for watching 4 kids!

I remember going to the movies and it cost $.75 for a ticket.

I remember going to the grocery store and getting the green or yellow stamps that you could save and trade in for gifts.

And some brands of detergent had bath towels in the boxes of soap powder!

LOL

 

[SunFloridaDisney]

And I just remembered another one. When I was a little kid (1st grade or so) before milk cartons, they had these tiny GLASS milk bottles for our school lunches. What moron thought up that??? Those things were breaking all the time...

 

[Lil_Tink]

When I could run around as a 6 year old w/o my parents worring..That was like 8 years ago...

 

[sweet angel]

Don't you remember
The fizz in a pepper
Peanuts in a bottle
At ten, two and four
A fried bologna sandwich
With mayo and tomato
Sittin' round the table
Don't happen much anymore

We got too complicated
It's all way over-rated
I like the old and out-dated
Way of life

Back when a hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
And crack's what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes
Back when a screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew
And when you said I'm down with that
Well it meant you had the flu
I miss back when
I miss back when
I miss back when

I love my records
Black, shiny vinyl
Clicks and pops
And white noise
Man they sounded fine
I had my favorite stations
The ones that played them all
Country, soul and rock-and-roll
What happened to those times?

I'm readin' Street Slang For Dummies
Cause they put pop in my country
I want more for my money
The way it was back then

Back when a hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
And crack's what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes
Back when a screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew
And when you said I'm down with that
Well it meant you had the flu
I miss back when
I miss back when
I miss back when

Give me a flat top for strumming
I want the whole world to be humming
Just keep it coming
The way it was back then

Back when a hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
And crack's what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes
Back when a screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew
And when you said I'm down with that
Well it meant you had the flu
I miss back when
I miss back when
I miss back when

 

[snoopy]

My first concert (Bad Company, 1977) was 7.50. I still have the ticket stub.

(must be why I never go to concerts anymore unless they are outside on the lawn at Wolftrap....can't do $300 for a pair of tickets in the nosebleed section! )

 

[Texan Mouseketeer]

I remember my Pepsi coming in a glass bottle with styrofoam wrapping around it and scratching my 'W' into it in the hopes that my brothers won't drink it this time. That's when I found out that having backwash was a GOOD thing and I overexaggerated that! Of course now, when they torture me with that story, no one believes I did it on purpose.

I remember paying 88 cents for gas in high school.

I remember changing the channels by sitting in front of the TV with my hand on the 'cable box' and sliding the knob through all the channels. You could go pretty fast with that thing!

I remember trying for a very short time ratting my bangs up super high and spraying them so stiff with hairspray that you could see the white flakes in your bangs and thinking, 'why is this popular?' and giving it up after a few months. Guess I rarely did go with the crowd...

These are fun to read!!!

 

[SarahandPaul]

I remember running home everyday after school to watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.


-Paul

 

[GailT]

I remember when I got my first car, I ordered it, a 76 Chrysler duster, gas was 65 cents a gallon for unlead and at 18 I thought that was alot of money

 

[crz4mm2]

Could get a fountain coke and a package of chocolate turtles for a quarter
Those were the days....

 

[wdw4life]

I remeber being able to buy a scoop of Thrifty's ice cream for 10 cents. Such a treat on a hot summer day.

 

[jajuan]

I remember the single Wrappers Delight was on a full size album because the song was so long.