If You Recognize What's In These Pics, You're Old!

[jonevill]

Brings back some fond memories.

 

[IXLR8]

Ahhh! Pinball! We used to sneak away from high school at lunch and go to the bowling alley (Lake Air Lanes) and play pinball!

In Texas you had to be 21 years old to play pinball, because it was considered a gambling device.
We had a family trip to Hawaii around 1971 and I saw the local kids playing pinball, then all scattered but left the machines with credits on them, so I started playing. About that time a Police cruiser meandered by and motioned me over. He gave me a stern warning about playing those machines....

 

[deemus]

I'm old.

#Metoo

Do we get bonus pints if we used all 5?

 

[cygunner]

Old guy here. Grew up way out of town. No electricity or running water for first 7 years. Rode my horse to one room schoolhouse on the prairie. Started working with my father in the fields and pastures when I was 9 years old.

 

[Bozz10mm]

In Texas you had to be 21 years old to play pinball, because it was considered a gambling device.

I don't remember that. There were pin ball machines in many places all around our small town. Played a lot of pinball in high school. No restrictions as far as I know. It's just an arcade game, no money involved except for the nickle in the slot.

 

[Coyote9]

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Granbury still has our drive-in movie

 

[tonelar]

Ahh, yes, drive-in movies. I even watched a movie once.

I’m definitely old... can’t remember the first one but the Drive-Ins I went to were “panoramic”.

 

[tonelar]

I don't remember that. There were pin ball machines in many places all around our small town. Played a lot of pinball in high school. No restrictions as far as I know. It's just an arcade game, no money involved except for the nickle in the slot.

Pinball was legally redefined in the 70’s. One jurisdiction officially ruled it a game of skill (as opposed to chance) in 1974.
Up until that era, it was outlawed in a lot of the US .

Police Chief O’Brian (NYPD) smashing confiscated gambling machines.

 

[Axxe55]

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My grandparents had that same dining room set, but it was in yellow instead green. Not for sure how many colors those came in, but I have seen pictures of red, green, blue, and yellow.

 

[Axxe55]

I have actually used 4 out of 5 of those. Not sure what all those drawers are about.

Old library card files. It's how they looked up a book or author. Before the internet!

 

[deemus]

Somewhere around here I have a set of partitioned party plates with built-in ashtrays.

I still have my dads ashtray / magazine rack combo. Which now seems like a bad combo.

 

[Axxe55]

Somewhere around here I have a set of partitioned party plates with built-in ashtrays.

I can remember even people that didn't smoke, had ash trays in their homes for people that visited that did smoke!

 

[TX OMFS]

Some of you may recognize this 110 year old technology.

 

[studenygreg]

Some of you may recognize this 110 year old technology.

I wonder how many gen 1 glocks will be around in 110 years.

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[MikePotts]

Library cards, dewey decimal system?

Bingo !

 

[Axxe55]

Who remembers these?

 

[Haystack]

Do you remember laying out your change to use one of these?

 

[baboon]

I wonder how many gen 1 glocks will be around in 110 years.

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One has to wonder if the plastic will not become brittle!

 

[Bozz10mm]

Who remembers these?

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I do. My Mother and Grandmother were avid Green Stamp collectors. Wednesday was double stamp day at the local market. At one time, HEB gave Gold Stamps with purchases.

 

[baboon]

Do you remember laying out your change to use one of these?

Dope dealing killed those, more then cell phones!