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

[baboon]

When we moved the wife was butt hurt that the wall clock she got to pick out as a kid @ the Green Stamps store did not make the move!

 

[dbgun]

I'm old.

+1....same here.

 

[480 Ruger]

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Bought 2 of these at Cracker Barrel last month for the grandkids

 

[BRD@66]

...... We've added so many expectations ........

Wow! Very kindly expressed.

 

[striker55]

A lot of things have changed, but I think we've added more stuff than what was deleted. When I was young, Dad worked, Mom stayed home and kept house. Chances were pretty good a family only had one car. Not everybody had a TV, but if you did, you probably only had one. If someone got a color TV, friends would go there to see the Thanksgiving Day parades or some special TV show that might be on. Fast food places were not common at all and were a huge treat if Dad did decide to take you there. We've added so many expectations - cell phones, computers, cable, cars, etc. - that now most family members have to work.

Ash trays were EVERYWHERE. Every living room had several ash trays. Every office had at least one. There was one outside every elevator. 10 minutes after a meeting started at work, you couldn't see across the room for the smoke. Cigarette machines were in every restaurant lobby and every gas station. All gas stations were full-service and the guys working there wore a changer so people could get change for the cigarette machine. A lot of older people smoked pipes, and so they had all sorts of little tools to clean them or pack tobacco in them. (When was the last time you saw someone smoking a pipe - with tobacco, I mean.) Phone booths were common; a call was 10 cents, but it didn't take much distance to turn a call into a long-distance call, and they were expensive - maybe a dollar or two for a couple of minutes. You had to have a lot of change for long-distance, because the phone company didn't take credit cards. In fact, most places didn't take credit cards, and most people didn't have one. Most pickup trucks had a rifle or shotgun in the back window, and almost all had a bench seat. (Your honey could sit close to you while you drove.) Seat belts were optional equipment. Air conditioning was in luxury cars, not in most people's cars and certainly not in pickups. Boys and men all carried a pocket knife or had a folder on their belt. Sailors and marines got tattoos; women did not. Women wore dresses almost always. Kids got a new pair of shoes before school started - and usually they were a size too big so you wouldn't grow out of them.

Some things have improved a lot, some things have gotten worse. I think people are more spoiled today. Too many expect everything in life to be handed to them. Like your birth certificate entitles you to every new cell phone that comes out, or a free ticket to college. Religion has definitely faded away from most people, although the more fanatic types remain. Smoking and drinking (esp. drunk driving) have been greatly reduced, but now smoking dope is becoming legal and acceptable. Doctors have quit handing out "diet pills" (amphetamines) and "sleeping pills" (barbituates), but mood altering drugs are handed out like candy - esp. to kids. The percentage of people that are complete assholes has remained about the same, even while the way they screw life up for everyone else has evolved into different concepts.

I remember when cigarettes were purchased in a machine and had pennies in the cellophane, forget the cost but say a pack was $.23 and you put a quarter in. That was the change.

 

[striker55]

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.

In high school the pinball machine was in a luncheonette, the guy left the key in the back of the machine. I had it and could give free games or extra ball's.

 

[striker55]

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

Yes and at the gas station we drilled a hole in the spot were you could put a paper clip and return the money.

 

[Moonpie]

 

[tonelar]

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

There was even a “holdout” in the formal entryway to our elementary school’s main hall (no one ever came through there). It worked for a nickel while payphones everywhere else were 10 cents.

 

[striker55]

Yes and at the gas station we drilled a hole in the spot were you could put a paper clip and return the money.

I remember stuffing these, anyone know what that is?

 

[Texasjack]

When I was in college there was a bar with a pinball machine or two and they paid off if you scored above some level. My roommate was sorely pissed when he got the score and the owner informed him that the cops had been cracking down and he had to stop paying off. Same place had a $1 lunch special that was a hot dog and a beer.

On spring break one year, a group of us hit a bar or two. When the bars closed down, one guy said he knew a place. We went to this old building and they had a door like the old speakeasys of Prohibition days with a little sliding port on it. We knocked and the bouncer slid open the slot and said, "Yeah?". The guy who knew the place told him he was somebody's nephew and they let us in. The bouncer was the size of small house. First thing we see is a long room with a bar that went the length of it. As we walked along the bar, I noticed that at least a couple the old guys seated there were "packin'", and they all gave us the eyeball. We went to a back room and there were like 4 small tables and a 4 ft x 4 ft stage about 3 feet high. On the stage was a pretty mediocre looking stripper and a drunk at the front table kept saying things to her and making her laugh as she was trying to gyrate on the stage. (Talking about her breast dimensions, for example.) We had a drink and decided it might be best if we left.

 

[cygunner]

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

Yeah, in the dorm we figured out how to flip a penny into the nickel slot with a key and two flips and you could call the world. Some guys called Hawaii just to see if anyone would answer. Phone guy had the funniest look on his face when he would open the box and a flood of pennies would come out. Passed by one at the Student Union/Center one day and it was making kind of a growling noise. Stuck fingers up the coin return and pulled out a huge chunk of wadded up paper and several dollars worth of change. Of course I reported it to phone company. Ha Later learned people did this routinely and then ran them like a paper route collecting from every one.

 

[striker55]

Yeah, in the dorm we figured out how to flip a penny into the nickel slot with a key and two flips and you could call the world. Some guys called Hawaii just to see if anyone would answer. Phone guy had the funniest look on his face when he would open the box and a flood of pennies would come out. Passed by one at the Student Union/Center one day and it was making kind of a growling noise. Stuck fingers up the coin return and pulled out a huge chunk of wadded up paper and several dollars worth of change. Of course I reported it to phone company. Ha Later learned people did this routinely and then ran them like a paper route collecting from every one.

We would call Alaska and ask for Sargent Preston of the Yukon, or ask for the weather. Then with the paperclip return the money.

 

[cygunner]

We would call Alaska and ask for Sargent Preston of the Yukon, or ask for the weather. Then with the paperclip return the money.

Pretty simple fun compared to today's drug infused activities.

 

[DoubleDuty]

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More to come!

Why are you trying to remind us how old we are? Some of us are trying to forget and succeding

 

[striker55]

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

We had a double theater, watch a movie and drive through to the other screen. One time we had a couple guys in the trunk, one of the employees saw them get out and get into the car. They chased us up and down rows. Finally caught us and got kicked out.

 

[satx78247]

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More to come!

Charlie,

When I look in the mirror each morning, I have NO difficulty in telling that I'm an EOF.
(CHUCKLE)

yours, satx

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

Old guys...beat out the early dead...

How many people you loved and cared for succumbed when you kept on chugging?

Lots.

But, your time is coming...enjoy while you can.

 

[satx78247]

Old guys...beat out the early dead...

How many people you loved and cared for succumbed when you kept on chugging?

Lots.

But, your time is coming...enjoy while you can.

Mowingmaniac24/7,

Tell me about it. = MORE than HALF of my boarding school class is GONE.
(It seems like every time that I get another Alumni Newsletter, another ex-cadet has passed on.)
I had a total of 8 roommates & ALL 8 have passed away.
(In all fairness, it must be said that 3 "roomies" were KIA & one DoW in RVN.)

yours, satx

 

[jrbfishn]

I remember all those. And more.

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