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Whoami
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08-03-2001

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 7:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
OK, it might be depressing to tell our age through this, but a few discussions led me to think of this thread.

Just think of food/item prices, the "next big thing," how awed we were with various new technologies, etc.......

I'll start with a few.

I Remember When.....

...gas cost somewhere around 25 cents a gallon. I was just a kid then. But I can remember being in the back seat of the car, and hearing Mom complain how it had just gone up to 30 cents.

...Mom stopping off at the gas station and only buying a gallon's worth of gas cause she couldn't afford to fill it up.

...Stamps were 5 cents.

...how awestruck I was at the Fax machine. To think a document I typed up here could end up way across town (or even in a different town) without someone physically having to deliver it there. It was beyond mind boggling and just the coolest thing I'd ever heard of.

...it was considered a status symbol to have a car phone. Heard tell many people installed a fake phone (corded, mind you, and shaped just like any other reciever you'd find on a house phone) just so they could look cool holding a phone receiver to their ear while they drove.

Dfennessey
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07-25-2004

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 7:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dfennessey a private message Print Post    
I remember when.......
..... you could only buy gas on certain days of the week because of the energy crisis.

Rissa
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03-20-2006

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 7:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
I remember going to the movies for a dollar. Actually .75cents for the movie and $.25 for a bag of popcorn. I also remember taking the bus from school to where my mom worked and paying a dime. When it jumped to a quarter I thought it was too costly and usually just went home.

Bluejaxrock
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04-23-2004

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 7:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bluejaxrock a private message Print Post    
I remember
when I started driving, gas and cigarettes were 50 cents and I'd have to decide whether I needed a gallon of gas or cigs;
when Qube came to Columbus (Qube was the pre-cursor to cable TV but it was interactive)-reminded me of the 60's when the first people on the block had a color TV were the rich folks;
mom making us go outside to "blow the stink off" and we weren't supposed to come in until the street lights came on-no staying inside! lol

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 8:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
I remember how rich we felt when Mom gave us each a quarter to spend at the drug store's candy aisle when we were en route to the drive in. A whole quarter meant we could get five "big" candy items, or a whole ton of penny candy.

I remember in HS, when stamps were 25 cents. And I was too poor to buy them. So my grandmother periodically sent me books of stamps so I could keep up my correspondance with my various pen pals of the day.



Alwayzmovin
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11-06-2003

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 9:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Alwayzmovin a private message Print Post    
I remember when my friends and I would pitch in 50 cents a piece to fill up the car and we'd drive all night long around and around our town square. The speed limit around the square was 35 mph and we'd get up to speed, then coast till we can to a complete stop. Of course laughing like idiots that we were soooo cool to think to do it.

Texasdeb
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05-23-2003

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 9:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texasdeb a private message Print Post    
I remember in Jr High when you could walk a block to the local "Tasty Freeze" and get a hamburger, fries, & drink for $.75. (that's back when kid's were allowed to leave campus).

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 9:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
I remember 39 cent cheeseburgers at McDonalds.

Couchtomato
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09-09-2008

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 10:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Couchtomato a private message Print Post    
I remember pennies (your change) taped to cigarette packs bought from vending machines.

Dfennessey
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07-25-2004

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 10:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dfennessey a private message Print Post    
I remember getting a hamburger fries and a small drink at McDonalds costs 99 cents. and my parents giving me $1.00 to go to the movies (the movies cost 50 cents and you got a small popcorn and a drink for 50 cents) and whoevers parents were picking us up got an extra dime to call from a payphone.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 10:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
I remember in grade 7, going to the neighbourhood cinema and seeing a TRIPLE-FEATURE for 75 cents!!!

I also remember as a youngster, paying 10 cents to ride the bus. We were so poor, I'd get on the bus, get a transfer and meet mom at the next stop, give her my transfer, we'd wait for the next bus, and I'd put in another dime. I can't remember what adult fares were in those days, but I do know we couldn't afford it.

Chaplin
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01-08-2006

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 11:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chaplin a private message Print Post    
I remember when bus tickets were 10 cents here for kids. I also remember when I went Christmas shopping for the first time by myself downtown. I had 10.00 to spend I earned plus some money my Mom gave me just in case I needed it. (The most money I ever had in my pocket and I earned it all by doing odd jobs except what Mom gave me). I got Mom some cheap perfume, Dad an ashtray (He still smoked in those days) and my brother got this new fangled sled which was flat, rolled up, plastic and called a super flyer. I still had money left over to get myself a snack. I went to the hot dog stand in the Simpson's Basement and was able to get a foot long and a coke for 2.00

Grooch
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06-16-2006

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 1:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grooch a private message Print Post    
I like this thread. You guys are all making me feel young. :-)

That or I am getting Alzheimer's. hmmm...

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 1:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
Bad Bad Grooch!

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 1:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
Roller skates with skate keys.

TVs getting only two stations (I guess that is why I roller skated a lot.)

Grooch
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06-16-2006

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Brian2204
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09-14-2004

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 2:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Brian2204 a private message Print Post    
....phones were attached to the wall.

....you had to get up to change the TV channel.

...."thongs" were worn on your feet.

....there were only lap belts in cars.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 2:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
I remember when Shoulder belts were attached to the headliner of the car, and kept in place with those little metal keepers, and if one came loose, the buckle would fall and hit you in the head.

I remember when you didn't have to put your babies in car seat and seat belts were optional.

I remember being asked Smoking or Non Smoking in a restaraunt

I remember when you could go to the 7-11 with a note from your mom and they'd sell a kid cigarettes (No, my mom didn't have me do this, but my friend's mom did)

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 3:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
I remember when they sold a box of candy cigarettes for a nickel. To kiddies, of course.

I remember when "cowboys and indians" was the all-American backyard kids' game instead of a politically-incorrect, sociologically insensitive and one-sided retelling of the early American experience with genocide.

I remember when GI Joe was a frikkin hero instead of a weaselly fascist propoganda tool.

I remember when the back half of the airplane was reserved for smokers.

I remember when my dad could give me sips of his beer without it being considered illegal or child abuse.

I remember when cars used to break down on the side of the road with radiator problems all the time. You never traveled anywhere without your own gallons of radiator water.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 3:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
...."thongs" were worn on your feet.

i have made the mistake of calling flip flops thongs much to my daughter's horror!! LOL


gawd, i remember all these examples!

Hermione69
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07-24-2002

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 3:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hermione69 a private message Print Post    
I remember when there was no closed captioning on TV sets or TV shows.

I remember playing "Asteroid" on the old Atari systems.

I remember when MTV played music videos instead of "The Hills."

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 3:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
I remember when music videos were a pretty neat idea, but I couldn't see why they'd go through the trouble of making one, since they were longer than your normal commercial break (which at the time seemed like the only logical time to run one).

Naja
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06-28-2003

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 3:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Naja a private message Print Post    
I remember in the early 90s my techno brother told me that soon home televisions will be flat like a painting, and we will be hanging them on the wall. I told him he was out of his mind.

Hermione69
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07-24-2002

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 3:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hermione69 a private message Print Post    
I remember when you could take a picture of your naked toddler's bum without a photography development place labelling it child porn!!!

Texasdeb
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05-23-2003

Monday, September 28, 2009 - 4:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texasdeb a private message Print Post    
Iremember having a crush on Peter Brady.