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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 9:27 am
Jeep- they sure made them better in the beginning, didn't they? Our first one (huge) lasted for 15 years and I think we've been through three since then. Out walking just now made me remember how much fun it used to be to hang out with friends on our bikes. Going out to look for treasure (empty soda bottles) and piling them in the flowered basket of my purple stingray. I remember once we came upon almost more than we could carry, went to the store and spent it all on candy, and how much better that candy tasted because we'd "found" the money. We could hardly believe our luck and that people would be so rich they could leave behind that much redeemable money. Five cents per bottle was the going rate.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 11:35 am
I bet nobody else goes back as far as buying butter in a plastic bag. There was a dark yellow core and you had to squeeze the color into the rest of the butter.
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Panda
Member
07-15-2005
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 12:33 pm
the county I live in has blue laws! Crazy since we have one of the biggest shopping malls around.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 1:18 pm
I remember milk delivered to the apt in glass bottles.
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Couchtomato
Member
09-09-2008
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 1:33 pm
I remember the milkman, bread man, egg man, huckster, rag men, and clothes props men. I also remember walking on stilts my dad made from clothes props. He put tape around the area my little hands would go so that I didn't get splinters.
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Gumby
Member
08-14-2004
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 2:45 pm
I remember banging pots and pans together outside at midnight on New Year's. My brother's always wanted a drum set, but we couldn't afford it, so they made a set out of empty Tide Boxes. I wish life could still be so simple and innocent.
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 3:30 pm
Scooter, my sisters and I shared being the icemaker!! I hated those metal ice trays with the pull back handle because my hands always stuck to that frozen metal. Jeep, I can't believe your alpha microwave still works!! It belongs in a museum for all to behold its gigantic enormous radiating proportions.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 8:02 pm
Dogdoc, I don't go back that far. But I recall Mom talking of the butter and color squeeze tube thing. Ugh on those metal ice trays. I never had the strength to pull that lever and break apart/release the ice cubes. I was so glad when we were able to invest in those cool plastic trays that all you had to do was give it a twist and out popped the ice cubes! I remember when remote controlled TV's were only for the rich. And as far as nostalgia goes....I remember us kids laying our heads down on Mom's tummy, then instructing her to swallow so we could hear how it gurgled on its way down. We always got such a giggle over that gurgle.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 8:12 pm
I remember before there were televisions, and people listened to the radio a lot. I remember the Indian and the numbers countdown when the black and white television went off the air for the night around midnight, or maybe it was 10 pm since I should not have been up at midnight. I have used a wringer washing machine to wash clothes. No dryer of course. When it was warm enough, we hung the clothing on lines in the back yard. Otherwise, we hung them up to dry in the basement.
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Beth4freedom
Member
10-24-2003
| Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 9:32 pm
Scout, I also bought one of the very first VCR's, and also debated long and hard about VHS vs Beta. Thank goodness I chose VHS because it still works, and Sony Beta tapes seem long gone. Like the microwave mentioned above, it is also a monster VCR machine. I have been trying to arrange to donate it to our local radio/tv museum.
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Countrydaze
Member
11-07-2003
| Saturday, October 03, 2009 - 11:02 pm
I remember having a push button TV before remotes and my husband was laid up with a full cast. I moved the sofa by the tv and he used a yard stick to change channels.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Sunday, October 04, 2009 - 8:33 am
That was funny Countrydaze, thanks for the laugh.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Sunday, October 04, 2009 - 8:40 am
The heighth of heaven on a hot summer day was going the the little corner grocer and getting a Dreamsicle.
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Sunday, October 04, 2009 - 9:36 am
Oh that reminds me of these things we used to eat in the summer when we were kids. It was chocolate coated with sherbet on the inside. When you finished the top of the stick had a cartoon character on it. I cant remember what they were called.
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Kstme
Member
08-14-2000
| Thursday, October 08, 2009 - 6:13 pm
I remember when Tetherball first came to our school. I was in grade school. My parents bought me one for Christmas and it was so cool! I was in Aberdeen, WA when the first dial phone went into service. My father was the mgr of the local office. He pulled the mighty switch and we no longer had an operator calling our home, early in the morning, to wake him up! I remember milking cows by hand and making butter by shaking a jar filled half-way with cream. I remember gas under 25 cents. Dick's Drive-in, Seattle, sold hamburgers for 21 cents...26 with cheese and the fries were 11 cents. I think a drink was 10 cents. I remember not locking our doors during the day. I remember open-sided pop/soda trucks. If the school bus pulled up next to one...well, you get the picture. This is a great thread and certainly makes me 'remember when'!
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Friday, October 09, 2009 - 12:01 am
i remember painting my nails white (let that dry), then put very small polka dots/with a bright color nail polish to finish off the manicure. this was in the '60's. i remember when color tv started... but we still had a B/W tv. my Mom bought this "color shield" (hard to describe lol), ...put it over our B/W tv. that was our first "color tv". :>)
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, October 09, 2009 - 7:21 am
I remember when the first McDonalds were opening across America. I lived in a medium-sized town in the American heartland then. There was another chain starting up then in the Midwest, called Sandy's. Both Sandy's and McDonalds had fifteen cent hamburgers, ten cent fries, ten cent cokes. Since I was so skinny, I was forced to drink a milkshake instead of a coke. Forty cents for a full meal. It was the first time my family was able to afford to eat out. I think we might even have gone once a week!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, October 09, 2009 - 8:03 am
You wouldn't have to force me to have a milkshake instead of a sodapop. Grin. But then again, that's probably why I'm NOT skinny!
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Friday, October 09, 2009 - 10:04 am
Juju - I remember Sandy's! We had them long before McDonald's ever came around. We almost never ate out, but sometimes if my dad had to go out of town on business, we'd go get a sack of hamburgers from there or the A&W. It was kind of bad, though, because we sort of looked forward to when he left just so we could get takeout. I remember all the little mom and pop neighborhood stores and how much fun it was to walk down the street and get some candy. Sure must have been handy for when you ran out of something, just to walk a few doors down to a store. Maybe not a huge selection, but the essentials. I remember envying the kids who lived there and had a whole store right in their own house.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, October 09, 2009 - 11:58 am
Scout, I remember Sandy's as being first as well, and then McDonald's came along as competition. Milkshakes were fifteen cents, by the way. We never ate hamburgers at A&W. Too expensive. However we kids would occasionally get a nickel root beer there. My girlfriend and I once did an experiment to see if you got more quantity from two nickel root beers or one dime mug. It was exactly the same. MB, the shakes at Sandy's and McDonalds were pretty big, and it was a lot of volume to get into a skinny kid on top of the fries and hamburger. And there would be no such thing as not finishing the whole thing. We were not allowed to waste food. So, even though I loved the burger and fries, it was an ordeal forcing that damn milkshake down.
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Friday, October 09, 2009 - 12:53 pm
Juju - our A&W would have specials where you could get like 10 hamburgers for a dollar. Their root beer was soooo good. Those frosty mugs just made it amazing. After ours closed, we tried buying a store brand root beer, and no one would drink it. Then they came out with IBC root beer and we thought the taste was pretty close. The milkshakes made me remember something my grandpa did. He decided one day he was going to buy me a banana split - can't remember why. He drove me to the DQ and bought this enormous split. I never really liked ice cream, but I didn't want to hurt his feelings, so I forced down every bite. I don't think I ate another banana split for twenty years. But to this day when I see one, it just makes me miss him that much more.
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Kstme
Member
08-14-2000
| Saturday, October 10, 2009 - 10:27 am
I remember the original Mama Burger from A&W. It was so good and slopped all over the place. I remember when my sister had a mild case of polio. She was in the hospital for a long time. My other sister and I were not allowed to visit her in the hospital. We'd stand outside her room, waving and holding up signs. My parents bought her a radio of her very own and that was a BIG deal. Huge old ugly brown thing, but she was the first to have one all to herself. In those days, there were no televisions or telephones in hospital rooms. She recovered, with a slight limp, and I think she kept that radio forever. I remember putting 'Fizzies' in water at the counter at Kress'. Thought that was so cool! I was a warped child. I remember when comic books were comic. Archie sold for 10 cents.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Saturday, October 10, 2009 - 8:20 pm
I remember when Kstme used to post here all the time, and then when she could barely see, and then when they found out she didn't have an inoperable condition after all and she could see again! Yay!
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Kstme
Member
08-14-2000
| Sunday, October 11, 2009 - 7:08 am
uhm...was it really 'that' long ago, Juju? hahaha You know the saying, 'Just when you thought it was safe...'
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, October 11, 2009 - 11:12 am
Good to see you back, Kstme. How's the eyesight doing? I think your last posting spate was right around the time you had the procedure done.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, May 31, 2010 - 5:52 am
I can't believe this thread is still here! Cool! I just thought of another one while watching a Bewitched marathon on TV Land. Currently the shows are in Black & White, and I know I've seen this show in color. So obviously its run was during the conversion to B&W to color. That lead me to look up when color tv really took root. And it also reminded when.... ....The TV Guide would list each show letting the viewer know if it was being broadcast in B&W or color.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Monday, May 31, 2010 - 2:31 pm
I remember when I was growing up in NY, second avenue was paved with cobblestones, the New york Daily News was manufactured and run from 42nd street right around the corner from me, when it snowed you had to have chains on your tires so that meant 42nd street was free for sledding. i remember when lexington avenue in the fifties was nothing but massage parlors and was a the place where middle aged men went cruising for young boys. I remember when all that expensive real estate on columbus avenue was nothing but welfare hotels, with hookers and pimps in their pink el dorados. I remember growing up in the sixties, with anti war demonstrations, and the "be in's" in central park on the weekends where thousands would gather to fly kites, sing songs and smoke pot. I remember U Thant, a very sweet man who always seemed to have the dentist appointment right before me.
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Nickovtyme
Member
07-28-2004
| Monday, May 31, 2010 - 6:54 pm
I remember a world without Cell Phones...how did we ever survive? I remember those big, round, black CD's my dad had...and the weird CD player that instead of a laser...used a stylus to play the music.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, May 31, 2010 - 8:00 pm
Kind of an I Remember When.... Its been a kick watching old reruns of Quincy on TV. The original CSI I presume. "State of the Art" computers (in DOS). And a pay phone on every corner as Quincy runs to one to phone in his findings in the field. And oh my! I can't believe how incredibly BAD the acting is!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, May 31, 2010 - 8:21 pm
I remember playing 78's, which preceded Nickovtyme's Dad's big black round CD's but also played with a stylus or needle. I remember advertisements for Victrolas, with the dog sitting next to the big hearing funnel, but they might have been nostalgia by the time I was growing up, and not actually devices for sale.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, June 02, 2010 - 9:08 am
 
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