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LOL......was the only thing worth looking at on the way to NE !

 

And listening to Weekend Monitor with Fibber McGee, Amos n' Andy and etc. Sweltering in the back seat with all the windows up except the two wing windows and seeing the occasional car go by with a swamp cooler hanging from the window begging dad to get one of those not know who nasty they could be.

 

And along with the .32 gasoline, the service station attendant was the owner, he smiled and knew what he was doing if you had a problem and you got Green Stamps with your purchase.....

 

...and cleaned your windshield, checked your oil and tires and fluffed them up if they needed it with FREE air even if you told him "a dollars worth".

 

Banks were open 9 to 5, charged 6% and paid 3%.

 

Ha! I was just about to say monochrome monitors, but found this about 20 pages back. Good times! I also remember modems (2400!), film cameras and rotary phones. They still make vinyl records but they are quite more rare than CDs and MP3s these days, and I only heard tales of that game they called pong. :cornut:

I do remember petrol being cheaper than 50 cents a gallon, and a phone call from a payphone costing a dime.

 

Party lines were the norm at my Grandma's house back in te 60's.

 

Hurst shifters FTW!

 

Miss Hurst.... Linda Vaughn

 

Simca's had 4 on the tree and a Renault R16 I once owned had column shift 4 speeds.

 

The tuition to your first semester of college was $150

 

Just got the letter for Alabama, first semester of college 42K.
Return on investment = not

 

1940 Census Taker

Remember the 1940 Census Taker knocking at your door and asking a bunch of questions? Well, I'll admit I don't remember the event as I was probably out somewhere on my bicycle. Nevertheless, the record shows me as 7 years old living with my parents in Clewiston FL.

Should you have been in the US in April 1940, you may find the record 1940 Census Records

 

.....or 2 cows and a pig.


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Gordon's Potato Chips! It was a Southern thing!

 

"Floppy" disks.. the not-so-sloppy 3.5", the sorta-floppy 5.25" and the almost floppy 8"
Not having a microwave.

OK, not really older than dirt, but still

 

oh and Bonanza, Archie Bunker, and MTV that actually had music

 

Remember getting a haircut, outdoors, sitting on a wooden crate in Korea after the truce was signed in 1953. The barber was a Korean civilian, using squeeze clippers (there was no electricity) and he charged 10 cents. Have had many haircuts since then and paid much more, but none more memorable. There's a lot less to cut nowadays.

 

You have got to join the old guys social group. You might very well be the oldest one here. We would love to have ya come aboard.

BTW: Not sure why that sounded like Navy talk. I was in the Army.

Jim