You Know You Are Old When

[MoKelly]

Speaking of old, how many remember that thing called “white out” that you used to fix typing errors. On a type writer!

 

[George2615]

Speaking of old, how many remember that thing called “white out” that you used to fix typing errors. On a type writer!

I still use it on sudoku puzzles that I do in pen.

 

[sixdogs]

There's one thing from the late 50's I remember, and was taught in driver training but when I mention it to others, they draw a blank.

Who remembers the correct way to get into a vehicle when parked on a busy street was to go in the passenger door and slide across the seat? Maybe it was a regional thing and maybe confined to a few years but I know I was taught that even though I rarely did it. Anyone remember this?

couldn't really do it in most of my cars because of center consoles.
I have noticed it done in older tv shows.
I thought they were doing it for camera angels????
Never heard of it otherwise.

I don't think it was for camera angles but do remember people doing it in the mid-late 1950's.

 

[Oaktree]

Who remembers the correct way to get into a vehicle when parked on a busy street was to go in the passenger door and slide across the seat? Maybe it was a regional thing and maybe confined to a few years but I know I was taught that even though I rarely did it. Anyone remember this?

Never heard of that one, and I took driver's ed in 1965. Only time I've ever done that is if the driver's door wouldn't open for some reason...lock frozen, etc. As someone else mentioned, moot point with most anything made in the last 40 years or so.

When I took the on-road part of the course there were 3 driver's ed cars...all Chevy Biscaynes IIRC. 2 were automatics, one manual. I knew how to drive manual, so I got assigned to that car. What I didn't know was that it had a V8 in it...all I was used to was a very underpowered 6 that was my mother's car. One time when taking off from a stop sign the instructor said something to the effect of "don't be afraid to give it a little gas". Well I did, and must have left a strip 15' long. His response was "not quite that much".

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

We watch movies on TCM, 30s-50s mostly. The driver gets in passenger side most always but that could be camera angle. I rarely ever have done that.

 

[Sigarms]

There's one thing from the late 50's I remember, and was taught in driver training but when I mention it to others, they draw a blank.

Who remembers the correct way to get into a vehicle when parked on a busy street was to go in the passenger door and slide across the seat? Maybe it was a regional thing and maybe confined to a few years but I know I was taught that even though I rarely did it. Anyone remember this?

My father never mentioned about getting into a car like that in the 50's, but he sure told me and his grandsons about utilizing those one piece car seats.

Apparently seat belts really were not worn all that much back in the 50's.

When driving with a cute girl as your passenger, when you came across a curve on the road on your right, you would slightly accelerate into the curve, and the girl to your right would slide right up next to you.

That's what he always called a opportunity curve.

 

[Sigarms]

Richard Cunningham and Authur Fonzarelli today...

I was listening to Bill Haley and his Comets from my parents before the show hit the air, and was so proud I could sing all the lyrics to "Rock around the clock" LOL

 

[sixdogs]

My father never mentioned about getting into a car like that in the 50's, but he sure told me and his grandsons about utilizing those one piece car seats.

Apparently seat belts really were not worn all that much back in the 50's.

When driving with a cute girl as your passenger, when you came across a curve on the road on your right, you would slightly accelerate into the curve, and the girl to your right would slide right up next to you.

That's what he always called a opportunity curve.

Your grandfather knows the way around the block in life. Those curves were meant to be if you accelerated right.

And cars were so beefy back then because of no seat belt. There was the belief that more steel would help you in an accident at the typical speeds in town of 30 MPH. The driver would reach his arm across and in front of passengers in the case of a sudden stop. My dad did that. It all changed with the Interstate and seat belts started showing up in the late '50's.

 

[Alan46]

You had to call the operator when wanting to make a long distance call !

 

[MossRoad]

How about Highway Patrol starring Broderick Crawford.

Later in the 70s, was Movin' On with Claude Akins and Frank Converse.

Movin On is still on locally at night.