You Know You Are Old When

[MossRoad]

On that note, I used to collect paper matchbooks when I was a kid. I had several grocery bags full of them. Dad decided it was a fire hazard.

Not sure what we did with them. Might still be around somewhere.

 

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LOL!

 

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Yep. One in millions.

Let’s see if he is thinking the of the same great old movie.

Ingrid Bergman!

I need to watch that movie again - it was great!

 

[Alan46]

You know you are old if you bought cigarettes without the surgeon general’s warning on the pack!

 

[WinterDeere]

I wonder how people knew they were related to someone that lived 300 yrs in the past?

Most families who spent any amount of time in one place had a family historian or at least a few family bibles with births, weddings, deaths, and sometimes even a full family tree recorded in them. My own family tree has been kept nearly 100% complete back to 1600, with the oldest branches reaching back into the mid-1500's. There's also a remnant well recorded for a few generations either side of the Domesday book, 1086, but the thread was lost between that and the 1500's... the "dark ages".

The only thing the internet has changed would be my potential ability to connect the modern (post-1600) to the earlier (1086) branches, but always with some doubt, as too many seem to post wishes or suspicion as fact on most of those genealogy sites.

But since all of these older records were recorded on paper, ad-hoc in family bibles or church records, the thread would be lost due to families separating or moving, church fires, etc. Also, just one generation who either doesn't care about their family history, or wants to escape it, is all it could have taken for all subsequent generations to completely lose their history.

 

[MoKelly]

You know you are old if you bought cigarettes without the surgeon general’s warning on the pack!

Yes! That was in 1965 —- which is almost 60 years ago!!! Wow.

 

[masseyrider]

You know you are old if you bought cigarettes without the surgeon general’s warning on the pack!

I don't smoke, never have, but I remember as a little fella riding my bike into town and buying smokes for my mother.
The change was mine to get a treat.
I was about 6 or 7, no ID needed, nothing but the cold hard cash.
It hurt when they raised the prices because there was less change for my goodies.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

A quarter a pack in vending machines everywhere.

 

[FriendwithTractor]

I don't smoke, never have, but I remember as a little fella riding my bike into town and buying smokes for my mother.
The change was mine to get a treat.
I was about 6 or 7, no ID needed, nothing but the cold hard cash.
It hurt when they raised the prices because there was less change for my goodies.

"Go buy your grandpa a pack of marlboros, tell'em I says it's okay!"

Crazy thing is that worked. Of course, if I had tried that without the OK I would have gotten the literal short end of the stick! Word always would get back.

 

[masseyrider]

A quarter a pack in vending machines everywhere.

Ma said she'd quit when they hit a buck a pack. They were over $6 when she died and still smoking, lung cancer and all.
Here in Canuckistan I've seen people ahead of me in line paying over $20 a large pack. And it's usually the people who look like they can least afford it.