Are you this old?

[k0ua]

We could pick up WLS into north Florida on a good night.

Spent hundreds of hours listening to WLS in Southwest Missouri when I was a kid. Remember it like yesterday.

 

[k0ua]

Remember that night like it was yesterday.
My wife was pregnant and asleep on the couch.
I noticed that all the countries that reached 2000 first were not crashing and burning. So I set back and enjoyed the evening.

I stayed up and read a Stephan King book. Finished the book, and went to bed.

 

[tree farmer]

I WAS that milkman who delivered to your back door. It was my college job. And yes, we did have trucks in those days. The newest and most coveted one was a brand new 1965 GMC one ton dually.....Dan.

 

[npalen]

WLS, home of the best DJs in mid-America in the '60s.
Larry Lujak is a legend.

Don't forget Wolfman Jack.

 

[Bird]

Old enough to remember dialing a phone number just to find out the time.

That's one I had forgotten about, but yes, I've done that, too.

 

[Bird]

Being on the operating table getting ready to have my appendix removed. Then having ether dripped onto my face covering to put me out.

Yes, I can remember that, too, perhaps for a different reason. When they put that face mask on and it appeared I was going to be suffocated, the fight was on, and I was holding my own until one of them went to get my Dad. I guess my Dad was one of a kind, he never raised his voice, he never cussed (I was shocked one day when I was 16 and he got frustrated with a problem working on a car and said, "Heck". I'd never heard him use such language.). BUT . . . he didn't believe in spanking children either; he just beat the you know what out of any of us who didn't instantly respond the way he wanted. So he just stuck his head in the door and said, "Lay and down and do what they tell you." I was smart enough to figure it was better to be suffocated than beat to death, so I laid still.

 

[Pixguy]

 

[Pixguy]

 

[Pixguy]

 

[Pixguy]

Did anyone buy a dog from Montgomery Ward?

 

[bdhsfz6]

Are you old enough to remember the connection?

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Penny social?

 

[Hay Dude]

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There’s some amazing songs on that top 20 list!
I was born after them, but heard them as a youth and many of those linger on today. A testament to the quality of their sound. One that is funny to me is “Downtown” featured in a Jerry Seinfeld episode.
Heart Full of Soul was a real groundbreaking sound.

 

[Bird]

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My parents didn't have a station wagon, but I sure remember our two daughters riding, playing, sleeping, etc. in the back of our station wagons.

 

[CADplans]

Penny social?

When the needle was worn, you needed to add a weight to the arm, to keep the worn needle from "skipping" ,,
or sometimes, there was a scratch on the record, and the penny weight would help keep the song progressing.

 

[JethroB]

Old enough to remember dialing a phone number just to find out the time.

The nearby bank. I still remember the number after 50+ years. 985-1212. I just tried it, out of service.

 

[Pixguy]

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I did this in the early 70's in my dad's wagon. If I did that today, I'd get motion sickness.
Getting old sucks but sure beats the alternative!

 

[Oaktree]

We could pick up WLS into north Florida on a good night.

I was aware of WLS, but they didn't come in very well here in northern New England. "The" station when I was in high school (mid 60s) was WKBW from Buffalo, with WPTR (Albany) and WBZ (Boston) as alternative choices. WBZ came in during the day too. Way better than our crappy local station.

I remember well the owner of our local gas station telling me that if someone had told him he would be able to put $10 of gas into a car he would have called them crazy.

Actually, even into the 80s a lot of the econoboxes had only 10 or 11 gallon tanks, so they wouldn't take much more than $10 worth, so that doesn't go as far back as you'd think. Then again, I'm in my 70s so the 80s were fairly recent history .

 

[Oaktree]

Good thing it was cheap, when I got my '66 Impala SS396 in '68, I burned a lot of it cruising on the weekends.

I had a '65 with a 327 in the early 70s. That thing, as they say would pass anything but a gas station.

 

[WVBill]

I remember when my parent's phone number was Newmark 5-1274

 

[LD48750]

I remember when my parent's phone number was Newmark 5-1274

Dad worked for the phone co. and our number was 177j.
Then they put someone else on our party line so we got a PRIVATE line...177W.