Are you this old?

[GeneV]

I'm a gen x'er who watched lots of reruns.

 

[orezok]

In the olden days, everyone could do arithmetic. 25 cents a gallon was 4 gallons for a dollar. Duh. $0.239 was 4.26 gallons for a dollar, call it 4 gallons and a quart. If you are really old you can remember when people did arithmetic.

The problem is that we learned how to do arithmetic. The kids now have to learn Math and it so much more difficult.

 

[bcp]

Bruce

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Well I guess you made up for me...I'm a boomer and I didn't recognize any of them.

Neither did I. When I was a kid I thought it was a stupid show, so didn't watch it. Living in town was like a foreign country to me.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

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Bruce

I still run a linear equation when I am handling money. If I want to pull money from my retirement account, and know it will be taxed in two different brackets, how much do I have to withdraw for the purchase and tax bill, and how much is it going to cost me in lost earnings? One simple equation, two minutes. Algebra was trivial. Deriving trig identities was tougher.

 

[ljjhouser]

Try googling an octopus furnace, which is the more common version.

True hypocausts went out of fashion with the Romans and the abandonment of child (slave) labor to sweep between the support pillars. A version of it was used in traditional Korean homes until fairly recently. Like hydroponic in floor heat, it is very efficient.

All the best,

Peter

Rented a house when I was young - we always called that a gravity feed furnace. Made to burn coal, but many were converted to gas.

 

[ljjhouser]

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I remember WLS - 710 am radio - DJ Don Armstrong. Clear down to Joplin Missouri - came in every evening loud and clear. Loved that station as a kid.

 

[Dftodd]

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.

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 .

O remember filling up my first car (65 Belair), giving the teller a 20$ bill and getting change back.

Can't do that with my wifes little Buick which has a 10 gallon tank.

 

[ponytug]

Fond memories of picking up WLS all over the Midwest. On calm nights driving, it was fun to see how far away you could tune in.

Thanks for the memories!

All the best,

Peter

 

[orezok]

When I was in college in El Paso in the 60’s, we would pick up a radio station from Del Rio Texas that played the best music but their programming could be all over the place. In reality their transmitter was in Mexico and who know how many watts they broadcast.

But my best memory was their ad for “ Genuine autographed pictures of Jesus Christ”. Hmmm…

 

[CalG]

KAAY Littlerock Arkansas was a night time boomer!

Beaker street and Beaker Theater.

 

[CalG]

test screens on the B&W TV

Coal sheds, coal shovels and cinder tracks

The introduction of foam seats to the outhouse (two holer)

Being third in the bath on the kitchen floor. Old soapy water, but a fresh pot of HOT.

Getting a.22 for your 10th birthday!

OH! ADAMS 5-2343, we were the two short rings. The Meyers were two Long rings ;-)

 

[CalG]

I was squeezing those teats on 6 cows from teh time I was big enough to sit on the old 1 legged milkstool until I went in the AF at age 18.

I trust you redirected a squeeze or two into the faces of the waiting barn cats!

 

[ljjhouser]

test screens on the B&W TV

Coal sheds, coal shovels and cinder tracks

The introduction of foam seats to the outhouse (two holer)

Being third in the bath on the kitchen floor. Old soapy water, but a fresh pot of HOT.

Getting a.22 for your 10th birthday!

OH! ADAMS 5-2343, we were the two short rings. The Meyers were two Long rings ;-)

Buying a 10 box case (500 rounds) of .22 for $9

 

[CalG]

gopher tails went for 1 cent bounty. then up to 3cents, then nothing.

The program ended

 

[CalG]

playing "Kick the can" in twilight

 

[CalG]

the introduction of Melmine dinner plates available at the grocery.

 

[CalG]

gas was 19.9 cents a gallon. and motor oil could be bought at the service stations from the racks of glass bottles with the spouts on. (The service station guy ALWAYS asked to check your oil!)

 

[CalG]

Driving the dump body grain truck to the elevator. 30 miles each way. and I couldn't see over the dash AND press the clutch fully (no synchros in a 41 dodge so it had to be pushed twice each shift) . I was sure happy that the "adult" at the elevator would drive the loaded truck onto the scales and bring it back out for the drive back to the fields.

 

[CalG]

turning all green on "chew" out behind one of the hay stooks, then eating black licorice to hide it!