Have you lived?

ronjhall · Nov 15, 2001

Mike
Great list. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif I do remember and have experienced most of them. /w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

beenthere · Nov 15, 2001

Great list. I remember them. As well, the 78 rpm records, and the victrola (sp?) that had to be wound up to get the record to play. Also, the ice man would come to the house with a block of ice to put in the ice box to keep the milk cold. There were tubes in the radios and the fireman next door got a salary raise to $100 a week. Also, two empty pop bottles could be turned into the grocer for one full bottle (but you had to drink it there, and not take the bottle with you). And not so long ago, was doing math problems with a slide rule.

frank_f15 · Nov 15, 2001

thanks mike, i remember all those things + some. i remember when tv was one channel and only came on at certain hours. used to get home from school and nothing on tv. had to wait for KUKLA, FRAN AND OLLIE(REMEMBER) GOD i felt pretty good till i read this thread. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

jimmoore · Nov 15, 2001

Frank, your not older, just better. Live it up until you die and go out fighting!

jim

Alan L. · Nov 15, 2001

I remember a lot of those, but too YOUNG for some of it!!

Others:

Cars that would run.

Burning trash in a barrel, in town.

On the column 3-speed manual.

8-track tapes

Alan L., TX
South of Bugtussle
North of Mustang
On the banks of Buck Creek

ERNIEB · Nov 16, 2001

I noticed nobody mentioned Cracker Jack. It cause your all mad at them for not putting in the neat prizes like they use to. Whistles, compasses, little figures of Cracker Jack and Bingo, stuff like that. Well, me too. The little pieces of paper they put in nowadays can't even be considered a prize.
How about "Strange as it seems" peanuts? Never did find any money in those things. Sometimes I put them in my soda. With that and a couple of nickle comic books, life was good.

Ernie

ronjhall · Nov 16, 2001

beenthere
Have you checked out the price of an icebox today? Sears opened a Great Indoors store here recently. They had an oak Icebox replica for over $1200. /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif I don't even know if would keep things cold./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

We called a refrigerator an Icebox for a long time before we stared to use Fridge./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

jhburke · Nov 16, 2001

Did you ever go down alleys to find pop and milk bottles to turn in for return deposit. Used to do this to buy a kite. Also putting peanuts in coke or r c cola and then drink them.

Jeff396 · Nov 16, 2001

Could you please elaborate on the peanuts in the coke thing. Are you just talking about regular peanuts?

Confused in SC!!

Jeff

roysallis · Nov 16, 2001

Buy a coke out of the machine for a nickel, buy a bag of salted peanuts for a nickel, drink a little of the coke, open the peanuts and dump them in the coke. Then eat and drink at the same time.

mikim · Nov 16, 2001

Good Grief - I remember all that ... how about turning the handle on the phone to get the operator and then just telling her who you wanted to talk to? Didn't need the number, she knew everybody in town and everybody's business!
mike

jimmoore · Nov 16, 2001

Don't forget the 2 holer out by the barn with the cresent moon on the door! At night when you went, you could see a thousand little eyes looking at you= spiders, praying mantis and other assorted creepy crawlers.

jim

pdxman · Nov 16, 2001

Here's some more good memories:

Dime store used to give you a free tootsie roll pop if you turned in a wrapper with a full picture of the indian with bow and arrow shooting the star.

Everyone wanted to be on A&W Root Beers peewee baseball team cause if you won you got free root beer. A&W drive ups, any still around? Papa Burgers, Mama Burgers, baby burgers and the best root beer in glass muggs on a tray hanging from your car window.

How about the small town butcher shops with the fresh meat case for retail sale and the butcher wearing the white apron and hat (red stained of course)? I think the USDA has clamped down on these small shops now and regulations for them makes it too expensive for retail.

scruffy · Nov 16, 2001

Jim, now how could I have forgotten those two holers!/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif After us boys blowing up one with dynomite, and burning a couple down because the pitch caught fire from us burning newspaper on cold nights....I'm amazed at forgetting them!/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
Did anyone mention listening to the Lone Ranger, Cisco Kid, Green Hornet (?) on the radio in the evenings? Dad was smart (?), never got a TV until we were all grown and out the door! Got rid of them stupid milk cows too, as well as built a bathroom in the house complete with bathtub!!!

MossRoad · Nov 16, 2001

PDXMAN, I showed my 8 yr old and 4yr old the indian shooting at the star. They always look for it now.

Scruffy, my dad waited until I moved out to get a tractor, not a TV. Why should he get a tractor when he had me?!

 MossRoad

PitbullMidwest · Nov 16, 2001

I showed my 8 yr old and 4yr old the indian shooting at the star. They always look for it now

This indian thing is a new one on me. Where would you look for it?

Bird · Nov 16, 2001

Scruffy, are you sure that little packet wasn't red? Then when mixed, the whole thing was yellow to look like butter? I guess I am getting old because the only thing I found in all these lists that I wasn't personally familiar with was the kick start washing machine./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Bird · Nov 16, 2001

Gary, back in even the mid-fifties a lot of men used hair oil to make their hair stay in place when they combed it, and when the butch, flat top, or crew cut hair styles came into style, butch wax was what you used to make it stand up straight.

MossRoad · Nov 16, 2001

Take the wrapper off of a tootsie pop and look at all of the kids doing different things. One of them is a kid in an indian costume shooting a bow and arrow at a star.

 MossRoad

Edited by MossRoad on 11/16/01 03:35 PM (server time).

scruffy · Nov 16, 2001

Bird, danged if I know, never saw one up close an' personal so to speak! Like I said, we made our own butter. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
You mean you never had an ol' gas engined Maytag wringer washer? Wow! Boy do I remember those things! Got my arm stuck in one clear up to the shoulder when I was about 4 or 5.
Dad had to tear the wringer apart to get my arm out. Didn't dry it off, figured it was wrung out enough!/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif