You Know You Are Old When

[tallyho8]

It looks like Earl created a new word.

 

[lman]

How about when cigarettes cost.25 cents a pack and didn’t have the Surgeon General’s warning on the side? Damn I’m old.

If you've smoked since they were $.25 and you're still smoking, I guess you've proved that the Surgeon General was wrong.

 

[LouNY]

If you've smoked since they were $.25 and you're still smoking, I guess you've proved that the Surgeon General was wrong.

Myself, I can remember $2.50 a carton on base and in the Carolina's. Other places they were higher I did kick that habit 12-14 years ago.

 

[Alan46]

If you've smoked since they were $.25 and you're still smoking, I guess you've proved that the Surgeon General was wrong.

I smoked for 8 years
Haven’t smoked for 53 years!

 

[airbiscuit]

Smoked for 15 years
Haven't smoked for 38 years

Why do I still have cravings?

 

[garry1p]

I'm old enough to remember the ice man delivering ice for our "ice box".

 

[LouNY]

I'm old enough to remember the ice man delivering ice for our "ice box".

Cutting ice on farm ponds and stacking with sawdust. Fortunately I missed most of that, we had one good sized building that was called the ice house. But the farm had gotten electricity in the 30's and refrigeration was one of the first things electrified with commercial power, the Delco plant (DC farm power) was to expensive to run constantly. It had ran an ice bank cooler for milk and a few strings of lights and such.

 

[lman]

If you've smoked since they were $.25 and you're still smoking, I guess you've proved that the Surgeon General was wrong.

It doesn't look like we could prove that the Surgeon General was wrong. FYI, I've never smoked.

 

[lman]

I'm old enough to remember the ice man delivering ice for our "ice box".

How old were you when you got electricity?

 

[JasperFrank]

Saturday mornings guy would push a cart along main street, early morning shouting, "Hay......Berries!" Not strawberries, but " Hayberries."
Early 60's.
Father, had a running tab with the next store Sinclair Station. Added up and paid off monthly. There were two brothers that ran the gas station on different days. Ogg and Brennen. Ogg wouldn't let us kids put anything on the tab, we had to pay. Brennen would say its all okay, "you are on tab," he just did not record us or charge us. I was a bit surprised to see this in the old records.