I remember when.....

[Black Dahlia]

You could buy 'penny candy' for a penny! Hmm...candy.....

 

[John in Covina]

Back when the Long Island Rail Road's line to Babylon was not elevated.

 

[Lincsong]

"Body by Fischer" was stamped on the door sill of Chevrolet to Buick and "Body by Fleetwood" stamped on the door sill of Cadillacs.

 

[St.Ignatz]

Benny Hill was still on TV (not in reruns). ;0 I remember begging and pleading my parents to let me stay up late and watch the show. I was obsessed with Benny Hill. Ha ha.
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Antenna TV. ANTTV for those of us subscribing to the evil empire (comcast) shows Benny on weekends.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

2 of 3 cars I own have 'Body by Fischer' plates on them.

"Body by Fischer" was stamped on the door sill of Chevrolet to Buick and "Body by Fleetwood" stamped on the door sill of Cadillacs.

 

[Talbot]

I remember when soda and beer cans were made of steel and had a spine.

I can recall my uncle Clarrie getting his tongue caught in the hole left by the can opener.

Damn that was funny!

 

[sheeplady]

I remember when there were enclosed malls. We have three left in our city. The others have all been replaced by box stores and strip malls.

I also remember when all the strip malls were dead.

All that's old is new again.

 

[John in Covina]

I remember when there were enclosed malls. The others have all been replaced by box stores and strip malls. I also remember when all the strip malls were dead.
All that's old is new again.

I have to agree. Out this way the indoor malls do OK if the anchor stores are good ones but some indoor malls have really declined. Seems strange 'though that we can have really hot summers and people are at the out door malls sweltering.

 

[Warden]

something from the past about to make a come back in the UK is that wonderful 1940s invention Tupperware

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13331830

 

[djd]

I remember 4 didget phone numbers, smoking on underground trains and writing letters!

 

[John in Covina]

something from the past about to make a come back in the UK is that wonderful 1940s invention Tupperware http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13331830

Tupperware has many fans and many detractors. I have found that it seems to be a better product than the supermarket resealable containers especially if you use a microwave.

 

[Warden]

I remember 4 didget phone numbers, smoking on underground trains and writing letters!

I hand wrote a letter the other day, seemed very odd ~ shame

 

[Edward]

I remember 4 didget phone numbers,

I remember having one when we moved house in 1979... some time in the 80s, it moved to five digits, then six from the beginning of the 90s. I think you're up to eight over there now? Can't remember exactly when that happened, but I haven't lived over there since 1999.

smoking on underground trains

That was before my time.... I think it was the King's Cross fire that did for smoking in the Underground? I think I do recall there being a smoking section in the cinema, though.... one side of the aisle.... The ABC, as was, in Belfast, if memory serves.

 

[djd]

I was living on Kent in those days. Certainly only four didgets through the 70s. Now? I couldn't even tell you what my landline number was. Another sign of the times!

I may well be wrong but I think smoking on the tube trains had stopped a few years before kings cross? I think at that time you could still smoke on the platforms but not the actual trains? I went through kings cross the night of that fire when the station was full of smoke. It was just black... Its one of those funny things smoking on the tube... You know you were there, you know you experienced it buts it's so hard to imagine what it was like now! If someone I'd smoking in the car in front of me when I'm driving to work I can smell it. Lol

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

I remember 4 didget phone numbers, smoking on underground trains and writing letters!

Here in the States (and Canada) we've had the ten-digit phone numbers for years but you only had to dial the area code for making long distance calls. Now we have to dial 1+Area Code even for local calls.

 

[Puzzicato]

something from the past about to make a come back in the UK is that wonderful 1940s invention Tupperware

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13331830

Relaunching? Did it ever go out of style? I haven't been to a tupperware party in the UK, but I went to a couple in Oz and my mum seems to go to 2 a year.

I can thoroughly recommend their icecube trays, very clever design.

 

[John in Covina]

Here in the States (and Canada) we've had the ten-digit phone numbers for years but you only had to dial the area code for making long distance calls. Now we have to dial 1+Area Code even for local calls.

That is from the rapid rise of area codes and area code overlays needed to handle the cell phones.

 

[Edward]

I may well be wrong but I think smoking on the tube trains had stopped a few years before kings cross? I think at that time you could still smoke on the platforms but not the actual trains? I went through kings cross the night of that fire when the station was full of smoke. It was just black... Its one of those funny things smoking on the tube... You know you were there, you know you experienced it buts it's so hard to imagine what it was like now! If someone I'd smoking in the car in front of me when I'm driving to work I can smell it. Lol

Ha, yes. I remember when NI Railways (pre-Translink) went from having one in three "smoking" carriages on their trains to none at all.... a good six months before the smell went entirely. For a long time you could tell whether the carriage had been a smoking one previously. You are, I think, right about the tube - I know there was a period where they allowed smoking on the platforms and in stations, but not the trains themselves (how they ever policed that, I don't know). Funny how quickly the smoking ban became normalised - now when I'm abroad somewhere that doesn't have an equivalent, I find it very bizarre to see someone smoke indoors.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I remember when more than one radio station played music on AM radio.

 

[John in Covina]

Funny how quickly the smoking ban became normalised - now when I'm abroad somewhere that doesn't have an equivalent, I find it very bizarre to see someone smoke indoors.

Here in the US the various states have different laws and levels of smoking bans, California has cities that have banned smoking outdoors. Juxtapose that with the Indian (Native American) casinos in California don't have those rules so if you really miss being able to smoke nearly anywhere go to a Indian casino. Same fo r Las Vegas I think you can still smoke in the casinos there.

I can't say that I miss it. I occasionally indulge in a cigar outdoors. But I can recall that a night out to a club or pub could be overwhelming when it cam e to cigarette smoke. Get home, take clothes off, leave them on the back porch then shower to get the second hand smoke smell out of my hair and off my skin so I could sleep.