I remember when.....

[Two Types]

I remember when ....

.... cars were so simple that people like me (who have no mechanical talent, no idea what they were doing, no idea of what any of the bits were for and have no interest in cars) could actually fix things.

I'm not sure if I regret the passing of simple cars or celebrating the fact that cars are so complicated I now have an excuse never to even open the bonnet!

 

[Harp]

He was safe!

Williams was out.
...Moe Berg, unfortunately seldom found the other side of home plate.
...but maybe that was Moe....
...and then he would be safe...

 

[jamespowers]

I'm older than that, slightly.
The first shows I remember are The Price Is Right, and Family Feud.

Waaaayyyyy older.

Richard Dawson eh?

 

[LizzieMaine]

I remember Art Fleming saying "...the answer IS!"

 

[skydog757]

Concentration with Hugh Downs.

And you can't forget Jack Lalanne.

 

[jamespowers]

Concentration with Hugh Downs.

And you can't forget Jack Lalanne.

1, 2, 3, 4 1, 2, 3, 4

 

[LizzieMaine]

LaLanne was the real deal. And his dog was pretty neat too.

 

[jamespowers]

LaLanne was the real deal. And his dog was pretty neat too.

The dog was exercising too? Impressive.

 

[green papaya]

I remember when girls were not allowed to wear pants at school , they were required to wear a dress or a skirt

and if a boy wore a white t-shirt to school they would consider it your underwear, not fashionable to go to school in a t-shirt

short pants were only allowed during the last week of school before summer vacation

sometimes we had popcorn day, and you could buy popcorn at lunch break for 10 cents

 

[jamespowers]

I remember when girls were not allowed to wear pants at school , they were required to wear a dress or a skirt

and if a boy wore a white t-shirt to school they would consider it your underwear, not fashionable to go to school in a t-shirt

short pants were only allowed during the last week of school before summer vacation

sometimes we had popcorn day, and you could buy popcorn at lunch break for 10 cents

That all sounds fine to me.
T-shirts ARE underwear.

 

[fashion frank]

I remember when girls were not allowed to wear pants at school , they were required to wear a dress or a skirt

and if a boy wore a white t-shirt to school they would consider it your underwear, not fashionable to go to school in a t-shirt

short pants were only allowed during the last week of school before summer vacation

sometimes we had popcorn day, and you could buy popcorn at lunch break for 10 cents

No word of a lie I saw a girl just yesterday wearing men's boxer shorts (underwear ) over a pair of tight fitting sweats ( not yoga pants) !

How about two penny candy , I remember buying squirrel nut candy's the size of your thumb, two for a penny and those candy dots on paper in rows of different colors and the powder in the little straw that you would just pour down your throat and your teeth would hurt because it was more or less straight sugar.
You could leave the candy store ( for that matter remember candy stores what happened to them ) with a small bag of candy for like twentyfive cents.

Think about it ,now a days I buy my little one a candy bar and its a buck and a half , kids dont even know how much they are missing and how much they are getting screwed .

Also how about drive ins ?
Now I know that Rhode Island is like a postage stamp compaired to the rest of the country , but we are now down to just one left ,the Rustic on RT. 146
They used to show porno movies ,but thank God they came around and now show current movies and I can't wait to take my 12 year old daughter just so she can experience it before it goes away .

All the Best ,Fashion Frank

 

[Gregg Axley]

I remember when ....

.... cars were so simple that people like me (who have no mechanical talent, no idea what they were doing, no idea of what any of the bits were for and have no interest in cars) could actually fix things.

I'm not sure if I regret the passing of simple cars or celebrating the fact that cars are so complicated I now have an excuse never to even open the bonnet!

Which is why my Street-Rod is 60's technology.


Yes Dawson.
And Bob Barker BEFORE he died his hair to stay young.

 

[green papaya]

I remember when you could still buy 5 regular size candy bars for a Quarter , I think that was back around 1968

 

[Stearmen]

I remember when girls were not allowed to wear pants at school , they were required to wear a dress or a skirt

and if a boy wore a white t-shirt to school they would consider it your underwear, not fashionable to go to school in a t-shirt

short pants were only allowed during the last week of school before summer vacation

sometimes we had popcorn day, and you could buy popcorn at lunch break for 10 cents

We could only wear T-shirts and shorts in the gym. We would be kicked out for wearing shorts in school. I don't even remember wearing a sweat shirt until I was out of High School!

 

[Stearmen]

No word of a lie I saw a girl just yesterday wearing men's boxer shorts (underwear ) over a pair of tight fitting sweats ( not yoga pants) !

How about two penny candy , I remember buying squirrel nut candy's the size of your thumb, two for a penny and those candy dots on paper in rows of different colors and the powder in the little straw that you would just pour down your throat and your teeth would hurt because it was more or less straight sugar.
You could leave the candy store ( for that matter remember candy stores what happened to them ) with a small bag of candy for like twentyfive cents.

Think about it ,now a days I buy my little one a candy bar and its a buck and a half , kids dont even know how much they are missing and how much they are getting screwed .

Also how about drive ins ?
Now I know that Rhode Island is like a postage stamp compaired to the rest of the country , but we are now down to just one left ,the Rustic on RT. 146
They used to show porno movies ,but thank God they came around and now show current movies and I can't wait to take my 12 year old daughter just so she can experience it before it goes away .

All the Best ,Fashion Frank

Don't even get me started on how far a Kennedy half dollar would go at the corner market! Remember those?

 

[stevew443]

I can remember learning to draw with Jon Gnagy.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Don't even get me started on how far a Kennedy half dollar would go at the corner market! Remember those?

I remember being sent to the store as a six or seven year old by my mother. She'd give me half a dollar and say "Get me a pack of cigarettes and you can keep the change." And I remember the clerk selling me that pack of cigarettes, no questions asked, because they knew my mother. I'd buy a bottle of soda with the change and think I was doing pretty well.

 

[sheeplady]

Candy cigarettes.

I can remember buying these once as a kid from a shop in a nearby village. My friend lived in said village, so she bought candy every week. I had never gone into a shop to buy candy as a kid by myself because I lived miles outside of the nearby village and my parents weren't big on buying stuff they didn't consume. (Also, now that I think about it I didn't get an allowance either, so... no money to buy candy on my own.) When we walked by her house we hid the candy cigarettes just in case her grandmother looked out and thought we were smoking.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Root Beer popsicles, which my cousin and I bought at Sid's Market for a dime. We split them in half and sat on the doorstep eating them, and figured we'd had a full and satisfying day.

Wax-coated milk cartons with a foil strip over the opening you had to tear off before you could get at the milk.

Paul Bunyan's Cheez Dogs. which were the cheapest hot dogs made, injected with a streak of bright yellow cheese thru the middle. Only sold during February, and advertised with a creepy TV commercial consisting of a big cardboard head of Paul Bunyan with a slotted chin that moved up and down while he talked.

S & O'K brand cream soda, a straw-colored vanilla-flavored drink bottled in Great Works, Me.

Clicquot Club ginger ale, with Klee-Ko the Eskimo on the label.

Seavey's Needhams, a bar of coconut and mashed potatoes covered in dark chocolate, and sold in an open-ended orange-and-blue wax paper envelope.

King Cole potato chips in a big metal can that you could turn into a very satisfying tom-tom by lacing pieces of old innertube over the ends.

Old innertubes, which you floated on in the lake in summer, and rode down a hill in winter.

Putting bread wrappers in your boots to keep your feet dry.

 

[HudsonHawk]

Organized sports for kids were the exception rather than the rule.

Having to re-lace your old hand-me-down mitt.

Ghost runners.

You bought the bubble gum pack for the gum, the baseball cards were just a bonus.

Goo-goo clusters.

No one sliced open a watermelon, you just busted it open on the ground.

Chinaberry fights.

Lawn darts.