What Do You Remember From The Old Days?

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  1. Joy Martin

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    What I remember is NEVER hearing that the children are being taught today, gender stuff and then placed in the hospital/docs hands to "remove parts"....It's OBSCENE today and so so so glad no little kids in my family.
     
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    Time triples at some point.
     
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    Apart from the fact that I had a considerably smaller body, and I could see the number of my bus when it was half a mile away, and ladies didn't ask me to change light bulbs for them, and I could go hiking all day, then go dancing in the evening.... nothing much really.;)
     
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    Twisting wires together to make a toasting fork, then toasting bread by the open fire and spreading butter on it.
    Just thinking about it, I can smell it and almost taste it.
     
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    Collect calls when you had to accept the charges.
    4-digit phone numbers and no area codes.
    Mama's pocketbook.
    Playing cards in bicycle spokes.
    Streetlights as the "time to go in" indicator.
     
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  6. Joy Martin

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    I remember the 5cent first class stamp.

    Our latest rate increase coming up is 66cents for mailing a letter or bill. I still write a couple checks here and there so that is the latest.
     
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    When the county came by spraying for mosquitoes, they didn't care whether kids were walking along the road. Everything got sprayed.
     
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    Cutting cardbord insoles for shoes that had holes in them.
     
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    Motel 6, are they still around and what is their
    going rate if they are. I may have stayed in one
    many yrs ago.
     
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    I remember breathing in that sweet, heavenly fog. I can still taste it in the back of my throat...

    Most likely was funded by Bill Gates' father.
     
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    bike.jpg
     
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    Burning holes through thick paper with a magnifying glass, the sun helped too. :)
     
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    I remember when the teacher said cursive lower case R and S had to extend above the middle line. o_O :rolleyes:
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    3¢ stamps.

    5¢ candy bar (big).

    10¢ to see the double feature Saturday matinee with cartoons and a newsreel. Previews showed the coming week's fare for Monday and Tuesday, a different movie (or 2?) for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, then for Saturday (and Sunday?).

    25¢ gallon gas - I saw the signs when we drove cross-country once a year to visit relatives, and remember hearing my parents saying they hoped the could find something cheaper. They usually found some for 24¢ and a few times, 23¢.
    Heavy cars, no power steering, no power windows, no air conditioning, no automatic transmission, and you had to roll down the window your own darn self. And none of it was "hard" to do.
    Interstates being built, 5 or more mile stretches at a time, cars taking turns, following a lead car over dirt waiting to be transformed into a four lane highway. Otherwise, Highway 66 was two lanes, one each way.
     
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    Howdy Doody
    Gabby Hayes
    Art Linkletter
    Twinky Dee and ...
    Pinky Lee
     
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