Do you remember when......

[homoe]

I remember, even tho it may be hard for younger folks to believe, when the whole family shared 1 phone and 1 television set..........

[homoe]

I remember when playing outdoors as a kid you were left to roam and do as you pleased just as long as you were home by dark..........


Actually in our small town, the fire dept checked/blew their whistle every night at 9 and we'd best be home or close to it by then or we were in big trouble!

[homoe]

I remember nickle bags of potato chips and nickle candy bars!

[homoe]

I remember a HUGE box of popcorn at the Delft Theater in my hometown costing only a dime! For a nickle you'd get a good size bag of popcorn and for a quarter you'd get a container of buttered popcorn WITH REAL BUTTER!

[WheatToast]

Originally Posted by homoe

I remember nickle bags of potato chips and nickle candy bars!

Sodas were a dime and the bottle deposit cost 2 cents.
Some drive-ins with older movies charged $2-3 per carload, but the fancier ones charged per-person, so teens would hide in the trunk and pop out once the driver parked.
You could smoke cigarettes everywhere, including in non smoker's homes where they'd be socially obligated to put out a giant ashtray on the coffee table.
Even hospital beds had ashtrays, and on airplanes the smoking section and non smoking sections were directly adjacent.
On airplane trips, everyone dressed up in their Sunday best. Full meals were served, with metal cutlery and china plates.
This part was horrible--when an African American athlete, singer or actor was successful, the media would say, "they were a credit to their race."
In high school, only sluts used tampons. Good girls wore Kotex, with ridiculously flimsy, elastic belts that never quite worked.
Panties were gigantic, thorax hugging eyesores, with about 75% more fabric than was needed. The femmie girls loved the nylon kind with the day of the week sewn on or embroidered into the fabric.

Five dollars was considered a fortune to most kids and teens.

But then, adults often worked for less than $1.50 an hour. Executives, like CEOs, would all be male and make about $30,000 a year.

A tooth left under a pillow for the tooth fairy would fetch from 15 cents to a quarter (molars).

In the 70's, an ounce of decent pot was $10. A matchbox was $5. So I hear.

[homoe]

Originally Posted by WheatToast

Sodas were a dime and the bottle deposit cost 2 cents.
Some drive-ins with older movies charged $2-3 per carload, but the fancier ones charged per-person, so teens would hide in the trunk and pop out once the driver parked.
You could smoke cigarettes everywhere, including in non smoker's homes where they'd be socially obligated to put out a giant ashtray on the coffee table.
Even hospital beds had ashtrays, and on airplanes the smoking section and non smoking sections were directly adjacent.
On airplane trips, everyone dressed up in their Sunday best. Full meals were served, with metal cutlery and china plates.
This part was horrible--when an African American athlete, singer or actor was successful, the media would say, "they were a credit to their race."
In high school, only sluts used tampons. Good girls wore Kotex, with ridiculously flimsy, elastic belts that never quite worked.
Panties were gigantic, thorax hugging eyesores, with about 75% more fabric than was needed. The femmie girls loved the nylon kind with the day of the week sewn on or embroidered into the fabric.

Five dollars was considered a fortune to most kids and teens.

But then, adults often worked for less than $1.50 an hour. Executives, like CEOs, would all be male and make about $30,000 a year.

A tooth left under a pillow for the tooth fairy would fetch from 15 cents to a quarter (molars).

In the 70's, an ounce of decent pot was $10. A matchbox was $5. So I hear.

In Upper Michigan it was called a "nickle bag"' and correct went for $5 bucks......

[~ocean]

fresh cuts of meat & seafood were wrapped in paper.

dairy products were delivered

you could shop and shop and your purchases were delivered within 24 hours

[Lifesymphony]

Men never swore in front of women.

It was considered poor taste to call after 9pm.

Men stood when a woman left the table.

We went to bed with no tv in the bedroom.... sigh, how nice it would be to meet someone without a tv in their bedroom these days.

[Kätzchen]

Remember when people used to plan big family get-together’s with kin-folk during the summer? Back in the day, our family would plan a big get-together at a destination in our home state (backyard party) and we would spend an entire weekend boating on the lake or having a horseshoe or badminton tournament or spend an entire afternoon in the kitchen cooking up a huge family dinner for everybody (40+ people, complete with cousins!).

[Kätzchen]

Back in the 1960’s how Marvin Gaye used his musical talent in songs to teach American’s about environmental concerns…🎶

I remember when doctors and nurses in America founded an organization to go help people in the world who had nothing: no doctors or nurses to care for those needing medical help and those who cared about women being mistreated in country’s that practice cruelty toward women…

I remember when our American government and its officials cared about the status of ordinary American’s needing a reprieve from the cruel tax and pay structures that limit a person’s mobility to achieve any sort of meaningful economic benefit to actually enjoy life.

I remember how people used to care about the lives of their own families and their neighbors next door and how people cared about electing honest people to elected office of duty.

I remember (…)

[cathexis]

Originally Posted by homoe

I remember, even tho it may be hard for younger folks to believe, when the whole family shared 1 phone and 1 television set..........

You bet cha, 1 television black/white - 4 channels, 2 of which signed off at night, and privileges with could be denied for not minding. Friday night, 1 TV
station stayed on late with scary movies.

One phone with the number drilled in to your memory so effectively that I still
remember it. Had a party line where 2 families shared the line. You couldn't
make a call if they were in the line, you didn't tie up the line with long calls, and you relinquished the line for emergencies.

[cathexis]

Originally Posted by homoe

I remember, even tho it may be hard for younger folks to believe, when the whole family shared 1 phone and 1 television set..........

You bet cha, 1 television black/white - 4 channels, 2 of which signed off at night, and privileges with could be denied for not minding. Friday night, 1 TV
station stayed on late with scary movies.

One phone with the number drilled in to your memory so effectively that I still
remember it. Had a party line where 2 families who shared the line. You couldn't
make a call if they were on the line, you didn't tie up the line with long calls, and you relinquished the line for emergencies.

[homoe]

I remember Ben Franklin and Woolworth stores where you could find just about everything!

When you were exhausted from shopping, you could go nourish yourself with something to eat at Woolworth's lunch counter!

[cathexis]

Originally Posted by homoe

I remember Ben Franklin and Woolworth stores where you could find just about everything!

When you were exhausted from shopping, you could go nourish yourself with something to eat at Woolworth's lunch counter!

Oh, yeah, the daily special was only a buck.

The candy counter is what I miss.

All sorts of candy in a paper bag by the quarter pound hand filled to order.

[homoe]

Originally Posted by cathexis

Oh, yeah, the daily special was only a buck.

The candy counter is what I miss.

All sorts of candy in a paper bag by the quarter pound hand filled to order.

OMG yes, the bulk candy case, how on earth could I forget that! Chocolate covered peanuts, stars, bridge mix, malted milk balls, just to name a few

[introverted1]

Originally Posted by homoe

I remember Ben Franklin and Woolworth stores where you could find just about everything!

When you were exhausted from shopping, you could go nourish yourself with something to eat at Woolworth's lunch counter!

We still have a Ben Franklin in my town... I love that place!

[homoe]

penny candy and the HUGE selection of it!

[Reach *BANNED*]

Thank you all for these posts. I think given the State of our Union right now nostalgia is becoming to be at the forefront of a lot of people's minds.

A lot of people do wish for those good ole days.

[homoe]

I remember when America had a President most of the citizens respected!