Back in the day ...

[debk]

We didn't have calculators....we only had slide rules.

I feel about slide rules the way Ptarmy feels about bunnies.   

[Thor]

Deb, you Non-Geek, YOU!!....... Slide rules are the "schnizit"....    I remember walking the streets, collecting soda bottles and then returning them to the store for the deposit refund....

 

[Schadenfreude]

Deb, you Non-Geek, YOU!!....... Slide rules are the "schnizit"....   

I remember walking the streets ...< I think we should stop this sentence right here >
 

 

[SaintLouieWoman]

Back in the day I remember riding with my mom around town to find the lowest priced gasoline. She would drive all over town when gas was 4 and 5¢/ gallon........ (Texas gas wars)

I also remember going to a pancake supper with Mr. Peppermint as the attraction (Another N Texas Icon)

Wow, never remember it being 4 and 5 cents, but do remember it being 18 cents when I lived in San Antonio in the late 70's.

[SaintLouieWoman]

This was our other car (only light blue).



Back in the day I always wanted them to pick me up in the Thunderbird.  The Pinto was SO uncool.

Embarassed to say that I had a Pinto wagon. I'm amazed that I'm still getting wagons after that dog. It stopped dead on the interstate, triggering about a 5 car pile-up. I'm lucky to still be here. My guardian angel must have been taking care of me with that car. And it was a woody--or rather fake vinyl wood on the side. I hated that car.

[debk]

I worked in a grocery store in high school....and was at the courtesy desk on Friday nights and Saturdays (they were closed on Sundays! ) )......sold whole cartons of cigarettes for $2.50 a piece and people griped.

People also got paid for returning their empty pop bottles.

[rich_t]

I remember having 8-track tapes.

I recall when you needed to put a key in the door to unlock the car.

I recall that there used to be crank handles to roll down a car window.

[thundley4]

I remember having 8-track tapes.

I recall when you needed to put a key in the door to unlock the car.

I recall that there used to be crank handles to roll down a car window.

I hate electric windows after having to pay to have the motor replaced on the driver side door of our last car.

[Chris_]

I remember having 8-track tapes.

I recall when you needed to put a key in the door to unlock the car.

I recall that there used to be crank handles to roll down a car window.

I had one the other day -- in the USA!

But I get them all the time when I rent cars in Mexico.  Keys and cranks.  And they carefully check to see if the spare and the jack are still in he car when you return it.

[Schadenfreude]

I worked in a grocery store in high school....and was at the courtesy desk on Friday nights and Saturdays (they were closed on Sundays! ) )......sold whole cartons of cigarettes for $2.50 a piece and people griped.

People also got paid for returning their empty pop bottles.

Cigarettes must be going $40/carton these days don't you think?

[rich_t]

I hate electric windows after having to pay to have the motor replaced on the driver side door of our last car.

Pretty expensive wasn't it.

[Schadenfreude]

Wow, never remember it being 4 and 5 cents, but do remember it being 18 cents when I lived in San Antonio in the late 70's.

I sort of I remember $.40/gallon. I think when I started driving it was under a buck/gallon, but I don't exactly remember what it was. I just know that I was driving a Chrysler Newport and getting about 7 miles/gallon... I loved that car though, it was a people mover. 

[rich_t]

I had one the other day -- in the USA!

But I get them all the time when I rent cars in Mexico.  Keys and cranks.  And they carefully check to see if the spare and the jack are still in he car when you return it.

What part of Mexico?  Last time I was in Mexico City, you couldn't have paid me enough to drive there.  I thought NYC or LA was bad until I got down there.

[rich_t]

Cigarettes must be going $40/carton these days don't you think?

More than that in some places.

A pack goes for over $7.00 in NYC.

[franksolich]

Anybody remember when all movies were black-and-white, and had no sound?

There was usually a guy playing the piano in some sort of "pit" in front of the movie screen, then.

[rich_t]

Anybody remember when all movies were black-and-white, and had no sound?

There was usually a guy playing the piano in some sort of "pit" in front of the movie screen, then.

I'm not quite that old Frank.

But I've at least heard of such things.

[thundley4]

Pretty expensive wasn't it.

That's why I won't have electric windows again.

[Chris_]

Anybody remember when all movies were black-and-white, and had no sound?

There was usually a guy playing the piano in some sort of "pit" in front of the movie screen, then.

I think LU does.






;)

[franksolich]

I'm not quite that old Frank.

But I've at least heard of such things.

Well, Hades.

Anybody old enough to have worked in the CCC or WPA then?

[Chris_]

More than that in some places.

A pack goes for over $7.00 in NYC.

When I see things like this, and when I see people wheezing when they go up stairs -- "I am SOOOO glad I quit."  (after 30 years of smoking)

And I don't ever chide my smoker friends -- it was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life.

[thundley4]

Anybody remember when all movies were black-and-white, and had no sound?

There was usually a guy playing the piano in some sort of "pit" in front of the movie screen, then.

There used to be a "Shakey's Pizza Parlor" that showed old silent "little Rascals" shorts and had a player piano going for the music.  That was in the mid 70's.

[Schadenfreude]

More than that in some places.

A pack goes for over $7.00 in NYC.

That price has to include 95% tax or thereabouts. 

[franksolich]

Ah, this is getting too easy.

Anybody old enough to remember when it was common to get an Indian Head five-cent piece, or a Mercury dime, or a Standing Liberty quarter dollar, in change?

Not all the time, but frequently.

[Schadenfreude]

There used to be a "Shakey's Pizza Parlor" that showed old silent "little Rascals" shorts and had a player piano going for the music.  That was in the mid 70's.

I totally remember Shakey's and the player piano.

[Chris_]

There used to be a "Shakey's Pizza Parlor" that showed old silent "little Rascals" shorts and had a player piano going for the music.  That was in the mid 70's.

And Farrel's Ice Cream!  With the Trough and other stuff.