I'm so old I Remember when:

[Nomadicus]

Sergent Preston

 

[Nomadicus]

I remember when there was show and tell in the second grade. I never had anything to show or talk about. Then one morning I got the bright idea of taking a baby bird to school for show and tell. I climb a small tree and stole a baby mocking bird and took it to class. I almost set a record for the youngest student ever to get expelled. My teacher turned 40 shades of red and I still didn't get to "Show and Tell".

 

[R2elk]

I remember when there was show and tell in the second grade. I never had anything to show or talk about. Then one morning I got the bright idea of taking a baby bird to school for show and tell. I climb a small tree and stole a baby mocking bird and took it to class. I almost set a record for the youngest student ever to get expelled. My teacher turned 40 shades of red and I still didn't get to "Show and Tell".

Fortunately back then it wasn't illegal. Today it is illegal because of the Migratory Bird Treaty and all the associated laws.

 

[R2elk]

Gidget

 

[potatoyay]

I remember when gas was less than 17¢ a gallon...

And you:

Geez. $1.11 for me.

 

[NanaK]

The Flying Nun

Always liked Sally Field.

 

[Nomadicus]

Fortunately back then it wasn't illegal. Today it is illegal because of the Migratory Bird Treaty and all the associated laws.

There was a time I would have shot crows in my garden but now I feed them eggs that I find and don't know how old they are and some that have small cracks in them. I didn't sign that treaty and out here in the boonies we have to protect our investments. Now crows work for me as once I started feeding them all the hawks have left the area. One of my dad's jobs was in his early years was killing crows out of my grandfather's commercial strawberry patch.

I remember when 2-3 acres could feed a large family and produce an abundance to sell to those who couldn't. I remember that my grandfather never owned a tractor and was able to farm with a mule. I remember stealing some corn that was for the mule and planting it in my grandmother's flower beds and she always blamed me for it even though she had no proof other than I was the only one that would do it.

 

[Nomadicus]

I remember when kids would go to the railroad tracks and when they could listen for a train with their ears on the rails they would put a penny on the track and the hide until the train would pass then retrieve it. They then had an oval penny. Why we did it is beyond me now. At the time it broke the boredom maybe.

 

[Rose_adamaj]

Not old enough to remember party lines, but I know what they are!

I had a party line. When private lines became available only the well to do had them.
We paid all bills with cash, going around town to the electric co, phone co, bank…
Bank transactions were recorded in a little book, hand written by the teller.

 

[Rose_adamaj]

Doctors smoking in hospital hallways.

Kids had to stay in the lobby. They were not allowed to visit patients.