I'm so old I Remember when:

[RedwoodCoastChick]

Tornado alley, here. They still test the sirens. Wednesday at 2pm.

We have monthly Tsunami Warning siren tests here on the northern Pacific Coast and signs on the roads letting you know when you enter/leave the tsunami zones. We're on higher ground but large sections of our one highway are not...

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

I remember the camera man only showing Elvis above the waist on the Ed Sullivan Show.

I remember the Beatles big U.S. debut on Ed Sullivan! "Shocking" to some of the neighborhood parents...

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

I am so old I remember seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey when it came out in 1968.

I saw it at the weird Cinerama Dome in Hollywood in '68! Perfect venue for it. My family had just moved from rural Georgia to L.A. so I already felt like I was on another planet...(age 14).

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

I'm so old I had one of these:
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So did I! Horse-crazy kid, I loved it so much! We could bounce hard enough to scoot it across the family room's linoleum floor, so I could pretend I was galloping along with "The Cisco Kid" or "National Velvet" on TV...

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

I'm so old I remember eight-inch floppy drives.

My first home computer was an IBM, monitors came with either amber or green text, and it had DUAL FLOPPY DRIVES! Woo-hoo! Silver Reed printer with the roll of paper that had sprockets on both sides to feed it through, then you tore away the strips of little holes from the finished printing. This was, I kid you not, 1984...

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

S&H Green stamps

My Mom saved those up in little booklets and got my first sewing machine for my birthday in 1969. A Singer, built like a tank, and I still have/use it today. Made lots and lots of costumes on that dear old beast along with normal clothes and repairs. One of my costumes won the "most grotesque" award at a Star Trek convention in 1971; Mom said she was "so proud".

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

This is such a fun thread!!! Wow, the memories. Who remembers the little X-Ray machines in shoe stores for sizing your feet? We kids loved to step into them repeatedly to look at our foot bones... This was in Georgia late 50s/60s, but my husband remembers them in California where he grew up, too.

 

[chrissynemetz]

This is such a fun thread!!! Wow, the memories. Who remembers the little X-Ray machines in shoe stores for sizing your feet? We kids loved to step into them repeatedly to look at our foot bones... This was in Georgia late 50s/60s, but my husband remembers them in California where he grew up, too.

They had them in east Texas too. I remember thinking they were so fun.

 

[chrissynemetz]

I learned to sew on my mom's old manual singer. I was barely able to reach the foot peddle but I loved it. I'd give anything to have one like that now.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I remember 25¢ lunches at school.

And 2 cent pints of milk at school.