I'm so old I Remember when:

[CapricornFarm]

5 cent ice cream cones. And the "cent" sign was normal on typewriters!

5 cent candy bars!

 

[Meg22]

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.

I have 4 old singers. A hand one from 18something, a foot one my gran picked up after the war. My mum's old electric one which looks very similar to the hand one just with a motor fitted on the side and a more modern one maybe only 50 years old that doesn't work.

 

[fuzzi]

Cigarette vending machines...and with every pack you'd get a matchbook.

 

[fuzzi]

I did! I'd forgotten about that! He was a hearthrob, wasn't he?

And Burt Reynolds doing a Cosmopolitan centerfold?

 

[fuzzi]

How about medical technology?
I have a cousin who was the world's first person under the age of 13 to receive a heart pacemaker. Had to have surgery every few years to replace the battery. It was the size of a hockey puck. She still has one today, although much smaller and no more battery replacement needed.

My grandma still gave me cod liver oil whenever I stayed with her. Nasty stuff!!!

Doctors making house calls.

 

[fuzzi]

I can understand that. Disco wasn't for everyone

The Bee Gees had success before Disco.

 

[fuzzi]

5 cent candy bars!

And they were HUGE. We'd buy candy at the general store down the street from the one screen movie theater on Main Street. Saturday matinees were 85¢ for kids. I saw some fun movies like Zebra in the Kitchen, Charlie the Lonesome Cougar, The Phantom Tollbooth. You always got a friend to go with you. We'd walk to and from the movie theater, about 2 miles away. No issues with child abduction, circa 1970.

 

[littledog]

Playing 45rpm records on a mono record player.

 

[littledog]

And typing papers on a manual typewriter.

If you wanted copies, you needed two pieces of typing paper with carbon paper in between.

 

[Meg22]

Doctors making house calls.

Not only did they make house calls. One time the doctor stayed untill the baby sitter had arrived so my mum could take my brother to hospital.