I'm so old I Remember when:

[Nomadicus]

I remember when we only had one little pharmacy. Now in a town of the same size we have at least 4.

 

[Sammster]

I remember when festivals and fairs often had an exhibit of someone in an iron lung.

Omgosh, that is so sad!

 

[R2elk]

I remember when there was much less light pollution and the stars filled the sky at night.

They still do here on a cloudless night.

 

[R2elk]

I remember lightning bugs

I found two here this summer.

 

[igorsMistress]

I remember having patients who as kids had Polio but didn’t require the use of an Iron Lung, and lived lives with horrible results from the infection, of course by the time I was a Nurse, Polio was a thing of the past, along with other horrible things like Diphtheria. So we never saw patients with those diseases. And now Chicken Pox is pretty’s much never seen.

I had Shingles about 10 yrs ago, and I called my cousin and told her, “hey your girls haven’t had chicken pox yet, beimg summer did you want to give them CPox? If so I will come over and give them all a huge kiss” (I had shingles on my face ewww!).

Well my cousin laughed and told me her kids were vax-ed for CPox! I hadnt been a Nurse for years by then so didn’t realize kids were now vaccinated for that!

I was surprised when I was offered the vaccine for my kids. They got it and we tested it out with a friend who got them. My kids never did. I had them twice though

 

[Sammster]

Manual car windows. Vent windows up by the rear view mirrors where dad would vent out his cigarette smoke. Coffee cup divots on the inside lid of the glove box.

Milk chutes. Laundry chutes. The Fuller Brush man. The newspaper boy. The photographer who came to our house to take our family photos.

 

[igorsMistress]

I found two here this summer.

I remember sleeping out under the stars on the ground as a kid. The lightning bugs were so plentiful it was like watching the stars dance. I’ve read that light pollution may be killing them off

 

[Ponypoor]

I remember lining up in the elementary school cafeteria where they gave us each a polio booster dose on a sugar cube. My Mom said she & Dad cried with relief when the first polio vaccine came out (I was a baby); his relatives had a daughter in an iron lung.

Good lord how terribly sad

My grandfather had polio but survived with just a limp; I have a friend who was one of the last people to get polio before the vaccine became wide spread, he is 83 now and has respiratory issues he had to deal with.

I still have mine too. Given by the school nurse. I remember that being incredibly painful.

My dr gave me mine, I remember it being horribly itchy, and I had a fever, so must have been 4.

I remember when the bags used for groceries were brown paper bags that would easily biodegrade and were made from a renewable resource. Fast growing pine trees.

Here plastic grocery bags are outlawed, I remember several yrs ago when paper bags came back to the grocery store.

I was so eggcited and eager to use them. That lasted until I had to carry the groceries off to the house - no handles so I had to cradle the bags, can’t put heavy items on there oh and forgot about those frozen items and m the bottom of the bag and the bottom falling out of the bag.

I went back to plastic bags and paid my 10cents for a plastic bag. Implementing a cost for plastic bags back-fired as people knew the benefit of the plastic bags with handles.

So the govt outlawed them, and we can now purchase “reuseable bags” for 50cemts. I keep forgetting mine in truck and have to buy more bags. When I get too many I throw them out - same as everyone else does. Hahahaha so much for good intentions!

 

[Sammster]

We get lots of fireflies in the summer. It's magical

 

[igorsMistress]

Manual car windows. Vent windows up by the rear view mirrors where dad would vent out his cigarette smoke. Coffee cup divots on the inside lid of the glove box.

Milk chutes. Laundry chutes. The Fuller Brush man. The newspaper boy. The photographer who came to our house to take our family photos.

The Fuller brush man!! Hubs still has a brush that’s probably 60 years old. It finally broke a few years ago, but we got a new one. They’re still around, or we’re about five years ago.