I'm so old I Remember when:

[RedwoodCoastChick]

I remember pagers, the first flip phones, gas under $2 per gallon, Texaco gas stations, payphones, when the first DVDs came out, the 3D movie phase and when the year 2000 came.

Ah, yes, the "end of days!!!" Y2K panic!!!! Wow, hadn't thought about all that fuss in many years.

 

[Brooks_]

I partied like it was 1999. Oh, wait, it was 1999. 12-31-1999 to be exact.

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

I remember when you had to start dial up internet. You could take a shower, make a bowl of cereal, and finish it before it connected! Lol.

And that weird trilling noise it made....

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

I'm old enough I couldn't vote until I was 21.

Did women have the vote yet?

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

"My balogna has a first name,
It's O-S-C-A-R;
My balogna has a second name,
It's M-E-Y-E-R.
I like to eat it every day,
And if you ask me why I'll say,
'Cause Oscar Meyer has a way
With B-O-L-O-G-N-A!"

Now that jingle is stuck on constant replay in my head!!!! I wonder how old that kid is today?

 

[Brooks_]

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

Oxen were used a lot more on olden days.
The wagon trains in the 'Old West' would have pulled by oxen, not horses.

Laura Ingalls Wilder in her "Little House" series described how her Pa traded their horse team for oxen to complete their wagon journey west when she was a pioneer child -- they were slow but tougher on those rough trails without lush grazing. (She was not a fan, she loved the horses.) In "Farmer Boy" she describes how her future husband raised his first team of oxen from calves in rural New York, even carving the calf-sized wooden yoke for them to train in.

All that was a revelation to a suburban horse-crazy kid in the early 60s!

 

[NanaK]

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The sleestaks!

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

One from the "Good old Days" that I now appreciate more all the time.

Ahhh, Fiddler! "If I Were A Rich Man", "Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match...", so many great songs and a wonderful story. Very fun show to do in community theater, too. We were held over for extra weekends at the Buena Park Community Center (early 1980s).

 

[Debbie292d]

Laura Ingalls Wilder in her "Little House" series described how her Pa traded their horse team for oxen to complete their wagon journey west when she was a pioneer child -- they were slow but tougher on those rough trails without lush grazing. (She was not a fan, she loved the horses.) In "Farmer Boy" she describes how her future husband raised his first team of oxen from calves in rural New York, even carving the calf-sized wooden yoke for them to train in.

All that was a revelation to a suburban horse-crazy kid in the early 60s!

I read every one of her books a few decades ago. I remember being so enamored I wanted them to never end.