I'm so old I Remember when:

[kikiruru]

this was the dapper man that I was thinking of but I have to say Mr Peanut tops him

 

[sourland]

Whatever the person wants. Some are "white gold".

I see a lot of 'black' and even some blueish rings - not certain as to what they are made of.

 

[Rick589]

I think minimum wage was $1.15 an hour when I started my first job paying into Social Security and Income Tax. I was bagging groceries and stocking shelves for A&P Tea Company. I also ground the coffee as requested by customers.

You mean you actually were willing to do a mundane low level/entry level job for minimal money just so you could be a functioning part of society and begin your advancement upward to better more rewarding jobs and career??? Ghastly!!!

 

[Rick589]

Remember when us older folks wanted to, and worked towards, getting out of mommy and daddy’s house as soon as we could? The mere thought of living with the parents into our adult years made us cringe.

 

[Rick589]

We lived in a most political incorrect house. We left with the doors open as dad didn't want to repair one. On top of that the guns were stored out in the open in mine and my brothers bedroom. Ammo on top of the dresser. Can you imagine the headlines that would make know.

Amazingly, despite what the media would have us believe the vast majority of us respect one another, respect each others property, don’t steal, don’t overreact, understand guns are tools, people can differ and still respect each other, and so on and so on into the realm of common sense.

 

[kikiruru]

The big huge boxy TVs that were super heavy and big. Not the super thin flat screens we have now lol

I remember
the ones that were longer than a loveseat but shorter than a couch that came with a record player and huge speakers and shelves for your knick knacks

 

[kikiruru]

And when the picture went I had to go slap the set hard.

Slap hit bang on top of or the sides of the tv a few times

We had a tv repair man until it became cheaper to buy a brand new TV with a bigger screen from REX than to get it fixed

 

[kikiruru]

There were no calculators, you had to do your math homework in your head or on paper.

we had to turn in our scrap paper that showed how we got the answers on homework schoolwork and even on the tests

 

[Rick589]

There were no calculators, you had to do your math homework in your head or on paper.

You mean when we were expected to develop out wet ware so that we would forever carry that knowledge with us to the grave…..egad! HOW DID WE MANAGE?

 

[AntiqueB]

I remember
the ones that were longer than a loveseat but shorter than a couch that came with a record player and huge speakers and shelves for your knick knacks

You were rich! We had a 13" black and white TV until way into the 70s, and even then only got rid of it because the top half of the picture somehow got on the bottom half of the screen, and the bottom half got on the top. My father, who fixed and modified movie cameras for a living, couldn't fix it, so out it went. It was replaced by a Sony color TV that my mother saved for.