I'm so old I Remember when:

[Love Donkeys]

Wall phones

And the coiled handset cord that knotted up constantly!

 

[2 Acres]

I was building a gas turbine powered plant at the time.

When we heard about the 2nd plane, we knew something was fishy.

 

[Love Donkeys]

A new pickup truck for $1800

Our first 2 bedroom, 1 bath house on 3 acres was $17,000

 

[Love Donkeys]

Not old enough to remember party lines, but I know what they are!

My father paid Bell Telephone (Ma Bell) extra to get to get a "private" line. He didn't want "party line" people listening in to his conversations.

 

[Love Donkeys]

Half dollars were in use in registers at all stores.

And Two Dollar bills.

 

[007Sean]

You forgot to mention this generation (at least the CEO’s who new) knew about pollution and did nothing to stop it. On the contrary they started lawsuits against people who tried to stop the pollution.
And i am not talking about one kind of pollution. There are many ways you can destroy a healthy environment.

I name a few that pop up: Greenhouse gasses, Mining, herbicides and pesticides, Plastics, large-scale factory farming, steel factories, PFAS production, chemical processes to make clothing and paper, asbestos (now forbidden), cadmium for yellow an red paint/colouring, bombs, nuclear plants.

The male boomers (mostly arrogant and rich white males) are to blame for the positive progress, and for the pollution as well.

Don't even get me started on this road! I didn't say everything was all 'rosey', just that we have seen a tremendous advancement in technology, for the better and the worse.
Being of Comanche/Irish desent, I walk two roads....one white, one red. In today's society it is extremely hard to follow the good red road.
One man that has had a profound impact on my life and how I see society today was John Trudell, a man, wise beyond his years.
This song of his is how I see things too! You can't bring the past back but as Indian peoples we 'remember' how it was before colonization!

 

[Love Donkeys]

I am so old I remember being paddled at school.

I had black & blue welts from a Nun hitting me with a ruler between my shoulder blades because I didn't kneel correctly.

 

[Love Donkeys]

S&H Green stamps

I still have the stamps and the saver books in my roll top desk drawer.

 

[2 Acres]

My father paid Bell Telephone (Ma Bell) extra to get to get a "private" line. He didn't want "party line" people listening in to his conversations.

My aunt worked for the phone company... So mom and her could talk whenever they wanted to.

Private lines came in during the 70's

 

[Love Donkeys]

I walked out of the theater with my little sister the first time I saw Snow White. She started sobbing when the wicked witch appeared.

My boyfriend (my Hubby) and I had watched so many Godzilla movies we couldn't go "parking" at the beach.