Things you remember but that most young folks never heard of. Pre 1980

[galanie]

All of the above. Plus the Fuller Brush man that would come to the door.

 

[PaulaSB12]

Who remembers captain caveman

 

[catdaddyfro]

The TV show Born Free(the series)

Milkman delivering the milk(in glass bottles) at Grandmas house and he had an ice cream compartment on the very rear of the truck too, MUMUM


Jeff

 

[galanie]

The TV show Born Free(the series)

Milkman delivering the milk(in glass bottles) at Grandmas house and he had an ice cream compartment on the very rear of the truck too, MUMUM


Jeff

My friends brother used to steal ice cream from that little compartment when he could. Little devil got caught and that ended his free ice cream days! He couldn't sit for a week.

 

[canesisters]

In 1999 my Dad had a heart attack and bypass surgery. While he was in the hospital, we removed the rotary phone from the wall in my parents' kitchen and installed a cordless - so he could have the phone with him no matter where he was.
He had a fit because we hadn't called the phone company to cancel the rent (yes.. RENT) on the phone. They had been paying rent on a wall mounted rotary phone for something like 30 years.....
We used to have neighborhood parties where we'd all gather in and around the yards at the end of the street and all the Dads would be grilling, the Moms would be laying out a spread of dishes that we didn't have a prayer of actually finishing and us kids would be in someones back yard rehearsing what ever we had decided would be the entertainment (a play or a concert or whatever). Does anyone do that sort of stuff anymore??
And how about trick or treating? Leaving the house (unsupervised) just before dark in some sort of homemade costume (probably flammable and with almost zero vision) and wandering around causing trouble and collecting candy till you either got cold, sick from eating too much candy or the streets started to clear out and it got just a little creepy being out 'so late'.

 

[hemet dennis]

Well this is kind of a local thing. But the Helms bakery trucks were the best.

http://gombessa.tripod.com/scienceleadstheway/id5.html

Disney land when they had the ticket books for the rides.

 

[7 Biddies]

Taking a Sunday drive in the one and only family car.
Riding in the car after supper to get ice cream and listen to The Lone Ranger on the radio (didn't have one in the house).
Bench seats.
Stick shift on the steering column.
Starter buttons on cars.
Saddle oxford shoes, with bobby socks.
Signs on restaurant doors saying, "Come in. We're Air Cooled" with a penguin.
45 records on the "Victrola"
American Bandstand on TV
Homemade Halloween costumes for kids ... the stores didn't carry them.
Real food made from scratch.
Howdy Doody, Clarabelle, Princess Summerfallwinterspring, and the Peanut Gallery.
Listening to the sound of prop planes flying overhead.
Rotary mowers and the smell of fresh cut grass without exhaust fumes.
House calls by the doctor.
Milk in bottles, with cream floating on the top.
Coppertone tanning lotion.
Washing your hair in the sink with Halo Shampoo.

 

[7 Biddies]

Sorry for the run-on list above, but my computer is acting up. Can't post quotes, make line spacing, or post emoticons. What's up with that?

 

[catdaddyfro]

In 1999 my Dad had a heart attack and bypass surgery. While he was in the hospital, we removed the rotary phone from the wall in my parents' kitchen and installed a cordless - so he could have the phone with him no matter where he was.
He had a fit because we hadn't called the phone company to cancel the rent (yes.. RENT) on the phone. They had been paying rent on a wall mounted rotary phone for something like 30 years.....
We used to have neighborhood parties where we'd all gather in and around the yards at the end of the street and all the Dads would be grilling, the Moms would be laying out a spread of dishes that we didn't have a prayer of actually finishing and us kids would be in someones back yard rehearsing what ever we had decided would be the entertainment (a play or a concert or whatever). Does anyone do that sort of stuff anymore??
And how about trick or treating? Leaving the house (unsupervised) just before dark in some sort of homemade costume (probably flammable and with almost zero vision) and wandering around causing trouble and collecting candy till you either got cold, sick from eating too much candy or the streets started to clear out and it got just a little creepy being out 'so late'.

Yes my Grandmother and Grandaddy did the same thing. I often wonder how many phones they actually paid for over those 30,40 50+years. Reckon Bell south has made their retirement off that, probly, the gullible people of yesteryear. OMG

Oh yes i do remember using that thing too and I didn't have any miss-dialed numbers and too I remember only having to dail the last 4 #s and all of everybodies number either started with 4 or 8 ,now that's old school/small town right there, LOL

Jeff

 

[sezjasper]

Yes my Grandmother and Grandaddy did the same thing. I often wonder how many phones they actually paid for over those 30,40 50+years. Reckon Bell south has made their retirement off that, probly, the gullible people of yesteryear. OMG

Oh yes i do remember using that thing too and I didn't have any miss-dialed numbers and too I remember only having to dail the last 4 #s and all of everybodies number either started with 4 or 8 ,now that's old school/small town right there, LOL

Jeff

Wow, that IS small town LOL

I remember you only had to dial the seven numbers, but the first two numbers were letters...you'd say your phone number was "Ridgeway 7-xxxx" or "Mohawk 4-xxxx" or whatever. When you really wanted to sound modern, you'd shorten it to "R-I-7" or "M-O-4"

I also remember when my area started requiring we dial the area code. They gave us a year to get used to it and, stubborn mule that I am, I refused to do it until I absolutely had to.

You know how the recorded answering systems always say "if you're calling from a rotary phone..." a couple years ago my daughter finally asked me what the heck is a rotary phone LOL