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

[rancher hicks]

I didn't read all the posts but...

Did anyone have a milkman. We did, " Netherlands" dairy was the name and then "Crowely". He brought milk and cottage cheese. At Easter cottage cheese w/ pineapple. In the winter the cream would rise to the top and push the paper caps up.

Buried Treasure ice creams. 10cents.

In the first grade milk was left in a crate outside the classroom door at lunch time. It came in little glass bottles.

Love beads, Nehru jackets, Chukka boots and bell bottoms.

 

[michickenwrangler]

My mother always refers to our mouths as "Clutch Cargo" mouths, anyone remember him?

I mentioned Clutch Cargo with a group of friends once. Those about my own age looked at me weird, the one gal that's in her forties laughed. "Oh yeah! I remember that show!"

 

[Spookwriter]

How old I feel now....

Carhops on roller skates.

cornshuck mattress

swinging bridge and still a half mile walk to grandma's

wringer washers

cutting hayfields by hand

crawling in a deepmine

heaters and wipers were options on cars. Forget seatbelts.

Indoor plumbling? Not at grandma's until I was a grown boy

farm tractor that you hand-cranked to start

hot-rods crusing town

Grandpa and moonshine, up behind the barn.

10-cent comic books...."double editions" were a quarter.

playing marbles for keepsie

stealing the neighbors horse for the day

Music? Try the Beatles, Peter Paul and Mary...Alice Cooper wasn't
in yet. Elvis Comeback Special in '68?

Howard Cosell....Muhannad Ali was still Casius Clay (sp?)

My mother in law was the real operator on the telephone. We could talk to her.

Muscle cars were still new...affordable. Gas was what...26 cents a gallon for years.

Kick the can was a neighborhood game.

(But we didn't really have real neighborhoods...they weren't built here yet. We roamed
for miles between friends homes.)

Hitch-hiking was a common way to travel.

I don't remember JFK being shot...but I do remember Robert Kennendy, Martin Luther King,
George Wallace.

Watergate was yesterday.

Every class took field trips.

And streaking...you had to keep it in the wind. (I ran track...good thing)

Never had a computer until I was married. They didn't exist.

Now I look at my daughters history book...and I know this stuff first hand.

 

[Moxiechick]

Schoolhouse Rock! The 15 minute educational cartoons that were shown between the other cartons on Saturday morning.

The Carol Burnett Show

Parents having to "make" their kids come in at the end of the day, because we were having too much fun playing outside to want to come in on our own.

Clackers and Jarts. Toys deemed too dangerous to be played with by today's standards.

I remember my BIL bringing over this new fangled thing called "Pong". A year or so later, I had the handheld version, called "Blip".

Powdered soap

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Quote:
I still have one of those!!!!!! (TWO actually)

Used one for 25+ years till it vanished one day......

 

[debilorrah]

Earth shoes
Wallabies
Dittos jeans
Chemendifers
Jordache
Leather belts and purses that were stamped with flowers

 

[Spookwriter]

Gas stations gave away cool stuff with every fill-up.
And they even pumped it!

There were no gas station-convience stores.

There were very few highways...and almost no four-lanes.

Ice cream trucks later in life.

We put the milk in the big cans...turned butter by hand.

Everybody had a "coal-pile" in the yard.


The oldest nice car I've ever had was a 1936 Ford. Remeber taking
my wife to the drive-in in my 59 Ford after we were married. Dating her,
I had a 68 Plymouth that was pretty hot.

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

Dwight D. Eisenhower was President when I was born. Who???

My first car..... A 66 LeMans. Wish I had it now, I'd cruise the Sandy's Drive-in. Remember??

 

[JennsPeeps]

I still have a milkman. Actually, it's a milkwoman now! I remember the milkman when I was a kid, though. He used to come in for visits. Different world now, eh?

Our first VCR player was top-loading.

Our first microwave was HUGE.

Our family car was a Datsun B-210. My folks carted around 2 kids in the car. Who needed an SUV?

We didn't have cable until I was in junior high (mid 80s).

 

[ams3651]

just went over this with my oldest....Sunday and most stores were closed and if they werent they closed at noon. Saturday morning cartoons were wait and see, no schedule just had to hope your favorite came on.