Remember When!!
Friends and I recently started talking about things in the "good old days." I thought it might be fun to try here and see what people of all ages remember from different eras of their lives! Just add to the thread with a brief post and we'll all enjoy remembering when!!
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I'll start off by asking, remember when you used to "dial" a phone? You literally stuck your finger in the numbered hole in the phone and moved it around--each digit required a separate movement of the dial!
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Remember when you had to use your key to unlock your car doors?
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ceanna, my mother answered the phone one day (decades ago), the woman who was calling had failed the wrong number and her response was " Oh, I stuck my finger in the wrong hole again! " probably even easier to do with push buttons or cell phone keypad.I
Anyone remember party lines?
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Oh, definitely remember party lines! We had 8 neighbors on our line and had to wait to use the phone, and deal with nosy neighbors listening in!!
Remember when toilet paper and tissues came in various colors? Pink, blue, etc.!
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Remember the first TV that had shows in color! My husband and I were talking about the shows we watched growing up.
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dating myself here, but remember the milk man and milk came in glass bottles w cardboard cap
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I lived way out in the country and still had a party line phone in 1989 before I moved to town. It would have been cost prohibitive to do otherwise, because we would have been solely responsible for the cost of running 1/4 mile of line to do otherwise
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I barely remember, but remember when you had to go through the operator to make a long distance call, and it was a very rare, almost emergency situation, to make such a call. Now, with cell phones, we don't even recognize when we're making a call across the miles!!
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Yoga - we also had a milkman who delivered milk (and cream) in glass bottles.
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Remember when you had to get up and walk to the tv to change the channel?
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Ceanna , a good one!! Had to get up to change channels and sat through all the commercials b/c there was no way to mute other than get up to turn volume down....way too much trouble.
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Remember when you first saw the Wizard of Oz on TV and were totally scared of the flying monkeys?
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I’m still freaked out by those darn monkeys! They are so creepy. Much scarier than the wicked witch
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Remember the clicker button thingy on the floor of a car to dim, or put the lights on bright
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Remember manual typewriters, carbon paper and correction tape?
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And how to make multiple carbon copies, and pray you didn’t make a mistake. And how to fix it if you did. and the smell of the mimeograph machine copies.
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Spookiesmom, yes!! Can’t you still smell that fluid??
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OMD yes!! Wooohoooo!!!!!
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Keep the stories coming!! What a good laugh during rough weeks!! I can really relate to the ditto masters, smell, and the blue streaks I always ended up with on my face when I touched the wrong part of the master and then my face! (I guess I should have learned then not to touch my face!!)
Remember when you wore short A-line dresses with zippers all the way up the front!
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when it was called cellophane tape.
When girls couldn’t wear pants IN school. To school was ok.
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remember those little discs that you snapped into the 45rpm records.....and record players that let you stack records to drop one at a time.....and how the records always got scratched from doing this?
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78 rpm records.
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steam train whistles. Trains with real dining cars, white cloth table cloths, flowers on the tables.
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When you backed up the first personal computers on a cassette tape!!! And the computer only held about a few MB of information!
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Playing jacks. Street roller skates w the key to tighten them.....and the knee scabs from taking a spill.
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Our first computer was a Victor 9000, had no internal memory, required two of the large floppy discs (they were truly floppy!) to run and to save documents. When we got our first computer with internal memory (all of 20mg) we thought we had really come up in the world-- and filled that memory in less than a year. Fun memories!
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Love this thread !
Remember when you had to “roll” the windows down in your car with a handle and listened to AM radio?
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And when seat belts were lap belts only.
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Remember trying to sleep with brush rollers in your hair!
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Oh, ceanna,yes! oh how we tortured ourselves!
Remember practically being able to cook dinner while waiting for dial-up
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