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In reply to the discussion: Name something you used to do that today's whippersnappers have never heard of. [View all]FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)342. In the laudry room of my house is a working, original equipment, dial telephone from 1962.
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Name something you used to do that today's whippersnappers have never heard of. [View all]
Bertha Venation
May 2012
OP
turning the color dial so people were somewhere between pink and green skinned.
Manifestor_of_Light
May 2012
#174
hated dialing - I would lose track trying to dial quickly into a radio station
nadine_mn
May 2012
#118
In the laudry room of my house is a working, original equipment, dial telephone from 1962.
FiveGoodMen
May 2012
#342
And a skateboard was a board with a pair of roller skates you nailed onto it
pinboy3niner
May 2012
#147
Spinning the turntable BACKWARD in order to hear "turn me on dead man". n/t
cherokeeprogressive
May 2012
#383
Ha! I always thought I'd get zapped by electricity or that my tube would blow up when testing.
kayakjohnny
May 2012
#24
I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed,
zbdent
May 2012
#59
Oh yeah. They were most pungent when they were fresh off the machine and still drying.
Arugula Latte
May 2012
#46
you want a laugh, look at the reel-to-reel drives on the computers on the Death Star
zbdent
May 2012
#62
When babysitting and a kid pooped his diapers, had to wash it out in the toilet while flushing,
crunch60
May 2012
#285
You knew how long it took the tires to warm up and loose the little flat spot.
oneshooter
May 2012
#138
When I was 18 (in '68) I used to hop the freight trains between Salem, Oregon and Seattle
panader0
May 2012
#75
Necking for hours, by the lake at the boat harbor, full moon, listening to Johnny
crunch60
May 2012
#287
Cross my heart and hope to die! No "S-I" until I left my home, the RCC, and the country.
crunch60
May 2012
#304
I was at a yard sale today and a 10-yr-old girl there did not not what a typewriter was - there
Nay
May 2012
#245
I had a red IBM Standard and typed other peoples' papers as well, for money.
Manifestor_of_Light
May 2012
#85
My uncle and aunt had pop-top curtains hanging in the doorway leading from the living room.
cherokeeprogressive
May 2012
#384
Turning in soda bottles for spending money/Picking cotton/Using a party line phone...
KBlagburn
May 2012
#146
We went to serials on Saturday, double feature, .12 cents, box of good and plenty
crunch60
May 2012
#303
Yeah! I regularly sound like an old fart when I tell ppl "kids don't do anything anymore except
Nay
May 2012
#246
Playing baseball in a friend's back yard, using various fruit trees as the bases.
Bette Noir
May 2012
#278
he! he! . . . I was thinking yesterday about an edit to that post. You read my mind.
patrice
May 2012
#389
Those knobs were great weren't they? Especially when the plastic finally wore out.
lonestarnot
Jun 2012
#416
When I was seven years old, my mom would give me some change and let me walk alone to the store
slackmaster
May 2012
#197
IRONING BOARD...Funny story....My daughter saw an ironing board in my mother-in-law's bedroom.
PassingFair
May 2012
#221
How cute. I remember when I cooked for my neighbors 3 little girls. She had to come back
southernyankeebelle
May 2012
#235
Buying a gallon of root beer from A&W (before they sold it in grocery stores).
ET Awful
May 2012
#226
I remember being 10 yrs old living in Germany on the military base with my family waiting
southernyankeebelle
May 2012
#233
chase after the truck that was spraying pesticide in the neighborhood to control mosquitoes
dmrtndl1
May 2012
#247
fortunately, my mother would make us get inside when the mosquito sprayers went by.
ellenfl
May 2012
#274
Set a tape recorder to 1&7/8, 3&3/4, or 7&1/2 ips. Splice a tape to edit it.
eppur_se_muova
May 2012
#260
Ordering toys from the milkman when I had finally cut out enough circles from the paper milk
Nay
May 2012
#286
Having to buy porn from that nice lady at the Convenient store on the corner....
WCGreen
May 2012
#316
Sending a telegram, leaving the house and cars unlocked all the time, and
Kip Humphrey
May 2012
#337
REAL mums for corsages at football games. And catching horned toads. (now almost extinct)
northoftheborder
May 2012
#356
I'm really glad to hear that; we used to have them here in central Texas too.
northoftheborder
May 2012
#374
Being sent off to the movies with my younger siblings so my parents could fuck.
mysuzuki2
May 2012
#376