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ashling

(25,771 posts)
216. Was in line at a burger stand
Sun May 20, 2012, 03:24 PM
May 2012

back in the early sixties and the person at the window told the black gentleman in front of us that he would have to go around to the back door to order, so mom took us kids around back, too.

multiplication on a sliderule HereSince1628 May 2012 #1
Turn on a TV Dyedinthewoolliberal May 2012 #2
Turn on a TV Duer 157099 May 2012 #8
A knob? A KNOB? Look who's all high and mighty! NoPasaran May 2012 #163
That should have been a DUzy. pacalo May 2012 #189
You were lucky!! FiveGoodMen May 2012 #341
We use to dream of having teeth. Throckmorton May 2012 #352
I was thinking about that the other day ashling May 2012 #196
And don't forget the antenna rotor control HarveyDarkey Jun 2012 #404
Ah, yes, the sign-off. When we stayed at Grandma's Bertha Venation May 2012 #10
That was America the Beautiful arranged by Carmen Dragon Manifestor_of_Light May 2012 #80
Heck, getting up to change the channel or turn it on and off ... zbdent May 2012 #56
turning the color dial so people were somewhere between pink and green skinned. Manifestor_of_Light May 2012 #174
The brightness control never worked. We turned it all the way up, tclambert May 2012 #231
...that Conelrad was a helluva detective!! lastlib May 2012 #122
Getting up at 5:30 on Saturdays ashling May 2012 #201
We must have grown up together. Scuba May 2012 #311
We had someone a bit prettier... mwooldri May 2012 #357
You had TV?!! unc70 May 2012 #225
Put a playing card on the fender of your bike geardaddy May 2012 #3
Dial a telephone, literally. hifiguy May 2012 #4
Yup, been there, done that. n/t RebelOne May 2012 #27
I remember those things sakabatou May 2012 #76
hated dialing - I would lose track trying to dial quickly into a radio station nadine_mn May 2012 #118
Work on a telephone "cord board" IDemo May 2012 #183
We lived in the country and had a 'party line.' CrispyQ May 2012 #188
we did too, when I was 20 Voice for Peace May 2012 #214
Gas wars--where the prices kept going DOWN!!! Maeve May 2012 #194
Gas prices of 17.9 to 19.9¢ unc70 May 2012 #228
Cigarettes were 50 cents at the Clarke Station. randome May 2012 #237
A lot less than that, but I was in NC unc70 May 2012 #241
I can handle no air conditioning fine now. randome May 2012 #244
You must not live in the South. unc70 May 2012 #250
You're right. I'm sure it's worse in other places. randome May 2012 #252
And many places worse than NC unc70 May 2012 #272
the gas wars were not necessarily good things suninvited May 2012 #335
Dial a phone - yes and it was originally a "Party Line" in our house. Marie Marie May 2012 #336
We had a party line too. The interesting thing is that, Old Troop Jun 2012 #409
In the laudry room of my house is a working, original equipment, dial telephone from 1962. FiveGoodMen May 2012 #342
I gotta admit back then the phone number was a hoot. mwooldri May 2012 #354
I remember going to the record store... RevStPatrick May 2012 #5
putting the spindle adapter on the turntable zbdent May 2012 #16
Changing the needle. rug May 2012 #39
78's sarge43 May 2012 #44
My folks bought a good stereo and NEVER used it. Manifestor_of_Light May 2012 #143
At Robbie's Records they had booths with turn tables ashling May 2012 #211
I can still do that. Neoma May 2012 #270
I'm a 20something and I still do that ButterflyBlood May 2012 #360
recording songs off the radio Viva_La_Revolution May 2012 #6
putting my hand on the back of the radio SCantiGOP May 2012 #64
Work zzaapp May 2012 #7
Aw, that's rather unkind, zzaapp, and unfair. Bertha Venation May 2012 #9
+1 geardaddy May 2012 #12
Bertha, you don't know my kids. LOLOL zzaapp May 2012 #13
Bertha, it's probably none of my business...but zzaapp May 2012 #29
A lot of people have questioned me on this. Bertha Venation May 2012 #55
oooops, now I get it. Thanks. zzaapp May 2012 #57
Pssst...I knew that, actually! dixiegrrrrl May 2012 #171
Listened to radio dramas. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2012 #11
I still have a skate key HeiressofBickworth May 2012 #115
I have a friend who's ashling May 2012 #215
And a skateboard was a board with a pair of roller skates you nailed onto it pinboy3niner May 2012 #147
In our early 50's Hudson NEOhiodemocrat May 2012 #364
Make a scooter or skateboard from a 2x4 and old clamp-on skates. bluesbassman May 2012 #14
With bottlecaps. rug May 2012 #40
Roller skate with clamp-on skates. GoCubsGo May 2012 #91
closing the door of a phone booth ... zbdent May 2012 #15
They have phone booths at O'Hare airport. Neoma May 2012 #273
Do you remember the really nice wood paneled Old Troop Jun 2012 #410
almost before my time, but ... setting a turntable to 78 rpm so that I could zbdent May 2012 #17
Or to listen to 33s or 45s to make 'em sound like The Chipmunks. geardaddy May 2012 #22
That's what I was going to say Ron Obvious May 2012 #116
Spinning the turntable BACKWARD in order to hear "turn me on dead man". n/t cherokeeprogressive May 2012 #383
Man, I hope I never get old... ellisonz May 2012 #18
You'd BETTER hide, e....z! elleng May 2012 #65
*Oww...* ellisonz May 2012 #68
Well, consider the alternative... crunch60 May 2012 #279
Either way, old or young... ellisonz May 2012 #377
Well, there's only the one alternative... FiveGoodMen May 2012 #345
You woudn't like the alternative! nt zanana1 Jun 2012 #414
Used to go up to Rexall Drugs and use one of these..... kayakjohnny May 2012 #19
Those were so cool! hifiguy May 2012 #21
Ha! I always thought I'd get zapped by electricity or that my tube would blow up when testing. kayakjohnny May 2012 #24
I remember those. geardaddy May 2012 #23
My dad had one of those LaurenG May 2012 #50
Still have my RCA receiving tube manual unc70 May 2012 #230
? onpatrol98 May 2012 #314
A test machine for JoeyT May 2012 #329
Giving a friend a "buck" on my bike. LNM May 2012 #20
Yes. We'd give seat bucks or geardaddy May 2012 #98
Yep, a handlebar buck LNM May 2012 #151
We called those "pumps" nt WolverineDG May 2012 #379
Deliver newspapers before and after school. ohiosmith May 2012 #25
I delivered the evening Star geardaddy May 2012 #28
Walk 10 miles to school,uphill both ways,in 3 feet of snow. Swede May 2012 #26
And you didn't complain! Arugula Latte May 2012 #34
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
Thank you! potone May 2012 #182
Luxury!!!! Tripper11 May 2012 #108
Except for the 10 miles part, I actually did that jmowreader May 2012 #297
Since you mention it, 4_TN_TITANS May 2012 #30
I'm 36, but I'm willing to bet some people just a little younger me.... sadbear May 2012 #31
how about the 8 inch disks? zbdent May 2012 #58
That's before my time sadbear May 2012 #67
I still have the Radio Shack "flyer"/catalogue where, for a mere $8000, zbdent May 2012 #69
Or, punch cards? GoCubsGo May 2012 #92
I made one of those in the 5th grade! n/t Gore1FL May 2012 #255
Me, too. GoCubsGo May 2012 #257
We had the tape with holes punched. Frustratedlady May 2012 #192
I'm 36 too, and yep, seen the 8 inch diskette Woody Woodpecker May 2012 #219
I am 32 and remember those tabbycat31 May 2012 #102
26 and I used some a2liberal May 2012 #152
Awesome! JustAnotherGen May 2012 #204
I'm 26 and I remember those. Odin2005 May 2012 #289
sadbear Diclotican May 2012 #333
Computers bongbong May 2012 #348
Run out to the huckster's truck to get fresh fruit and vegetables livetohike May 2012 #32
Receive tests and homework on purple-inked "ditto" paper. Arugula Latte May 2012 #33
And sniff them. rug May 2012 #42
Oh yeah. They were most pungent when they were fresh off the machine and still drying. Arugula Latte May 2012 #46
Now, THAT's what I call HIGH Technology!!! lastlib May 2012 #125
Mmm hmmm... Arugula Latte May 2012 #154
The mimeograph was a favorite of mine Woody Woodpecker May 2012 #220
Yep. I loved those things. geardaddy May 2012 #99
I still occasionally embarrass myself ... hay rick May 2012 #114
Aw, that's okay, Gramps. Arugula Latte May 2012 #155
i miss those Blue_Tires May 2012 #268
What's ditto paper? Odin2005 May 2012 #291
From retroland.com: Arugula Latte May 2012 #310
Mimeograph and ditto/fluid duplicator were different technologies unc70 May 2012 #378
All I ever remember seeing in grade school hifiguy May 2012 #323
Semi-private phone lines FSogol May 2012 #35
Even worse was the "Party Line". Up to 5 families on the same line. yellowcanine May 2012 #89
Five families? We had ten on ours. Silver Swan May 2012 #145
Enema parties on acid graywarrior May 2012 #36
No shit? rug May 2012 #43
I shit you not graywarrior May 2012 #47
what a shitty party that had to be. LaurenG May 2012 #52
One bathroom, too graywarrior May 2012 #53
you really had to have some close friends for that kind of party ... zbdent May 2012 #61
We were all seriously crazy graywarrior May 2012 #72
did you bring a roll of toilet paper to a crap game?? Manifestor_of_Light May 2012 #81
Aggies knew how to use toilet paper? El Supremo May 2012 #120
Don't know. Manifestor_of_Light May 2012 #133
Driving a manual transmission car with the shift lever on the steering column Kaleva May 2012 #97
Three on the tree? geardaddy May 2012 #100
My first car had one of those. GoneOffShore May 2012 #130
So did mine - 1965 Ford Club Wagon van. hifiguy May 2012 #325
1975 Ford F-100 bongbong May 2012 #349
How about driving a car with push-button automatic transmission? GoCubsGo May 2012 #160
Loved push button. unc70 May 2012 #238
Yes.. absyntheminded May 2012 #283
Whoa! Rainngirl May 2012 #359
I had one of those - a '63 Mercury Comet. Also had a '64 Dodge Dart with Old Troop Jun 2012 #411
Drink Root beer kool-aid by the gallon! RedCloud May 2012 #37
Make your own root beer with the Hires root beer kit geardaddy May 2012 #103
xray machines book lady May 2012 #38
They had those things in the company store! yortsed snacilbuper May 2012 #109
Type reports with 5 carbon copies marlakay May 2012 #41
yeah lillypaddle May 2012 #79
Snopake correction fluid. hay rick May 2012 #113
Liquid Paper, invented by Michael Nesmith's mother. Manifestor_of_Light May 2012 #131
Hit bottle caps with a wooden stick. RedCloud May 2012 #45
Write a Program on Key Punch Cards Yavin4 May 2012 #48
use an adding machine lillypaddle May 2012 #78
DO NOT fold, spindle or mutilate!! lastlib May 2012 #129
Close cover before striking. Bette Noir May 2012 #275
When I see your username I think of Bertha Venation May 2012 #373
I punched cards in my first year of college. calikid May 2012 #157
Knowing Fortran, or Assembly language. Woody Woodpecker May 2012 #222
I Took A Pascal Class from Asian Prof with a thick accent Yavin4 May 2012 #227
My Pascal/Fortran education came from a British instructor Woody Woodpecker May 2012 #267
Crochet LaurenG May 2012 #49
Re Using the phone book Yavin4 May 2012 #51
you want a laugh, look at the reel-to-reel drives on the computers on the Death Star zbdent May 2012 #62
Lots of people still crochet. GoCubsGo May 2012 #93
I have no idea what the young people do as far as needlework. Manifestor_of_Light May 2012 #106
They do all of it. knitter4democracy May 2012 #176
I can't crochet (thought I can knit and want to learn) tabbycat31 May 2012 #104
Hey, I do all of those still. knitter4democracy May 2012 #175
Cut out 45s from cereal boxes and play them on a turntable. Arugula Latte May 2012 #54
I loved those things. Bertha Venation May 2012 #71
Sure! Arugula Latte May 2012 #73
I had that one. Hissyspit May 2012 #369
Totally! geardaddy May 2012 #101
They had those in MAD Magazine too!! Manifestor_of_Light May 2012 #107
Excellent resource: Hissyspit May 2012 #370
All of the above Worried senior May 2012 #60
When babysitting and a kid pooped his diapers, had to wash it out in the toilet while flushing, crunch60 May 2012 #285
Star Wars ... zbdent May 2012 #63
Jean Shepherd! elleng May 2012 #66
Adjust the manual choke on the car Brother Buzz May 2012 #70
Adjust the idle screw on the carburetor Manifestor_of_Light May 2012 #83
Or change the points & condenser.... lastlib May 2012 #126
You knew how long it took the tires to warm up and loose the little flat spot. oneshooter May 2012 #138
Or sitting in the car till the end of a song. bikebloke May 2012 #74
I sit in the car waiting for the end of NPR programs. GoneOffShore May 2012 #132
'Driveway songs' they call them in England. randome May 2012 #256
When I was 18 (in '68) I used to hop the freight trains between Salem, Oregon and Seattle panader0 May 2012 #75
I used to "neck." lillypaddle May 2012 #77
No, belts to hold pads were horrible. Manifestor_of_Light May 2012 #159
Ah yes but did you use the thin tissue paper wrapper of a Tampax Sedona May 2012 #190
No, sorry. Missed that fad. Manifestor_of_Light May 2012 #232
You are one sick puppy! lillypaddle May 2012 #290
Tampons too treestar May 2012 #298
Necking for hours, by the lake at the boat harbor, full moon, listening to Johnny crunch60 May 2012 #287
yeah sure lillypaddle May 2012 #288
Cross my heart and hope to die! No "S-I" until I left my home, the RCC, and the country. crunch60 May 2012 #304
Type a research paper for college. sinkingfeeling May 2012 #82
Using one of these? baldguy May 2012 #112
I typed my senior thesis.... lastlib May 2012 #127
I typed too fast for a manual. Besides it hurts. Manifestor_of_Light May 2012 #142
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
Using a slide rule to calculate lens curves quaker bill Jun 2012 #395
Where do you plug in the flatscreen? krispos42 Jun 2012 #413
Take the car to the garage to get snow tires installed. yellowcanine May 2012 #84
Change the points and plugs... Magoo48 Jun 2012 #396
I had a red IBM Standard and typed other peoples' papers as well, for money. Manifestor_of_Light May 2012 #85
I charged $2 / page to type in college. $4 if I corrected the grammar. Scuba May 2012 #312
Paste S&H Green Stamps into a book. yellowcanine May 2012 #86
I knew someone would remember S&H Greenstamps! HooptieWagon May 2012 #254
Super 8 home movies Ptah May 2012 #87
My childhood was preserved in 16mm COLOR home movies!! Manifestor_of_Light May 2012 #105
Drove a stick shift. WhoIsNumberNone May 2012 #88
You'd be surprised at how many of us still drive stick shift. GoCubsGo May 2012 #94
i do that now... Blue_Tires May 2012 #269
Pay for porn taterguy May 2012 #90
Go in search of a phone booth XemaSab May 2012 #95
A coke run perhaps? LOL! Politicalboi May 2012 #213
Catching lizards. That was playing. Bette Noir May 2012 #276
My youngest step-son didn't know what a phonograph was. Kaleva May 2012 #96
This message was self-deleted by its author guyton May 2012 #224
3 TV stations underpants May 2012 #110
When we were stationed in the Azores in the 1960s NoPasaran May 2012 #165
"Warming up" the tee vee! Sedona May 2012 #193
hopscotch. jacks. and tnvoter May 2012 #111
Using the card catalog at the library nadine_mn May 2012 #117
Do they not stamp due dates anymore?? a2liberal May 2012 #153
They give you a receipt tabbycat31 May 2012 #156
Well, that's just silly a2liberal May 2012 #170
librarians were getting carpal tunnel from the stamps cally May 2012 #358
Selecting from only four TV stations. El Supremo May 2012 #119
Four? You should be so lucky! mwooldri May 2012 #351
Rewind the videotape before taking it back to the corner Videorama NightWatcher May 2012 #121
Smoking cigarettes in the official high school student smoking lounge. aikoaiko May 2012 #123
I remember having professors in college smoke during the lectures nadine_mn May 2012 #158
I had a stereo with not only a turntable but also an 8 track!!!! davsand May 2012 #124
Sat in the back of the bus.. mwdem May 2012 #128
Wow. You have the winner here. El Supremo May 2012 #136
Didn't want to do that! mwdem May 2012 #137
Was in line at a burger stand ashling May 2012 #216
Really. That's It. byronius May 2012 #326
EPIC WIN!!! Odin2005 May 2012 #292
play "stretch 'em" by throwing knives at frogmarch May 2012 #134
We called it "mumbly peg" ashling May 2012 #217
I wish we had. I like that name for it frogmarch May 2012 #277
As I recall, the idea was to ashling May 2012 #301
Yep, same game. And yep, frogmarch May 2012 #305
Real nylons and garters. cliffordu May 2012 #135
The horrible straps LiberalEsto May 2012 #284
Opening a soda, or beer bottle using a "church key". oneshooter May 2012 #139
LOL! LeftofObama May 2012 #199
My uncle and aunt had pop-top curtains hanging in the doorway leading from the living room. cherokeeprogressive May 2012 #384
Going to the library to do research for school papers.. Brigid May 2012 #140
Play with my Whipper Snapper begin_within May 2012 #141
Don't do that. Arugula Latte May 2012 #166
Buy A Four Finger,10 Dollar, Lid... WillyT May 2012 #144
Us poor folk had to settle for a nickel bag... hay rick May 2012 #169
Good times, good times. dixiegrrrrl May 2012 #172
Turning in soda bottles for spending money/Picking cotton/Using a party line phone... KBlagburn May 2012 #146
Walk around the neighborhood without a leash on my dog.. Youngat50 May 2012 #148
soda fountain counters in drug stores and woolworths IcyPeas May 2012 #149
tightening your roller skates with a key IcyPeas May 2012 #150
We had one of those old-fashioned drug stores until 1994. Odin2005 May 2012 #294
Still have one of those drugstores here unc70 May 2012 #309
Drive-in theatres.... NYC_SKP May 2012 #161
Rewind a cassette with a pen/pencil to save batteries on my walkman/boombox. dorkulon May 2012 #162
Seeing weekly serials at the movie theater Kingofalldems May 2012 #164
We went to serials on Saturday, double feature, .12 cents, box of good and plenty crunch60 May 2012 #303
"Play RECORDS." Amerigo Vespucci May 2012 #167
on, what else, a record player . . . in a box! a portable 45 player. eom ellenfl May 2012 #264
Sneaking friends in to the drive-in theater Pool Hall Ace May 2012 #168
LOL. I remember doing that too. I doubt I would have remembered without your post RZM May 2012 #187
going to the drive-in in the family station wagon in our pjs. eom ellenfl May 2012 #271
my son tried this dmrtndl1 May 2012 #322
Not a good outcome! Pool Hall Ace May 2012 #324
I did that a few times. hifiguy May 2012 #327
Playing outside ALL day long, till dark. dixiegrrrrl May 2012 #173
Flashlight tag! randome May 2012 #207
oh wow...I missed out on that. drats. dixiegrrrrl May 2012 #242
Yeah! I regularly sound like an old fart when I tell ppl "kids don't do anything anymore except Nay May 2012 #246
When I was a kid, our screen was in the front door. dixiegrrrrl May 2012 #266
Playing outside with the neighborhood kids lunatica May 2012 #177
Playing baseball in a friend's back yard, using various fruit trees as the bases. Bette Noir May 2012 #278
Used to sit and listen to my dad's shortwave radio. Bluzmann57 May 2012 #178
Saturdays in the summer Art_from_Ark May 2012 #179
Watching TV B.C. (Before cable) jaded_old_cynic May 2012 #180
Sleeping out in the backyard on summer nights ailsagirl May 2012 #181
1+ wake to the sounds of morning doves overhead. patrice May 2012 #185
Hope they weren't directly overhead! ailsagirl May 2012 #388
he! he! . . . I was thinking yesterday about an edit to that post. You read my mind. patrice May 2012 #389
Sorry, Patrice ailsagirl Jun 2012 #393
Most places you could still do that TheCruces Jun 2012 #412
Ride saplings in the summer, especially along the banks of a creek. nt patrice May 2012 #184
I've heard of almost all things listed in this thread JonLP24 May 2012 #186
Take pictures on film with an instamatic using flash cubes! geckosfeet May 2012 #191
Turning the fucking channel with the needlenose. lonestarnot May 2012 #195
OMG. I had forgotten about that. We must have had the same TV. nt Still Blue in PDX Jun 2012 #407
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
My mom sent me for smokes! Sedona May 2012 #206
CLACKERS! Sedona May 2012 #198
Trip acid and listen to King Crimson records... stlsaxman May 2012 #200
Oh yeah ! yesphan May 2012 #317
CREEPY CRAWLERS! Sedona May 2012 #202
Creepy Crawlers were AWESOME! randome May 2012 #212
Totally forgot about Creepy Crawlers!! blaze May 2012 #248
Glow-in-the-dark-goop. That did it for me. hunter May 2012 #385
I would obsessively tape-record my favorite monster movies. randome May 2012 #203
And the monsters were cheesy. Rozlee May 2012 #320
smoking on busses and planes chknltl May 2012 #205
The smoking sections in restaurants treestar May 2012 #299
Also cigarette lighters in cars. wickerwoman May 2012 #339
I used to go to bed with my transistor radio. Blue_In_AK May 2012 #208
I had a 4 inch cube Sony transistor radio. Manifestor_of_Light Jun 2012 #399
I listened to KOMA out of Oklahoma City. Blue_In_AK Jun 2012 #401
S&H Green Stamps, Plaid Stamps, the premiums that came in the boxes of 1monster May 2012 #209
Horrible Hamilton. Zeroids. Leif Ericsson starship models. randome May 2012 #210
Being able to go to a public college full time for $120.00 a semester. mysuzuki2 May 2012 #218
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
Tape recording songs off the radio Taverner May 2012 #223
Buying a gallon of root beer from A&W (before they sold it in grocery stores). ET Awful May 2012 #226
Here in Moorhead, MN we have one of the oldest DQs in the country. Odin2005 May 2012 #296
There's one of those in Richfield, too. hifiguy May 2012 #328
In the 50s there was a DQ at 48th and Nicolet in south Mpls near my house. mysuzuki2 May 2012 #375
Walking around town with my new "transistor Radio" up to my ear. 99th_Monkey May 2012 #229
I remember being 10 yrs old living in Germany on the military base with my family waiting southernyankeebelle May 2012 #233
I used to READ newspapers. tclambert May 2012 #234
you used to do..... Hula Popper May 2012 #236
Winky Dink unc70 May 2012 #239
At the risk of revealing my age... demilib May 2012 #240
Typewriters. Electric typewriters. randome May 2012 #243
You're just a youngster! classof56 May 2012 #265
That's called a candlestick phone. Manifestor_of_Light Jun 2012 #398
Thanks! classof56 Jun 2012 #417
chase after the truck that was spraying pesticide in the neighborhood to control mosquitoes dmrtndl1 May 2012 #247
It was like a call to a parade! randome May 2012 #253
fortunately, my mother would make us get inside when the mosquito sprayers went by. ellenfl May 2012 #274
OMG. My brother and I did this in Fla. I'm surprised I'm not dead yet. nt Nay May 2012 #282
The Top 40 grilled onions May 2012 #249
Burning leaves blaze May 2012 #251
But not until after we'd spent some time jumping in them! annabanana May 2012 #280
beer Locrian May 2012 #258
Use a footswitch to dim the car lights Coyote_Bandit May 2012 #259
I had a foot switch too! randome May 2012 #261
MY first car, a 1976 Camaro, had a foot switch. CottonBear May 2012 #386
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
Grass cutting jobs Harry Monroe May 2012 #262
what fun! Liz_Estrada May 2012 #263
Winding clocks... cyberswede May 2012 #281
Ordering toys from the milkman when I had finally cut out enough circles from the paper milk Nay May 2012 #286
Great OP! chervilant May 2012 #293
I used to wait for my fave son to tape it! bigwillq May 2012 #295
Leaving the house with no phone (nt) Shankapotomus May 2012 #300
I still do that. FiveGoodMen May 2012 #347
I hope to again someday (nt) Shankapotomus May 2012 #355
Early music piracy. svpadgham May 2012 #302
Buy a Hershey bar for a nickle. vanlassie May 2012 #306
Polaroid Cameras Oldtimeralso May 2012 #307
Chopping wood for a wood-fired stove. Liberty Belle May 2012 #308
In grammer school Highway61 May 2012 #313
Aww, that Bandstand antenna story is cute. WorseBeforeBetter Jun 2012 #400
I loved to climb trees. joanbarnes May 2012 #315
Having to buy porn from that nice lady at the Convenient store on the corner.... WCGreen May 2012 #316
Duck and cover drills yesphan May 2012 #319
Getting bread from the Helm's truck Rose Siding May 2012 #318
Helping my grandmother in Des Moines in the '50's Iwillnevergiveup May 2012 #321
count change back guardian May 2012 #330
There is way to much to list Marrah_G May 2012 #331
Have my transistor radio confiscated malthaussen May 2012 #332
gotcha beat ... padruig May 2012 #334
Sending a telegram, leaving the house and cars unlocked all the time, and Kip Humphrey May 2012 #337
Eat a Black Cow sucker GentryDixon May 2012 #338
Taking metal roller-skates apart . . . Richard D May 2012 #340
"Whippersnappers" is the precise term we use for members of our youth group KamaAina May 2012 #343
Dial a phone. KamaAina May 2012 #344
waiting outside for the milkman suninvited May 2012 #346
Jimmying vending machines bongbong May 2012 #350
Cars with vent windows Throckmorton May 2012 #353
REAL mums for corsages at football games. And catching horned toads. (now almost extinct) northoftheborder May 2012 #356
Relax 8 track mind May 2012 #367
I'm really glad to hear that; we used to have them here in central Texas too. northoftheborder May 2012 #374
Play marbles! yortsed snacilbuper May 2012 #361
aDMIRING MY PUBIC HAIR god damn capslock! FayeKane May 2012 #362
Vhs Dragonbreathp9d May 2012 #363
Marijuana at Concerts YOHABLO May 2012 #365
jump a Huffy Bicycle with a bannana seat and a sissybar 8 track mind May 2012 #366
In the summer, wait for the mosquito fogger to come along, Art_from_Ark May 2012 #368
Fizzies fifthoffive May 2012 #371
Tasted terrible? I loved the root beer ones! Nay May 2012 #382
Rotary telephone ElbarDee May 2012 #372
Being sent off to the movies with my younger siblings so my parents could fuck. mysuzuki2 May 2012 #376
Traveling from point A to point B and freaking out because Baitball Blogger May 2012 #380
Writing letters to friends in faraway places. SOteric May 2012 #381
Splice. Film or Recording Tape. With adhesive tape. CBGLuthier May 2012 #387
A walkman. A VCR. An adding machine. Taverner May 2012 #390
Ride the trolley from Burbank To downtown LA OxQQme Jun 2012 #391
Friendship bracelets. BlueIris Jun 2012 #392
The Burma Shave signs! ailsagirl Jun 2012 #394
My brain Turbineguy Jun 2012 #397
latex free ManyShadesOf Jun 2012 #402
Listening to the neighbors on the party line HarveyDarkey Jun 2012 #403
All night drive in movies. LiberalAndProud Jun 2012 #405
Unplugging the TV and plugging it back in again to "fix" it. Still Blue in PDX Jun 2012 #406
Calling the overseas operator to place a call to my Old Troop Jun 2012 #408
Shorthand felix_numinous Jun 2012 #415
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