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Im iceman old
Nickel pay phone calls old
Corduroy pants old
samnsara
(17,622 posts)..'Boy friend' wrap around sunglasses
Peppermint flavor lipstick
flash cubes that I wore as earrings with my mini skirt and knee high white boots
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)JenniferJuniper
(4,512 posts)I had a rainbow assortment of corduroy Levis.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)walked to school!
SWBTATTReg
(22,133 posts)out of your post!!
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Just_Vote_Dem
(2,808 posts)Never owned one though
Lars39
(26,109 posts)MichaelSoE
(1,576 posts)Lars39
(26,109 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)Angie by the Rolling Stones is the top song on the chart old. No Vice President of the United States because the crook had to resign last week old. That is what was going on in the world during the week I was born.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,107 posts)McNally maps old
No air conditioning in school or home old
Watching new episodes of Bugs Bunny on Saturday morning old
3 channels of TV old
gibraltar72
(7,506 posts)Though not born by WW2 wars end I still have my ration book.
MichaelSoE
(1,576 posts)and it was a party line.
As a matter of fact you could dial the operator and tell them, "Connect me with Dr. Loo." And they knew who you wanted to call.
and on edit ... Alaska and Hawaii were not states yet.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)and just as old as:
Pink Floyd,
Tangerine Dream,
The Grateful Dead, and
Fleetwood Mac.
I was born into great music.
-Laelth
DetroitLegalBeagle
(1,924 posts)I think I still have it a box somewhere. I never threw out my nextel phones for some reason.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)ChazII
(6,205 posts)Kahuna
(27,311 posts)redwitch
(14,944 posts)Also thinking about renting a cottage on the Isle of Wight (If its not too dear)
GreenPartyVoter
(72,378 posts)was Bon Jovi's "Slippery When Wet." Before Smart cars, there were Yugos. The Viet Nam War was still going on when I was born. As a teen, I saw a wall fall, a shuttle explode, and a president and Beatle shot.
stopwastingmymoney
(2,042 posts)Excellent description
northoftheborder
(7,572 posts)rurallib
(62,423 posts)and let me add - daylight time set at the county level inside our state old (boy was that confusing)
Chipper Chat
(9,680 posts)Suspense
STOP the. Music with Bert Parks.
OXYDOL 'S OLD MA PERKINS
THE Fat Man
Your Hit PARADE.
agingdem
(7,850 posts)unc70
(6,115 posts)No television, no telephone, no paved road, no indoor plumbing. We were in the boonies of eastern NC. We did get all of those except telephones by the time I was six; I was ten when telephones reached us.
Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Backseat Driver
(4,393 posts)Backseat Driver
(4,393 posts)but a decade later, I still barely knew enough to even consider disliking Ike or his warning; then in just a couple more years, this child's mind would have lots of damn good reasons not to trust any member of the GOP ever again! I asked what I could do? - "VOTE Blue when you can; however long you can" came the answer! - And so I shall, today!
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)He was so very sad and around the same age as I was. Even being rather young it hit me hard enough that it's an image I've always carried in my heart.
DBoon
(22,367 posts)part of the punk generation
Wicked Blue
(5,834 posts)but couldn't understand it because I didn't speak English yet
vsrazdem
(2,177 posts)Chainfire
(17,549 posts)but he was one grade ahead of me.
Wawannabe
(5,661 posts)😂
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)Semper Fi.
mnhtnbb
(31,392 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)where some lived.
Clearly fogged in
(1,896 posts)Got to see some dinosaurs grow feathers though...
panader0
(25,816 posts)I didn't really know him, he'd been gone for two years. He hadn't shaved in a couple of days
and his whiskers scratched my face.
Fla Dem
(23,690 posts)Saw Ted Williams play at Fenway Park old.
Wringer in basement sink old.
Party Line Phones old.
No filter cigarettes old.
No MacDonalds old
No Car seat belts old.
Watching Alan Shepard's 1st space flight on a B&W TV old.
Watching Howdy Doody, Buffalo Bob Smith and Clarabell the Clown old. What Time Is It????? It's Howdy Doody Time!!!!!
wnylib
(21,487 posts)Don't forget Princess Summerfallwinterspring. (A character that just wouldn't be done today.)
Fla Dem
(23,690 posts)wnylib
(21,487 posts)on our block. Kids gathered at our house to watch.
Fla Dem
(23,690 posts)wnylib
(21,487 posts)of another age marker - a time when TV's were a piece of furniture, standing on the floor in cabinets that were double or triple the size of the screen. Also, "snowy" reception and adjusting rabbit ears to make it clearer. Then, getting a roof antenna in order to receive the UHF station.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,489 posts)Steam locomotives weren't operating through my home town during my memory, but I did see the attempted demolition of the coaling tipple.
LiberalArkie
(15,719 posts)Aristus
(66,388 posts)I'm aluminum foil on the TV antennae years old.
I'm Funshine Saturday on ABC years old.
I'm embroidered jeans and sunhats years old.
I'm 45-rpm records on the backs of cereal boxes years old.
I'm Chemistry For Kids! boxed sets years old.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)Young enough to still care.
jmowreader
(50,559 posts)ihas2stinkyfeet
(1,400 posts)my folks were picking up report cards when he was declared dead.
they announced it on the pa. my mom came home in tears.
he had visited my little town, they drove right past my house. my mom shook his hand.
Iggo
(47,558 posts)BainsBane
(53,035 posts)cloudbase
(5,520 posts)when Noah was a seaman apprentice.
I can remember these at night:
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)There are several here that song describes.
Tracer
(2,769 posts)Seeing a bonfire in the street at the end of WWII old.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,855 posts)N0t sure 1f that c0unt5.
IcyPeas
(21,889 posts)I think it was dime.... maybe a nickel
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)But you can only realistically do that 10 out of every 16 years.
Ooops. Sorry, I used numbers.
malthaussen
(17,204 posts)JustFiveMoreMinutes
(2,133 posts)on the good side Romper Room, Captain Kangaroo, and wringer washers!
nuxvomica
(12,429 posts)From health insurance companies.
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)I actually enjoyed watching the test pattern, waiting for TV broadcasting to resume. The first program of the day was The Wonderful World Of Brother Buzz, and I NEVER missed it.
Wawannabe
(5,661 posts)Won their last SuperBowl. (Not this year!)
They gave me a wonderful bday present earlier this year. Friday is the "big day"!
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Mad_Dem_X
(9,565 posts)I was a toddler.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,350 posts)Bicycle helmets were unheard of.
Milkman delivered to the house.
marie999
(3,334 posts)My husband remembers Japan's surrender.
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts).
ironflange
(7,781 posts)LeftInTX
(25,375 posts)I wanted to see John Glenn's spacecraft fly over our house! (Thanks mom for teasing me with that...dad says it will be too small to see)
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)Super Nintendo old
Twin peaks old
Fresh Prince old
Home Alone old
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)Piasladic
(1,160 posts)Scratch and sniff stickers old
Fat shoelaces and plastic earrings old.
deepthought42
(2,779 posts)when the movie was first released.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)But still too young to care.
ploppy
(2,162 posts)Iggo
(47,558 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,202 posts)Phentex
(16,334 posts)But Im not as artificial.
Wolf Frankula
(3,601 posts)if I was my parents' generation.
Wolf
My Pet Orangutan
(9,259 posts)Two old.
wnylib
(21,487 posts)Don't remember him, but I do remember Ike. Vague memory of the last McCarthy hearings on TV.
Wearing pinafores in kindergarten. Crinolines, poodle skirts, and saddle shoes in grade school. Nickel candy bars and popsickles.
Shrek
(3,981 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)Prince Valiant, Terry and the Pirates, Black Hawk and Steve Canyon old.
mentalsolstice
(4,461 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)and playing outside until my mother called me in
Niagara
(7,627 posts)I was in elementary school when students were still allowed to wear Halloween costumes to school and we walked down to a nearby nursing home to parade our costumes for the elderly. I also in elementary school when the Challenger disaster happened.
I was in junior high school when Baby Jessica fell into the well and was rescued.
There were plenty of payphones to be found and Saturday morning cartoons was the best part of the weekend.
Ohiya
(2,234 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Niagara
(7,627 posts)Or did you get to participate for prizes?
That's really cool that you got to see it live.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I don't really remember it because I was only about 3 or 4, but my dad showed it to me years later. They had kids on bleachers on the stage and I was one of them.
Niagara
(7,627 posts)That's still neat that you got to be there.
I use to practice throwing ping pong balls in my mom's buckets, mixing bowls and whatever else that I could find hoping one day I got to participate on the show.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,636 posts)struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)and I learned programming with hollerith cards
DFW
(54,405 posts)I own fossils of animals that used to be my house pets.
For some of them, today, there would probably some kind of leash requirement:
OxQQme
(2,550 posts)Bell Laboratories' physicists invented the transistor. Smaller, cheaper, and faster than a vacuum tube, it revolutionized the field of electronics. Edwin Land invented the Polaroid Land® camera. It was the first camera to produce finished prints instantly in this case, 60 seconds.
Same age as Ringo and John Lennon.
Average Price for a new car $850.00.
Nylon stockings.
Older than Rosie the riveter.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)Mine's easy!
marmar
(77,081 posts)Iggo
(47,558 posts)Duppers
(28,125 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)but that JFK guy is looking better than the VP!
sakabatou
(42,155 posts)Kaleva
(36,309 posts)frogmarch
(12,154 posts)a few years too old for Betsy Wetsy.