I remember when______________________, Think back and think of memories. things you did or didn't to.clothing. etc.

[debm55]

For example
I remember when I looked for gas money under the floor boards
I remember writing thank you cards.
I remember using a telephone booth.
I remember riding my bike all over the place and no one knew (or cared)
Bring the memories back with this I remember. post,
PS I remember to say thank you instead of grunting.

[ProfessorGAC]

1. Penny Candy

Yeah, some of it was 2 cents, or 3.
But, a pack of Snaps, a pack of gum, & 2 Mary Janes were a dime.
A 7 ounce bottle of Mountain Dew was 7 cents at that store.
A couple dimes got us candy & a bottle of pop, and 3 cents change!

[debm55]

3. Thank you Professor GAC. I remember that.

[OC375]

2. Dope

I remember what it was like to watch TV without 3 minute long drug commercials about boners, eczema and depression.

[debm55]

4. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. Yes, I remember those days to. Thank you OC375 And welcome to DU

[kimbutgar]

5. Paying 12 cents for an Archie comic book!

Mt grandfather would give me a quarter when he visited and I could buy 2 comic books !

[debm55]

8. Thank you very much kimbutgar. They had those thicker versions that were 25 cents.

[Permanut]

6. Driving my '56 Chevy around Yaw's Drive-in on a Saturday night..

along with every other hot rod in Portland Oregon.

[debm55]

9. Thank you very much Permanut. What a great memory. Thank you.

[Ocelot II]

7. Having to get up and walk over to the TV to change to one of the other three channels.

The telephone in the kitchen with a long cord that made it possible for me to climb into the broom closet and talk to my friends with (sort of) privacy.

Trading cards, dime stores, riding in the back of the station wagon.

[debm55]

11. OMG Ocelot II , I remember to the to the basement, as our phone was located nearby. Three channels --all shows in

black and white. If the wind was right. We would get the channel from Steubenville or Altoona. I could watch the Roller Derby or the Pirates home games. Thank you For the memories.

[KarenS]

16. oh goodness,,,,

I remember watching Roller Derby.

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19. HAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAH. Every Saturday if the wind was right. Other wise 3 stations plus WQED--i think is PBS now. Thank you

very much KarenS

[AllaN01Bear]

26. we had tv

was first in black and white then color.

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43. Thank you Bear, We had a console. TV have changed very much over the years. Now people hang them on the wall. who would

have thought?

[Chipper Chat]

10. Having milk in quart bottles delivered to your door every other day.

The cream rose to the top. I would grab the bottle and pour the cream on my cereal.

[debm55]

12. Thank you Chipper Chat you were lucky. The Milk man delivered in those wax cartons from the dairy.

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[Chipper Chat]

18. Milk was not homogenized

Therefore we got the cream

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

13. Watching my Dad 'fix' tv by replacing those big glass vacuum tubes at back of set

TV vacuum tubes would burn out,
And need replacing

[debm55]

20. Thank you, IrishBubbaLiberal. I remember that .

[PikaBlue]

14. I remember hayrides

and nighttime sledding parties.

[debm55]

21. YES, hayrides in the fall and sledding parties and snowball fights . Thank you PikaBlue.

[KarenS]

15. I could get French Fries and a Coke for 25 Cents at McDonald's ,,,,

In the 60s

Which is where we went cruising around on a Friday and Saturday night,,,, jeez,,,

[debm55]

22. I remember that, Thank you KarenS. I don't know if it was McDonald;s but someone 10 cent burgers. I think Hardies.

[TommieMommy]

17. Bringing in the clothes from the clothes line and they were frozen. Bringing home stray animals and getting in trouble.

The old wringer washer in the basement and the crickets were singing. Foil on the TV antenna. Climbing trees and hanging upside down. Riding my bike all over town with my friend.

[debm55]

23. Thank you very much TommieMommy. I remember the wringer washer. We had a dryer. And Riding my back all over creation.

[debm55]

24. I remember when people that shag carpets were cool .Paintings on velvet was great and getting a paint by number was a

work of art.

[Ocelot II]

25. When I was a little kid I discovered a black velvet painting of a deer in the moonlight

in a closet in my grandma's cabin - IIRC it had been painted by a relative or a family friend - and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I didn't understand why the grownups wanted to keep it stored away in the closet and I wasn't allowed to have it for myself. So disappointed!



As to shag carpeting - my house once had orange shag carpeting in a couple of upstairs rooms. It doesn't any more, but before I could remove it I discovered that it's really hard to get cat vomit out of shag fabric.

[Diamond_Dog]

30. My first apartment had avocado green shag carpeting

The house I live in now originally had brown shag carpet. One of the first things we did after moving in was replace that awful carpeting.

I can just imagine that black velvet painting hanging on a wood paneled wall.

[debm55]

47. HAHAHAHAHHA. thank you for posting your experience.

[debm55]

49. OMG Ocelot II that is so funny

[AllaN01Bear]

27. going to 7/11 when they first opened in glendora ca and got slurpie points and sweet tarts .

going to betsie ross ice cream parlor for a doubble scoop hot fudge sunday.

[debm55]

48. Thank you very much AllaN01Bear. that sounds like a yummy memory.

[AllaN01Bear]

28. i still write thank you cards and get thank you cards .

[debm55]

42. Thant is great. I wish more people were like you. You follow the teachings of your faith.

[AllaN01Bear]

29. if this was a book . it would take several books and if a website would be huggge.

i love all these memories .

[debm55]

41. Thanks Bear..I like to read the memories.

[AllaN01Bear]

31. i say thanks to,,

leos . fire people . amblance attendances . drs . nurses . vets esp teachers or anyone who has been nice to me .

[debm55]

40. Thank you Bear.

[sorcrow]

32. S&H Green stamps

I remember when grocery stores gave out s&h green stamps. Along with my mom, I dutifully pasted them into the stamp books to take to the Green Stamp store to redeem for wonderful things.

Every once in a while, I think of something from my childhood and remember "Hey, we got that from the stamp store."

Best regards,
Sorghum Crow

[debm55]

39. Thank you very much sorcrow. We had the green stamps from one store and Plaid stamps from another. We would also take to

the redemption center.. I remember getting a jewelry box with a ballerina in it that danced when the lid was opened. I haven't thought of that in a long time.

[RazorbackExpat]

50. My mom got a rocking chair with green stamps

I think that was in 1962.

[Diamond_Dog]

33. I remember walking to school. I never rode a school bus.

I walked by myself to school starting at age 5. The school was 5 blocks away. I walked home for lunch and walked back to school after lunch (which was often a hot dog and a bowl of Lipton chicken noodle soup).
I recently told my 32 yr. old son about going home for lunch and going back to school after I ate lunch, and he was astounded. “Wow, if they had let us do that nobody would have ever come back to school, “ he said. Well, my mother made me go back, I said.

Our school had a summer garden program. You had to sign up for it, and it was free. In the summer, you’d walk to school around 8 am where there was a bus waiting to take all the kids out to a farm somewhere (I wasn’t quite sure where, because I often daydreamed looking out the window as we rode). Each kid got an allotted plot of land and hoes to hoe the dirt and vegetable seeds to plant. There were adults there to help you learn what to do. Around noon the bus took you back to school, and you walked home from there. I remember bringing home a huge bag full of green beans several times. I don’t remember what else we planted. If you got your gardening and weeding done early enough, some adults would take you to a fishing pond on the property and you could learn how to fish. It was a nice program for city kids to keep us busy with something productive during the summer, and my mother didn’t have to drive us anywhere.

[debm55]

38. Wow. Thank you Diamond _Dog I walk to school also. at 5 by myself. it was about the same distance as you. I love the

Gardening program you had. That is terrific.

[JMCKUSICK]

34. I remember listening to baseball games at night on a transistor radio

At bedtime.

[debm55]

37. I remember that too. Thanks john.

[RazorbackExpat]

51. Me, too

Cardinals games on KMOX St. Louis or sometimes KOAM in Pittsburgh, Kansas. Jack Buck was a great announcer, you could tell he was a die-hard Cardinals fan.

[JMCKUSICK]

35. Studio wrestling

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36. Thank you John.

[debm55]

44. I remember when young adults didn't have a car that they would hitch hike. Sometimes even across country.

[johnp3907]

45. Everyone seems to only remember good things.

I like to look back and count my blessings for all the things I hated that are gone. Like party lines. And people smoking everywhere. I often tell young people that they can't imagine how much life used to stink. Then I say "And by 'stink' I don't mean life used to suck, I mean it literally smelled horrible. Women smelled like they dipped themselves in perfume, men slapped aftershave lotion on their faces, and everyone smoked everywhere! Restaurants were absolutely revolting!"

[debm55]

46. Thank you johnp3907 , You are absoultely right it did stink.

[wcmagumba]

52. I remember "Grit" weekly newspaper, I sold them door to door...Later, delivering daily newspapers from bags on my bike..

Riding my bike across our small town to Sandberg's Pharmacy to buy a comic book...Neighborhood grocery stores, we had one right across from our house...Simmon's Grocery. The older, kind of grumpy lady who owned and ran it lived in the connected apt in the back. She had one of those curved glass display cases full of candies for you to choose from...

[debm55]

55. Thank you very much, wcmagumba. We had a grumpy lady that sold us penny candy too.

[Emile]

53. I remember when an ounce of Columbian weed was $20.00

[debm55]

56. Yes, Emile, Or the nickel bags that full of seeds.some leaves and little sticks.

[lark]

54. I remember gas being .25 and searching under the couch pillows for change for gas.

We could usually find at least a dollar and that would give us a night of cruising. Fun times.

[debm55]

57. I did the same. Looking for change under the floor boards and in between the seats.