I remember when:

[noharleyyet]

I remember printing stuff off for my mom who was a school teacher on a mimeograph.

I remember when our "influencers" were our mentors, fathers, uncles, grandfathers, mothers etc, not some unknown dude on the internet.

My last name begins with an S...so I usually got the copies with the fading ink.

 

[Caseknife]

A very unique smell also associated with the mimeograph.

 

[Bigjay73]

Going to Thrifty drug for replacement TV tubes and ice cream

 

[shrapnel]

The truth. I didn’t eat snacks or drink water during school. We had water fountains if you needed a drink between classes!

Not that being hydrated is a bad thing, but everyone and their brother carrying water bottles is a marketing wet dream.

I don’t know how we survived as a kid without water bottles, phones, constant music and riding a bike without a helmet.

We would leave in the morning with a bridle and find a horse somewhere in the meadow, catch it and ride all day without fear. My parents never knew where we were and didn’t worry.

I learned how to drive with a 1949 International truck, shift gears without syncros and look out the front between the spokes on the steering wheel.

A candy bar was a nickel and you could get 6 for a quarter and the quarter was silver. Gold was $35.00 an ounce and you could own it. Gas was $.32/gallon and you didn’t pay attention to the mileage on the car, you just filled it up when the tank was empty.

And I never thought about getting old or dying…

 

[hank4elk]

I doubted I would make it to 18.

 

[Nick87]

When appliances lasted.

 

[Bigjay73]

 

[cgasner1]

When my grandpa was the baddest mf’er id ever met. He flipped that wheeler by himself and broke some ribs a leg and his back. Then flipped it back over rode it out loaded it into the truck and drove to the hospital. Some days I wish boats would still be made of wood and men of steel.

 

[gouch]

When appliances lasted.

In 1978 my wife and I bought a used refrigerator. One day a letter that had been stuck in the coils on the back, fell out. The letter was postmarked 1949. Eight years later we decided we needed a bigger fridge, so we gave that one to a friend to have in his garage. Lost track but in 2000 it was still keeping his beer cold.

No such thing as built in obsolescence back then.

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

Milk was delivered to your door. In glass bottles.

I remember when dad used to always ask mom why I look like the milk man

 

[noharleyyet]

I remember when dad used to always ask mom why I look like the milk man

That’s the one I thought of too.

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

That’s the one I thought of too.

I couldn’t resist

 

[howardgrayson]

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