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

 

[Steiny77]

One of the arcade games at the county fair required a dime wager and if you won you got a pack of cigarettes, regardless of your age.
Harvest gold and Avocado colored appliances.
The rich kids in the neighborhood had mini bikes.
Home swimming pools were rare, we went to the lake, river or city pool to swim.
Climbing the big rope in the gym up to ceiling.
Presidents physical fitness test every year in gym class.
Pouring molten aluminum in 7th grade shop class "foundry".
18 Year old drinking age in Michigan .... road trip !
Couldn't get Coors east of the Mississippi.

 

[noharleyyet]

One of the arcade games at the county fair required a dime wager and if you won you got a pack of cigarettes, regardless of your age.
Harvest gold and Avocado colored appliances.
The rich kids in the neighborhood had mini bikes.
Home swimming pools were rare, we went to the lake, river or city pool to swim.
Climbing the big rope in the gym up to ceiling.
Presidents physical fitness test every year in gym class.
Pouring molten aluminum in 7th grade shop class "foundry".
18 Year old drinking age in Michigan .... road trip !
Couldn't get Coors east of the Mississippi.

 

[mtmuley]

mtmuley

 

[Dave N]

I doubted I would make it to 18.

A slightly higher age, but same intent.

 

[noharleyyet]

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mtmuley

Fold together and break it, they said.

No feeling in my pinkie finger for over a year.

 

[Bigjay73]

Who didn't use those as handcuffs for cops and robbers?

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

I remember runner sleds growing up in Alaska and laying on your stomach 6 inches off the ground or whatever and sledding down our long street that was downhill your eyes watering from going fast in the cold , do they still makes those things ???

 

[Redmt]

Fold together and break it, they said.

No feeling in my pinkie finger for over a year.
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I remember when I could do it.