I remember when:

[Bigjay73]

I remember when a large soda was 20oz with no HFCS

 

[mxracer317]

Up up down down left right left right select start

Just put a NES emulator on my iPhone. Played Contra tonight after 35 long years. Life is good.

 

[tarheel]

No ride for us. My brothers and I would ride our bikes to the nearest public ground, about 4 miles from town, with a .22, a fishing pole, a can of Dinty Moore stew and a Coghlan’s mess kit. If we weren’t home for supper ma would drive to the entrance and honk for us to come out of the woods to check on us. Now my wife cringes when I eat this stuff!

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Good stuff! The mainstay meal of many an elk camp.

 

[tarheel]

1st car was $125, 1963 Falcon wagon.
1st truck was $250, 1954 Chevy with a 1953 GMC flatbed/corner window model thrown in.
1st home was $12k for 10 ac with small house and a well. Place sold for $12mil 2 years ago.

My first car was a '56 Customline Ford with a freshly rebuilt engine for $400. Bought it while home in NC on leave. Had to report to an airbase in the Mojave as my permanent posting but was going to spend a few days in Denver on the way 'cause I was in love or lust, one or the other. Started having driveline issues in Tennessee, ignition problems in Illinois and the five fresh 20 dollar bills my Father had handed me at departure time were dwindling. I got to Denver with less than two dollars in my pocket, and California was looking further and further away; thank goodness my honey had been saving money. While in Denver I busted a cog off my planetary gear and had to replace the transmission with a rebuild; $35.00 was the price and a friend helped me replace it in the alley behind 1415 Court Place in Big Mile Hi.

Finally made it to Victorville and that old Ford served me well for four years once I got all the kinks ironed out.

 

[hank4elk]

1975 I bought a '63 Dodge 1/2 T PU from a MT rancher for $300. The sides were all smashed in and it ran. Drove that thing back to CA and used it until 1980 and sold it for $400.
Next truck was a Navy surplus '65 F-250 4x4 for $500 bid. 125k on it. Never off Port Hueneme. Sold that truck in 1990 with 565k on it for a thousand.
Wish I still had my 65 Fords.