I'm so old I remember... (cost, house, to live, elementary)

[Cunucu Beach]

Originally Posted by mkfarnam

This is a test
from the "Emergency Broadcast System"

This is "ONLY" a test


YouTube - ‪1980 Emergency Broadcast System on WNBC4‬‏

I remember those screeching signals, too.

Also TV test patterns.

Originally Posted by Ketabcha

Here you go, CB.

Ted and Sally Elementary Reader 1951 by photographicamy on Etsy

That's the book. Only the one I have has no cover. I think it was a paperback edition of Ted and Sally. Nevertheless, I have used it a lot to teach my g-daughter simple words and how to read a word phonetically.

I remember before zip codes we had postal zones. They were usually a one or two digit number. Also the phone numbers with a word for a prefix. Our first phone--early 1940's--was 5 digits. Next was a word followed by 4 digits. After that we had a word and 5 digits. Same phone and same address--they just had to give us a new phone number as they ran out of old phone numbers.

[greatblueheron]

• playing my parent's LPs on a "record player" (enclosed like a suitcase)
• Nancy Drew mysteries
• putting playing cards on my bike tires, held on by clothes pins, to sound cool
• oh, then: clothespins
• wonderful polished wood floors in my elementary school
• no AC

[greatblueheron]

Oh, good one....I remember now! And those BIG, thin steering wheels!

Originally Posted by Cunucu Beach

I remember when cars didn't have turn signals and we had to use hand signals. Rain, snow, whatever....roll the window down and signal your turn.

[mkfarnam]

I remember before zip codes we had postal zones. They were usually a one or two digit number.

We were RR#2 ...Rural Route #2.........Like Route #66

[Cunucu Beach]

Originally Posted by mkfarnam

We were RR#2 ...Rural Route #2.........Like Route #66

When I first moved to this rural area in 2002, I had a RR___, Box ___ address. The road didn't even have a name. Then it was changed the next year to a 5 digit number and the road was given a name. People in the area still don't know the names of the two "streets" in the tiny hamlet where I lived then. They still call it by the name of the town it once was and refer to the names of the few people left there to identify which house.

[Coney]

Originally Posted by pekemom

Don't forget Puff (the cat)....

And Tim, the stuffed bear.

[Cunucu Beach]

Burn the bra!!!

[sun queen]

When Preachers worked for living just like the people in the congregation- I guess preachers have forgotten that Paul worked and preached the gospel.

[sun queen]

Originally Posted by Cunucu Beach

Burn the bra!!!

U Know I heard about burning the bra and I always wondered about it... No way way I would burn my bra they cost too much money even for a cause. I doubt if any woman is willing to burn Victoria Secret.

[mkfarnam]

Originally Posted by sun queen

U Know I heard about burning the bra and I always wondered about it... No way way I would burn my bra they cost too much money even for a cause. I doubt if any woman is willing to burn Victoria Secret.

We're talking over 40 yr's ago. When the cost of most things of today, was 10+ X's less back then.

The Bra burning era, was called "Womens Liberation" aka "Womens Lib".

If only we(men) had(portable) video cameras back then..