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I remember knowing people who were born in the 1800s.
So do I - aunts, uncles and grandparents.
I read the Autobiography of William Allen White a few years ago, written about 1950. He was a prominent newspaper editor in Kansas in the early part of the 20th century, well connected to to the movers and shakers of his day. Born shortly after the Civil War, he wrote in his book that he remembered old people from his youth speak of the "old soldiers" from their youth who had been Revolutionary War veterans. It boggled my mind a bit to realize that in my lifetime there lived a man who had known people who had known and met Revolutionary War veterans.
Well, I can remember things that were earlier than this, but what I find myself lamenting is .15 cents per slice of Sicilian pizza. Big, hot wonderful slices of thick delicious pizza. That was at Don's Pizzeria in Hauppauge, Long Island, New York.
Hamburgers and fries were about .12 cents each, just down the road from Don's pizza shop, at Hubie's/Wetson's. Rotisserie chicken dinner was about .59 cents. Big thick shakes were .25 cents.
Kites were .15 cents at George the Gyp's luncheonette. Same as the balsa wood airplanes that you put together and throw. The gliding ones were the best....the ones with the rubber band were crap but we bought those, too.
What fun it was to buy comic books and baseball cards.....and to get together with friends to "flip" baseball cards. We'd use shoeboxes to bring our cards with us.
Playing army, using sticks for our rifles.
Acorn fights.....dirtbomb fights.
I remember the smell of the "caps" that we bought at George's. We didn't very often use a cap gun....it was more fun to just bang them with rocks or a hammer or something. Ever bang a whole roll of caps with a hammer on the stoop? I did. My ears were ringing for hours! LOL!
1800's....that was my Grandparents since I was born in 1931. Recall my grandfather collecting old newspapers and cardboard into a wagon and storing them in a back shed to later sell...during the early depression yrs....loved that man. Remember him giving me .03 cents to buy a ice cream cone...said to me in a whisper (Hungarian) "don't tell your mother".
I remember the rag man!
I remember large chocolate bars for 5¢.
I remember buying 5¢ boxes of chocolate babies, hoping that eating them would turn me black.
I remember gas for 29¢ a gallon.
I remember when no one was afraid to stay at any motel because of bed bugs.
I remember when the nice ones were called motels and the other ones were hotels.
I remember when ice cream from an ice cream truck was actually good!
I remember our phone number when it was 5 digits, dialed.
I remember party lines.
I remember when colored telephones came out.
I remember wearing hoop skirts.
I remember the fabulous wonder of a Selectric.
I remember learning what a television was.
I remember soap opera on the radio.
I remember Arthur Godfrey on the radio daily and the easy way he talked as well as the fabulous music.
I remember "The Shadow Knows."
I remember the first lie I told on purpose, in order to not live the rest of my life in my room. I was lauded and given privileges for telling it. My little yellow duck I was pulling at the time even looked sad with me.
I remember looking down the air grill at the back of the tv when I was a kid. All the big glass valves inside were lit up. Whenever the telly broke down, the repair guy would just take one valve out, and replace it with a new one!!
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I did. My ears were ringing for hours! LOL! 
