I'm so old I remember... (house, to buy, phone, elementary)

[temazepam]

Originally Posted by Cunucu Beach

When many public buildings did not have air conditioning.

I miss those days. Part of the reason I don't like going shopping anymore is because the stores are too damned cold - even now in January. Also, there's always a bunch of loud music distracting me. Can't I shop in peace? Only online, I guess.

[JustPassinThru]

Originally Posted by Cunucu Beach

Good one about the Raleigh cigarettes and the coupons. I had forgotten about that one.

How many of these brands of cigarettes are still around:

Chesterfield
Lucky Strike
Kools
Pall Mall
Phillip Morris

Which reminds me: We had asbestos in our homes (roof, attic, paint, pipes, ceilings, and floor tiles) and also in our cigarettes (Kent).

We burned piles of leaves in our streets and trash in our backyard incinerators. All of that pollution made for some beautiful sunsets.

We had citywide spraying for mosquitoes during the summer in the East, and out West in LA on a smoggy day you couldn't see farther than 3 blocks, let alone the 26 miles to Catalina.

We swam in polluted water and ate in restaurants without "A" signs. Some of us even ran with scissors. It's amazing that anyone is still here to talk about this.

[Soda120]

I'm so old, I remember snack machines at my college offering my favorite: caramel candy, 30 cents.
30 cents ...

[Montana Griz]

Originally Posted by Cunucu Beach

Good one about the Raleigh cigarettes and the coupons. I had forgotten about that one.

How many of these brands of cigarettes are still around:

Chesterfield
Lucky Strike
Kools
Pall Mall
Phillip Morris

..Speakin' of cigarettes........................back in the early 1940's I remember polietly asking my dad and neighbors for their empty BULL DURHAM cigarette tobacco bags. (white muslin..about 3" x 5" with "draw-strings" to close 'em) They were great for holding about 15 "marbles" so you could take 'em to grade school and not have 'em loose in your pockets..........
Then in the late 1940's we were old enough to go buy our own BULL DURHAM and slip it into our upper shirt pocket with the"tag" hangin' outside the pocket.....impressed the girls even more when they watched you "roll-your-own" as you "sat-on-your-Harley"........"just off the school property line".

As I remember you could get up to about 30 "cigs" out of a bag of that stuff (and it came with about 35 "cigarette papers" -----all for about .15 cents), and a small box of "kitchen matches" was free.

So if you had $1.15 left by the week-end,....you could get your "smokes" and (4) qts of "Carlings Black Label Beer" for your $1.15.........all the while watching the girls fall down as they tried doing some "fancy ice skating" in their skimpy little short skirts at the local rink.

[Ketabcha]

Originally Posted by Soda120

I'm so old, I remember snack machines at my college offering my favorite: caramel candy, 30 cents.
30 cents ...

And that reminds me of a milk machine we had in the dorm. The mild was 25¢ a bottle. The problem was that someone, during the night, would drink all the chocolate milk through a straw in the machine without paying. The machine was one of those chest like machines and you paid and could work the bottle through the maze and pull out a bottle. Someone spent a lot of time leaning over that machine while stealing the milk by using a straw.

[Cunucu Beach]

Manual cash registers in places of business.

[Mainer61]

Originally Posted by Cunucu Beach

How old is it?

Not sure...my husband bought it on Ebay. It's stainless steel with a glass bubble on top. Hey, I remember when there was no Ebay. hahahaa

[LarsMac]

I remember when peppermint patties at the register were two for a penny.

[Cunucu Beach]

I remember fountain pens with bladders filled by a tiny lever from a small jar of ink. I also remember ink blotters.

[Dayton Sux]

I remember dial phones and alpanumeric phone numbers: Example: NAtional 2-5861. (or NA2-5861)