I'm so old I remember... (cell phones, how to, clothes, Los Angeles)

[AksarbeN]

Funny ,,, I was trying to think of the name “fedora” and stumbled on your post. I remember the black and white cartoon character “Felix the Cat” on tv doing a song about “me and my fedora, fedora”,,,, that’s about all I can remember of it. However it was one of the first tv black and white cartoon shows that I’d seen and still remember.

[Lindsey_Mcfarren]

Originally Posted by AksarbeN

Funny ,,, I was trying to think of the name “fedora” and stumbled on your post. I remember the black and white cartoon character “Felix the Cat” on tv doing a song about “me and my fedora, fedora”,,,, that’s about all I can remember of it. However it was one of the first tv black and white cartoon shows that I’d seen and still remember.

I remember Felix AND Caspar the friendly ghost as well. I used to love Mighty Mouse as well. Does anyone remember Journey to the Center of the Earth?

[LaceyEx]

I remember my paternal grandma getting up at 3AM to load coal into the furance, stoke it - also cooking on a coal stove. My Dad finally got her to change in the late 50's.

My Dad also always wore a hat "fedora" jauntily angled.

[AksarbeN]

Originally Posted by Lindsey_Mcfarren

I remember Felix AND Caspar the friendly ghost as well. I used to love Mighty Mouse as well. Does anyone remember Journey to the Center of the Earth?

Yes, I remember “Journey to the Center of the Earth”,,, how about Flash Gordon?

[Rcm58]

I remember 8 tracks, I could almost get a whole song to play without having to cram a mathbook cover in with it to get it to play right. I'm so old I remember my parents album collection of Bert Bachrach and Tom Jones....yikes!
I remember powdered milk, my mom murdering eggs in a cast iron fry pan, cod fish flakes and hotdogs you couldn't bite through because the casings were so tough. I remember single pane windows with ice on the inside during the winter. I remember when air conditioning was new. I remember black plastic seats in my dads plymouth in south florida before AC. I remember the first 2 liter bottles of soda and thinking....whats a liter?

[Tek_Freek]

Katzenjammer kids

Heckle and Jeckle

Dick Tracy

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Mr. trouble never hangs around,
when he hears this Mighty sound,

Here I come to save the day!
That means that Mighty Mouse is on the way!

Yes sir, when there is a wrong to right,
Mighty Mouse will join the fight!

On the sea or on the land,
He's got the situation well in hand!

We know that when there's danger, we'll never dispair;
Because we know that when there's danger he is there...
On the land on the sea in the air.

We're not worrying at all
We just listen for his call
"Here I come to save the day!"
That means that Mighty Mouse is on the way.

When there is a wrong to right,
Mighty Mouse will joint the fight
"Here I come to save the day!"
That means that Mighty Mouse is on the way!

[Rcm58]

Mighty Mouse was cool and he was much more up to date than Betty Boop

[Tek_Freek]

Originally Posted by Katiana

We still have home delivery of milk. It is homogenized though. I remember when polio shots first came out. I remember my mom taking my brother and I to the dr to get them. I remember when my family got a TV, then a color TV.

I had Polio. I was and am lucky.

We got shots in school. All the kids lined up and walked past nurses that gave the shots. Most kids screamed and cried. I watched them push the needle in and didn't make a sound. the nurse asked how I did that and I explained to her that my doctor told me that the reason shots hurt is because you tense up and you muscle gets hard. If you watch them give you the shot and let yourself relax it doesn't hurt. He was right.

Baths in the kitchen (from a different post) reminds me of the treatment for my Polio (right leg mostly). My mother would heat up water and pour it in a "double-tub" on the kitchen floor. I would get in and she would slowly fill it up with hotter and hotter water, then stretch out my leg so the muscles wouldn't atrophy. I remember the water being so hot I would cry out in pain. As an adult I realize that my mother was also placing her hands and arms in that same hot water.

To this day I cannot take a hot shower or bath.

[ptsum]

Originally Posted by Northwoods Voyager

I remember when all of our teachers in grade school were single...'old maids'. And then when I was in 5th grade the 6th grade teacher announced that she was getting married! Wow! That was the talk of the whole school for a long time.

My dad always wore a hat when we went anywhere. No, not a baseball cap, a real hat! A fedora. And he wore an 'overcoat'. I remember every week in school being given a publication called 'The Weekly Reader'. This wonderful little newspaper covered the 'latest' news, puzzles, games, sme geography, etc. We never had snow days. School was open and you went!

At the grocery stores you could but things such as a single pork chop. Nothing came prepackaged.

My tennis shoes cost $1.00.

Hay Northwoods, I still wear a "fedora" today and I had completely forgotten about The Weekly Reader, that brings back memories and I remember when all of my elementary school teachers were female and I didn't see a male teacher until I went to junior high school and that was my science teacher...

[Jim280]

Gas prices from 1960 to 1969 was a whopping 5 cents per gallon rise.
links at top of page shows different years.


1960s Flashback-Economy / Prices****