I'm so old I remember... (to buy, cell phones, area code, letter)

[jbgusa]

A piece of bubble gum in baseball card packs, all for $0.05.

[silibran]

Howdy Doody. The original Superman TV show.

[TN Tin Man]

I'm so old I remember...

Lincoln Logs
Tinker Toys
Big Metal sit on Cars & Construction Equipment as in Buddy L
Cap Guns six shooter with the holster's
Decoder Rings.. as in Oval Teen
Erector Set by Gilbert
An that Big A "CARD BOARD BOX" the outboard motor came in..

[AksarbeN]

Originally Posted by rdlr

Do you mean like on tap dancing shoes? I remember the guys used to be cool clicking down the hallways in high school.

Yeah,, lol I had to take mine off because they made the shoes too slippery and I'd feel like falling down.

[Seagrape Grove]

Originally Posted by PAhippo

I remember 5cent postage stamps that had to be licked.

When you had a choice between "regular mail" and "air mail". Regular mail was 3 cents and air mail was 6 cents.

[Seagrape Grove]

Originally Posted by AksarbeN

Yeah,, lol I had to take mine off because they made the shoes too slippery and I'd feel like falling down.

Soles of shoes were leather and you could have them re-soled. Also the heels replaced if they got too worn down.

[motormaker]

Originally Posted by PAhippo

don't think so. They were little metal roughly kidney bean shaped thingies meant to help make the heel on the shoe last longer.

These are the horse shoe taps.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=horse+shoe...nails-tt-1.jpg

[Seagrape Grove]

I remember when sweatshirt sleeves were roomy enough to push them up to your elbows. That wasn't so long ago--maybe 8-9 years. Nowadays the manufacturers have reduced the amount of fabric for the sleeves to about half what it used to be. It makes them too tight to push up easily.


LOL. I have a lot of rants about women's clothing of today. But every now and then I find a sweatshirt in good condition from a recently deceased old lady in a thrift store that hung there for years and no one in the family wanted it so they gave it to a thrift store. Love it when I find clothing from a decade (or more) back like that that is still in good condition. Found an old pair of heavy weight gabardine slacks a few months back that had elastic side bands, front pleats, set in pockets about 10 inches deep and a hem about 1 1/2 inches. Grabbed that one, too.

[kevxu]

Originally Posted by Seagrape Grove

When you had a choice between "regular mail" and "air mail". Regular mail was 3 cents and air mail was 6 cents.

Reminds me. As a little kid I went to the gas station where my father parked his trucks and used to hang out. He wasn't there. The owner asked me what I wanted him for and I said I wanted a nickel to mail a letter.

He looked at me and said, "What do you need the extra two cents for?"

I just left. But it was a big joke with the guys that hung out there that I had tried to pull a con job.

[AksarbeN]

I remember when I was a kid using Aerograms for overseas mailing that I needed to make. A thin lightweight piece of foldable and gummed paper for writing a letter for transit via airmail, in which the letter and envelope are one and the same.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerogram