I'm so old I remember... (house, kids, American, school)

[AksarbeN]

I remember when the gas stations had a “gas war” and the cost got down to 9 cents a gallon and the station owners paid 10 cents for every gallon they had to sell for 9 cents. In those days gas wars started every now and then to help move the product and attract business. The going “normal” price was about 23 cents a gallon.

[sues1]

when u turn on the tv and it has to warm up

the milkman

palisades park

roller skates with the keys

wonderama

romper room

shindig

actually going outside to play all day and coming in when the streetlights came on

[mkfarnam]

The Kennedy Assasination(s)

[Nomadicus]

I remember not having AC in the school....and lunch tickets cost 25¢

[brokencrayola]

TV's with all kinds of bulbs inside them

Soul Train with Don Cornelius

American Bandstand where they rated songs and always said they rated it so-and-so because it was good to dance to.

Boxed spaghetti (like mac and cheese)

Appian Way Pizza (boxed)

When they said John Lennon was dead because it said so when you played some song they did backwards.

Black lights at parties

Boones Farm Strawberry Hill Wine (do not recommend getting drunk on this crud)

[Nomadicus]

I remember when kids ate breakfast at home. That is what parents did back then.

[Kerowyn]

Party lines


and when this style of phone was the 'cool' phone



YouTube - Ultraman Powered - Tiga OP sync

[Nomadicus]

I am so old I remember when kids walked to school if they lived within two miles of their school. And none ever got harmed.

[Bunjee]

I remember elementary school in the auditorium during school programs when the principal would tell all the 4th graders to go "stand and wait behind the asbestos curtains!" "Hurry, let's go!" "OK, Mr. Gertz!" "Yes, Mr. Gertz!" "No, uh, no prob', er, Mr. Gertz..."

[Nomadicus]

I am so old I remember when the board of education was a canoe paddle.