I'm so old I remember... (Iowa, free, elementary, street)
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I'm so old I remember the payment on my first car was $62 a mo. (no $$ down). It was a used 1964 Kharman Ghia convertible. Wow if that car could've talked!!!!
I'm so old I remember that I remembered something to add to this thread last night while I was away, but for the life of me I can't remember what that was.
I'm so old I remember Watergate being on TV, I remember Nixon's resignation.
One time during the hearings my parents and I went for a walk, someone had taken the tape out of a cassette tape and left it along side the road, my Dad made the joke that it must be the Watergate tapes.
I remember when receiving change at the stores, I would get Indian head pennies at times and also the liberty dime. They replaced the liberty dime with the new Eisenhower.
I remember when receiving change at the stores, I would get Indian head pennies at times and also the liberty dime. They replaced the liberty dime with the new Eisenhower.
I remember seeing the occasional steel pennies as well. When I worked in New England, in retail about 20 years ago I would get the OLD money from time to time. I still have the money.
More from me...
I remember when our phonograph was a wind-up, and played 78 RPMs.( I still have many of the records, including Rudy Vallee [sp])
I remember the railroad running by our field, with the loud whistle, and big puff of black smoke.
I remember the snow being so deep my dad would walk the 8 miles to town along the railroad track. He would stay all night and return home the next day....many times.
I remember my first car at age 19...a maroon 1939 Ford coupe.( I rolled it down a ten foot embankment in Nevada. The car still ran, but was no longer pretty. I wasn't hurt. I was still 19.
I remember pitching hay into the hay mow over the top of the cow's stalls and mangers.In the heat of the summer.
I remember swinging on the barn's rafters when there was no or little hay in the barn( my parents didn't know we were doing that!)
I remember my older sister building a raft out of wood that she took out of the railroad cars, and we all floated on the ponds on it.( I have a very small photograph of that.)
I remember my first camera. A Starflash Brownie. I still have it. I sent for it out of a catalog when I was 13.
I remember a cyclone that came through our place in Idaho and turned the shed over that had loose hay in, leaving the hay intact. It also moved the smoke house to a differant location, and deposited several sheep in our yard. No body claimed them, so we kept them.
I remember the bums from the train coming to our house asking for food. My mother would put them to spliting firewood while she fixed them a sandwich.
I remember, when I was a young teen, walking the 3 and 1/2 miles to town, by myself, to see a movie, or go to a fair, then walking home again in the dark.
I remember riding my dad's workhorse to town to see a movie, and tying it up in the alley behind the Smoke Shop. It was always still there when I came back for it.
I remember going to see Gone With the Wind when it first came out.
I remember getting a perm when I was in grade school, and the perm machine had things you pull down and clamp on the hair. I was thinking...what if the building got on fire?
I remember riding in the dogsled of the mailman who came from a town about 20 miles away on the sled because the snow was too deep for another type vehicle.
I remember falling off the haystack that I had 'built out the corners' to my dad's specifications. The corner and I, and the pitchfork, landed on the ground.
I guess that is enough 'remembering' from me this time. :-)
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Running boards on cars.
Bulbs for headlights instead of sealed beams.
Standing in front of the oven to get warm on winter mornings.
Light swithces in the fouse that were push buttons.
Hood ornaments!! Every 3 years my parents bought a new Pontiac, so we were always riding behind a Pontiac Indian!
ONLY black and white photos!! And the camera was a Zeiss for a grownup, or a Kodak Brownie for a kid!
"Children", not "kids" which was a word used for only baby goats.
The waxed paper my mother wrapped my lunch sandwich in every day.
Mary Janes and white socks.
Penny loafers, with a penny in each.
Witch hazel!!!! (OMG, I can actually still smell that!)
Sasparilla soda.
Thinning shears for home hair-cutting.
Short pants worn by the little boys in the early grades at school.
The first "credit cards" which were store charge cards, like at Macy's Herald Square.
Free windshield wash and oil check while the station attendant filled your gas tank.
Sunoco stations.
Bench front seats in cars.
Kitchen refrigerators with rounded tops.
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