I'm so old I remember... (how to, American, topics, life)

[motormaker]

I remember flying solo from Pittsburgh PA to Los Angeles, CA via Denver, CO on a Lockheed Constellation in 1952.

[uggabugga]

i remember when you could watch tv and not see pharmaceutical ads where 3/4 of the allotted time is taken up by all the different ways it just might make you sicker or even kill you.

[PAhippo]

I remember when the good guys wore white and the bad guys wore black. Of course it was black and white tv.

[mshultz]

Originally Posted by PAhippo

I remember when the good guys wore white and the bad guys wore black. Of course it was black and white tv.

And when color shows such as Star Trek and Gilligan's Island appeared, the characters wore brightly colored costumes. A color show with the characters wearing earth tones and shades of gray would have been a waste. We did not have a color television until I was in high school. The "horse of a different color" joke in The Wizard of Oz went over my head until I was finally able to see it in color.

[Dave_n_Tenn]

I'm so old, my personality/character was partially forged by the boys in the movies.... "Old Yeller" and "The Yearling".

[SFX]

Just kidding.

But not about this

https://youtu.be/KliWHCzE16c?si=CMhqVK0N9B3GU-g6

[Dave_n_Tenn]

wow!

[Gerania]

I remember when nice department stores had a hat department. The millinery shops had closed, but you could still buy a decent hat for your sporty outfit or church suit, dress.

[msgsing]

1950’s. When you wanted to shop for clothes and lived in a big city you went downtown. No malls in suburbia. And if you were a kid in the summer you were outside most of the day unless it rained. You knew most of the kids in your neighborhood and rode bikes all the time.

[PAhippo]

oh yea. The worst punishment we got wasn't being sent to our rooms. It was having our bikes taken away. Oh the horrors!