I'm so old I remember... (cost, cell phone, temperature, women)

[PullMyFinger]

I remember dial phones! I grew up on a farm and we had one phone in the house--mounted on the side of the cabinet in the kitchen so you had to stand up to talk. I remember thinking what a luxury it would be to have a long enough cord to be able to sit down and talk.

Many years later in the early 1990's I bought my Mom and Dad a cordless phone with 9 memory presets so they could call any of their 9 children at the push of a button. I explained how they could be anywhere in the house and take and make calls.

A lot of good that did! I went over there some months later and was visiting with my Dad. The phone rings and he get's up and answers and stands right in front of it just like the old phone. Conversation is over, he just hangs it back up and walks back to his chair!

And they never used the memory buttons!

[wit-nit]

Getting the chickens outta the barn and wringing their neck then plucking their feathers for a fresh dinner to be cooked that night.

[onceahogalwaysahog]

Party lines
The days of 3 TV channels
The first and last Space Shuttle missions and the two disasters in between

[Cunucu Beach]

Nixon saying on national TV, "I am not a crook".

[Cunucu Beach]

I remember when I could wear red lipstick and not look like a clown.

[AksarbeN]

I’m so old that when in public school they provided school books that were “reused” for as many as five or ten years before they discontinued them. Now it seems everyone wants to buy new “re-written” books every year.

[dynimagelv]

Crank phones
NO TV [we watched the RADIO]
Cars before air conditioning

[Cunucu Beach]

Originally Posted by AksarbeN

I’m so old that when in public school they provided school books that were “reused” for as many as five or ten years before they discontinued them. Now it seems everyone wants to buy new “re-written” books every year.

My elementary school issued heavy brown paper "book covers" that were marked on where to cut them to fold around the book. They even had glue applied in the right areas to glue down the parts that wrapped around the corners of the books. They were marked on where to cut, how to fold and then we wrote our names on the front of the cover.

[pamelaBeurman]

Crinoline's (fancy slips) with a little inner tube thing in them that you could inflate to make your dress really stand out.

Going into town with Grandma and having to "dress" for the occasion. Starched dress, crinoline, white lacy socks, maryjane's, hat, purse and little white gloves. I hated shopping day!

[wit-nit]

I remember in elementary school we used inkwells set in a hole in the desk and the inkwell pens for doing our paperwork.