I'm so old I remember... (to buy, relatives, penny, name)

[70's Music Girl]

Roller rink, ice skating rink, drive-in movies

Fizzies, Space Food Sticks

When kids played Twister

[Fat Freddy]

I'm so old I don't remember this, but it's me and Snowball sitting on Mom's Pontiac.
The black-out headlights were so the enemy bombers couldn't see our headlights at night.
I don't remember any enemy bombers either.

[LarsMac]

Originally Posted by Fat Freddy

I'm so old I don't remember this, but it's me and Snowball sitting on Mom's Pontiac.
The black-out headlights were so the enemy bombers couldn't see our headlights at night.
I don't remember any enemy bombers either.

I remember those blackout headlights. I was a kid, and it was long past the time to worry about bombers, but I thought they were pretty cool. Especially on Uncle Ray's MG.

[Gerania]

I remember this kind of colored toilet paper: https://www.tumblr.com/search/colored%20toilet%20paper

There was some pretty funky avocado green, deep blue and harvest gold stuff in the late '60s or early '70s.

[Mightyqueen801]

This one just occurred to me the other day: I remember when there was no such thing as tuna packed in water. It all came packed in oil. The new way of selling it packed in water became a thing during the low-fat craze of the Eighties.

[Miss Hepburn]

...when this thread was started!

[Arjay51]

I am so old that I remember when I could remember.

[kevxu]

I remember a gold star flag in the window of a house on our street during WW II.

[Tia 914]

Originally Posted by Gerania

I remember this kind of colored toilet paper: https://www.tumblr.com/search/colored%20toilet%20paper

There was some pretty funky avocado green, deep blue and harvest gold stuff in the late '60s or early '70s.

I've never seen colored paper, but when I had my first apartment the paper I bought was white with blue roses.

[mshultz]

Originally Posted by kevxu

I remember a gold star flag in the window of a house on our street during WW II.

A blue star represented a family member serving the the military, while a gold star represented a family member who had died while on duty.

The neighbors next door had a son who served in WWII. He was never the same afterward. My father referred to him as one of the uncounted casualties of the war.