I'm so old I remember... (letter, sticker, names, school)

[baileyvpotter]

That high tech game - Pong
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"Santa Fe, all the way."
https://chuckmanchicagonostalgia.fil...tion-c1960.jpg

[uggabugga]

Originally Posted by High_Plains_Retired

We had a shallow well with a draw bucket on a pulley until I was in junior high. After someone forgot to replace the lid on the well and a cat fell in it we installed a new well with an electric pump. However, we still had no hot water in the house other than a wash tub heated over a propane heater.

I have one of the old hand water pumps in my barn. I wish I still had the cast iron pulley that was over our shallow well. As I recall it was quite elaborate.

Yes, I remember hand pumps.

PS: Out here on the South Plains of Texas you would need a LONG rope to reach the water with a bucket. And if you did have an open well, any cat who fell in it would be better served by having a parachute rather than a life vest.

i remember as a kid in new mexico when our well would dry up, my dad would drop an M80 down the 60 foot hole and voila! - we'd have water again for a while.
but it was a little muddy at first..

[David A Stone]

It wasn't that long ago ( seems like it was ,though) when the grocery store clerk asked............"bag or box"


That meant do you want your groceries put in paper bags or cardboard boxes.


I liked small boxes for any goods in a can .

[Gerania]

I remember guys spinning plates on variety shows. What was that frantic music that was always played?

[dizzybint]

I remember the valves being replaced in the back of our wireless.. also my mother buying things called pot menders for holes in a saucepan.. and we had teracotta dishes to keep milk or butter cool as no fridge .

[PegE]

I'm so young I don't remember most of this crap. lol

[TN Tin Man]

I'm so old I remember the " The Original Banana Man "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Banana_Man

[High_Plains_Retired]

Originally Posted by uggabugga

i remember as a kid in new mexico when our well would dry up, my dad would drop an M80 down the 60 foot hole and voila! - we'd have water again for a while.
but it was a little muddy at first..

There used to be a lot of artesian water in New Mexico; even at Portales. The last few times I've gone down in Carlsbad, it is also drying up.

[karlsch]

[the searchers]

After you listened for others using the line with party lines in use.