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Old 12-29-2017, 08:46 PM
 
Location: The Jar
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Telephone booths and calls for a dime.
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Old 12-29-2017, 08:47 PM
 
Location: Raleigh
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A calculator that played one tune - Fur Elise,
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Old 12-29-2017, 08:48 PM
 
Location: Raleigh
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Emoticons were typewriter character driven. ; - )
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Old 12-29-2017, 08:50 PM
 
Location: Raleigh
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Telephone booths and calls for a dime.
Did you know, After his son was kidnapped, Frank Sinatra always carried ten dimes in his pocket so he could call someone in an emergency.
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Old 12-29-2017, 08:57 PM
 
Location: The Jar
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Did you know, After his son was kidnapped, Frank Sinatra always carried ten dimes in his pocket so he could call someone in an emergency.
No, I did not know that. Interesting bit of trivia.

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Old 12-29-2017, 09:19 PM
 
Location: Upstate NY 🇺🇸
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The parcel pickup conveyor system in front of grocery stores.

If you wanted, the clerk would pack your bags of groceries in numbered bins, give you a placard with corresponding numbers, then load them onto a conveyor belt thing that went outside and parallel to the front of the store. Then you got in your car and drove to the pickup area to wait in another line, where one of the workers would load your groceries into your station wagon. Or whatever.
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Old 12-29-2017, 09:19 PM
 
Location: East Flatbush, Brooklyn
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Telephone booths and calls for a dime.
Wow, telephone booths. I have to keep reminding myself that those were a major "thing" at some point. Seems so long ago when they were everywhere.
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Old 12-29-2017, 11:54 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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McD used to be a nickel.
And at Burger King, you could get a whole meal, Whopper, Fries and a Shake, for $0.85
We got a Burger King in the early 1970s. My eldest brother took me there. Before that it was Carrols and Stop and Go.
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Old 12-30-2017, 08:52 AM
 
Location: On the road
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We got a Burger King in the early 1970s. My eldest brother took me there. Before that it was Carrols and Stop and Go.
Remember when they had those conveyor belt broilers, and you could watch you burger being cooked?
I thought those were pretty slick when I was young.
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Old 12-30-2017, 03:18 PM
 
Location: The Jar
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I remember when nurses wore all white, tailored type uniforms, and interesting caps/hats. And most nurses were women.
Orderlies were around, too. They were men.

Scrubs, the standard uniform nowadays, were only used for operations, etc.
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