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Can't go through over 700 pages of posts, so if some of these have been mentioned, just be old and think you are hearing them for the first time, since you forgot.
I remember banks only open Monday to Friday, 9am to 3pm. No bank machines. If you didn't get to the bank on a Friday before it closed for some cash for the weekend, you were out of luck. Unless your local supermarket took your cheques.
I remember when TV in our area only had 2 channels, but if you had an antenna, you could get one more. A shared cross-border US / Canada channel, KVOS. They had cartoons we didn't have on our Canadian stations.
I remember the corner stores had big glass cases filled with candies and chocolate bars. You didn't pick up your own, the stores owner would get your choice. Many of my local ones were in old buildings with old glass and wood doors that had a bell that would clang as you entered and left. Cold pop was kept in water filled coolers with only glass bottles. 25 cents would get me a bag of chips, a bottle of pop, with a couple of cents left for 2 for 1 candies, like marshmallow strawberries or bananas. In store made grab bags were always great...except if you got one that too many jawbreakers.
I remember old time department stores with a men's haberdashery section, and people understood what haberdashery meant
You also got dressed up to go downtown. My mother with white gloves, and a nice dress and coat. Me in my dress shirt, pants and shiny shoes. Same with any type of travel, airplanes, trains etc.
I remember the shock ( yes in Canada ) when Kennedy was shot. My mother said she was grocery shopping at the time. An announcement came over the PA system. People just left she said to go home. Many just leaving their groceries.
Seems odd to me now. I don't think our world can be shocked like this anymore. In that we've lost something.
I remember when we got our new flag. Trotted out of class to the flag pole outside. Sang God Save the Queen and then O Canada as the old flag came down, and the new one went up.
I remember when seeing cars from the 1930's and 40's wasn't uncommon on the streets. Now they get stares.
Phone booths were everywhere. 10 cents a call, or free if you could convince the operator that you lost your dime to call home
I remember the only way to get the weather outside of your area, was to check the newspaper. If the newspaper didn't have the place you wanted to know, you would call the weather office, where a real person would go and find out for you.
I remember using punch cards for computers.
I remember corporal punishment in schools.
I remember seeing Queen Elizabeth in person when she was in her forties. Radiant in full diamond regalia. Magical for a kid who saw here image in class everyday and on his pennies etc.
We sat by the radio listening to Hopalong Cassidy, Zorrow, The Lone Ranger
We got a TV in 1963. Black and white and you had to turn the dial on the TV to change channels. We only had 2 channels.
Bonanza, The Saint, Ivanhoe, The Man from Uncle, Gunsmoke, Ed Sullivan, Jack Benny, I Love Lucy, The Loretta Young Show, The Disney Hour, My 3 Sons, Leave it to Beaver, Tennessee Tuxedo, Bullwinkle, Woody Woodpecker, Mr. Magoo, Bugs Bunny, Popcorn Playhouse, Mickey Mouse Club, Mr. Rogers, Get Smart (the cone of silence)
For Canadians: Razzle Dazzle, Don Messer Jubilee, Chez Helen, The Friendly Giant, Tommy Banks, The Tommy Hunter Show
There were no calculators. You needed to memorize your multiplication"tables" and master long division.
Point instead of dot.
There was no such thing as pantyhose just stockings and garters.
There was no such thing as maxipads or tampons just Kotex and the sling (garter).
Machine vended cigarettes were 35 cents a pack, chocolate bars 10 cents, soda pop 10 cents, glass of draught beer 10 cents
( last paragraph)....I never smoked but despite being a minor I paid 10 cents for draft beer( tap beer we called it) .
10 cents also for soda pop.
25 cents was for bottled beer.
We never had a TV while in high school, but when I graduated and got a job (1963) I bought a TV for the farmhouse.
Black and White Philco .
It lasted forever but we only got 1 channel because, despite an entana, we were in a draw near a river.
I remember working in a gas station when gas was 12 cents for regular and 15 cents for premium. I had to pump the gas, check the oil, check the battery, wash the windshield, listen to the gripes about how high gas prices were.
Stamps were a penny, airmail 3 cents. For 15 cents I could buy a balsa airplane to fly. Gum drops 1 cent. The list goes on and on.
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