I'm so old I remember... (cell phone, how to, check, school)

[pekemom]

Originally Posted by jbgusa

Mine's started with two letters, KIngsbridge 8 and SCarsdale 3.

Ours started out as HIckory then they changed it to HIlltop.....still stayed HI. (California) When I was even younger, in Ohio, it was RIverside.

[motormaker]

Originally Posted by pekemom

Ours started out as HIckory then they changed it to HIlltop.....still stayed HI. (California) When I was even younger, in Ohio, it was RIverside.

Ours was Potomic and Woodbine in OH in the 40's.

[Seagrape Grove]

I remember when pretty much all socks were like "diabetic socks"--that is, they didn't have the tight elastic cuffs that cut off circulation but were simply knit with a stockinette stitch of cotton or nylon yarn. Today you have to pay as much for one pair of non-elastic, "diabetic" socks as you do for a whole package of six of the other kind.



I used to knit socks years ago. That is all DH would wear for work and everyday wear--my home knitted socks. Except for the sleeker, fine knit dress socks when he wore his "good shoes" on special occasions.

[in_newengland]

I remember before we had letters in front of our phone numbers. My best friend's phone number was 22092.

Then we moved to another town and after that they added the letters. Mine was Lo-75722.

Why do we remember these strange and useless things?

[AksarbeN]

I remember when growing up in a small town we only have four digits in the phone number, ours was 9494. A few years later we lost our town operator who controlled the cord-board in the town and our system went to a new improved one with automatic switching where we then had to dial ORchard-9494, all six digits.

[AksarbeN]

While driving into the sunrise this morning I thought about dad’s car had a sun-visor outside the front windshield that helped with this problem.

[jbgusa]

Proprietary gasoline credit cards such as Exxon, Mobil and Shell. And the Esso brand.

[TN Tin Man]

The old rope.. you wrapped around the top of the lawn mower.. an gave it a yank to start..

[Seagrape Grove]

Originally Posted by jbgusa

Proprietary gasoline credit cards such as Exxon, Mobil and Shell. And the Esso brand.

Had a Sears card when my kids were little. Was called a "revolving charge account".

[cebuan]

Sending and receiving personal e-mails, and even carrying on personal conversations be e-mail.