I’m so old I remember…

[munch2much]

ISOIR discussing buying condoms with my girlfriend. She said she’d wait outside. I said no no …we are both adults, let’s do this together. So she very reluctantly accompanied me into a fairly busy pharmacy.
No barcodes back then, just a price sticker …except I hadn’t noticed I’d managed to choose a pack that wasn’t labelled.
I turned to my girlfriend to say “see, nothing to worry about” but she’d run away!!
And when I turned back to the sales assistant, she tannoyed for a price, holding up my condoms!

 

[DeerTrace118]

I’m so old I remember having to get up to change the channel on the tv

 

[HarryHill]

The birth of electric guitars.

 

[blulilacgrl]

Only slightly before my time but I had older siblings so ...

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/banana_splits.png

 

[Ssbbw4u1974]

The California raisins

 

[billg1421]

I’m so old I remember having to get up to change the channel on the tv

Yes. I was the human remote control for my parents - and the automatic dishwasher.

 

[lacandy]

I’m so old I remember when this commercial was around
https://i.makeagif.com/media/4-18-2016/4uI2Uf.gif

 

[English_guy_bkk]

I'm so old that...we went on a family foreign holiday to Wales. We came back and the whole street were talking about the Fonz.... "Hey, sit on it" etc

 

[ouchfeelsgood]

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Magazines don’t have a lot of value, maybe this one might.

Such a sad, infamous event. I was on the subway the day after and still remember vividly the image of a man standing next to me with a Sony Walkman and headphones, with tears streaming down. I could just barely make out the song Imagine coming from his headphones.

 

[ouchfeelsgood]

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I had a subscription to Mad Magazine while I was in high school in the mid-1970's and amassed a nice collection of them.

 

[Wonderer67]

"The Maverick was introduced on April 17, 1969, as a 1970 model at a very competitive price point of $1,995 "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Maverick_(1970–1977)

"Ford offered the Pinto solely as a two-door sedan, with entry level models priced at $1,850,"

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

"The April 6, 1970, cover of Newsweek magazine featured a red Gremlin for its article, "Detroit Fights Back: The Gremlin". The car was available as a "base" two-passenger version with no rear seat and a fixed rear window, at a suggested retail price of $1,879,"

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

The ford pinto - otherwise known as the exploding, four wheeled coffin.

At least that’s how I remember it!

 

[Wonderer67]

"The Maverick was introduced on April 17, 1969, as a 1970 model at a very competitive price point of $1,995 "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Maverick_(1970–1977)

"Ford offered the Pinto solely as a two-door sedan, with entry level models priced at $1,850,"

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

"The April 6, 1970, cover of Newsweek magazine featured a red Gremlin for its article, "Detroit Fights Back: The Gremlin". The car was available as a "base" two-passenger version with no rear seat and a fixed rear window, at a suggested retail price of $1,879,"

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

The pinto and gremlin made awesome modified stock cars. These ran all over the place on short tracks in the early to mid 70s.

Remember seeing them in martinsville (VA) speedway as a kid and all the way up to Seekonk speedway in MA and everywhere in between.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1644401874978603009

 

[CarlyAnn]

I had a subscription to Mad Magazine while I was in high school in the mid-1970's and amassed a nice collection of them.

Then you must remember this.

 

[Misshotndeep]

When penny candy was raised to a nickle.

 

[CarlyAnn]

My Dad said he returned bottles to pay his way through college. I think he was fibbing. In Massachusetts there was a bottle bill, then it went away, then it came back and now they’re talking about dumping it again. Our politicians have too much time on their hands.

 

[HeavyBalls]

The California Raisins...

 

[billygoat68]

Wide World of Sports..and the agony of defeat

 

[richmondman]

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Magazines don’t have a lot of value, maybe this one might.

I remember this vividly also

 

[CarlyAnn]

 

[ouchfeelsgood]

Then you must remember this.

Definitely!

 

[UtilityCurve]

Great now I’ll have the Psychedelic Furs rolling around my head all day!

You say that like it's a bad thing!

 

[UtilityCurve]

I can’t quite make that out. But is it a slide rule, for multiplication etc?

Oh, and SO much more! Amazing devices. Got us to the moon.

 

[alittlefun53]

Telephone party lines.

There was 4 or 5 houses on ours. It was terrible!!

 

[munch2much]

Oh, and SO much more! Amazing devices. Got us to the moon.

I remember my older brothers.

As I started to do advanced maths and physics, a sensibly priced scientific calculator arrived. Just in the nic of time

 

[B2fromA2looking4U]

Can you imagine back then, we would go from a slide rule, to a hand held calculator, a personal computer, and now a hand held PC that makes phone calls too. I am amazed!