I’m so old I remember…

[jaF0]

When I mention someone, it's more about when they started out, or when they were at the top of their popularity. Not so much when they're still hanging on.


Like Sara Purcell.

Or Cathy Lee Crosby.

Or Catherine Deneuve

 

[AbsintheFather]

More like the late 40's desk. Desks in the 60's had flip tops

I agree. Or a little earlier, those cast iron legs remind me of a sewing machine stand.

 

[AbsintheFather]

Three speed bicycles

 

[riverj]

Three speed bicycles

Yes.... the budget minded 5 speed..... for me from Sears.

 

[Scareltt]

Yes.... the budget minded 5 speed..... for me from Sears.

I remember my Mom making a big deal about my 100 dollar 10 Speed when I was 12..

 

[AbsintheFather]

I remember my Mom making a big deal about my 100 dollar 10 Speed when I was 12..

I bought a Raleigh 10 speed for about $100 at age 14-ish. I was carrying newspapers then and cutting grass and stuff for jobs and it was a lot of money. I rode that bike everywhere!

 

[riverj]

I remember my Mom making a big deal about my 100 dollar 10 Speed when I was 12..

Well.... a hundred bucks.... come on! That was the cats meow of bikes.... ;-)

 

[billg1421]

My uncle had an old Ford truck (don't recall the year but this was the mid 70s) with a "three on the tree" tranny.

 

[Kat73]

I remember using paper grocery bags to cut, fold and cover my school text books. I even found one in my memory box.

 

[billg1421]

I remember using paper grocery bags to cut, fold and cover my school text books. I even found one in my memory box.

...and we'd get in trouble by the teacher if we failed to do so.

 

[riverj]

I remember using paper grocery bags to cut, fold and cover my school text books. I even found one in my memory box.

Those bags were also perfect for the newspaper drives..... each one held about 2 week's worth of papers.

 

[Dribble]

Then...there was...

 

[peterlickspussy]

I remember when a meal at McDonald's was $5

I remember the TV commercial that showed a man getting two hamburgers and a coke with 20 cents change from his dollar. Seems as though the butler handed him his change.

 

[CarlyAnn]

My Dad loves this song

 

[ICM8781]

Reruns

 

[Scareltt]

Music still on MTV!

 

[CarlyAnn]

Reruns

i remember him (repeats on Nickelodeon)

 

[ydahecnot]

Walter Cronkite

The Huntly/Brinklley Report

Jessica Savitch

Jane Pauley

Jessica Savitch drowned in about two feet of water. Cocaine is a helluva drug. That brings up the fact that I can remember when cocaine was considered a relatively harmless, upscale drug (at least it wasn’t smack, so the thought went)

Related: I am old enough to remember when heroin was called smack

 

[Radiantcurves87]

TRL on MTV and that Pluto was still a planet.

 

[lacandy]

Wondering how many of us older girlies are excited to see this book on the big screen because we are old enough to remember reading it the first time around (and then being terrified of the 6th grade “talk”

 

[ydahecnot]

 

[AlexBailey]

Anyone else used to watch Mutual Of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom?

 

[ydahecnot]

Anyone else used to watch Mutual Of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom?

“The rhesus monkey, with its prehensile tail…”
“While Jim is battling that anaconda, let’s hear from Mutual of Omaha”

 

[jaF0]

Penny candy.

Yes, it was really a penny.

 

[munch2much]

Not sure if this was only in the U.K., but Black Jacks and Fruit Salads?

Oh! Apparently you can still get them. I never see them in shops

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/119...MI-9iNlLnJ_gIVFPbVCh3Cdw7fEAQYAiABEgLR8PD_BwE