I’m so old I remember…

[ydahecnot]

I remember when you mapped a long trip via a flip book from the auto club

 

[lacandy]

I remember when you mapped a long trip via a flip book from the auto club

I was just saying this the other day! I was driving (I knew where I was and where I was going) through LA and had a memory of my best friend and I going to Palm Springs for Spring Break back in like 1988 and I wondered HOW we got there (I was the one who drove!)? It must have been the Thomas Guide or a giant AAA map book…

 

[ydahecnot]

ISOIR flying Eastern and TWA. It was so different then, it was fun!
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Oh, the defunct airlines. I mentioned Braniff earlier. Also Allegheny, Ozark, America West, Peoples Express, Frontier (before it was revived)

 

[spiderwal]

Atari 2600 console release, tv having only 3 channels and being black and white (UK)

 

[AlexBailey]

When I was twelve I was able to buy live ammunition at the local hardware store with a note from a parent.

 

[ydahecnot]

I used to be able to buy pipe tobacco for my father before I became a teen

 

[jaF0]

Pan Am




And I still use paper maps. I need to be able to see a bigger picture than a tiny screen.

 

[jaF0]

And of course, The Big Bunny.

 

[badjanus]

I am so old I remember when washing powder actually cleaned clothes without 3 or 4 different add ons to do the same job.

I also remember rivers struggling so not all changes are for the worse I guess.

 

[munch2much]

I am so old I remember when washing powder actually cleaned clothes without 3 or 4 different add ons to do the same

ISOIR remember when washing powder didn’t have a brand new formula, and left your whites just plain white rather than a whiter white or even a blue white.

Times were tough!!

 

[Cyber_Bella]

Drive in movies, 8 track cassettes, cassette tapes, Beta and VCR, Crystal Pepsi, Zima….I could go on and on.

 

[Taegul]

I remember when Coke thought they could change their formula without people revolting. Boy were they wrong!

 

[jaF0]

The Happy Hooker

 

[Gamine67]

I remember when you mapped a long trip via a flip book from the auto club

AAA called the flip books a “Trip Tik”, you could call and pick it up at the closest office a few days later.

Defunct airlines: ANSETT Primarily domestic Australian carrier, I still have a canvas ticket holder I received as a prem for booking a PanAm flight through them.

 

[SiFi]

Isoir life before the internet.

 

[smtst5]

My mom doing laundry in a wringer washer

 

[Photog1rl]

My mind went straight to this Duckie

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So yes, I know this post was from a few weeks ago but I can not see Ducky without automatically seeing this scene in my head so…you are all welcome.

 

[XsNrg]

ISOIR partying in Ben & Jerry's first scoop shop in the gas station with them blending ice cream.

 

[KinkyLaughs]

Talking to people on the phone. (Not that I miss that.)

 

[CarlyAnn]

My mom doing laundry in a wringer washer

My Dad used the wringer in that old Maytag to crush cans and recycle them. A man before his time.

 

[Mtnmike]

When I was twelve I was able to buy live ammunition at the local hardware store with a note from a parent.

Omg yea and we had gun racks in the back window of our trucks at school cause we were going hunting after and nobody thought a thing about it.

 

[Mtnmike]

My mom doing laundry in a wringer washer

O that brings back memories and having to hang em out on a line even when it was 20 below. How did we ever survive lol

 

[AnnieLit]

Talking to people on the phone. (Not that I miss that.)

Grr... Some of us still have to do it

 

[jarigi]

ISOIR when birds still had teeth.

 

[ydahecnot]

Getting a free tumbler for filling up your gas tank