I’m so old I remember…

[PicassosPleasure]

I'm almost 70. So I was recently thinking that if I'm listening to music from the 70s that means my grandmother was listening to music from the 30s. Is this weird af?

I hear you, though my mother was born in 1930.

I also wanted to encourage the "Sleeping Poet" in you to awaken. Just recently I awoke and am now submitting poetry.

 

[Lady2020]

I hear you, though my mother was born in 1930.

I also wanted to encourage the "Sleeping Poet" in you to awaken. Just recently I awoke and am now submitting poetry.

You think my sleeping poet is dead?

 

[PicassosPleasure]

You think my sleeping poet is dead?

Quite contraire. Sleeping means alive, though not awake. Far from dead. Just a word of encouragement, my Lady. Offered in kindness.

 

[Wageslave]

I remember half day closing on Wednesdays

 

[Bdm20]

I remember “banker’s hours”

 

[Vinylguy]

10 cent pay phones

 

[Rm3452]

Hairy pussies in porn

 

[eric_erosfan]

 

[amber1312]

Respect for your elders.

 

[PersonalFavors]

Johnny Cash.

Minnie Pearl, Flip Wilson, Hollywood Squares, Green Acres and the cast I cannot name on Laugh In. Soap I think was the name of a soap opera spoof and I liked watching Are You being Served and the Red Green Show. Red Green is how I learned to properly apply Duck Tape too! A show that could not be on TV and Jim Carry would be in jail is In Living Color. Oh and Kids In the Hall was a blast as well.

 

[PersonalFavors]

I'm almost 70. So I was recently thinking that if I'm listening to music from the 70s that means my grandmother was listening to music from the 30s. Is this weird af?

I'm almost 60 and my 90YO Mom is still listening to my music, Who U2 Led Zepplin....

 

[haha_on_me]

Gas wars, and was 19 cents a gallon.

 

[Crownvic]

Pin up girlie calendars..

 

[Gamine67]

Gas wars, and was 19 cents a gallon.

.19 cents in 1965 is about $1.85 today, meanwhile minimum wage was $1.25 then and, varies by State, but Federal is $7.25 but realistically between $10-$14 so gas is penny-for-penny only about 30% higher today but your car probably goes twice as far on it so THESE ARE THE GOOD OLD DAYS

ISOIR Going to the library to look that stuff up.

 

[~Elizabeth~]

Card catalog on paper cards in huge filing cabinets.

 

[haha_on_me]

.19 cents in 1965 is about $1.85 today, meanwhile minimum wage was $1.25 then and, varies by State, but Federal is $7.25 but realistically between $10-$14 so gas is penny-for-penny only about 30% higher today but your car probably goes twice as far on it so THESE ARE THE GOOD OLD DAYS

ISOIR Going to the library to look that stuff up.

Well, we were also told then that we had unlimited resources, and would never run out. We were also told that Columbus discovered America, while he never set foot here. Besides that, it wasn't lost in the first place.

 

[PersonalFavors]

Card catalog on paper cards in huge filing cabinets.

Wow. That reminds me of the card catalog in the library and the ladies that kept the Dewey decimal current on all the books.
When I supplied the web interface and site to access and finally replace the mainframe version it eliminated the drawers of cards that also had to be maintained. I liked the cards and having to fiddle through the drawers. I do remember them celebrating and inviting me. What a blast. Created a lot of work for me as I suddenly had to supply machines with the browser for the new internet.
Netscape? Metacrawler anyone?

 

[haha_on_me]

When I started working for IBM in '83, we were still using IBM cards.

 

[~Elizabeth~]

Wow. That reminds me of the card catalog in the library and the ladies that kept the Dewey decimal current on all the books.
When I supplied the web interface and site to access and finally replace the mainframe version it eliminated the drawers of cards that also had to be maintained. I liked the cards and having to fiddle through the drawers. I do remember them celebrating and inviting me. What a blast. Created a lot of work for me as I suddenly had to supply machines with the browser for the new internet.
Netscape? Metacrawler anyone?

I miss them. There are just certain scents that used to define the library. The paper of the books, catalog cards, and the ink stamped on the cards in the back of the books.

I could spend days in a library or bookstore.

 

[PersonalFavors]

I miss them. There are just certain scents that used to define the library. The paper of the books, catalog cards, and the ink stamped on the cards in the back of the books.

I could spend days in a library or bookstore.

Libraries are not all the same these days. I found one in Middleburg VA, National Sporting Library & Museum. Angling, horsemanship, shooting, steeplechasing, foxhunting, flat racing, polo, coaching, and wildlife are among the tombs and the art is cool too. Research done by Teddy Roosevelt is archived there. Some books you can pull off the shelf are so old I really felt they should be handled by someone else. The environment so controlled it was not easy to get to the memories you have. But a privilege to be among books that were really written. Not sure how they printed back then.
I have to mention Mars Bars here. Since they are still around and so it all the other candy. I was trying to name all the candy and ask the kid if she knew what they were or Mars as a family or company. No idea. Skittles. But I don't know who makes them. Anyway, endowment for the museum^.
Ink. Remember the purple stuff you had to sniff before you took the pop test? [Mimeograph]
I also remember most wrong answers were because the teachers called their scribble cursive.

 

[Justabaldguy70]

I remember Captain Kangaroo

 

[PersonalFavors]

François Mitterrand

 

[PersonalFavors]

I remember Captain Kangaroo

Mr. Greenjeans and all those ping pong balls

 

[Justabaldguy70]

Mr. Greenjeans and all those ping pong balls

lol Mr Greenjeans!

 

[Anchor10]

Black and white televisions