I’m so old I remember…

[sicpup72]

Having to go outside & spin the antenna when we changed channels

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

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[mortis]

Sitting in the last seat of our new station wagon (with faux wood sides) where it faced the rear of the car and you would wave to the drivers behind us.

We had a family from New Jersey move into out neighborhood they had that kind of station wagon. If somebody was tailgating his mom would ask the youngest son the give the driver the finger.

 

[Matt12191982]

a world without cell phones

 

[Kittycity]

Reef alchopops

 

[mickyp123]

Cheyanne

 

[TheMrBurns]

Popeye cigarettes

 

[CX726577]

Test patterns when the tv station went off the air

 

[Treeview]

You had push buttons on the radio?

Push button automatic transmission shifter. On my 1964 Dodge Dart

 

[JustAnotherFlower]

...I remember going across state lines to purchase fireworks.. I remember my brother having me tie together numerous packs of fireworks (due to my smaller hands.) And I remember watching him destroy origi al Transformer figures with said fireworks.

 

[xhxhxh]

Regular leaded gas costing $.65 a gallon

 

[Gamine67]

ISOIR when license plates were XXX-XXX and you could remember it, not XXXXXXXXXX.

 

[Gamine67]

I remember $1 a gallon in 1999 which is $3.77 today, yup about right.

 

[TheMrBurns]

You're welcome for the ear worm

 

[bunny4med]

Candy cigarettes and cigars.

 

[rangerted]

Candy cigarettes and cigars.

along with banana and pink colored and flavored bubble gum cigars!

 

[SWR101]

Candy cigarettes and cigars.

I remember as a child getting a bubblegum Cigar from a friend of my parents at the birth of their child. Looking back I wonder if he adults got real ones…

 

[thefishfryer]

Porno Mags on the top shelf at the newsagent.

 

[LostHorizon]

When a cup of coffee was 25 cents at the deli down the street.

 

[Wonderer67]

Buying my mom cigarettes and lottery tickets.

 

[Plain_Vanilla]

Regular leaded gas costing $.65 a gallon

I remember during a 'gas war' the Hess station across the street from my sister's home stopped selling regular and was selling premium at $0.329/gallon. That in a state where the per-gallon road tax was considered relatively high. Probably was around 1971. That would be about $2.55 today.

I also remember the first time I paid ~$2.00/gallon for regular upon arriving in Los Angeles. The car rental agency had stiffed me by not pre-filling the tank, and it wasn't convenient to return to the airport. Fortunately I was on expense account. Probably was around 2003. That would be about $3.42 today.

Everyone complains about inflation, but in reality many/most prices have been reasonably stable. Housing might be an obvious exception, but guess what -- demand keeps increasing because the population keeps growing. US population in 1960 was approx. 180 million. It's upwards of 330 million today. That's a much slower growth rate than the world population though -- 3 billion in 1960 versus 8 billion today. Whatever happened to Zero Population Growth?

 

[CreekyBonz]

Getting up off my ass and turning a dial to change the channel on a black and white TV.

 

[thefishfryer]

Getting up off my ass and turning a dial to change the channel on a black and white TV.

I remember when there was only one channel.

 

[AlexBailey]

We had 4.5 channels, you had to move the antenna to get 5.

 

[Treeview]

Regular leaded gas costing $.65 a gallon

My memory goes to $0.19/gallon in around 1970