The Public Opinion Soapbox

paul_milander · Joined: 16 Mar 2008 Posts: 527 Location: Shippensburg, PA

Time for the young people to learn some things and for us "Old" people to realize how old we are. Real simple post something (up to three a post) about something that you can remember that is not around anymore.

I can remember when you "rented" your phone form AT&T and it was a rotary one.

I can remember when there were no private lines and you had to wait for your neighbor to get off the phone so you could make a call

I can remember dialing 0 and getting a real person who was local
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anonymous_coward · Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Posts: 484

i remember when vonage wasn't available for landlines

cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1726 Location: shippensburg

i remember gas at 80¢/gal
i remember metal playground playsets that if you fell and hurt yourself: too bad..guess you learnt to not do that again
i remember trying to get a happy balance btwn uhf and vhf on the dial on the tv (you know...the sets where you had to actually get up to "surf" around the 4 channels since the antennae couldn't pick up more that U-25 (nbc 25 haha) or abc 7 or wgal 8 lolz...)

Laughing Man · Joined: 28 Mar 2008 Posts: 401 Location: Earth

I remember when it was all orange groves and train whistles as far as the eye can see.
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paul_milander · Joined: 16 Mar 2008 Posts: 527 Location: Shippensburg, PA

paul_milander · Joined: 16 Mar 2008 Posts: 527 Location: Shippensburg, PA

I remember stores like Hughes Super Thrift where they baggers would load your car for you

I remember when in school you took typing because a computer was the size of a small bedroom

I remember floor console TV's
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Pink Elephant in the Room · Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 92 Location: in the corner

I remember gas at $ .35 and so was a pack of cigarettes.

School lunches were $. 25, and it was a real meal! Who cared if we had horse meat for our "hamburgers". It still tasted good to us!

I remember the entire neighborhood playing hide and go seek until the street lights came on. That's when you knew it was time to go home.

Oooh, oooh...what's that game where everybody locks arms and calls somebody from the other side to run over to try to break through? Red Rover Red Rover? Man, that was fun! Yep there were a couple of kids who got a sprained wrist or two, but they quickly learned how to hold on the right way!
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Torgo · Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 12:04 pm Post subject:

I remember the American bicentennial celebration.

I remember when soda machines were stocked with glass bottles.

I remember when Reagan was shot.
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