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Going to the pool in the summer and buying an ice cream sandwich for 25 cents.
Manual typewriter at home. Brand: Royal. That thing was hard to use--especially as I didn't know the keyboard.
Late 60's/early 70's (not sure which year.) We got a color TV and I asked my mother if the world was in color.
Candy bars at Revco cost 8 cents. Everywhere else they were a dime.
Stamps also were 8 cents. Gas was 35 cents a gallon.
I remember starting at the IRS and using only microfilm, paper, pencil and an adding machine. I remember the punch card trays hubby carried around at work.
I remember carbon paper.
I remember when pills came in boxes. To allow it to open, was a piece of material on the back side that functioned as a hinge.
Sweetana: I think I had the last remaining box of carbon paper at my company - I finally let it go a few years ago :)
When I started working at my place of employment, there were elevator operators who would punch the button of the floor you wanted when you got on. I have trouble believing that one even though I lived it - maybe I imagined it?
I remember those elevator operators. It was usually an elderly lady and there was a stool in the front corner of the elevator that she sat on. She would pull the outside door closed first, and then the gate-type doors.
I hope she didn't develop dizziness. I sure would have!
One of the people my husband worked with early in his career started as an elevator operator at Eli Lilly Pharmacueticals. He worked his way up to IT. Back then, the company believed in a well rounded employee and developed them all with assignments all around the company. Now they hire you for a job and if the job is not needed, you are out the door. No loyalty in either direction and employees are working for themselves for protection. Losses all around.
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I was reading a book the other day that used the old advertising jingle, "You can trust your car to the man who wears the star...the big red Texaco star." It brought back some other old advertising slogans and jingles of vague memory. "From the land of sky blue water...Hamms the beer refreshing." "Come up to the cool taste...Cools." Hope I don't think of many more as I can't get them out of my head now (and may start smoking again).
How about the commercial with the couple floating through the air and landing in a Hertz convertible with the jingle: "Let Hertz put you in the driver's seat."
Or Alka Seltzer: "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh, what a relief it is."
Or Winston cigarettes: I'd rather fight than switch
Or, from the 70s, "I'm a Woooman W-O-M-A-N--I'll say it again..."
I believe that was Tareyton cigarettes. The most familiar Winston ad was "Winston tastes good like a cigarette should" to which we kids would add our own words, "Winston tastes bad like the one I just had, all filter, no flavor, just cotton pickin paper."Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine