I was just thinking about the old Tube Tops of the 80's! Shapeless, boob-squishing, stretchy things they were.
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I was just thinking about the old Tube Tops of the 80's! Shapeless, boob-squishing, stretchy things they were.
I've used a rotary phone, typewriter and had black & white TV (with the tube!) lol
. . .I remember going to my grandmother's house in Savannah and the milkman still had a horsedrawn delivery truck
Oh, wow! What a surprise seeing this thread resurrected again!
P.S. Welcome to our home, Nocar! Ahhh... another rotary telephone user. (I love rotary telephones).
Rodeosweetheart. The horse-drawn milk-delivery wagon/buggy is neat-o!
Anyone around my age (mid/late 40's), will remember stacking the turntable pin with a half dozen (or more) LP's, so you could enjoy HOURS of music, but as each LP dropped, the angle at which the needle would sit/play on the LP, would alter the sound/speed of the songs, and getting a new needle was like winning the lottery!
I remember typewriters (still use one!), and when gas was 80 cents a gallon--and we were all horrified! Bread was 35 cents, and that was the good stuff. I remember selling cheap bread 3 loaves for a dollar at the local convenient store where I worked.
Susan
Yes, Miradoblackwarrior, I remember those 3-pack loaves that came in a long clear plastic bag! So heavenly was the smell, and we always did our own slicing.
AND... and, and, and... if you didn't have one of those nifty little plastic centre disks to snap in place when playing a 78, you eye-balled the turntable pin as best you could in hopes that you had the 78, centered as best you could.
If you're old like me (LOL) and babysat back in the late 70's, you remember the likes of cloth diapers and rubber pants... the pins, double-diapering, toilet-dunking, and the smelly diaper pails that accompanied (no one used Pampers back then), large metal baby prams (like pushing a storage-shed w/handles down the sidewalk), exersaucers, swing-o-matics, jolly-Jumpers (that hung from doorways), and pastel (plastic) baby bottles.
Rotary phone on a party line. Two room school house. B&W Tv's, and color tv's you had to adjust the colors, antenna's, etc (what is a remote?). Clothelines, gravity furnaces (thankfully never had to shovel coal into a furnace, still have the room and the shovel), etc.
Sometimes I joke I am old enough to have an autographed, Jesus Rookie card.
.....I remember when bananas had seeds!
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.
Clap, clap, clap! Great additions everybody!
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
Oh nooooo. Help Mr. Bill!
Hot dogs. Armour hot dogs. Fat kids, skinny kids, even kids with chicken pox love hot dogs. The dog kids love to bite. (or something like that).
See the usa in a Chevrolet!
As I recall, Armour hot dog commercials fell victim to political correctness. "What kind of kids love Armour hot dogs? Fat kids, skinny kids, kids who climb on rocks, tough kids, sissy kids, even kids with chicken pox love hot dogs, Armour hot dogs, the dogs kids live to bite."Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogar
You're absolutely right, Alan! I stand corrected.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan
Gary Moore, sponsored by Winston cigarettes, lining up a group of men to say their surnames: Winston tase gootch lika c.garrett shultz.
Ahhh... the old commercial jingles are reminding me of old Saturday morning cartoons. Can anyone name this show:
When you find yourself in danger
When you're threatened by a stranger
When you think that you will take a lickin'
There is someone who will come
And hurry up to rescue you (I think this is the line!!! LOL)
Just call for ________________!
Super Chicken!
Maybe I've said this earlier in the thread.............its been so long ago and so many pages ago..
"Brusha Brusha Brusha, New Ipana toothpaste". I think a beaver was singing it.
Wasn't it Beaman's pepsodent gum that put you in the Gardol Shield??
This is so great! LOVE this thread to the nth! Thank you, thank you, thank you (EVERYONE), for making this thread the best thread ever!
One of my favourite retro things is jingles and slogans. On page 14 (this thread) I posted a Youtube video for L'EGGS, Pantyhose, and still, after all these years, I fancy the jingle.
"S-h-e-'s... g-o-t... l-e-g-s... our L'eggs, fit your legs, they hug you- they hold you, they never let you go."
Digging up more "old"...
http://www.simplelivingforum.net/att...6&d=1341880533
Circa, late 80's, baby/toddler training pants. Plain plastic/vinyl outside, terry-cloth inside. My sister passed a bunch of these down to me when our first was born (1992). Best rubber pants ever! The all-in-one style eliminated the need for separate waffle-knit training pants/soakers w/plain rubber pants over.
Picture of same pants, inside-out (terry-cloth).
http://www.simplelivingforum.net/att...7&d=1341880578
Yes, I do, too. I wonder if it had something to do with growing food (without) artificial growth agents and hormones? Unlike today...Quote:
Originally Posted by CathyA
What??!! :0! That's absolutely BANANAS!!Quote:
Originally Posted by CathyA
LOL. yeah......I didn't especially care for the seeds. They were very small, but alot of them. I think we have gotten used to seedless stuff, but I'm not sure its a good thing. How do they keep growing with no seeds?????
I have been eating and enjoying watermelon all summer. But one I bought recently that was supposed to be seedless, was not...........and it was no fun at all! haha
I'm so old, the little seedling trees I've planted are getting old and dying. :(
I think the way seedless fruit keep growing is they do have seeds-but they 'mature' later. I don't know how the scientists made the watermelon (and now learning bananas too!?!) mature later to grow their seeds later but I think that's what they do (complete semi-educated guess on my part).Quote:
Originally Posted by CathyA
They make a strain of the fruit to ripen BEFORE the seeds grow-people eat it. If you left a seedless watermelon to keep growing/living then seeds would eventually come and they use these seeds to grow for the next year
I figured this out because many seedless watermelon had those soft white 'young' seeds in them
Watermelon (in our house), is an all-time favourite, especially the seedless ones. So sweet and succulent they are! I could easily enjoy a steady diet of melons and citrus. Love both!
I'm so old I remember having watermelon-seed spitting competitions when we were kids. There was a definite technique to doing it, and we tried it all. Rolling our tongues, pursing our lips together to help build pressure, and I'm sure there were a few more, but I'm so old I've forgotten the other ones! LOL!
I remember rotary phones, the ice-man coming with a big block of ice in his tongs for the ice box (I still think of our refrigerator as the box, not the fridge), egg and milk man coming, man in one-horse-pulled cart staying in the road outside for a while for any on the contiguous blocks to come get knives sharpened, washing clothes and everything else on washboard in sink, washing the bottom sheet and putting the top sheet on as the bottom one, great-aunt making comforters at our kitchen table (no sewing machine), radio The Shadow, Stella Dallas, the Great Gildersleeve. Entertainment kick the can, hide and seek, swinging statues, catching fireflies, guessing what color the next car driving by would be.
I still have one rotary phone. Heavy, loud, and always works.
Seedless watermelons aren't allowed at our house. They're just not as much fun. (And you never get that occasional surprise growing in Mom's tulips the next spring either.)
We have a rotary phone again. The kids found it in my Mom's garage and thought it was so cool! It works perfectly. Surprise, surprise.
I recall enjoying the Oranges sent from Florida. The owner of the company my Dad worked for in Maine would go to Florida after Thanksgiving for the winter and he would ship boxes of Oanges for his employees to enjoy.
Yes they were a novelty
larknm, what neat memories you have!
I totally forgot about playing statue! That was always fun!