What Old-Fashioned Things Do You Remember?

wineturtle wrote:

More obscure facts from the vast empty space called my brain--- sizes refer to capacity of the bushel common supermarket bags were the 1/6 and 1/8(of a bushel)

I worked in a grocery store for about three years, and I remember seeing those capacity markings.

I remember when only sailors, bikers or really crazy people had tattoos.

Fred Gwynne wrote:

I remember when only sailors, bikers or really crazy people had tattoos.

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People who swore on purpose were considered stupid. Now it's almost a fashion statement. In fact the A word, the F word, and the GD words are considered part of everyday conversation.

In the old days some swore when they hit their finger with a hammer or a door but otherwise it was considered low-class to swear.

outsiderunner wrote:

Fred Gwynne wrote:

I remember when only sailors, bikers or really crazy people had tattoos.

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I agree and we cannot be negative about those who do use tats even though it is still crazy.

outsiderunner wrote:

Fred Gwynne wrote:

I remember when only sailors, bikers or really crazy people had tattoos.

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Dick Tracy's Crime Stoppers textbook (In the Sunday comics in the 50s), said police assumed people with tattoos had been in prison and therefore be suspicious of them.

No homework in elementary school

Radio DJ's pretty much play what they wanted

A bully was the big kid two years older

They cooked food at school and it was served on trays by matronly women

A run in my mom's nylon's was a big deal

Doing stupid things on a bike without a helmet

Having an "Olympics" at our house, running around the house and field events in the back yard

Single or divorced friends parents was rare (mine married 58 years until my mom passed)

Shag carpet

The word Station Wagon wasn't a diss

At summer camp, without supervision (10yo) walking down a road on a pitch black night without a flashlight wondering what's out there...

Family restaurants and diners, not fancy themed hip concept restaurants

Many of the same things that have already been said would pertain to me as well. Growing up I had basically no worries. Family wasn't rich but was never wanting for food or clothing. Parents married and got along, At least from my perspective it was a way to grow up without any baggage. If I had to do it over again I'd like it just as it was.

Miami Vice intro

An old-fashioned girl with the dark raven curl.

No, there's no such thing.

Parents instructed kids to stay away from people with tattoos.

Gentlemen- the authentic variety with kind genuine dispositions and honorable intentions

Wineturtle you're an " odd duck" which is an antiquated expression.

Add: everyone watched The Ed Sullivan Show on Sunday nights. Hard to believe but it ran from 1948-1971, 23 years.

Popular stuff was Topo Gigo, an Italian mouse, plate spinners, Liberace, and oh yeah, Elvis and the Beatles first time before a national audience.

zephito wrote:

middle guy wrote:

I'm 58 years old and in the early eighties examined patients who were Spanish American War veterans and offspring of Civil War veterans.

Multiple patients from the SA war? That was late 1890s. They couldn't have been born much past 1880. That would have made them 100 when you examined them or at least late 90s if they fought when they were 16 or 17. Did you work at a VA hospital or something? Not really doubting your story, just curious.

In other old-fashioned news:

1. There is still someone alive who was born in the 19th century:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Morano

2. President Tyler's (1840s) grandchildren are still alive:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/29842/president-john-tylers-grandsons-are-still-alive

You are correct, Sir. I was doing a residency in VA hospitals in Mass. and the few vets from the Spanish war were just over 100 years old which is not all that unusual today but it was the only time I had ever run across someone who had served at that time. Hell, one of my grandfathers was born in the 1880's.

outsiderunner wrote:

How about brown paper bags for groceries?...plain brown paper bags, that is.

I just brought two of those home from the grocery store fifteen minutes ago.

It was a 1949 Plymouth and it was not equiped with turn signals. I believe they became mandatory in around 1956 or '57. Before that they were an option.

The "three-on-the-tree" was just a standard manual transmission with a clutch like on the floor models. Some cars had floor shifters with 3 gears. "Four on the floor" was a big selling feature of the early muscle cars.

How about when cars had the hi-beam switch on the floor which you engaged and disengaged with your left foot. I always thought that was clever.

Women wore thongs

This. I'm 55 and I can't think of any divorced parents near my home in suburban NYC when I was growing up. And even kids at my public school rarely were kids of divorced parents.

Back in the 70's, When board games were king:

Monopoly

Risk

Diplomacy

Masterpiece

etc.

Rock-em Sock-em Robots

Labyrinth game

Those little electric race cars on the two-slot click-together black tracks

Rock fights against the kids on the other side of the brook

Secret forts in the woods made by shoveling out dirt and covering with branches and leaves

Collections: coins, semi-precious gems, baseball cards

Wacky-packages! Oh, man was I into those. I'd stick them all over my room furniture.