What Old-Fashioned Things Do You Remember?

I remember those ads, for some reason. I had to Google, so now i see you can get that stuff on: Pueblo.GPO.com.

One more thing, only a few years ago when anyone was giving a website they always felt the need to give the prefix "www."

That would drive me nuts, esp. If they repeated it.

1. When sex was dirty and grass was clean.

2. Bumper stickers reading: "Gas, grass or ass."

Great stuff. Also 48. How about:1. black & white TVs that took a few minutes to warm up2. huge lines and long waits to get gas at the gas station ('73 oil shock?)3. 8 track tape players (my older brother had KISS, early Journey, Aerosmith, Queen, early Foreigner, etc etc on 8 track tapes)4. most cars had manual transmissions as I remember it5. AM radio6. my mom saying we couldn't watch CBS anymore (1 of 3 major networks and 1 of our 4 channels!) because there was gay character on a show (the show "Soap"). The horror! I don't think she told me the reason though, and we were mainstream Catholic not conservative Christians. Think it was a Church thing. It didn't last.... Funny thing is that my now-elderly mother (true for my father too) votes Democrat now but was a life-long Republican until the last 10-15 years or so. As someone else said, those Republicans don't exist anymore...7. getting dressed up to ride an airplane, go to church, even somewhat for a pro sports event (distinct memory of my dad sending me back inside before going to a pro baseball game to change my t-shirt for a collared shirt)8. Having bacon and eggs for breakfast most every day because that was healthy, then going through the 80s and 90s when that was unhealthy, and now those are healthy again! Good times...

I remember when mainstream Catholic was conservative Christian.

Having to listen to the doomsday false prophet on the radio discussing Revelation every Sunday morning, while we were having breakfast before hockey.

home made slingshots

pea shooters

pocket-less sweatpants

walking, or riding my bike to school from kindergarten up through h.s.

kids--not adults--delivering newspapers, and mowing yards for money

Jim Crow laws.

Makes me laugh when I see old songs on Youtube and people in the comments say things like "I wish I was born in the 50's."

The local pub I worked in had one of the first Scopitones in the USA-mid 1960s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK_8Ns3JjRk

16 selections in the machine 50 cents a pop and the machine took fifty cent pieces.

lots of French gals singing Twist songs and The Race Is On-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW2SV8eyH_4&list=PLMX_sasMQwIXpQnqeL7JuAEUgMnPEocFc

Spring of 1974:

My fondest memory of college was the STREAKERS !

Not the folks who run at least a mile a day, every day.

The original streakers. College kids (usually male) who would shed all but their Keds (sneakers) and run through public places in the nude.

Drove the adults crazy, but we college kids LOVED the streaking fad! I lived in a college dorm of all freshman girls, and I remember two male streakers coming over to our dorm to "entertain" us.

The house mother called Campus Security, but by the time CS got there, the streakers were long gone. So CS set up a stake out up on an outside balcony where they could not be seen, and then waited for the streakers to return. They waited until after midnight, when they finally picked up and left.

Within 10 minutes of their departure, our beloved streakers returned.

Ray Stevens put out a song called The Streak, which commemorates this special time. It only lasted for about 6 weeks -- the spring of 1974 - when the weather nationwide had turned unusually warm and welcoming.

But the streaking fad will live on in the hearts and lives of a generation of 1970s college kids...

Awesome, totally &0s, never saw one, but of course I wasn't allowed in a pub until the 70s.

Pants that one wore around their waist, not their anus.

When nobody had a cell phone.

End of thread.

When cell phones came in a brief case.

Fat CaliDog wrote:

Dropping someone off at the airport and waiting at the gate with that person until they got on the plane.

The woman, who is still my wife, has always been extremely fastidious about getting to the airport two hours before a flight, even when there wasn't security. I remember just sitting ffooooorrrreeeevvvveeerr in the lounge at the San Jose Airport waiting with her, until the plane boarded. Nowadays, I get to drop her off at the curb and watch her drag her own bag to the concourse while I enjoy the taste of freedom, but in the old days, good boyfriends were expected to wait with their women. Don't miss that at all.

...The old terminal, right?

HAHA SOOO true! My first sight of the Dirty Deed, uncensored, was by the side of the road on a dirty (literally) torn-up porn mag.

HarryPaums wrote:

I remember finding porn magazines in ditches on the side of the road and other out of the way places that a 12 year old could do his thing. To this day when I'm out running and see a discarded mag on the side of the road the first thing I think is HEY IS THAT PORN?

What an awesome thread.

Girl from little village wrote:

http://imgur.com/a/nLDsh

cdbb wrote:

When cell phones came in a brief case.

And looked like a "brick?"..;)

Also to add, watching "The Laurence Welk" show on Saturday evenings...🤓

Our first telephone was made of wood, was bolted on the wall and had a

handle you had to crank in 3 big U shaped magnets to make electricity.

gasoline was 21 cents/gallon. Our water came from a well with a large hand

pump on top of the well. Our car had two bench seats which you could fit

8 people and the area behind the rear seat and back window was big

enough for two small kids to lay, and there were no seat belts, and the

windshield wipers would stop when you let off the gas.

Our school bus drivers were also our teachers and if you were bad a school,

you would be paddled by the teacher and when you got home you got a

paddling by your parents.