What Old-Fashioned Things Do You Remember?

Cloth diapers and rubber pants

Monster week (Godzilla, etc)

Gilliagans island and Brady bunch

Sunday night wonderful world of Disney

Excited when wizard of oz was one once a year

Saturday morning cartoons and than kicked outside for the rest of the day to play unsupervised.

Speed racer

Lone Ranger

Library card that was used to stamp the card inside the cover

Shop class is middle and hs

Dodge ball

Cloth diapers and rubber pants

Monster week (Godzilla, etc)

Gilliagans island and Brady bunch

Sunday night wonderful world of Disney

Excited when wizard of oz was one once a year

Saturday morning cartoons and than kicked outside for the rest of the day to play unsupervised.

Speed racer

Lone Ranger

Library card that was used to stamp the card inside the cover

Shop class is middle and hs

Dodge ball

Another old dude wrote:

Cloth diapers and rubber pants

Monster week (Godzilla, etc)

Gilliagans island and Brady bunch

Sunday night wonderful world of Disney

Excited when wizard of oz was one once a year

Saturday morning cartoons and than kicked outside for the rest of the day to play unsupervised.

Speed racer

Lone Ranger

Library card that was used to stamp the card inside the cover

Shop class is middle and hs

Dodge ball

You and I are exactly the same age

Age 65.

Candy cigarettes that came in a box - and cigarette ads on TV

Cartoons before the main movie feature instead of previews

U.S. flags with 48 stars

Cars with 3-speed on the column. My first car had this and no turn signals. I used hand signals to take my drivers test

Building wooden ramps to ride your bike over

TV westerns

Clothes lines in the back yard

Burning trash in an incinerator in the back yard every afternoon

Slot cars

The toy section of the Sears catalog

The bra section of the Sears catalog

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

Terminology, then and now:

Swamp; wetlands

Bum; homeless person

Retard; mentally challenged

Skank; pop star

Junkie; addiction disease victim

Pious; born again bozo

Juvenile delinquent; gangbanger

Adlai Stevenson wrote:

Age 65.

Candy cigarettes that came in a box - and cigarette ads on TV

Cartoons before the main movie feature instead of previews

U.S. flags with 48 stars

Cars with 3-speed on the column. My first car had this and no turn signals. I used hand signals to take my drivers test

Building wooden ramps to ride your bike over

TV westerns

Clothes lines in the back yard

Burning trash in an incinerator in the back yard every afternoon

Slot cars

The toy section of the Sears catalog

The bra section of the Sears catalog

Were the turn signals broken or did the car actually not come with turn signals? If the latter, that really is old-fashioned. I assumed cars always had turn signals (though I suppose maybe not on Model T era cars)

I've always wanted to try out the Three on the Tree. Were there synchros in the transmission or did you have to double clutch?

Sears catalog has had many mentions so far - must have really been a big deal.

I am in my late forties...

I recall the majority of items in a store were priced in the cents (under a dollar), and most of the rest were in the ones ($1.xx). Seein $3.xx stamped on something was a bit of a jolt.

Coffee was about the cheapest drink one could buy. I recall it being 50 cents a cup--even in NYC. You got it in the blue and white cup that read something like:"It is a pleasure to serve you." Seeing $5 and $6 coffees today absolutely blows my mind. Even if I were rich, I could still not bring myself to shell out five dollars for coffee. I watch people buy them and think they are nuts.

One could get coffee and a bagel n NYC for about a buck...a decent breakfast.

Today's $2 waters drive me nuts, too. I would rather die of thirst.

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:

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

outsiderunner wrote:

I am in my late forties...

I recall the majority of items in a store were priced in the cents (under a dollar), and most of the rest were in the ones ($1.xx). Seein $3.xx stamped on something was a bit of a jolt.

Coffee was about the cheapest drink one could buy. I recall it being 50 cents a cup--even in NYC. You got it in the blue and white cup that read something like:"It is a pleasure to serve you." Seeing $5 and $6 coffees today absolutely blows my mind. Even if I were rich, I could still not bring myself to shell out five dollars for coffee. I watch people buy them and think they are nuts.

One could get coffee and a bagel n NYC for about a buck...a decent breakfast.

Today's $2 waters drive me nuts, too. I would rather die of thirst.

Well, to be fair, the $5 coffees are usually mochaccino/latte-type deals. I call them milkshakes, as they have more in common with that then a black coffee. They're overpriced, for sure, but a regular coffee at Starbucks or similar shop runs about $2.00 and frankly some of the 80s/90s-era coffee was pretty bad. I make coffee at work but will occasionally get a milkshake.

FeloniusMonk wrote:

Terminology, then and now:

Swamp; wetlands

Bum; homeless person

Retard; mentally challenged

Skank; pop star

Junkie; addiction disease victim

Pious; born again bozo

Juvenile delinquent; gangbanger

Yes!

Here are some words or terms that are basically unheard-of today...

degenerate

dopey

dope addict

the big "c"

automobile

I also remember pre-Tylenol scare times with non-safety-sealed containers. Wow, cyanide inTylenol...that was a huge story.

There are many great old-time expressions, but my favorite was a common one with my mom: "That and fifty cents will get you on a bus."

stopwatches that you had to wind up on an old shoelace held around your coaches neck.

Lap splits written on paper held on clipboard.

Spalding spikes with metal cleats looking like old round golf shoe cleats.

scratching jocks worn under polyester shorts and tube socks.

And I really hate this change of terms--mechanic/"technician."

A shake? I dunno. A malt--now that's a shake.

Walkie-Talkies

outsiderunner wrote:

Coffee was about the cheapest drink one could buy. I recall it being 50 cents a cup--even in NYC. You got it in the blue and white cup that read something like:"It is a pleasure to serve you." Seeing $5 and $6 coffees today absolutely blows my mind. Even if I were rich, I could still not bring myself to shell out five dollars for coffee. I watch people buy them and think they are nuts.

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Created by Lazlo Buch for The Sherri Company of Connecticut The Anthora Cup was introduced in 1963-.

Because of his thick Czechoslovakian accent the Greek word amphora became Anthora.

wineturtle wrote:

outsiderunner wrote:

Coffee was about the cheapest drink one could buy. I recall it being 50 cents a cup--even in NYC. You got it in the blue and white cup that read something like:"It is a pleasure to serve you." Seeing $5 and $6 coffees today absolutely blows my mind. Even if I were rich, I could still not bring myself to shell out five dollars for coffee. I watch people buy them and think they are nuts.

.

Created by Lazlo Buch for The Sherri Company of Connecticut The Anthora Cup was introduced in 1963-.

Because of his thick Czechoslovakian accent the Greek word amphora became Anthora.

Thanks for the info!

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

Come to think of it...how about brown paper bag covers for textbooks?