older runners will smile at this

I do in fact recall some of those.

The good old days. A much simpler time.

... you'd file pennies down on the sidewalk until they were the same size as dimes - and vending machines accepted them as dimes?

Ahhh, nostalgia isn't what it used to be. Then again, it's become hard to imagine how we managed without the internet.

I'm from that era too, shame though how & why after being disciplined bigtime by a vice-principal your parents were notified...overkill...never thought that was fair.

sec4coach wrote:

The good old days. A much simpler time.

You do realize that every generation in history has thought this, right?

Relevant snippet from link below:

"There’s a great quote from Ed Koch in a PBS series on New York that I watched recently. He was walking down the street after having been elected and an old woman came up and embraced him. “Mayor,” she said, “Make it like it used to be.” This was the late ‘70’s, a difficult time for the city. Mr. Koch thought to himself, “Madam, it never was ‘like it used to be.’”"

Here's another one that will put a frown on the young one's faces.

Do you remember when you won a medal or Trophy at a H.S meet and a cheerleader awarded it to you while giving you a kiss ?

Huh? I'm 19 and a lot of what I just read on that site applies to me. Weird.

metal ice trays with levers -- I haven't thought of those in 20 years. I'm a crushed ice fan so I loved these cuz when you'd pull that lever, it would shatter the whole block of ice.

cathcing fireflies -- we used to call them lightning bugs. That was one of the few activities we were able to stay up past curfew for. That and flashlight tag.

being picked last for a team -- luckily this never happened to me. Funny to read this cuz I had a dream last night about picking teams.

I remember it all... except for the dog part. Where I grew up in central Oregon in the early 60's, there were basically four dog types. Retrievers, Spaniels, Pointers, and Shepards, anything else was rare to the point of drawing suspicion.

Yep, the good old days.

The TV with the button on top: you used that button to change the stations and, if you were REALLY lucky, you had UHF and VHF.

Color TV's were Nirvana.

And if you were watching TV past bedtime, and turned it off when you heard your parents coming home, they knew what you'd done because of that damned little white dot in the center of the screen that took like 10 minutes to fade away.

And I remember watching the very last Howdy Doody Show. They reprised a lot of the old-time characters, like Princess Summerfall Winterspring, and of course Chief Thunderthud (source of the phrase "cowabunga"--as in "Cowabunga, Buff'lo Bob!").

And Tom Terrific (and his wonder dog, Manfred).

Hahaha. We used to do this too, but then put them in parking meters! When you twisted the meter it made this gnarly grinding chunking sound and you would get almost 2 hours of time on a shaved penny!

Getting up early in the morning in the summer, making a couple of sandwiches, meeting up with some friends on your bikes, and not coming home until 8 o'clock in the evening.

And your parents weren't arrested.

Taking your Slot Car down to the hobby shop to race it against your friends.

When "skateboards" were just that- a pair of roller skates grafted onto a piece of plywood.

Your closet was a virtual armamentarium of sling shots, BB guns, bows and arrows, lawn darts, home made crossbows, whiffle bats, etc.. Yet their were no deaths and few casualties requiring more than a band-aid or two.

non-combatant wrote:

a band-aid or two.

You must have been in the 'burbs. We rubbed dirt on it and made sure mom never found out.

Burbalicious, baby! We even got Bactine (ouch!) on it. Of course we concocted a story as to how it happened. Guess that's why so many of us ended up in white collar crime instead of the rough stuff ;)

non-combatant wrote:

that's why so many of us ended up in white collar crime instead of the rough stuff ;)

I've got to respect that.

I remember it all! I also remember when:

There were no refrigerators. Blocks of ice were delivered regularly to fill the ice box in the kitchen.

There was no such thing as television. We listened to the radio and gramaphone.

They burned an effigy of Mussolini in a vacant lot near the City Hall.

The town went wild on V-E Day and then again on V-J Day.

There was no space travel.

The telephone was on the wall. When you picked up the receiver the operator said "number please". Or home phone number was 151. My father's office number was "number 4".

Roger Bannister ran a mile in less than four minutes.

There were no snowmobiles or snow blowers.

Buddy Edelen set the world best in the marathon.

A penny bought stuff.

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