Let's have the truth for once . . . .

[mrmackc]

OKAY HOW OLD ARE YOU?

 

[Belt Fed]

LOL yep, we never took pictures of anything, those poloroids were junk.

[unforgiven]

I remember when the phone number started with an alpha prefix.

[mrmackc]

Took pictures just on Vacation or at Christmas and at an occasional family reunion

"Hey Mom don't forget to get a roll of 120 film for the Kodak, when you go to the drug store"!

Edited January 6, 2020 by mrmackc

[Belt Fed]

18 minutes ago, unforgiven said:

I remember when the phone number started with an alpha prefix.

Yep, mine was Mohawk

[Armed Eye Doc]

We didn't take pictures because we didn't want evidence. 

[Armed Eye Doc]

I remember party lines at my grandfather's house. 

[Belt Fed]

Just now, Armed Eye Doc said:

I remember party lines at my grandfather's house. 

we had one for a while, I was pretty young and didn't use the phone much.

[Armed Eye Doc]

1 minute ago, Belt Fed said:

we had one for a while, I was pretty young and didn't use the phone much.

We were kids away from home, so we listened sometimes.

[Belt Fed]

remember shifters on the column and dimmer switches in the floor. remember when a replacing a water pump was a 30 minute job or even a fuel pump.

Edited January 6, 2020 by Belt Fed

[unforgiven]

20 minutes ago, Belt Fed said:

Yep, mine was Mohawk

Calumet

[unforgiven]

7 minutes ago, Belt Fed said:

remember shifters on the column and dimmer switches in the floor. remember when a replacing a water pump was a 30 minute job or even a fuel pump.

When you could work on your own car. Lift the hood and climb in.

[Cunuckgaucho]

36 minutes ago, unforgiven said:

When you could work on your own car. Lift the hood and climb in.

Tuning a carb with a vacuum gauge on my 83 Chief , adjusting timing to pass annual emission test then resetting for performance, Mind you I was still driving it up till 2009. 

[RedRiverII]

I remember silver money,  3 cent chocolate bars and 12 cent comic books.

[Belt Fed]

19 minutes ago, RedRiverII said:

I remember silver money,  3 cent chocolate bars and 12 cent comic books.

The last silver dime and quarter was 1964, half dollars were different.

[Magwa]

I remember 19 cent Gasoline, nickel cokes and candy bars, the first color TV around 1955, have gun will travel, the bounty hunter, hand cranked Ice Cream and butchering hogs for a piece of the meat no work no meat.... we are lazy now and we have forgot how it used to be simple ..... now everything is complicated and technical .

[Belt Fed]

I filled my bike up once for 13 cents a gallon, The tank didn't hold much and only two gallons went in. total was 26 cents.lol it was a 68 honda 150

[mrmackc]

9 hours ago, Belt Fed said:

Yep, mine was Mohawk

Hey ours in Pampa, Texas,  was also MOhawk back before area codes

I remember when cigarettes  went to 50 cents a pack, I said it is time to quit smoking and I did in the fall of 1976. My youngest daughter was 5 years old. 

[unforgiven]

Brand new 1974 Nova hatchback 350 bucket seats ordered from Chevy $ 4500.00.  From my mill money.

[DNP]

I had my grandmas 74 nova with the straight 6 in it. Still had the dealer receipt in the glove box. $3700

[RedRiverII]

I remember using silver money as cash.  1960 I received 25 cents for allowance.  I'd buy a 12 DC Comic and a pound of green grapes and have a wonderful afternoon.  I just looked up the value of a silver quarter,  any old silver quarter and they are selling or being offered at $5.50.  I could still pretty much get the grapes today but perhaps not the comic.

[392heminut]

Damn, all you fukkers are OLD! I don't remember ANY of that shiit! (I wish!)

[unforgiven]

We didn't have air conditioning so we had a large fan in the window that was reversible. Then window shakers came out that needed a 220 line.

At 10:30 "do you know where your kids are at" would come on the TV.

Was a long time before I found out that the Wizard of Oz had color.

[Sisco]

5 hours ago, Belt Fed said:

I filled my bike up once for 13 cents a gallon, The tank didn't hold much and only two gallons went in. total was 26 cents.lol it was a 68 honda 150

Had one,of those back in 71

[suzukiray]

I remember, how at 10 years old, I was the oldest of my cousins to get my first .22 rifle for Christmas. Most of my cousins got theirs at 8 or 9 but they all lived in the country and we lived in the city. Gas at 19 cents a gallon in KC when I was little too. Penny bubble gum and buying a few pieces at a time, and them another few pieces, and then another, to not have to pay tax and lose any!! Lol!!!