[Fun] I'm So Old I Remember....

And paper plate and paper bag masks.

 

Im so old i remember a time when all aeri could catch was kittens and possums

 

I remember getting my first transistor radio.

 

The only TV we had in the house when I was little was on wheels...and of course black and white.
We didn't get a color set till I think I was maybe 2nd grade.

 

Me too...I was about 10 I believe, I carried that thing everywhere for awhile.

 

I probably posted this before. We got our first TV (B&W) when I was four years old. I was pretty excited about until everything that was on it was baseball. (It must have been the world series) I have hated baseball ever since.

 

I remember Burma Shave signs along the roads before freeways were built.

I remember men in little helmets telling my "parents" to turn off the lights, because Japanese subs were off the coast of Cal. 1943.

I remember being a cute little motherfucker and now I'm not.

I remember when 12 cents would get me into the movie theater(single screen)with two movies, short subjects, war footage and a cartoon was standard fare.

I remember when rent was 10 or 20 bucks and houses could be bought for a couple thousand.

I remember when 30 bucks worth of groceries would fill a pickup bed. (But who had 30 bucks?)

I remember getting my Schwinn bicycle--the most expensive on the market when I was 9. (picture in gallery. Soon had it stripped down.)

I remember when ALL the cars on the road were from the 30s. Auto makers stopped during the war and resumed in 46. Thus--no cars made from 42 'till 46.

I remember when I've remembered enough--which I remembered is right now.

 

My parents' first house cost a grand total of $5,000.

 

I remember having black and white tv's until I was about ten. But not because I'm old it was because I was poor.

 

I remember these...my Dad use to push these around.

 

i'm old AND as a kid my parents were poor. but in those days, if you had any kind of a job, and almost everybody did, you could be poor and still be able to afford things, and to live in small rural communities surrounded by wilderness and far from cities, suburbs, or even farms. this was before retailing was corporate franchising, and when almost everybody had a union. union made was a label, that most people wouldn't buy anything unless it had.
i know my folks tried to avoid doing so. mowing lawns with those old push type mowers, was something highschool kids did during summer vacation, to pick up a little extra change to by parts for their project hot rod cars.

 

I'm still waiting for b/w flatscreen tv's.

 

some of the first laptops did have black and white lcd's, and you COULD feed a tv signal into some of them.

oh and i did have a b/w sony watchman, pocket portable tv, sometime in the mid 1980s. that had an lcd 'flat' screen built in.
so little ones, actually DID exist. might still find one on e-bay or the like.

 

I remember learning the Palmer Method of handwriting in the 1950's. Apparently it went out of favor in the 1950's but I was in Catholic school. I still write sort of like that although through the years, especially with arthritis my handwriting has changed. My signature is still using the Palmer Method. I print a most of the time these days.

Do kids even learn to write these days?

 

I was going to add widescreen but I thought it was too many adjectives and people knew what I meant.

 

i never make that kind of assumption about what people mean. mainly because, if/when i do, it usually turns out to be wrong.
(and now watch, just because i said that, i'll probably do so without realizing it)

 

i'm so old, i remember when there were places on the internet, where you could role play something other then war, armed robbery, or sex.

 

I'm so old, I'm older than my Mum when I was a kid!

 

i'm almost as old as my dad was when he died. i'm older then the parents of almost everyone i know in real life.
i'm more then twice as old as my parents were when i was born. i'm older then they were when i was in high school too.
i'm older then my dad was when the railroad made him retire.
i'm so old, i can remember when the furthest anyone had ever gotten above the ground, was in a balloon.
i'm so old i can remember when no one knew whether or not the wings would melt off of an aircraft if it went faster then the speed of sound.