Name one thing? - Page 43

insomniac2 · ‎02-20-2016

Yelling someone's name outside their house to get them to come out to play.

trenet · ‎03-26-2017

@CAcableGirl2 wrote:
Riding the back of pickup trucks
No safety helmets when riding a bike or motocycle
social security numbers listed on work badges
taking a quarter with you on a date so you could always call home
8 track tapes
earth shoes (lower heal in back so like walking in the sand)
first minimum wage job at McDonald's for $2.65/hour
Sorry, couldn't name only one, was having some fun memories.....

I only needed to take a dime for phone calls! 8-tracks?! That was later - in junior high and high school it was still records. 33’s & 45’s. I also played my parents 78’s! Loved their Big Band music.

panda1234 · ‎04-27-2015

@Scooby Doo wrote:
Gas station attendants who came running out to the car and washed the windows.

@Scooby Doo Paying for gas after it was pumped not before.

trenet · ‎03-26-2017

@NicksmomESQ wrote:
Black & white T.V., No cable.Just the basic 7 channels!! Here in New York the basic channels were 2,4,5,7,9,11,13!!
Guess what ? We survived just fine!!

Wow! 7 channels. We only had 2 until we moved when I was 7- then it was 3 but, not the one I had been accustomed to watching. (“KOIN-TV, channel 6 Portland”) Had a wee bit of a crush on

their weatherman Bob Linot!

Shorty2U · ‎03-09-2010

I do not have anything to add it was probably already added. But I just wanted to say my grandkids (20,18, and 14) know what everything is from our youth because we still have (for instance) a wall phone, a complete stereo system with components of cassette, 8 track, turntable, radio, speakers,, vhs recorder, old video game systems, real camera with film, a type writer etc. If I don't have something, I have told them about alot from my youth, or showed them things on the Internet, so they know about things from before they were born.

PS the one thing I get mad about is my 2 younger granddaughters didn't know cursive. I taught them and so did my daughter, because after all everyone still has to sign their names! (Stupidest thing they got rid of ever is cursive writing!)

And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make~ The Beatles

panda1234 · ‎04-27-2015

@Starpolisher wrote:
Playing an "album" or LP.
(I remember my ds asking me once why I called it that)

Sanitary belt(hope this isn't inappropriate)

I remember in the 80's my sister and I were very resistant to the new stay on pads. We were in a drug store and sis wanted a new sanitary belt. When she asked the young clerk where they were, the clerk replied, "What's a sanitary belt?" We couldn't believe it! The store didn't have any and so goes progress....

Drug store
When I was still teaching and would say "drug store" sometimes students would ask why I said that rather than CVS, Walgreens, RiteAide, etc.(they didn't say pharmacy). They said it sounded like a place where you went to buy drugs(illegal).

Short hand
(took it in high school and loved it).

Five and dime store (5 & 10)

@Starpolisher Still use my shorthand, never forgot it.