I'm so old I remember............?

[JayHawk]

LOL

ISOIR how to use a pencil to roll up a cassette tape that got 'eaten'

 

[unloadonme]

ISOIR eight track tapes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-track_tape

 

[dynk]

ISOIR being a bus boy at the last supper.

 

[M4P]

ISOIR these

 

[Kyanimal]

ISOIR Packards, Studebakers, Desotos, Willys, Hudsons, Nashes, Plymouths, Oldsmobiles, etc., etc., etc. ....

Keep smilin'!!
Chaz

 

[M4P]

ISOIR a child's haircut cost $1

 

[frankfrank]

ISOIR when McDonald's hamburgers were 15 cents, and their shakes were 10 cents.

 

[JayHawk]

ISOIR when FrankFrank was FrankieFrankie

 

[M4P]

ISOIR when television was delivered in Technicolor

 

[Kyanimal]

ISOIR curling up on the floor, in my flannel jammies, and wool lined slippers, with my "blankie", on an oval braided "rag rug", in front of the radio, that was in a big wooden self-contained cabinet, and listening to "The Lone Ranger", "The Shadow", "Little Orphan Annie", etc., etc., etc.

 

[frankfrank]

ISOIR when Soilwork used the screen name of...Soilwork.

 

[Peterdragin]

ISOIR curling up on the floor, in my flannel jammies, and wool lined slippers, with my "blankie", on an oval braided "rag rug", in front of the radio, that was in a big wooden self-contained cabinet, and listening to "The Lone Ranger", "The Shadow", "Little Orphan Annie", etc., etc., etc.

YEP!! me too...and 99% of all thie other stuff

 

[Kyanimal]

ISOIR playing "Kick the Can", with the neighborhood kids, in our backyards, even after the (few) street lights came on.

ISOIR building dams in the creek, so it would back up into a "pool", that we could all skinny dip in.

ISOIR riding my bike, all over town, without wearing a helmet.

ISOIR "pick up" baseball games, at the village park, shirts vs. skins.

ISOIR hunting for discarded pop/soda bottles, to get the "deposit refund", in order to buy penny candy.

ISOIR Mom making me take a bath when I'd come home, all dirty and sweaty, after dark. And, she knew where I'd been from the neighbors' reports.

Keep smilin'!!
Chaz

 

[72-Jay]

I'm so old I remember...before stuff like websites existed

 

[frankfrank]

^ Heck, 72-Jay, ISOIR when there were no such thing as "Interstate" highways. (They predate the "information highway" by a few decades...)

 

[72-Jay]

^ I can remember not having a computer at home .. but no Interstate highways wow ... LOL

 

[M4P]

ISOIR being afraid of the principal

 

[frankfrank]

^ Bad "joke" - kind of a pun - but dead serious:

A lot of people who are underwater (or "upside-down") on their mortgaged homes are STILL afraid of the principal...

 

[frankfrank]

ISOIR when, if your mother told you to "Go to your room!!" it was actually punishment.

 

[Efrackalecki]

ISOIR

Cassette and VHS tapes
Not having a computer
Windows 95
Dial-up
TV with knobs
Rotary phones
Car phones
NES
SNES
Sega consoles
Captain Planet

Looking for books in the card catalog at the library
Chalkboards in classrooms
When people payed with cash or checks