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

[frankfrank]

ISOIR when "Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite" was a common saying...and I thought (for many years after) that it was talking about fictional and mythical insects.

I mean...insects were around...they were around long before humans...so, some insects that look for BEDS??? It just didn't make sense.

 

[Kyanimal]

ISOIR: Candy cigarettes ... Cap guns to "shoot" your friends ... Mercurochrome (contained mercury) to put on cuts ... X-ray machines (unshielded fluoroscopes) to fit kids shoes ...

 

[Willie Boy]

ISOIR that I have forgotten more than the rest of y'alls have ever learned, all together.

 

[Willie Boy]

ISOIR when transportation was by foot, one's own.

 

[bort138]

ISOIR the Clinton presidency

 

[ScottishBiTeen]

ISOIR watching news coverage of the 7/7 bombings on ITV.

 

[johaninsc]

ISOIR when this was the only video game around

 

[dynk]

ISOIR I remember our first TV was black & white and a round screen

 

[M4P]

ISOIR when Bic lighters were new

 

[Willie Boy]

ISOIR when the only lighters were two sticks rubbed together.

 

[dynk]

ISOIR life before television

 

[Kyanimal]

ISOIR: S&H Green stamps.

 

[BillyT]

Isoir:

 

[Willie Boy]

ISOIR poop.

 

[dynk]

ISOIR having to walk to school for a mile

 

[Willie Boy]

ISOIR having to walk to school for a mile

Up hill both ways, and in the snow.

 

[Kyanimal]

ISOIR: Listening to "The Lone Ranger", "Little Orphan Annie", "The Shadow", and other stories/dramas, while curled up in my PJs, on an oval braided rag rug, in front of the column console radio, with it's golden glowing dial, and little red light over the material covered speaker.

 

[johaninsc]

ISOIR making $3.35 an hour

 

[frankfrank]

Up hill both ways, and in the snow.

Did you have an M. C. ESCHER field between you and the school?

ISOIR making $3.35 an hour

ISOIR when my initial GS-6 level Federal job, which I believe paid $8,120 a year, was considered to be quite a good job.

ISOIR when, in fact, that was enough of a job to buy a house (on a mortgage) and car (on a loan), raise two or three children and put them through University...and let the other parent be free to stay home and keep house. THAT was true probably no more than eight or nine years before I got that first real job.

 

[Willie Boy]

Did you have an M. C. ESCHER field between you and the school?

Nope. And I never went to school...... It came to me.

ISOIR when my initial GS-6 level Federal job, which I believe paid $8,120 a year, was considered to be quite a good job.

ISOIR when, in fact, that was enough of a job to buy a house (on a mortgage) and car (on a loan), raise two or three children and put them through University...and let the other parent be free to stay home and keep house. THAT was true probably no more than eight or nine years before I got that first real job.

ISOIR when one could buy a plot of land for $50 and build his own house for the cost of lumber (on average another $30 for enough to build something nice, unless you went out and chopped down the trees yourself), the labor cost could usually be covered by a decent meal provided to neighbors who came along to help. And one could by a fine horse for $200. If you wanted the "car" instead of the "motorcycle" you could get a decent buggy to be drawn by the horse for $20.