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

[Hotrich]

ISOIR all the shops being shut on a Sunday.

 

[Willie Boy]

ISOIR walking the dinosaurs.

 

[frankfrank]

ISOIR when operators had to handle overseas phone calls

ISOIR that one of my sisters (only a few years older than me) remembers when operators had to handle *LOCAL* phone calls.

 

[Drugstore Cowboy]

ISOIR Cassette players

 

[chrisrobin]

ISOIR airmail postage stamps and marking Par Avion on the envelope.

 

[Hotrich]

ISOIR reel to reel tape recorders.

 

[BillyT]

ISOIR telephone party lines.

 

[Triple G]

ISOIR I still have two reel to reel tape decks + a three head cassette deck.

 

[jbrown329]

ISOIR I remember Twinkies were 1 thin dime.

 

[Hotrich]

ISOIR when the Milkman delivered the milk to our front doorstep each morning.

 

[jbrown329]

ISOIR Cassette players

ISOIR I remember 8 tracks.

 

[Hotrich]

ISOIR that the tape in cassette players would keep jamming and spewing out all over the place!

 

[unloadonme]

ISOIR when the Milkman delivered the milk to our front doorstep each morning.

My mother still has milk delivered every morning.

 

[Hotrich]

That is amazing. I thought they had all finished! You learn something new everyday.
ISOIR buses with engines at the front.

 

[frankfrank]

ISOIR having to rent my telephone from Bell Telephone. And, at the time, there was NO SUCH THING as going to a store and buying any kind of telephone - they had an absolute monopoly on this racket.

 

[Drugstore Cowboy]

ISOIR having to record shows on VHS tapes and having to select SP or SLP on the options for the quality of the recording.

 

[Hotrich]

ISOIR having to rush home to watch a programme on the TV before it became possible to record them.

 

[M4P]

ISOIR having to wait a few minutes for the TV to warm up

 

[BillyT]

ISOIR when all TV stations went off the air at midnight.

 

[Hotrich]

ISOIR when there was only TV on a Sunday evening on Sundays.