I'm so old I remember when...

[Dr. Pyro]

I paid 23 cents a gallon at the station in Goleta outside of UCSB. Busch beer was $1.19 per six pack, Bud was $1.25 and Michelob was $1.32. We drank Busch because we didn't want to spend a full penny a can more for Bud! Back then a penny was actually worth something.

[AntiM]

Pasting green stamps into mom's booklet.

[ranger magnum]

There were only 13 TV channels
Broadcasting wasn't 24 hours...
The national anthem was played on NBC each night before they signed off for the night
Waiting in line for gas during the embargo. Odd numbered license plates fueled up one day, even the next.
Dressing up if we were going on an airplane.

[Ratty]

Sunday school 9am
Sunday service 10 am
Sunday dinner 12 noon

[unjonharley]

birth control at the drive in was yards and yards and yards of cronoline.

[Captain Goddammit]

Pasting green stamps into mom's booklet.

Oh yeah… S&H Green Stamps!

[GreyCoyote]

The warm glow of an Atwater Kent radio. It would keep your hot chocolate warm if you sat it on the lid while listening to Big Bands on Sunday nights in your feetie-jams.

8-track cassette players, and the battle between the "hippies" and the audiophiles who loved reel-to-reel.

Betamax, and the death thereof at the hands of an inferior standard (VHS)

Red Devil fireworks: "safe and sane" (you cant make this up)

[AntiM]

I was in Japan when the betamax/VHS war was on. The NEX carried top of the line machines not available in the US. I had the VHS with the big primary color buttons, and a laserdisc player. Even had a CED, which was a video player which used a needle. Yep, a needle. Still have the laserdisc player.

[FIGJAM]

First phone number (Woodland) wo9-1565.

[tatonka]

I was in Japan when the betamax/VHS war was on. The NEX carried top of the line machines not available in the US. I had the VHS with the big primary color buttons, and a laserdisc player. Even had a CED, which was a video player which used a needle. Yep, a needle. Still have the laserdisc player.

My buddy paid 1200.00 for a VCR when they 1st came out

[Jovankat]

I was in Japan when the betamax/VHS war was on. The NEX carried top of the line machines not available in the US. I had the VHS with the big primary color buttons, and a laserdisc player. Even had a CED, which was a video player which used a needle. Yep, a needle. Still have the laserdisc player.

My buddy paid 1200.00 for a VCR when they 1st came out

I remember my Dad buying a new home stereo system just after CD players came out, the CD bit was still seperate from everything else. For ages the only CD we actually had was just a bunch of sound effects, no music, that we'd play super loud. My favourite was the smashing glass

[Thecatman]

...states had only one color combination on their license plates

This is the earliest combination I remember for California plates. We had a 1963 T-Bird with this combination. The number was HBB785

[burner von braun]

..sitting in class and holding the test paper up to your nose to catch the fresh scent of mimeograph ink..

..and then the next day wondering why you got half the answers wrong

[sadie]

...girls were not allowed to wear pants to school...dresses or skirts only.
...people waved a friendly hello as cars met on a country road, and waved a thank you after going around someone.
...it was considered "forward" if a girl called a boy on the phone.
...school principals could spank the students.

[Token]

... last year was better.

[Molotov]

Panty hose had not become prevalent. Girls still wore garter belts with their stockings, but skirts were getting shorter. Class change on the stairs in school was a teenage boy's dream.

[Captain Goddammit]

We chatted on CB radios because there was no Internet and cell phones.
I remember my mom being so thrilled and amazed because I called to let her know where I was and what I was doing one evening, from my bike. I had a portable CB and a friend on a base station patched me through his phone line.
She later told that story many times

[AntiM]

The murals at Sambo's Pancake house.

[GreyCoyote]

...people waved a friendly hello as cars met on a country road, and waved a thank you after going around someone.

Alive and well here!

I'm feeling younger again. Thanks Sadie!

[Captain Goddammit]

Short funny story - 15 years ago I was sent in a crane truck full of masonry rock to the Pacific NW San Juan Islands, with no better instructions than "drive off the ferry and up the road and the guy will wave you down".
It took FOREVER to find that guy - everyone waves at everyone up there!! I met about half the people on the island that day.

[GreyCoyote]

Sex was safe, and racing was dangerous.

[TT120]

I remember when Captain Goddammit was just a private.

[GreyCoyote]

I remember when Captain Goddammit was just a private.

Private Jeepers?

At this rate it wont be long before he is Admiral Fukkit.

[Captain Goddammit]

Well, true story, before I became Capt. GD (I didn't make that name up, there's a story, it just came to be) I was Major Woody

[ygmir]

Well, true story, before I became Capt. GD (I didn't make that name up, there's a story, it just came to be) I was Major Woody

and here I'd thought you were Private Parts, or Major Labia, perhaps General Disarray! the things we learn!!!

[Captain Goddammit]

I did have a friend at the BRCPO named General Purpose, in the early 2000s, that I'm so old I can remember.

[BeeWeeDee]

God Damn Sonvabitch was about explicit as it got.

[chuckularone]

I remember the cotton cloth loop towels in public rest rooms

[Blueschaser]

Beer cans had removable pop tops....talk about moop! Previous system much better: as long as you had a church key.

[theCryptofishist]

I love it that they were called church keys.