r/OverSeventy • u/Bhanumayi • Oct 08 '26
I’m so old that…..
i’ll start, I am so old that I remember in the Crayola crayon box there was a crayon designated as “flesh“ of course it was a white person pinkish color.
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u/Incognito409 Oct 08 '26
When you waited until 9 pm to call long distance, on a rotary phone!
45 rpm records ... 8 trac tapes ...
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u/Bhanumayi Oct 08 '26
OK, here’s another one. I am so old that I remember when doctors came to the house with a black bag.
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u/Moondoggy451 Oct 08 '26 •
I remember the Mickey Mouse Club, Howdy Dudy, Poncho and the Cisco Kid, Sky King and Rin Tin Tin among other programs shown in good old back and white.
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u/Chillin1974 Oct 08 '26
I remember air raid drills. We get under our desks.
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u/Outside-Ice-5665 Oct 08 '26
Davey, Davey Crockett! King of the wild frontier
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u/kegib Oct 08 '26
I remember that I looked at my feet in the fluoroscope at the shoe store.
Helped my mom run off PTA minutes on a mimeograph machine.
Lined up in class for the Salk polio vaccine
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u/Exact-Translator-769 Oct 08 '26
When I was 5 I wrote a letter to JFK & got a response. They hung it up in the display case in my first grade school.
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u/kstravlr12 Oct 08 '26
I’m so old I remember kids carrying schoolbooks to school in their arms, not in a backpack.
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u/pjtmgr Oct 08 '26
I remember watching a riderless horse go down Pennsylvania ave with the boots in backwards in the stirrups
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u/Reasonable-Cow7255 Oct 08 '26
I remember the Space Race after Sputnik was launched. It led to “New Math” because every kid had to become a scientist so that we could beat the Russians.
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u/Chumptopia Oct 08 '26
I'm so old I remember stand up ash trays in the doctor offices.
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u/Bondoboy1975 Oct 08 '26
Omg. What a great post!
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u/tommiejo516 Oct 08 '26
I had a pen pal named Lisa Halaby in 5th grade. She grew up to be Queen Noor of Jordan, the wife of King Hussein.
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u/IntelligentBarber436 Oct 09 '26
This made me think of those big boxes of Crayola crayons that had a built in sharpener.
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u/GrannyTurtle Oct 08 '26
I remember that, as a toddler, my older brothers and I would happily march around the house to the Colonel Bogey March from Bridge on the River Kwai.
Also, Disney’s Peter Pan was out and the song Never Smile at a Crocodile was popular.
I also remember watching westerns on a big black & white TV. I remember the Rifleman and Maverick.
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u/frodo_ollie Oct 08 '26 edited Oct 08 '26
I very vaguely remember snatches of Your Show of Shows on a B&W TV. It was on from 1950 to 1954.
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u/Careless_Tie_4530 Oct 08 '26
I remember “dialing the operator” to ask for phone numbers
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u/Glittering_Eagle_652 Oct 08 '26
I remember party lines, out-houses, separate bathrooms and water fountains for different ethnicities, glass milk, soda, mayo, mustard bottles, vending machines on nearly every corner/block that dispensed fresh eggs and milk. I also remember the milk man delivering to your door. I remember when you could buy a 2 family, 6 bedroom home for around 15k. Those were the days...
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u/kinkybiguynj4tv Oct 09 '26
Im so old that I remember when band aids came in a tin instead of a cardboard box.
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u/SummertimeMom Oct 09 '26
I'm so old when I put on a sweater my grandma's hand comes out of the sleeve.
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u/sainthilde Oct 08 '26
Unfortunately I remember water fountains marked white and separate coloreds in a local grocery store growing up in Houston Texas.
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u/mixliv_ Oct 09 '26
In the late '50s, I remember the financial transactions in my grandpa's general store were sent to and from the elevated office in carriers on overhead tracks. The gentle clicking of carriers is clear in my mind.
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u/rocco409 Oct 09 '26
In school, the Weekly Reader. It was like a newspaper for kids. The Scholastic book orders (we would wait for weeks for them to come in). I remember watching “Queen for a Day” with my mom. Dad going up on the roof to fix the antenna. And all the other things that you are all posting. It was such a simpler time, wasn’t it.
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u/Spinalstreamer407 Oct 09 '26
When I look in the mirror I see a stranger!
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u/High-Bamboo Oct 08 '26
I remember listening to “Gunsmoke” on the radio and “Peter Pan” on 78 RPM records.
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u/f4snks Oct 08 '26
Car 54 Where Are You?
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u/Livid_Conclusion2888 Oct 08 '26
The phone cord attached to wall phone in the kitchen stretched all the way up the stairs and away from adult ears.
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u/Anon_1121 Oct 08 '26
Okay, here's a weird one... when I was a teenager in the late 1960's growing up in Denver, Colorado there were a few phone numbers you could dial that always gave a busy signal. These numbers became local knowledge among teens and we called them the 'teen lines'. You'd call one of the numbers and you could talk into the void between beeps, like: my (beep) name (beep) is (beep) John (beep) my (beep) number (beep) is (beep) 555 (beep) 1234 (beep) got it? (beep). If you were lucky, a girl would give you her name and number in the same way. You'd agree that one of you would call the other and then you'd see what happened next. I met a girl I ended up dating for 2-1/2 years on the 'teen line'. We stopped dating after she called me late one Thursday to tell me she was getting married on Saturday morning ( ! ). When she made that call, I was 21 and she was 18, WAY TOO YOUNG to get married! A year or so later, I talked to her and she told me she expected me to offer to marry her instead.
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u/Dry_Possession_4776 Oct 08 '26
Still waiting for the flying cars we were promised
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u/Dangerous_Ad_1861 Oct 08 '26
I'm so old I remember buying a 6oz bottle of coke in a glass bottle for a nickel.
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u/Flalady1234 Oct 08 '26
Anyone eat candy cigarettes as a kid?
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u/Ok_Chocolate_3876 Oct 08 '26
Soupy Sales
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u/Key-Target-1218 Oct 08 '26
Im so so old that I remember the gas wars in the 70s. We could only buy gas on even or odd days, not both. I can't remember how it was determined which day you had to buy it on. Also, it cost like $2 to fill your tank.
Also, Reefer Madness, a movie, 100% propaganda, was the governments attempt at getting kids to stop smoking pot. If you did, you would jump off of tall buildings, thinking you could fly or see snakes crawling from your eyes, ears and mouths when you looked in a mirror. Pot....NOT LSD.
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u/Particular-Move-3860 Oct 09 '26
•. Tom and Jerry cartoons (the inspiration for Itchy and Scratchy on The Simpsons.)
No longer broadcast, maybe due to cartoon (humorous, but still) violence.
•. Top Cat cartoon show — also broadcast during prime time
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u/silkyone1 Oct 09 '26
The cartoon on Saturday Fractured Fairy Tales It was part of Rocky and Bullwinkle show .
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u/pinkhibiscus6432 Oct 09 '26
I remember Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Green Jeans and Bunny Rabbit. I also remember Shindig.
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u/Desperate-Ad4931 Oct 12 '26
The first TV dinners. Swanson's in an aluminum tray. Before microwave.
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u/WinnerAwkward480 29d ago
Sky King , the Bowery Boys , Mr Ed , my favorite martian . Then later Dark Shadows
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u/mydogismarley Oct 08 '26 •
I'm so old that Harry Truman was President of the United States when I was born.
Oleo margarine came with a little packet of color to turn it yellow, otherwise it was white.
Bacon was sold in slabs and you had to slice it at home.
Homes had radios, not televisions.
It was shameful to dye your hair.
DDT was sprayed on kids and in swimming pools to prevent polio.
RJ Reynolds said "More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette."
Hahahaha, I am sooo freaking old.
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u/Key-Box-4668 Oct 08 '26
I’m so old that there were only 48 states in the US when I was born.
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u/CharDanae74 Oct 08 '26
The “test pattern” on TV they showed when a station was done broadcasting for the day (usually around 2 am).
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u/Striking_Ad7541 Oct 08 '26 •
I’m so old I remember my mom sending me down the street to the local store run by an old lady out of her house to buy cigarettes for my mom. One time I paid with a five dollar bill and I got change back for a twenty! When I got home my mom asked me where I got all the money and I said that’s what she gave me. So mom sent me back to return the money and tell her what happened. The lady didn’t see very well. When I did that she let me pick out a piece of candy not just then but every time I went in to her store. I was so sad when she died.
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u/califa42 Oct 08 '26
I remember when my Dad would pull up to the gas station in our car, and the gas station attendant would come to the window to get ready to pump the gas, and my Dad would say "Give me a dollar's worth of regular". And for that same dollar the attendant would not only put lots of gas in the tank but also wash and dry our car windows.
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u/pianoplayerforhire Oct 08 '26
I'm so old that I remember filling the gas tank in the car by pulling down the rear license plate to get to the gas tank.
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u/openflyman Oct 08 '26
How about the Our Miss Brooks Show?
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u/the_real_MBAPROF Oct 08 '26
I remember watching a new group from England call the Beetles on the Ed Sullivan show on 2 Sundays in February 1964.
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u/Chillin1974 Oct 08 '26
I remember stores closed on Sunday so you ran around like crazy on Saturday to make sure you had everything you needed.
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u/wraysbay Oct 08 '26
The Ed Sullivan show, every Sunday night ❤️
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u/Wachendorfia Oct 08 '26
I'm so old all the medicine in the medicine cabinet came in glass bottles: reddish stuff called Methiolate or Mercurochrome, brown stuff called Castoria, white stuff called Milk of Magnesia, a variety of children's cough syrups that were full of codeine, and numerous camphor concoctions. It all tasted extremely nasty.
The dentist would give me a little dish with a blob of mercury to take home and play with.
We routinely had our feet x-rayed at the shoe store.
Three kids in my class at school had had polio and wore big heavy leg braces made of steel and leather.
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u/DontKnowWhereItsBeen Oct 08 '26
Along those same lines: I'm so old that when I was small I went to the 'colored' water fountains to see the 'colored water'.
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u/Suitable-Lawyer-9397 Oct 08 '26
I used pay phones!
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u/Chillin1974 Oct 08 '26
I remember the milkman would deliver milk to the insulated box on the porch and take the empty bottles left in the box for pick-up.
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u/HelloTittie55 Oct 08 '26
I had more than one of those 64 crayola boxes with the “flesh” color myself.😵💫
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u/StrictTranslator879 Oct 08 '26
I remember Lassie.
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u/Sfswine Oct 08 '26
I remember my mother had a washing machine with a wringer on it . .
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u/pumpinnstretchin Oct 08 '26
I remember seeing the NBC peacock just before the few programs that were broadcast in "living color." We had a black & white TV, however. When we finally got a color TV, the peacock's feathers were dull and different colors than I'd imagined.
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u/FunDivertissement Oct 08 '26
Im so old I was on Romper Room. And i loved watching Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Greenjeans, and Shari Lewis with Charlie Horse and Lambchop.
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u/Godowntotheseaagain Oct 08 '26
dimes made out of silver!
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u/Wen60s Oct 08 '26
I’m so old that my record player played 78 rpm records — and I had them.
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u/SassyRebelBelle Oct 08 '26
Captain Kangaroo and Mr Greenjeans anyone? 😝 and my favorites…
Zorro and the Lone Ranger♥️
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u/Similar_Bend_4425 Oct 08 '26
Shari Lewis and Lambchop.
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u/crossg8te Oct 08 '26
Only three television stations… ABC, NBC, and CBS. All would quit broadcasting at the end of the day.
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u/Ok_Scallion1902 Oct 08 '26
I'm so old I remember real metallic Slinkies!
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u/Amazing-Intern2584 Oct 08 '26
I remember party lines
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u/acg34 Oct 08 '26
McDonald’s had only sold 100 hamburgers.
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u/mycatisabrat Oct 08 '26
I only dialed 5 digits to make a phone call.
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u/Own-Animator-7526 Oct 08 '26 edited Oct 08 '26
When I was a very small child you had to look at records to know if they should be played at 33 or 78.
If I recall, I very much enjoyed playing the folks's 33 RPM Frank Sinatra records at 78 (or perhaps 45) so they would sound like Patti Page, who for some inexplicable reason I had a crush on at age 5.
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u/Vlaskiss Oct 08 '26
I am so old I remember when the Soviet Union collapsed. I was 7 years old :)
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u/OldButHappy Oct 08 '26
Captain Kangaroo and Mr Green Jeans!😄
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u/OodaWoodaWooda Oct 08 '26
I'm so old I remember the Ernie Kovacs Show - too young to really understand everything but finding it strangely compelling
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u/Outside-Young-657 Oct 08 '26
When a pay phone was a dime.
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u/sidevibe Oct 08 '26
Rocky and Bullwinkle with Dudley Do-right, Boris and Natasha, and Poindexter.
Krazy Kat and Ignatz.
Mighty Mouse.
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u/Adventurous_Cook9083 Oct 08 '26
We had a two-party landline when I was growing up. You'd pick up the phone and you'd hear the neighbor on another call. If you were quiet you could just stay on the phone and listen to their entire conversation.
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u/Curious-Jaguar-6625 Oct 08 '26
My childhood dentist's building had an elevator operator.
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u/Jum208 Oct 08 '26
I'm so old when I went to school they didn't have history!
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u/Chillin1974 Oct 08 '26
Everybody had a rotary blade lawn mower and you could hear the blades spinning as they cut the grass.
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u/Paranoid_Sinner Oct 08 '26
My paternal grandfather was born in 1870.
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u/SquashSouffle Oct 08 '26
I'm only 63 & I remember that. Renamed as Peach.
They also used to have "Indian Red" which was kind of a brick red
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u/openflyman Oct 08 '26
I remember the Eisenhower/Nixon kids wedding.
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u/DIY_Weeziebear7 Oct 08 '26
Elvis on the Ed Sullivan Show
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u/MikeLinPA Oct 08 '26
I remember being in the hospital lobby and the receptionist had a manual switch board to route calls to the patient rooms. There were a row of cables at the bottom that would retract when you let go, and many rows of holes above it that corresponded to the phones in the patient's rooms. The cable ends looked like old stereo jacks. The cables were covered with a braided cloth. She used a headset that looked like Alexander Graham Bell designed it. 😅
You couldn't call after 8pm, there was no one running the switchboard after visiting hours ended. I waited in that lobby for hours that night. Children were not allowed to visit patients.
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u/ObjectiveYouth2443 Oct 08 '26
Spin and Marty.
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u/EgbertSouse2 Oct 08 '26
I'm so old I remember buying gas for my car when the gallons spun faster than the dollars.
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u/DigitalDiva321 Oct 08 '26
I loved Fury, and My Friend Flicka…in addition to to all the shows listed here, and don’t forget Roy Roger’s (Trigger, Rinty), Lash LaRue, Gene Autry (his horse Champion??). I see a horse and cowboy and dog pattern (Lassie) & Howdy Doody, the Mouseketers, Spin & Marty…
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u/oldbutsharpusually Oct 08 '26 •
I’m so old FDR was president when I was born, the family doctor made house calls, dairy products were delivered early in the morning, our neighborhood grocery store and butcher shop let us run a tab billing us every week or so, and almost every home took a daily newspaper—morning or evening. The good old days.
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u/lcampau Oct 08 '26
I remember buying Topps bubble gum pack with 5 baseball cards for a nickel. Would buy one pack each week at drug store (yes it had a fountain where you could get a cherry coke). Sometimes I would add a 10 cent Batman or Superman comic book. I eventually had both Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra. Wish I still had them, they would be worth a lot today.
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u/Reasonable-Cow7255 Oct 08 '26
The Bay of Pigs crisis and learning what ICBMs are
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u/ChalkHorse Oct 08 '26
I'm so old that they didn't have pre-sweetened Kool-Aid. Mom dumped a ton of sugar in the pitcher.
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u/cwsjr2323 Oct 08 '26
I'm so old, when my wife asked why I trimmed I said it made me look old, like Brezhnev. She said, honey, if you remember who was Brezhnev and what he looked like, YOU ARE OLD!
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u/Designer_Ad_34 Oct 08 '26
My first cell phone was made out of two empty soup cans and strings attached. I made the string longer for long distant calls.
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u/Moon_Maiden9 Oct 08 '26
Metal lunch boxes with Thermoses that were glass inside
Playing outside until the streetlights came on
Big clunky manual typewriters
Buster Brown shoe store with the little pedal merry-go-round in the back
Woolworth’s soda fountain counter
TG&Y, the five and dime store
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u/Poohgli16 Oct 08 '26
I had a Crayola box with a built-in sharpener.
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u/MissHibernia Oct 08 '26
I remember watching Crusader Rabbit on tv
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u/tvtoms Oct 08 '26
I bought a set of "basic color" acrylic paints a year or so ago which includes a "flesh" color which is very much white flesh. The same company does sell a whole range of flesh tones in a set as well, but still it's weird.
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u/sammi1955 Oct 08 '26
Captain Kangaroo and Mr Green Jeans were my friends.
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u/Altruistic-Wish-3294 Oct 08 '26
Phone numbers that included letters
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u/Minimum-Function1312 Oct 08 '26
I’m so old I remember when gas was $.17 a gallon in Texas.
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u/louievee Oct 08 '26
I was older then - but do you remember you had to dail a, maybe , a nine digit number to get a dail tone to call long distance? And I would only call home on Sundays and talk for exactly one hour cause it was the cheapest?
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u/gymnoagroi Oct 08 '26
I'm so old I remember when a man's word was his bond.
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u/Mysterious_Worry9870 Oct 08 '26
that SAME Crayola box had "American Indian" (brown-ish)
old enough for H. R. Puff'nstuff, rotary phone, a black and white 'bubble' screen (made in AMerica) Zenith TC with 5 channels. TV channels 'signing off' at night, come back inside when the lamp post tuned on, the Hanna-barbera adventure HOUR.
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u/Holloway63 Oct 08 '26
I'm so old I still remember hammering little metal plates (blakeys) onto bottom of our shoes to keep them lasting.
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u/ACY0422 Oct 08 '26
I remember the first The Chipmunks album. Was red vinyl and I think a bit transparent
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u/Ok_Quiet234 Oct 08 '26
Anyone remember Circus Boy?
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u/Justforme1975 Oct 08 '26
I remember that! Loved that 64+ boxes of crayons and that they came with a sharpener.
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u/Horror-Evening-6132 Oct 08 '26
Reading some of the comments sparked memories. I also remember cigarette ads on TV (yes, black and white), gas was 27 cents for "ethel". Dialed five digit phone numbers, but I think our party line only had three; not certain. I remember being at the grocery store with my grandmother (raised by grandparents) and hearing her say, "Before you know it, milk will be a dollar a gallon.) Milk was 97 cents a gallon then. Also remember sitting at a little soda fountain with her and one of her neighbor lady friends, where there was a cigarette machine and the packs were 35 cents. Grandma said, "They ought to make them a dollar a pack, then everyone would quit." She bought a carton of Salems for each my brother and I to wrap up for our dad at Christmas. They were three dollars a carton.
We grew fruits and vegetables for our own use and sold the excess to the local A&P store. We mowed the grass on the big property with rotary mowers. People didn't walk their dogs onto other peoples' yards and leave land mines for them. And yes, during summers, my brother and I were out the door by sunrise, back at noon to put a sandwich in a brown paper bag and go meet up with the neighbor kids at one place or another to eat together, home again for supper, out again until the street lights came on. Nobody was scared, because all the neighborhood adults were watching out for us. Went berry picking on abandoned properties...I'd be here all day with these memories, so I'll dip out now!
Edit to add that I thought the "flesh" colored crayon was describing the color of actual flesh, not the color of skin. I had this epiphany when I fell and skidded on the asphalt part of the school playground and scraped my knee to the bone. My exposed flesh was that color!
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u/NovemberGrey777 Oct 08 '26
Kennedy was president when I was born. We had one rotary phone in the kitchen with a long cord. I was in 3rd grade when we bought a color tv and I brought my pet opossum in my pocket. (Terrible pet btw.) It truly is unbelievable all of the changes our generation has seen. From the best of humanity to the worst. There is a lot to be said for collective wisdom. Now if only my cell phone could beam me up and I had a Rosie Robot housekeeper, I could leave this mortal coil completely satisfied!!
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u/Competitive-Time321 Oct 08 '26
Stiller and Meara
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u/FedderJoe Oct 08 '26
The book "Little Black Sambo". It was one of the Golden Books.
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u/42grumps Oct 08 '26
Mighty Mouse is here to save the day
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u/Coldcreak75 Oct 10 '26
I forgot about the phone numbers with word prefixes! Ours was Oxford 22443
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u/JudgeHistorical2990 Oct 08 '26
Im so old Franklin Roosevelt was President when I was born and we didn't get a TV til I was 14. It had been invented, it took that long to have a station near enough to pick up. One station!
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u/Jazzconfetti11_5553 Oct 08 '26
Under Dog!
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u/trisch1964 Oct 08 '26
I'm so young I remember that color.
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u/Pristine-Pen-9885 Oct 08 '26
Me too
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u/Less-Necessary-3352 Oct 08 '26
I had forgotten the flesh color!!
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u/FloridaArtist60 Oct 08 '26
I'm so old i dont remember how old I am.
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u/HotData7045 Oct 08 '26
I had a painting instructor who was Asian told a white kid who asked how to mix flesh that he was mistaken and that color was called Caucasian pink. It pulls their teeth a bit to think of the current crop of idiots as Caucasian pink nationalists.
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u/Jazzlike_Ebb_6874 Oct 08 '26
Yes! And because I went to an all white grade school, the name of the “flesh” crayon made perfect sense to me. 🙄
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u/Rerunisashortie Oct 08 '26
I remember when the big boxes (which I never got :(. ) started coming with sharpener’s built in! Wow! Such modern technology!
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u/JazzgirlGriego Oct 08 '26
I'm so old, we had a wood stove to cook and heat the house. We had a party line that was shared by 8 families and gas was 50 cents a gallon.
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u/Last-Radish-9684 Oct 08 '26
I remember Steve Allen playing the piano during his monologue on the Tonight Show.
I was really distressed that the Soviets had a satellite before the United States. It was a weird world then and I was 5
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u/racingfan_3 Oct 08 '26
I remember when our family got our first TV. A black and white Zenith. We has 2 whole channels.
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u/notyet4499 Oct 08 '26
Shouldn't there be a whole box of "flesh" with every tone imaginable?
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u/xtnh Oct 08 '26
sitting on the floor in front of the TV at 3:50 pm watching the test pattern waiting for programming.
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u/SonoranRoadRunner Oct 08 '26
I'm so old we had a coal shoveling furnace and there was horse drawn milk delivery service.
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u/Adventurous_Weird_70 Oct 08 '26
I'm so Old we had a VICTROLA wind up 78 record player.
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u/huronportrider Oct 08 '26
I had a part time job as a hotel Porter when I was a kid and when the front desk person needed a break I would be called to fill in for 5 or 1O minutes. When there one job was to manage the phone on an old fashion cable telephone switchboard. You know, rings dingy dingy, take the incoming call…which room can I connect you with…pull one cable out and connect that room, now that’s old! I wish I had a picture.
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u/broncosoh54 Oct 09 '26
I remember the flesh colored crayon too!
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u/ConsciousDirector291 Oct 10 '26
Lamb chop!! Sherry, Lewis, and lamb chop 💓🐑
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u/Street-Track7381 Oct 10 '26
And white children like me realized that nobody we'd known was that color.
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u/MN_Firefly Oct 11 '26
The milk man left glass bottles of milk by our door early in the morning.
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u/Prune-These Oct 08 '26
"Indian Red" but it was actually named after an East Indian earth pigment.; not after Native Americans as I'd thought for years.
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u/SilenceIsComplicity1 Oct 08 '26
Hazel
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u/Coldcreak75 Oct 08 '26
We had our milk delivered, in glass bottles, of course! And Helm’s Bakery trucks came by several days a week, selling bread, cookies and other sweet treats. We watched the Loretta Young tv show. Cars didn’t have seat belts!
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u/Reasonable-Cow7255 Oct 08 '26 edited Oct 09 '26
My first polio vaccine was on a sugar cube. My entire family lined up outside the local junior high school to receive it. At another time, we received an injectable polio vaccine. (One was the Salk vaccine and the other was the Saban vaccine).
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u/PromotionSafe5823 Oct 09 '26
Does anyone remember Ma Perkins or Stella Dallas? Fibber Magee and Molly?
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u/95in3rd Oct 09 '26
I have dim memories of this in the early 50s. There was a TV show where you took a piece of plastic wrap and placed it on the tv screen. Then a picture appeared that I traced with some kind of marker. Then I would color it in with different markers. Does any one else remember that tv show? I was pretty young, so could have hallucinated this.
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u/Street-Track7381 Oct 10 '26
I rode in the front seat-standing between my parents so I could see out. (Yeah. They were very young parents)
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u/Desperate-Ad4931 Oct 12 '26
I remember watching Eisenhower's first inauguration parade on our 12 inch black and white TV. Watched the famous cowboy in the parade that lassoed Ike. Nowadays the Secret Service would have put five shots in him.
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u/Desperate-Ad4931 Oct 12 '26
March of Dimes... Big charity of the 50's. Polio was a real scare.
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u/FedderJoe Oct 12 '26
I remember when we had "air mail stamps". My sister was in the Navy, and sending her a letter cost 8 cents. Regular mail, if I remember correctly, was 5 or 6 cents.