Growing up in Tacoma washington where there is a Army and Airforce base,it wasnt unusual to see a couple of military police in full uniform walk in the gay bars on a fri or sat nite lokking for off duty enlisted men/women.

Many times they would crawl under the table as we all used what ever we could to hide/shield them.

i remember when Saturday morning cartoons were the BEST!

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i SO miss a rolodex....


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i LOVED putting people on hold with these!

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I remember when we only had to wait about 2 and a half months for our favorite TV programs to return! The season ended a few weeks into June and returned in early September (usually right after Labor Day)!

The way programs are scheduled now by they show up again, I've forgotten half the story lines!

Yup! I guess it was easier seeing as we just got the 3 networks, but still...:scarytv:

My dad still has one, it was his dad's but he kept it.

i LOVED this thing when i was young, i just bought a new digital labeler and it reminded me of this.

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I remember when.......
 

Jams and Jelly came in jars and then mom recycled them to serve as glass wear for drinking from.......

YES! and the oatmeal glasses (plastic! )

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I remember how I knew I was in hot water with one of my parents :| they would yell out my full given name..:seeingstars:

I remember when flying was an enjoyable experience unlike these days where you have a seat the size of a postage stamp to plunk your ass on, nada leg room, zero elbow room, being jammed in like sardines in a tin can, plus being nickled and dimed to death!:seeingstars:

No kidding, I hate flying! It's so claustrophobic being squeezed in that tiny space! And I always feel sorry for the flight crew because they have to deal with cranky, stressed people and it's not their fault the airlines make people so cranky and stressed!

smoking and short skirts
 

On an airplane no less. Just looking at that pic and thinking of all the second hand smoke I would be inhaling.

No thanks.

The short skirts on the other hand.. :|

Yah... I am not a fan of making women wear short skirts on the job.. or anything like this:


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Exactly. I am not a fan of ANYTHING that demeans a woman. Period.

I remember when the airlines treated you royally and not like a friggin cash register!

$$$ to check a bag, $$$ for a snack, $$$ for requesting the bulkhead seat, the list goes on and on....

I remember when you could buy a type of ice-cream-on-a-stick called "Strawberry cream Woppas". Those things were ice-cream perfection to me, and I can still remember the taste to this day. Then one year, all of a sudden - nothing. They'd simply stopped making them. I cried. I can't remember the name of the company that made them, and can't even find any hint of their existence on the internet. But I remember the taste, and how the one thing I looked forward to in summer when I was a child of a certain age, was buying strawberry cream Woppas with my pocket-money.

I remember when making an reservation involved only one simple phone call to the airline (or airlines) that flew to your destination INSTEAD of now having to scan site after site after site..........

I remember when Doctors made house calls.....

I remember when the cure for most ailments was a shot in the ass and maybe a short course of antibiotics, not some major ordeal.

This will be PI, but here it is anyway. "Drugs" were just something your mom didn't want you to take like weed, mushrooms, or acid NOT that what could truly be lethal like "H", white, krocodill, Fentanyl (at unknown dosages).

My mom would turn over in her grave to learn what some folks were using in the name of "drugs."

I remember when families still sat at the kitchen table for meals without being glued to electronics (and my house still does this)...

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I remember a time there were no "latch key" kids..

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I remember when going out to eat or just stopping by a drive-in for hamburger was a real treat NOT an everyday occurrence!

Can I just say really? I know people who eat out daily... Now, I won't lie... Starbucks is my daily addiction.... but... (well there's really no excuse for that either)

Yup, moms more often than not shopped for the food and cooked the food indeed!

Maybe she got a break on Mother's Day and her birthday, but otherwise she did it 363 days a year!

These days Mary and I are more often to grab something on the run or run out and get either Thai or whatever than cook...

IMHO it's not the cooking that is a pain so much as is the time it takes to shop and then the clean up mess afterwards........

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I remember when the Macy's Day Thanksgiving Parade was JUST a parade and it didn't get interrupted every couple of minutes with singers and dancers.......

Fisher Price still sells this classic toy!
 

kids today won’t know what a dial or landline is!


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Kids (unless they live near Scarecrow in Seattle's University District) will never know what fun it was to peruse isles and isles of movie possibilities :movieguy:

I remember when the lights on the Christmas tree were a fire hazard.

They sure were pretty, though . . .