Do you remember when......

[homoe]

I remember nickle bags of potato chips and nickle candy bars!

[homoe]

I remember a HUGE box of popcorn at the Delft Theater in my hometown costing only a dime! For a nickle you'd get a good size bag of popcorn and for a quarter you'd get a container of buttered popcorn WITH REAL BUTTER!

[WheatToast]

Originally Posted by homoe

I remember nickle bags of potato chips and nickle candy bars!

Sodas were a dime and the bottle deposit cost 2 cents.
Some drive-ins with older movies charged $2-3 per carload, but the fancier ones charged per-person, so teens would hide in the trunk and pop out once the driver parked.
You could smoke cigarettes everywhere, including in non smoker's homes where they'd be socially obligated to put out a giant ashtray on the coffee table.
Even hospital beds had ashtrays, and on airplanes the smoking section and non smoking sections were directly adjacent.
On airplane trips, everyone dressed up in their Sunday best. Full meals were served, with metal cutlery and china plates.
This part was horrible--when an African American athlete, singer or actor was successful, the media would say, "they were a credit to their race."
In high school, only sluts used tampons. Good girls wore Kotex, with ridiculously flimsy, elastic belts that never quite worked.
Panties were gigantic, thorax hugging eyesores, with about 75% more fabric than was needed. The femmie girls loved the nylon kind with the day of the week sewn on or embroidered into the fabric.

Five dollars was considered a fortune to most kids and teens.

But then, adults often worked for less than $1.50 an hour. Executives, like CEOs, would all be male and make about $30,000 a year.

A tooth left under a pillow for the tooth fairy would fetch from 15 cents to a quarter (molars).

In the 70's, an ounce of decent pot was $10. A matchbox was $5. So I hear.

[homoe]

Originally Posted by WheatToast

Sodas were a dime and the bottle deposit cost 2 cents.
Some drive-ins with older movies charged $2-3 per carload, but the fancier ones charged per-person, so teens would hide in the trunk and pop out once the driver parked.
You could smoke cigarettes everywhere, including in non smoker's homes where they'd be socially obligated to put out a giant ashtray on the coffee table.
Even hospital beds had ashtrays, and on airplanes the smoking section and non smoking sections were directly adjacent.
On airplane trips, everyone dressed up in their Sunday best. Full meals were served, with metal cutlery and china plates.
This part was horrible--when an African American athlete, singer or actor was successful, the media would say, "they were a credit to their race."
In high school, only sluts used tampons. Good girls wore Kotex, with ridiculously flimsy, elastic belts that never quite worked.
Panties were gigantic, thorax hugging eyesores, with about 75% more fabric than was needed. The femmie girls loved the nylon kind with the day of the week sewn on or embroidered into the fabric.

Five dollars was considered a fortune to most kids and teens.

But then, adults often worked for less than $1.50 an hour. Executives, like CEOs, would all be male and make about $30,000 a year.

A tooth left under a pillow for the tooth fairy would fetch from 15 cents to a quarter (molars).

In the 70's, an ounce of decent pot was $10. A matchbox was $5. So I hear.

In Upper Michigan it was called a "nickle bag"' and correct went for $5 bucks......

[~ocean]

fresh cuts of meat & seafood were wrapped in paper.

dairy products were delivered

you could shop and shop and your purchases were delivered within 24 hours

[Lifesymphony]

Men never swore in front of women.

It was considered poor taste to call after 9pm.

Men stood when a woman left the table.

We went to bed with no tv in the bedroom.... sigh, how nice it would be to meet someone without a tv in their bedroom these days.

[introverted1]

Originally Posted by Lifesymphony

Men never swore in front of women.

It was considered poor taste to call after 9pm.

Men stood when a woman left the table.

We went to bed with no tv in the bedroom.... sigh, how nice it would be to meet someone without a tv in their bedroom these days.

I have never and I never will have a t.v. in the bedroom. That's not what the bedroom is for!

I know somebody at work who has a t.v. in every room but her bathroom. Can you imagine?

I don't have any t.v. service, not even local. I do have a t.v., but I use it for streaming videos off of my laptop with an HDMI cord.

[cathexis]

Originally Posted by introverted1

I have never and I never will have a t.v. in the bedroom. That's not what the bedroom is for!

I know somebody at work who has a t.v. in every room but her bathroom. Can you imagine?

I don't have any t.v. service, not even local. I do have a t.v., but I use it for streaming videos off of my laptop with an HDMI cord.

No bedroom TV here, either. We do have this large monstrosity in the livingroom, which usually has Music Choice Smooth Jazz all night after Colbert, Rachel and Lawrence O'Donnell are over for the night...maybe Chris Hays.
Rather have a large stereo system with vinyl, cassettes, and CD capability. Wish I'd not lost my albums.

[Vincent]

Originally Posted by introverted1

I have never and I never will have a t.v. in the bedroom. That's not what the bedroom is for!

I know somebody at work who has a t.v. in every room but her bathroom. Can you imagine?

I don't have any t.v. service, not even local. I do have a t.v., but I use it for streaming videos off of my laptop with an HDMI cord.

Same here,no free to air TV
I mainly just buy series I like
I like quiet then music,or practice guitar
Although I do read a lot of non mainstream media on the net

[Kätzchen]

Remember when people used to plan big family get-together’s with kin-folk during the summer? Back in the day, our family would plan a big get-together at a destination in our home state (backyard party) and we would spend an entire weekend boating on the lake or having a horseshoe or badminton tournament or spend an entire afternoon in the kitchen cooking up a huge family dinner for everybody (40+ people, complete with cousins!).

[Kätzchen]

Back in the 1960’s how Marvin Gaye used his musical talent in songs to teach American’s about environmental concerns…🎶

I remember when doctors and nurses in America founded an organization to go help people in the world who had nothing: no doctors or nurses to care for those needing medical help and those who cared about women being mistreated in country’s that practice cruelty toward women…

I remember when our American government and its officials cared about the status of ordinary American’s needing a reprieve from the cruel tax and pay structures that limit a person’s mobility to achieve any sort of meaningful economic benefit to actually enjoy life.

I remember how people used to care about the lives of their own families and their neighbors next door and how people cared about electing honest people to elected office of duty.

I remember (…)

[Happy_Go_Lucky]

Remember when we used to never end your sentence with a preposition?

[Kätzchen]

People could sleep at night because we had a brilliant Constitutional Scholar and Lawyer elected to office. OBAMA







We didn’t have to worry about how to get an abortion after being violated sexually.

We didn’t have to worry about a felon destroying the pillars of American Institutions that serve THE PEOPLE.

We didn’t have to live in fear of being arrested for not being white and shipped off to some billionaire wanna-be’s private prison where they slowly torment you to death.

We didn’t have to listen to a bajillion lies daily.

I Remember (…)