Remember When......

[missing link]

no answering machines or caller id
when did credit cards come into the scene?
when phone #'s started with letters like Plaza or Linden I remember my # as a kid LI-5-3728.
when they used hand held wet leather as a drag on reels
Smelt fishing off the barges @ the Boston Sand & Gravel plant in Scituate,Ma with a 4 way spread W/ shrimp , and a bamboo pole and you could fill the bucket in 30 min.
coffee 10 cents
when you could hitch hike ,I hitch hiked everywhere,
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[justplugit]

Originally Posted by missing link

when did credit cards come into the scene?

ML, i believe they started to be available to Joe Public around 1960.

Ya Wonderbread, wouldn't be alive without it.

[missing link]

FIX A FLAT
Triple AAA
parachutes when you jumped out of a plane you fell to your DEATH thank's to the inventor of these your safe now hopefully? what about the life raft was there a random piece of wood around you could float on
oh yea SUNSCREEN who had that my mum used baby oil on me had blisters so bad my T shirts had to be cut up the middle so I could put them on

[Redsoxticket]

doctor house calls

[Raider Ronnie]

Sunday was a day of rest , church , family, ect....
Now it's another work day for lots.

Also,
The Radiers kicked ass every week and the Pats were a joke !

[BigFish]

How the tables have turned....huh Ronnie? You must really long for the "good old days"!

[Backbeach Jake]

Geeze my phone # as a kid was 126-R. There was no dial, you picked it up and an operator was there, you told her the number.

[BigFish]

Remember when you used to have to......

Get up to change the channel on the TV?

Had just a black and white TV?

Had no TV.....just radio???

When there was only channel 2,4,5,6,7,25,38 and 56?

[BigFish]

Fishchick says "Remember Rabbit Ears"????

[Clammer]

.15 cents for a burger;

metal /strap on roller skates;;

[[OUTS]]

Fish On friday //Beans & H/D,s saturday

no school for a week in a descent snow storm ;;

girls that didn,t f $%^&*

Mouseketeers [sp]

F #$%^&*( nuns ]

kick the can

hide & go seek

spin the bottle

the milk truck /with real ice

Saturday morning cartoons ;;

the rag man

the knife sharpenter [sp]

no adding machines

the coal getting loaded into the cellar ;;

the ash cans

all the drive ins

street lights

bean blowers ;;

PF flyers

row boats

ballonfish ;;

??????????

[JohnR]

Remember when the world sat on the end of M.A.D.?

When people in the Oasis of the Iron Curtain, would try to run the gauntlet of a wall that came down not two decades ago

[stripersnipr]

Originally Posted by missing link

when phone #'s started with letters like Plaza or Linden I remember my # as a kid LI-5-3728.
Smelt fishing off the barges @ the Boston Sand & Gravel plant in Scituate,Ma with a 4 way spread W/ shrimp , and a bamboo pole and you could fill the bucket in 30 min.

Blast from the past. And dont forget Dr. Bailey being the first responder to every car accident in town in her big Plymouth.

Linden - 5- 3298.

[Raven]

grandfather clock
mr greenjeans