Do You Remember?

Jim1392 said:
My brother and I used to put pennies on the tracks for the train to run over and flatten out. Today Homeland Security would be taking you in thinking you were a terrorist trying to derail the train.
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Did the same thing with nails. Flat nails do come in handy :)
 
I remember going to my Grandmothers and my brother and I would lay on the floor over the black open grates between the floors for the heat to go through listening to what the adults were saying. And going to the ice house to get ice for my Grandmother's refrigerator.
 
BASIL said:
The country store would put your purchase on a tab.
That was before credit cards.
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I was coming back from Pigeon Forge one night with family in the late 80's. I stopped at a country store to buy gas. Laying on the counter was a ledger book used to run a tab. Shocked me that they were still letting their customers do so. In the late 60's my family has a tab at the local corner store but to see it still done that night was unreal.

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Sandman_NC said:
I remember sawdust on the floors of some of the country groceries stores.
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I lived in the city however, there was always sawdust on the floor at the butcher shop.

The dry goods, butcher, deli and produce were separate stores but close together. The dry goods store would deliver. As mentioned earlier, dairy was delivered daily and left in a box on the front porch.
 
Chdamn said:
I can remember driving to school in a beat up truck with mine and my brothers rifles in the gun rack in the window because we were going hunting after school.
Didn’t have to lock the truck either.
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It was like that in Raleigh 1984
I still have a stack of these Wacky stickers.
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Grits said:
I was coming back from Pigeon Forge one night with family in the late 80's. I stopped at a country store to buy gas. Laying on the counter was a ledger book used to run a tab. Shocked me that they were still letting their customers do so. In the late 60's my family has a tab at the local corner store but to see it still done that night was unreal.

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There are still a few places, even today, that do that. Much rarer than it use to be.
 
Long shot.
Randolph Shooters, when they were in the little building beside H&M grocery in Sophia.
That is where Pat Linthicum got started.
 
Geezer said:
Telephone party lines?

Penny candy? (When it actually cost a penny)

Waiting on the television set to warm up?
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Now we have to wait for the TV to boot up.

Been watching some old "Outer Limits" shows on Hulu. I'm sure the intro is lost on many today when they say "we control the horizontal and the the vertical"
 
Cheap gas, I can remember my dad going crazy when it went to a dollar a gallon, screaming how's a working man gonna make it.
 
S4f said:
Cheap gas, I can remember my dad going crazy when it went to a dollar a gallon, screaming how's a working man gonna make it.
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A dollar a gallon! I can remember when my dad complained about $0.16/ gallon gas. I remember paying $0.56/gallon when I got my license in '76.
 
I remember riding my bicycle in the "smoke" behind the mosquito truck when it would circle our neighborhood.

I couldn't tell you how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie roll tootsie pop. Ain't that right, Stretch Armstrong?

Yep. Nothing wrong me.
 
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Partsfreak said:
Strapping metal wheeled skates to your sneakers and skating on them without (gasp) a helmet.
Also the orange stuff you put on the inevitable road rash afterwards.
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Mercurochrome or merthiolate- one burned more than the other, lol

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SPST said:
A dollar a gallon! I can remember when my dad complained about $0.16/ gallon gas. I remember paying $0.56/gallon when I got my license in '76.
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Yeah, I remember 29 cents a gallon, it just seems funny now my dad complaining about a dollar a gallon, I think I said the same thing about gas a few years ago when it hit 4.00 a gallon, how's a working man gonna make it. Lol
 
I lived in Brooklyn, NY over a corner grocery store, Drake's Cakes Devil Dogs and Funny Bones, a nickel, I used to redeem the glass bottle deposits,
then the price went up to a dime, circa 1963. NYC subway fare was fifteen cents!

I used to play with a Gilbert Erector Set and Remco Girder construction set.

Quisp and Quake cereal and who can remember Clackers? They had the best toys inside.


 
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Damned, I feel old. I remember everything that's been mentioned. I had .19 cents a gallon for gas, recycled oil, recap tires and rebuild brake pads. Most all car parts were re-built, starters, generators (NOT alternators) carburetors, heck nobody could afford a brand new part back then.
BB's were 15 cents in the 500 count tube, the only household oil was 3 in One, and at Aunt Alice's store you could get a pickle from a BIG glass jar for 2 cents. Aunt Alice would also make you a fold over (1 piece of bread) baloney sandwich (thick cut) for a nickle and a half pint of milk was 3 cents.
At Uncle Bud's Mobile station you could get a cold drink from the chest type cooler for a nickle and a pack of nabs was also a nickle. I couldn't see buying the lucky rabbits foot key chain, it didn't seem to be very lucky for the rabbit.
 
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When gasoline exceeded $1.00/gallon (or $1.00/ 9/10), the majority of pumps in existence could not calculate the price, so gasoline was sold by 'half gallon'.

and yep remember gas wars which still go on.
 
@Bailey Boat , I paid .19 a gallon a few times, too. They used to have gas wars just below the mountain in Cana, VA. You mentioned recycled oil, I remember that, too, and some stations had it in clear quart jars with a pour spout on top.
 
I remember making bottle cap guns. We would take a board tie rubber bands together and staple one end to the top of the board. Then rubber band a clothes pin on the other side. You then put the bottle cap in between the rubber bands pull it back and hold it in the clothes pin. Then push the clothes pin down and let it rip. The rubber bands would shoot the bottle caps forward like a shot.

Also we took baseball cards and clothes pinned them to the front our bike wheel to make them hit the spokes to sound like an engine.

We also had air rifles that you pumped up to make a shooting noise. We used to stick the front into dirt and shoot the dirt at each other.

Looking back at it. It's really a shame thinking about it the fun today's kids are really missing out on. Other then playing video games and being on their phones they really don't know how to play and have fun.
 
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