A Little History

I used carbon paper for the weekly back order reports I filled out at the distribution center office I ran. Also had rotary dial phones, and the boss and I split a six pack after all the clerks left at 4:30 so we could stay late and finish our paperwork.
 
fieldgrade said:
I used carbon paper for the weekly back order reports I filled out at the distribution center office I ran. Also had rotary dial phones, and the boss and I split a six pack after all the clerks left at 4:30 so we could stay late and finish our paperwork.
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Did the same, smoked cigarettes in the office and teased the female line employees without the fear of being accused of sexual harassment.
 
12151791 said:
Did the same, smoked cigarettes in the office ...
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...and smoked a lot of cigarettes. There was 8 of us in one big open office and only one didn't smoke.
 
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Me and my two neighbor buddies bought cigarettes, zippo lighters, Ronson lighter fluid, and extra flints at Harris's in Charlotte, (before it was Harris Teeter) when we were in fourth grade, and liquor at the ABC store when we were 16.
 
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“Got Your Goat”- Race horses are high strung so goats used to be used as company. A tactic was to take the goat the night before a race to keep the horse from performing.
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This struck me as a total non-sequitor... I got sidetracked by all the "back in my day" stories!

My memory's shot from all the ammonia hovering around the blueprints I occasionally worked with early on.
 
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A gallon of gas was 19 cents. I would ride my bike 1.5 miles to the station with a gallon milk jug and 25 cents. Ride back with it full. slopping out over every bump as there was no cap (peel off foil seals).
 
Eating dirty ice off of the milk delivery truck. Penny candy. Repairing those old Blu-Ray ammonia blue print machines.
My 48 GMC pick up. Being issued an M1 and M14 Rifle and the Mattel M16.
 
I'm not as old as some of ya'll. When I was a kid, the gas stations had an ice box for glass bottle drinks, and stand up coolers for the plastic bottles. Plastic bottles had a metal cap, and if it was a pepsi, it had a logo of Richard Petty's 43 car on the cap.

Most every gas station sold hand dipped ice cream too.

I don't remember what they were called, but when I was in school, all the copies were with that purple ink that had a very strong smell, and often the type was so blurry it couldn't be read.

My high school had a smoking area for students near the bus parking lot. I was told it was one of the last schools in the state to do so.

Internet was brand new, and you had to use a dial up modem to get on it. When grandma called, it kicked you off the internet.

My earliest memory of going to a gun store with my dad, I remember him looking at some of the full autos for sale, and talking to the clerk about buying one before the coming ban in 86. He decided against it.
 
RedneckFur said:
I don't remember what they were called, but when I was in school, all the copies were with that purple ink that had a very strong smell, and often the type was so blurry it couldn't be read.
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That was from a mimeograph machine.

Yes, I'm that old. Or else my school district was that poor. Or both :D
 
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I remember when phone numbers were prefaced with a name or word, The first two letters of the word represented the first two digits of the number. Ours was FRanklin, FR = 37. In junior high, which was 7-9 when I was in school, the boys could smoke outside one of the back gym doors. We took knives to school, although we weren't supposed to. I remember I was in an A/V (audio/visual) elective were we worked on equipment. It was considered advanced technology then. The teacher need to splice a cord and asked, "Who's got at knife" We all just looked at each other. Then he said, "I know someone in here's got a knife " I gave him mine. He used it and gave it back. Remember, film strip projectors and 16mm movie film projectors? And the sound or the shutter chattering and the sound of a finished reel spinning with that loose end? We got paddled in junior high. Each teacher had a unique paddle. The art teacher had a two handed model and wasn't shy about using it. I can remember her calling out students, "Jimmy! Back room!" The gym teachers had one handed models with bicycle grips and wrist cords. These of course were mostly made in the shop where we took Shop and actually used dangerous machines like power planers, jointers, bandsaws and table saws to actually make stuff. :rolleyes:
 
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