Do You Remember?

Telephone party lines?
Actually yes, I was 7. Grandparents lived on the Eastern Shore of VA, Cape Charles, VA. They had one up until 1970!!!! The Bridge Tunnel was one bridge and only 6 years old then.

Penny candy? (When it actually cost a penny)
Sadly no, not that I did not coexist with it, but I was the end user, not the buyer.

Waiting on the television set to warm up?
Yes. Now I only wait while the video "buffers". At least the old TV's only had to warm up once!!!!!
 
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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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All three.............added one more that stood out in my mind from visiting the old Mom and Pop country stores..........



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Yup, all three. I remember receiving my allowance when Daddy came home on Friday evening, then first thing Saturday morning jumping on my bike and peddling the the corner 5&10 cent store to buy my weekly bag of candy.

Waiting for the TV to warm up and being so disappointed to see the test pattern. I have always been an early riser.
 
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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Ours was a 4-party party line.
It used to be worthwhile to pick up a penny. Now even a dime is worthless.
Not only warm up but my job was sit in front of the TV and constantly adjust the vertical hold. Also remember taking tubes out of the back and taking them to corner store to test them. The store always had every tube except the one I needed.
 
Jim1392 said:
How about the little green army men my brother and I played with for hours. Today kids would get arrested for holding one with a rifle. :D
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AND 10 year olds could but fire crackers to send the 'bad' green men flying.
I'd make fighter plane models filled with fire crackers, glue a straw to the top, run fishing line from the 2nd story window down to 'soldiers holding a hill', light it and let it fly kamikaze style.
I can't believe I have almost all of my fingers.
 
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I grew up across from a railroad track. When we heard the train coming, we would run out
to the tracks and the engineer would toss out candy for us to pick up.
Sweet tarts and such. Can you imagine that today?
This thread reminds me of good times.:)
 
I can remember my grandmother, in the kitchen with her hand clapped over the mouth piece of the phone listening to the neighbors calls. I can also remember certain candies that were three for a penny, the smell of coffee being ground at the a and p, and Rose's department store being the Walmart of my generation
 
BASIL said:
I grew up across from a railroad track. When we heard the train coming, we would run out
to the tracks and the engineer would toss out candy for us to pick up.
Sweet tarts and such. Can you imagine that today?
This thread reminds me of good times.:)
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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.
 
BASIL said:
Drink machines that you opened the glass door, and pulled the bottle out.
I remember .15 cents
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And you had to pick up one of these with that Pepsi cola.........back then we called these "square nabs" or "tobacco nabs". They had four crackers in a square pack before they went to a six pack in the rectangular pack they come in today.

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