The "I'm so old" thread game

[AugieTN]

I'm so old I remember every credit card transaction at every retailer used carbon paper for copies. The carbon paper was tossed in the trash. Thieves realized they could go through any retailers trash and get your credit card number off the carbon paper.

 

[Steven58]

I'm so old I remember when Virginia used your SS# as your driver license number. LOL. Unwise. I lived there a few years in the 80s.

 

[olbriar]

I'm so old that I well remember that the car wash was me every weekend. Weed control was a matter or crawling around the yard and digging up the weeds with a kitchen knife. I also mowed the lawn with a push reel mower and trimmed with a pair of scissors. Hoeing the garden was also all mine.
I once asked my father if there was any sort of compensation for my chores. He simply stated that I earned the privilege to put my knees under the dinning table and eat my mother's cooking... just like him. He was a good man and I'll be forever grateful he gave me the opportunity to earn his respect.

 

[treb1797]

I'm so old I remember 79 cent a gallon gas

 

[TechGuy1]

I'm so old I remember that a glass bottle of coca cola costs 25 cent

 

[ozonetrooper]

Gas was .25 a gallon when I was young !

 

[ozonetrooper]

I'm so old I remember that a glass bottle of coca cola costs 25 cent

I collect old things, found most of these under houses that I was working on at the time. The two to the left of the painted Dr.Pepper bottle are a coke and DP bottle with the names made into the glass of the bottle ...

 

[AugieTN]

Gas was .25 a gallon when I was young !

Yep, same here 25.9 for Regular 32.9 for Premium.

 

[Clementine_3]

Dr.Pepper bottle

I remembered to drink it at 10, 2 and 4. It's still my favorite soda (especially when they occasionally make the original recipe with sugar releases) but it was hard to get around here when I was young so was a treat when I could.
Some of those bottles I clearly remember...

 

[AugieTN]

I remembered to drink it at 10, 2 and 4. It's still my favorite soda (especially when they occasionally make the original recipe with sugar releases) but it was hard to get around here when I was young so was a treat when I could.
Some of those bottles I clearly remember...

10-2-4 Collectors’ Club

 

[Clementine_3]

I don't remember the clock, just the numbers on the label.

 

[olbriar]

I remember the Pepsi jingle from my youth.
Pepsi Cola value pack
Brings a nickel serving back
Every serving that you pour
Cost a nickel not a penny more

And the lyrics us kids substituted
Pepsi Cola went to town
Coke Cola shot him down
Dr Pepper fixed him up
And they all got drunk on 7-Up

Your bottle collection is cool @ozonetrooper

I collected soda bottles as a kid. They were worth two cents each when returned. It was a major source of income.

 

[ozonetrooper]

The triple X root beer bottles have a city embossed on them from where they were bottled. We had a triple x bottle plant here a long time ago, they are embossed with out city name on them.

Anyone remember the Tab bottle ? (yur really tellin yur age now ot !)

 

[AugieTN]

Sad, but true I remember the Tab bottle

 

[olbriar]

I've been trying to think of a soda that came out in the mid sixties. It looked like beer and was all the rave of the kids naturally. It tasted like crap but we drank it anyway. The name of the soda escapes me. It only had a short run.

 

[treb1797]

I remember Jolt cola. With all these energy drinks now it seems Jolt was ahead of it's time.

 

[AugieTN]

I remember when all beverage cans had to open with a can opener like this

 

[ozonetrooper]

I've been trying to think of a soda that came out in the mid sixties. It looked like beer and was all the rave of the kids naturally. It tasted like crap but we drank it anyway. The name of the soda escapes me. It only had a short run.

Apple Beer

Utah's favorite nonalcoholic beer got its start more than a century ago as a German brew.

www.atlasobscura.com

 

[olbriar]

This memory was jogged by another AF thread. I remember as a child seeing a continuous mound of earth running parallel with the Oklahoma back roads we were traveling to visit my father's family. The mounds had posts sticking out of them in regular intervals about six to ten inches high. I finally asked what the mounds and posts were for. My father informed me that the posts were tops of fences and the mounds of earth were a result of the dust storms of the early thirties. That much earth airborne is staggering!

 

[Bearsyzf]

I remember watching a documentary about the old Dust bowl, it killed all crops.

 

[AugieTN]

I remember watching Robinson Crusoe on Mars in the 60s on a black & white TV and wishing we had a color TV

 

[olbriar]

It killed people too that got dust pneumonia. I was told that static electricity generated by the dust was a real problem too.
It was an incredibly bad time for the plain states.

The first broadcast I saw in color was the Rose Bowl Parade. The entire neighborhood gathered at the only color TV owner's house to view the spectacle. Kids on the floor and women in lawn chairs and the men standing in back. It was quite an event at that time. Google says the first color broadcast of the parade was in1954. It had to be a couple of years later when I got my first look at a color TV... maybe 56-57. We didn't have a color TV until the late sixties.

 

[AugieTN]

I remember people telling us how beautiful the Wizard Of Oz was in color, but all we had was a B&W TV

 

[olbriar]

I remember when the family finally talked my father into putting up an external TV antenna so we could get three channels instead of two.

 

[AugieTN]

Same here with an external TV antenna. The VHF channels came in fine with rabbit ears, but the UHF channels were terrible. Finally put a VHF/UHF antenna up.