I totally got rid of my old school alarm clock like the one in the video I now use my Echo pop also I get the weather from my echo😀 those were the days.

When playing football rule of thumb is yell CARRRR!!! You had to be in by sunset on school days😀

Our children will be saying the same thing!

Soda machinesw didn't have one flavor, they had one company's *_line_* of sodas. The top several would be Coke or Pepsi, but the other 8 or 10 would be the rest of their soda line, like 7-Up. Sprite, Mt Dew, Orange Crush, etc.

​@@Whoozerdaddy I remember a coke machine for employees of the coke warehouse could by bottle drinks for 5¢. They were 10¢ everywhere else. Deposit on the bottle was 5¢ and they were washed and reused.

Me too!

I treasure my 70s childhood and 80s teen memories. They are glorious!

THE BEST AMERICA HAD TOO OFFER, BORN 1963-[ ABORN & WHITE.

So true!

Me too! I'm 61yrs old now and I wouldn't want to be young in this modern day and age. I wouldn't trade being a young boy in the 60s and a teen in the 70s for a million bucks.

I totally forgot about that.. yes! 😄

And Montgomery Wards cstalog

Those were the best!

The JCPenney catalogue had the best ladies' lingerie section. [ahem] At least that's what I heard!!

@@billtisch3698 lol

Don't forget Monkey Wards.

I remember .

Very Special times!

My parents used to tell us to put an "X" next to what we wanted. They ended up telling my younger brother to just put an X on the cover and another X on the back of the catalog.

Montgomery, or “Monkey” Wards catalogue. Going through these catalogues before Christmas was so much fun.

Thays how I got my China set. Fun times")

In case you never knew - Sperry & Hutchinson.

Fond memories. My mom was determined to fill those books and bring joy to me and my siblings with the merchandise she got us. 😢

My mom got me my first 10 speed bicycle with 33 1/3 books of S&H green stamps. We had a gas station back that would give you points and depending how many points we got we would get a set of dishes or a set of silverware. Good days that we'll never forget. 😊

​@@lottiewright6836I remember. I got china too!

I agree.

I think we should talk about that 👍

Humm that takes me back 😂

You are so right.😢

Isn't that ironic? Especially with so many ways to communicate in this day and age, that we as humans STILL have problems communicating with each other. Shame...but, you brought up an excellent point.

You mean the days where 30 to 50 dollars would get you two heaping shopping carts full of groceries, and cheaper if you used grocery coupons, now it won’t get you barely half a cart, barely just enough to still be able to go through the self checkout.. 😐

@@Lovejazz01 Yep!

@@Lovejazz01My wife and i were carrying in groceries the other day and it just hit me! Look at the bright side i said to her. In a few more months, we'll only have to carry in one bag of groceries on our budget.

@@Lovejazz01 oh never a truer word said.

@@Lovejazz01 You can put $20 worth of groceries in your pocket.

Yes, thanks for that memory. Paper towels also had some with prints.

That’s adorable!!

Yes! And toilet paper too. Mom always bought pink to match the bathroom tiles

I read that colored toilet paper and tissues were found to cause infections “down there “ , and as a result, they were not allowed to be used.

Yes! We made flowers with those and green twistie ties. 💯❤

🤣🤣🤣

I say the same thing on an almost daily basis

I want my Maypo.😊

That's the thing. I haven't aged at all. And yet I have sisters who became grandmothers, nephews and nieces who got big and had kids. What's up with that??

@@keithbrown7685 I, too, am a "youngster" at 71. People think I'm fifty. I love channels that take us back to "the days when". I miss those days, and...at times...feel out of place - as if I were dropped on the wrong planet or something. But, hey everyone...enjoy these channels. I do. TY.🤗

My father still has a full set of Funk & Wagnall's encyclopedias, as well as the dictionaries that came with it. They sit proudly on the bookcase in the living room. Remember those Encyclopedia Brittanicas, too? Wow...those were the days...🙂

Same. You definitely needed them to look things up for school.

@@sheubahi ours were the Britannica set.

@@diannelavoie5385 yes.

I used to read them because the verticals were short you did not have to dedicate to reading a book for a few days

Smartphones and social media are to blame.

Amen! Much simpler times..if we could only go back before all this “woke” crap & them trying to force God Almighty out, & their sick agenda down our throats🤢🤮

They say that you're only as old as you feel. Tomorrow I turn seven again!

j martin. They were on coffee and baby formula cans, too.

Corned beef still has it.

That's funny because I still have half a case of canned Spam downstaits in an antique pie safe, bought during the supply sortages a couple of years ago. Spam is still on grocery store shelves as I type this. Corned beef is still packaged with the key on the bottom of the can to this day. You could assuage your nostalgia anytime you wish.

I hated those things! I always managed to break it off!

@@sandraolson1022 Weren't they called 'church keys'?

Most of them were made of linen which gets stronger as you wash it.

I still have several of these cloth calendars and still use them from time to time.

Most every thing was recycled back then and they lasted 10 times longer .I remember it all still use and have most of them and telephone too still use today ...But now they use plastic crap for every thing including the car ....

They are still available

She was right! I never understood women rolling their hair to look like a princess later, when earlier in the day, everyone saw you looking like a pumpkin.😂

My mom never went out in rollers either. At least, I don't remember her doing so.

I remember a commercial saying curlers in your hair shame on you

Haha...my mum ALWAYS seemed to have rollers in her hair (we lived in the country, with only 9 houses, so not many people to see her 😅) I still remember the smell of her setting lotion.

No mention of Dipity Do.😉

Yep thats a wing window, says so in the parts manuals from the day

wing window is definitely the correct wording in Oklahoma for sure👍

That's what we called them in Alaska, too.

Yup. "Wing windows"

My family used to call it that too. I wish they would bring wing windows back, it was nice to have fresh air without getting rain in the car.

Still have a few with the little plastic discs that snap in the middle.

My first 45 was Signs. By the 5 man electrical band . 😁

I loved that you could speed up or slow down the singles and albums. It was sometimes hilarious.

I still have my 45's too Grace. (and my albums) From late 60's thru 70's. We used to get them from local record shop or bargain dept store. They were very cheap and ones that had been in a juke box were even cheaper. You can identify the juke box records by the small hole drilled in the label next to the big hole. I also have several plastic 45 adapters left. 🙂

I just learned something

I still have one of those tin Band-Aid boxes and keep - what else? - bandaids in it.

@@ilanamillion8942 I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathroom.

I kept the old metal Band -ad boxes when i realize they were going to cardboard . I keep Band-aid in them!

@@ilanamillion8942 Me too!

Still have a metal band-aid tin and a plastic one from back in the 80’s. I refill them with band-aids.

A Rolodex.

And swing open with a bang. I wish i still had our brown one with my mother and father's writing inside

Y’all were fancy. We had to write our numbers down in the back of the phone book🙂

@@carolalexander1429 Rolodex was the round wheal not the box

@@atex6175, yes, you are right. Thanks for reminding me. As a child I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how the brown one works.

"Patch me through"

@@pfridell8424 I have never been without medical insurance from Southern Bell/BellSouth/ATT when I was 18. That was when I got my own medical. I got laid off with 37 years of service. I still have my grandma's charm bracelet going back to when she was hired in 1930 something. I have my dad's lapel pin with 8 diamonds for the 42 years he did. What a mess they made of the company by Judge Green. All the best to you and your family ☎️📞❤️🇺🇸

I love this :) you are so lucky. As a kid in the 90’s I used to dial 0 all the time when on family vacations to ask the time for fun :P

I worked for Bell Telephone for four years after high school. Made a pretty good paycheck at the time!

Are you saying your family has a history with telephones for the past 150 years? Before they were invented? 🤔

I remember women in curlers in public. My mom never did it but it was quite common to see.

Me too... 3 short 2 long. You always heard the best gossip on 1 short 4 long 🙂 Lightning hit the pole outside one night and a fireball shot out of the mouthpiece clean across the room!!

@@mikeh8416 but not for long. 🙂

Down on the farm, we even had a small building reserved for it. Honestly.. we called it the 'bottle house'. :-)

I spent many summer days back in the 60's scouring the side of the roads for returnable bottles. Getting an ice-cold coke out of the old water-filled coca-cola cooler and drinking it at the store to save the deposit is one of many fond childhood memories.

I think soda tasted better bottled in glass instead of plastic

As a kid in the 60s those returnable bottles were scavenged for the purpose of buying pimple balls for sick ball 1/2 ball or a game we played against a curb we called erris (my spelling on that is suspect)

I'd save up my bottle money to buy stuff from the Radio Shack catalog. I was determined. There was stuff I wanted so bad, yet I was resigned to waiting for the bottles to build up.

blank tapes were taxated in denmark, so the where a bit more pricy than in other countries...... photo copy machines were taxated too...

My husband used to make a lot of tapes. He did an impressive job of stopping the album lifting the arm of the record playing to add tracks, seamlessly

the problem with that you didn't know when the radio station was going to play the song you wanted to record on your tape recorder you had to wait around for them to play it

I thought I was the only one that did that😅😅

…when you go back to listen to the song you recorded and realize your bad sibling recorded over it! 😡 lol

Riding bicycles as kids we had to stop every time we saw a phone booth. Always had to check the coin return for change.

That wouldn't work today, because of squatters. There would have to be a fee charged for a set time. Unless that's what you were thinking.... 🤔 Not a bad idea actually. A small fee for electric charging and on the spot WiFi.

@@lilmike2710, I'm talking about back in the day when people knew as a fact men could not get pregnant.

@@samuelschick8813 indeed

@@punkinhoot Since when is a "booth" considered a shop? And nobody said 💩 about $7 coffee being involved. Phone "booths" was the topic.. try and keep up. 🤣"It's called"🤣

Returning your empty pop bottles to the store in red wagon to get some change back.

Progressed in technology, but digressed socially for sure.

@@jgringo5516 Absolutely! From my view, we used to be nicer people, in America, back when I was a kid. 60s and 70s. Maybe I just did it with GM to know all the murders were taking place but we also didn’t have 24 seven news back then. I guess I should look up, the nations rate of homicide and whatever all the bad things now vs then.

Not everything new, is 'progress'

Good news is, satan is in his last throes ...it's the time of Revelation. Golden age is incoming! Yes, we've been in a war...God vs satan...but you know who wins. ..it's God. ❤

@mariantreber8055 good grief 🙄

Yea, me too; those days will never come back😢

Cheer up sweetie! With memories like these, we're the lucky ones.

@@pfridell8424 I think, I never really lost any years. I'm holding them all in my head, from the time I could remember anything, around age 2 or 3, up to now. The years went somewhere, yet you own them all if you remember them.

Was that from Twilight Zone?

@@DaisyMaeMoses yes

Yes. Also, its a Cleveland, OH suburb on the shore of "beautiful" Lake Erie. @@DaisyMaeMoses

I heard a busy signal just a couple of days ago! I have a friend with a real land line from Bell, and she has no add-ons: no message system, no call display, no call waiting. Get a friend like that and you too can still hear a busy signal! 🇨🇦💕

Remember the contest to repeat the Big Mac ingredients within a set time such as 30 seconds?

I miss the satisfaction of slamming the receiver down to deafen telemarketers. They learned pretty quick to stop calling me. 😈

@Kurt M we had a party line for a few years when I was a little kid & I remember listening in to 2 old biddies 1 time talking about some local TV show getting the details wrong so I chimed in with the correct details. Took them by surprise, they were asking who said that? For years after everyone got single lines I used to pause & listen after picking up the receiver to make sure the line was free before dialing.🤣

It's tempting to want that, but you can never truly go back. Thank goodness for memories though.

Yah😢.

I would never want to go back to a time without texting. I’m an old grandmother and my children and grandchildren and old friends are now so easy to stay in touch with. I think we have a special appreciation for such things when we lived without them long ago.

Sad isn't it? ❤

@@cathykrueger4899 We could have texted easily at home with home telegraphs but the idea of communicating with text seemed uncool. 😏

Now they just break the glass.

Yes I remember those windows "fondly". In 1973 I bought a BB gun pistol that looked like a Colt Peacemaker. Well I discovered that I could point it in the air, cock it then point at the ground the BB would fall out. So standing by the car with younger brother one day with BB gun in hand I told him I could shoot the wing window and nothing would happen. I raised the gun and lowered (and saw the BB fall out) as said above then pointed it at the wing and pulled the trigger. The wing shattered and I stood there thinking " That was not suppose to happen." So inside the house I go gun in hand and find mom standing at the kitchen sink, " Mom, I just shot the window wing out of the car." and told mom what happened. Mom grabs her purse, we get in the car and off we go to get a new window. LOL

@@samuelschick8813 Wow -- you had "one parent in a thousand", Dude --- especially for those wild-and-unrestrained-by-laws "spare the rod and spoil the child" times! So many children back then would have given anything to have a super-calm-and-forgiving mom like yours --- most youngsters would have gotten a you-know-what-whuppin' from their parent for doing something like that! The jury is still out on whether physical punishment is reasonable or even effective; I know that I personally am totally against it, since not only does it leave the door open to child abuse (i.e., where said thrashings are either undeserved, too severe, or even just a way for the parent to blow off steam merely because he himself is upset at the SITUATION, not due to the child's actually having misbehaved or otherwise knowingly performed other than how was wanted), but it also gives an adult human a tragic opportunity to show his evil sadistic side and satisfy his violent urges. Plus of course, it often does not even have the desired effect --- i.e., the child either is inherently naughty and thus goes right on being bratty, or he is simply unable to perform better due to his own immaturity and limited physical/mental capabilities --- and creates an unhealthy environment of fear and hatred by the child towards his parents. The child learns to not tell and/or lie about misdeeds just to avoid beatings, and is afraid to try new/risky things for fear that he will accidentally mess up and receive a flogging. I know first-hand the perils and unfairnesses of this situation --- growing up, I was an absolute angel who tried so hard to "be good" and "obey", but, due to both my own inherent infirmities and my having excessively high expectations foisted upon me, I received untold hundreds of horrific punishments from my old man (he treated me so badly that I now refuse to respect him by referring to him as my "father"), and they deeply scarred me, both physically and mentally. And as I say, I never deserved ANY of them --- not only was I trying my best and so I should have been respected for that and therefore not punished for minor innocent slip-ups (and I should have been given credit for how good I'd usually been on those super-rare occasions when I did accidentally/unavoidably do something more serious; again, I never knowingly or intentionally did anything wrong if I could reasonably help it. Heck, even the legal system performs this going-easy-on-a-rare-offender practice --- "Well, Young Man, you have been exceptionally good up to now, so we will suspend your sentence for this present fairly-minor infraction, and just put you on a probation-period to see if you can behave yourself better from now on." So why shouldn't parents do the same thing if their conscientious child has literally gone months or even years without messing up?), but often I had not even been given proper instructions in the first place, and so usually I'd had absolutely no idea that I'd been doing anything amiss. anyway. Plus my old man kept changing the rules without telling me, forgetting what he'd previous instructed me to do, and (this is just a suspicion of mine, but it sometimes strongly appeared to be the case, since I did not recall having done/neglected whatever he was accusing me of) even performing some of the bad things himself and then falsely accusing me of doing them, just so that he could have an excuse to beat me. Well, okay --- my case was indeed a really extreme example in that my old man was actually a bad person who enjoyed hurting me. But my point is that it's just too risky to allow a parent --- or anyone else in authority --- to physically hit a child, and thus it should be outlawed everywhere. Like I say, not only can it cause a child to be excessively scared and begin to actually hate his parents, but it can cause dishonesty and violence to occur within the family --- the child may often not tell his parent if something is broken, missing, etc. (and this lack of mishap-revealing may cause further damage, injuries, financial loss, others to be falsely accused/punished, etc.), plus he may even feel compelled to seek out other people --- perhaps ones who do not treat him so harshly or critically --- for comfort and companionship, and this can lead to his developing abrasive/destructive attitudes, joining a gang, getting onto drugs, contracting STDs and/or getting pregnant, committing crimes or otherwise running afoul of the law, etc. Yes, sadly, parents are often largely responsible themselves for their children's "going to the bad" in their teenage years, in that they did not give them the love/attention/guidance that they so-desperately needed when they were younger, and so this made them easier targets for unscrupulous people who were looking to prey on them. And of course, sometimes it even goes to the extreme, in that a child may actually murder one or both of his parents in anger at how he'd been treated in past years, he may conspire with others to cause the parent grief or hardship, and/or he may refuse to care for his parent when he gets to an advanced age.

@@Quacks0l, On the contrary, mom did spank and I did get my share of spankings. She would make us go outside and pick our own switch or use her bare hands. Dad on the other hand loved to use the belt buckle part of the belt. Dad often spanked brother and I for things he knew we did not do but his stepdaughters did. so his 3rd wife would not get mad at us. I never got a spanking from mom I did not deserve and did not get some I did deserve. Cannot say the same for dad.

@@samuelschick8813 That's terrible! Tender-minded (and bodied!) children should not be used as whipping-boys --- not only is it wrong, but they have always been told to listen to their parents and have them be their guides on right and wrong! If parents punish their children wrongfully, how much is that gonna mess up their morals?? And using a buckle is dangerous; it could cause serious injury! I feel so sorry for you, Man.

Head & Shoulders was a staple of evening "adult level" shows. I don't think you could go a day without seeing one of their commercials.

Never thought of this but man that’s so true!!

They still advertise Head and Shoulders a lot now! 🤷‍♂️ In UK though don’t know about anywhere else.

Tegrin smelled bad.

So true , and we had cream rinse instead of conditioner..

well. I don't miss the cold war. I moved to the very front line in 1984.....

Yes it was. am so happy i was in those wonderfull days...such happy times..

Agreed , it was fortunate to grow up during the 60s and a teen in the 70s freedom and fun from heavy rock to disco to country music was still good till the 90s .

@@speedracer1945 Also, drive-in movie theaters were still a thing.

They can still be purchased as a set at various bookstores. I read mine all the time as a senior citizen!

@@donnagum6172I still read mine!

I remember reading "The Red Fern Grows". But my favorite childhood book was "Where the Wild Things Are".

I used my 110 cheap phone till the early 2000s .

Just friends, kegs, and hanging out in the mountain's.

I have one of the last flip phones

Sugar cubes, wow, haven't seen any in a while.😊

Yes! My mother used to keep our sugar bowl on top of the refrigerator in a weak attempt to keep us kids out of it.

​@Joanna McPeak still sell them at my local grocery store.

And it got worse. Tin and cardboard was replaced by plastic, which is hardly recyclable. And the narrator seems to suggest as if tin is not recyclable.

"If I had to explain it; you wouldn't understand." When we pass the building where the Green Stamps Redemption center used to be, I always point it out to my kids. (Part of my job as a parent is to embarrass my children).

Don't forget about S&H stamps and stamp books, lol.

Used green stamps to get baby items in the 60’s

these

And the "test screen" would come on when the station stopped broadcasting late at night...

Now we know how our grandparents felt.

@@fr2ncm9 and it didn’t take very long.

and not for the better...

I am grateful for passing some of the "imaginative " play over to my grandson we used to do as kids,he prefers those kind of adventures over anything!❤

The country I'm born in doesn't exist anymore.

Oh yah,for sure!!!

It's called a quarter light

they also sopped making them to build cars with a few less parts and operations

That’s how my Dad used it.

The funny part of white toilet paper is that is it is dyed as well.

I remember both the land line number we had in greenland, and the one we had and still have here in denmark. the latter have changed one digit,. my father still have the land line, because calling land line to land line across the atlantic is cheaper thand calling between two cell phones or between a cell phone and a land line.

Ditto...and I'm 20 years older.

I am 66 and I remember my phone number from sixty years ago. PR:22990. You had to dial in two Central Office characters then the number. The PR stood for Prospect. So I am guessing that was our exchange.

Passwords have been a handy use for these ever-remembered numbers, especially the ones with 2 letters. Add the area code and a hyphen and you've got your password remembered.

i still have my childhood phone number...my parents lived at the same address (though completely remodeled the house in 2000) for 55 years. they passed away last year and i am now living in the house. had the phone number ported to a comcast house phone and might port it to my cellphone.

I understand what you’re saying. I am 60 years old. However, as long as we have excepted Jesus Christ, as our savior, we will be in heaven, live forever! I pray that I will meet you there, my friend! God bless you!🙏❤️

Well it’s not entirely possible, but it can be done to an extent I’m 35 and spent quite a few years to achieve a period correct home that contains nothing past 1965 with the exception of my Wi-Fi. I get some things like phones and technology have to be an exception, but I honestly have no desire to live in modern society if I can prevent it and couldn’t be more content.

​@@angeldesigns1385 What device did you use to type your comments?. You must also have a Gmail address.

@moniquebaldea9299,, I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathroom.

Don't you think, that we are going too fast? I believe we all should slow down for a minute, and just take a few steps back to enjoy our lives again. We really thought our life during the pandemic, let's rethink the whole way of living of ours again.

@@harddriven1344 did you not read my comment?

Someday archeologists will discover those tins and theorize that people put their weed in there 😂

I used them for my rolled ones

Perfectly stated!

We would do the same but we were always looking for flying saucers and telling scary stories.

And you would lay on the grass, look up and explain cloud formations as animals, people, the imagination was limitless. We would do that as relaxation therapy.

Imagination could be especially potent and life-saving if you were poor, which we were. My sibs and I would make up stories and plays, with dolls and cardboard boxes. Unmade beds became ranges of hills where worlds resided. Anything was possible when the dreaming was left to you.

@@lindaangus2307 Or laying on the grass and watching the pretty girls go by. :-)

Still have the calendars

I feel the same as you do! 😢

@@earleneslay7977 I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathroom.

@@saminaneen I understand.

Hi there I too mom,dad

They are always with you dear.❤❤

Wow, that's awesome!

Lucky guy. Debbie was bang'in back in the day!

People were “human” back then? Despite the racism, sexism and homophobia? Despite the fact that preteen boy could be prosecuted for being molested due to laws against “sodomy”? This is the most ridiculous, out of touch, privileged nonsense I’ve ever read.

How many remember the garbage disposal was the outside dogs and the chickens running around.

@@judiecrawford2588 OMG Yes our family In KS still does 😄

You use to be able to find old friends by using 411 and if they had a landline. I just found a friend I haven't talked to in over 30 years because his father still has a landline.

True story: I was standing in line at the local big box pet store which used your phone number to record purchases to your account. The lady in line in front of me told the cashier her phone number, which just happened to be my earliest childhood phone number and the one we had for decades. I wanted to speak up, but it wouldn’t have been meaningful to her, so I just cherished the experience of recognizing it.

My brother still has the same phone number as my youth (same house too).

So do i , around 10 or 15 or so i remember the numbers when i was a kid and then also when analog phones came in as well, i reckon i remember all the numbers that i dialed commonly in my life

I still know my old number. GLenview 6-2710.

Me too😂

That's wonderful! My mom Always wanted one in the kitchen. I'd find them in the catalogs &, if it were an option, we'd decide what message to be included. If we couldn't find them, we went through the old ones to find one with "correct dates" & clip a paper with the current year over the old one. (Sometimes the calendar had to be switched mid-year, like in a leap year.) Now I use them as sort of dust covers for the mixer & such.

Thats cool!!

My late mother collected tea towels which I inherited. I am currently using a 1979 calendar tea towel. That was the year I graduated from college. Memories!

On May 25th, 1979, I was booked on flights from Albany Airport in upstate New York to Chicago O'Hare then on to Los Angeles to spend my vacation with my parents. I worked out of Schenectady for GE and travelled all over the world as a Field Engineer. That morning outside the Schenectady Holiday Inn, I had a terrible feeling of despair, hopelessness, and utter depression hit me while waiting for the cab to the airport. A bolt out of the blue for no reason at all. I had the cabbie take me to our office where a manager talked me into delaying my vacation until after an assignment in Venezuela. I went to Manhattan, got my passport stamped at the Venezuelan Consulate, got a hotel and booked my flights from JFK to Miami to Caracas to Maracaibo for the next day. It was a stressful week and I took a nap. Hours later that night, I called my parents to tell them of my changed plans. They were crying, unable to talk. They thought that I had been killed on American 191 which crashed shortly after takeoff and killed all 271 on the plane and 2 guys at work on the ground. I never called the airlines to cancel my reservations. Somebody in the standby line got my seat when I didn't show up. It was Memorial Day weekend and all flights were full. Had I gone home on May 25th like I desperately wanted to do, I would have died at age 26. Many very weird things happened to me in 1979. It was the strangest year of my life. I'm 70 now. It was not a good time for me to be to be in the Middle East after they took over the US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, toward the end of the year. You could tell trouble was brewing all Summer long there. What a weird year for me! I still have the plane ticket book for the flights but the red carbon paper print is no longer visible.

I only saw those at friend's houses. My mother never had one because you can't write on it.

My grandpa would collect bolts and screws in baby food jars in his garage and coins in a Sucrets tin. I wish we had more authentic items like that today -

@@staceyl.thienel1499 I just miss, the REAL times, when boys, were REALLY boys, and girls were REALLY girls, and there was no confusion, or mental illness, when it came to using public bathroom.

LOL on the toothpaste and phones numbers ? If I had only one call from jail ,I would be in trouble. LOL

And we rolled them up as we used them.

I was a telecom tech for a large hospital chain until the mid 2000's. I literally knew hundreds of telephone numbers and what department they belonged to. But I was/am horrible at remembering names! I still remember my old phone number from home when i was a teen, many many decades ago.

AMEN 😂

Here is my heartfelt advice. Only look in the mirror long enough to straighten your hair, then, get the **** away from it. It's better not to know.

How about the little Golden Books!

Well said.

While "Karens" always existed, they weren't publicized the way they are now - and I believe this has resulted in far more Karens now.

I think this and future generations may face more difficult times soon. An EMP, God forbid, or some other major natural catastrophe could remove our technology just long enough to make things archaic and it might be very hard for a while, but I believe God would be more obvious without all our devices. It would make us more connected to Him, each other and the awesome creation all around. It also could make us more animalistic too, unfortunately, leading to more misguided and hurtful behavior. My prayer is that we would not forget God and the Bible. He and His book have a lot of wisdom still to offer.

Another thing I miss is simply referring to a cantankerous woman as simply a BITCH, as opposed to trampling the name Karen to DEATH.

👍👍👍👍

Revisit and stay there in your favourite year!

Yes, & if you give the cashier some change when you pay so they can give me a dollar bill back so I don't have a ton of change weighing down my wallet, the young cashiers try to hand it back since they don't know what to do with it

What ARE they teaching in schools now? Makes one wonder, seeing how much these kids are at a loss for. Tech is good, but you still need practicality and common sense.

@@lindasmith7875 Yes!! I noticed that recently.

The dictionary has disappeared and our collective ability to spell correctly has disappeared with it.

A lot of them can't use punctuation either!

You can still play cassettes. I do on my Sony boom box (with cassette, CD player and AM/FM. )and my Sony walkman.😊I still have a cassette player I bought new in 93 but I use the boom box instead.

Oh,for a Time Machine! 😞

And remember 8-Track tapes? Those were the bomb! I never could figure out what happened to my 8-track collection.

So am I, @Freedomisntfree101 I miss those days. Today’s world has gone mad. Freedom isn’t free indeed.

I saw David & David in that collection and started crying. 😭 That was my Senior year! Now that song is in my head! 🎶Ms Christina drives a 944...

I would too, start with my childhood in the 60’s.

@Beady Eye Not really. The 50's were a much gentler time and I would be happy to start over again. Get to see all those I loved and have passed over. Not a question to me at all. I'd go back at the drop of a hat.

@@beadyeye2312 an interesting question, but no doubt about it, I would not want to know nothing beyond that moment. I was born 59, the 60’s and 70’s were the best times I ever had. Sure there were heartaches but I wouldn’t trade any of them and I would do it all over the same way. Because that is what made me who I am. Memories keep me going. Cheers.

@@beadyeye2312 They were great times. Family gathering every Sunday. No political hysteria. No locked doors. The young folks of today will never enjoy what we did as children.

@@beadyeye2312 You are exactly right. Given today's political climate, young folks will never be able to experience what we did as children.

Not around my area where a woman wouldn't be seen in public with curlers. Definitely not fuzzy slippers or "house coats" either. But that does sound like where Jeff Foxworthy grew up.

My mom would get blue rinses and set her hair in pin curls, but everything was combed out and styled in public. For a while in the 50s, she still did old-fashioned finger waves. My hair was put up in rag curls on Saturday night. If she was in a hurry, she'd heat a curling iron over the stove burner. Ouch!

Some still do that.

Remember when they would wrap their head full of curlers with a sheer chiffon scarf?

Loved those ice trays w/ the handle!

I still own those from my grandparents. The aluminum drinking glasses keep the water or soda really cool !!

We had a party line in the 50s. I remember the phone number even today. Riding our bikes everywhere and playing ball in the street are fond memories. So much more....

Remember the party line telephone system well pretty sure that's how all the gossip got around so quick from people listening in 😮

@@patricianolan5053 I can definitely relate👍🏽

I was born in 1964. There was something like a party line in our local telephone box (uk). We were too poor to have a phone, so I had to arrange a time to call my school friend. We lived at a country railway station. I had to walk down the !entry of the platform, to get to the unlit telephone box. It's windows were always broken, and it was right next to a field of cows, who used to poke their heads through the wire fence and sniff at me through the broken panes. 😅😅💜. I often used to hear my neighbour's voice when I picked up the receiver, but WAS able to dial out. I remember putting in money, and being connected. Fritton 210 😅 Both me, and my old school friend, who live 100s of miles apart, phone each other a few times a year, and we BOTH remember that phone number, and me, freezing cold, watching out for spiders (and cows! Lol) whilst hoping the dim old torch wouldn't run out of battery. PS. We didn't even have an "ice box", nor a fridge, until I was probably about 8. We had a wooden box in the garden, where we stored meat, cheese etc. Goodness only knows how it didn't go off! Lol Mum had a fire lit "copper" to do the washing in, before she finally got an old fashioned washing machine, but I still used to have to help her use the mangle to squeeze the water out of the washing..... bloomin' hard work! 😅 She finally got an upgrade to a Twin Tub, which was really fancy because it had a washer AND a spin dryer together! Woohoo! And eventually we got a little fridge with a wee ice box at the top, which I seemed to spend much of the time defrosting, as it used to ice up really quickly. I miss those simple times. 🙂 Well, not really the mangle, and defrosting the ice box.....but most other things 😅

It looks that way, from here. Our nostalgia is actually first-stage dimentia. : )

We miss our childhood and the people we grew up with.

@@finance485 absolutely!!!

Also slide projectors with those little Kodak picture frames you pop in the slots.

Do you remember the pictures they took of us in school. Then in a few weeks would come the day that the photo packages came in. Each of us kids had a collection of different sized pics of us. We had to buy them if we wanted to keep them. There'd be 5x7 or 8x10, down to wallet sized photos, all of the same picture of us.

Me..1964 yep

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1962😊

1945

I forgot that, wow...

in the BSA we had metal canteen The water tasted like metal

That’s sounds aweful