You are BITOG's youngest senior. Your heart has to be 90, though.
Are you OLD.
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Yes sir.....The can opener, Not the Phone
The gas stations in my youth sold gasoline, oil and tires. A pop machine was usually on the premises.
The rest of that stuff we bought at a market.
Not sure if it was an Ohio thing or not but we called it Mac and beef.
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HAVE YOU LISTENED TO THE TERRESTRIAL RADIO "OLDIES" STATION LATELY??!! That about sums it up.
51 here and I remember all of them.
I have fond memories of the 70's and 80's. I've told my wife once we finally find a place that has space for a basement mancave then it's going to be appointed similarly to #7 complete with wood paneling on the walls and either green or orange carpeting. It's going to be fantastic.
I have fond memories of the 70's and 80's. I've told my wife once we finally find a place that has space for a basement mancave then it's going to be appointed similarly to #7 complete with wood paneling on the walls and either green or orange carpeting. It's going to be fantastic.
Some kids carried around a cup & a church key.....You can guess what they did with those 2 items on a "side door" Soda Machine
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Some kids carried around a cup & a church key.....You can guess what they did with those 2 items on a "side door" Soda Machine
The gas station went went to had the track inside where you pulled the bottle around to the spot where you pulled it up.
Orange Crush on a hot day.
100% here. I used to take the caps out of my cap gun, roll a few of them up together, set them on the sidewalk and smack them with a hammer. It made a lot louder noise than a cap gun. I well remember the gunpowder smell too. We did not have a console tv but my aunt and uncle did, I remember watching it when we had Thanksgiving dinner at their house. We had a color TV but it was old, stood on 4 legs and the channel changer knob was broken off so we kept a pair of pliers on top of the tv to change the channel. The first schools I went to had the old style wooden desks with a seat attached. I never saw a plastic desk like in the article until I got to the 7th grade. Corning Ware, Chili Mac, push up pops, the Hawaiian Punch guy, frozen orange juice, I remember all of that. We did not have shag carpet but my aunt and uncle did. They used to vacuum it and then use a tool that looked like a rake to make it stand up. The only phone we had had a rotary dial and sat on a little table in the main hall of our house. My aunt and uncle had the wall mounted phone in their kitchen. I remember it was a big thing back then to have one with the long cord to reach all the way across to the stove and sink. Some time late in the 70s they got a push button phone in their den. That was a big deal too.
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Haha we would get our older friends to buy us Andre's Pink Champagne (1986)
I am way too familiar with nearly all of the examples. Including exactly that paneling and flooring. I didn't get the two toys, must have after my time. Quite a time spread on some of the items. Mid 60's to mid 80's. The B&J wine cooler was mid-late 80's. The two kids that invented the original "California Cooler" in a parent's garage had sold out for a million or two, several years prior.
I believe you could buy the cheapest store brand version of those frozen orange juice concentrates for 10 cents. Nasty!
My mother and father refused to consider a dial tone phone. Th telephone co. charged an extra $1.00 a month for a tone line. Several attempts by my sister and I to buy them cordless phones were promptly rejected. Right up to 2006, when they entered a senior living place in their 80's.
I believe you could buy the cheapest store brand version of those frozen orange juice concentrates for 10 cents. Nasty!
My mother and father refused to consider a dial tone phone. Th telephone co. charged an extra $1.00 a month for a tone line. Several attempts by my sister and I to buy them cordless phones were promptly rejected. Right up to 2006, when they entered a senior living place in their 80's.
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I can remember the bottled soda dispensers that worked on the "honor system". It was just a huge floor standing refrigerator that you'd put your money in, and lift up the hinged top to grab any random soda you wanted. One of my faves was Nehi (grape, orange. or strawberry).The gas station went went to had the track inside where you pulled the bottle around to the spot where you pulled it up.
Orange Crush on a hot day.
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Same here. Frozen "full of pulp" oj is the best! The pre-made bottled stuff (even the 100% juice) always has that weird "wang" to it when you drink it.
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And you could feel the shrapnel hitting your hand and arm haha!