Are you OLD.

[aquariuscsm]

The grocery store I worked at had these.

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I remember when HEB changed out their manual cash registers and installed the barcode scanners. This was in 1985. They kept the store open and installed them lane by lane I think.

 

[dadto2]

I'm pretty sure we still have the Fisher Price parking garage in a plastic tote in the cottage basement...

 

[4WD]

I remember when HEB changed out their manual cash registers and installed the barcode scanners. This was in 1985. They kept the store open and installed them lane by lane I think.

My son works for NCR - a company that morphed from cash registers to these things as well as total packages to move money, manage inventories - you name it … He has outfitted NFL stadiums as well …

I snapped this shot in MEL

 

[Duffyjr]

I fart dust.

.....but do you trust it's always going to be dust? If you still trust farts you're not that old.

 

[Owen Lucas]

A lot of these, “if you are old, you’ll remember this” also applies to “if you grew up poor” or your parents shopped at garage sales.

 

[odie]

I fart dust.

Smells like MUST !!!

 

[bullwinkle]

I did I a short stay in Cincinnati. They had all sorts of weird ( to me) names for things. Rotor button,tow motor are 2 I remember well.

They still call forklifts tow motors here, I would always ask "what are you towing? You're carrying a skid!"! My favorite is "rollbacks" instead of "wreckers".

 

[bullwinkle]

I remember prices on products were done with little labels from price guns. Cash registers were manual and the cashier had to count the change back properly. The register didn’t tell the cashier how much change to give back either.

Some discount food store required shoppers to pick up a grease pencil to write the prices on things. A youngster today will have no idea what a grease pencil is.

Some of my Ameristop (small local convenience store chain) STILL use those! Too tight to buy a barcode scanner! They still have paneling too!

 

[bullwinkle]

A lot of these, “if you are old, you’ll remember this” also applies to “if you grew up poor” or your parents shopped at garage sales.

I was all of the above. Grew up with nothing, still have most of it left!

 

[walterjay]

Oh yeah.

 

[dlundblad]

Not “old”, but I remember many.

The McDonald’s thing stumped me.

 

[aquariuscsm]

Not “old”, but I remember many.

The McDonald’s thing stumped me.

Haha yeah I remember every place having ashtrays. And restaurants would ask you if you prefer to be seated in the smoking or non-smoking section.

 

[Cruzer4326]

Yep, born in 1965, I've seen all of those.
I'm old...

 

[dlundblad]

Haha yeah I remember every place having ashtrays. And restaurants would ask you if you prefer to be seated in the smoking or non-smoking section.

I do remember smoking and non. I always like the Outback Steakhouse for this reason. They had the actual walls that divided pretty well.

 

[PimTac]

Another old memory. We used to eat this stuff for breakfast. It was cheap. The folks would buy the big bag size that was usually stocked on the bottom shelf.

 

[andyd]

Hand crank?

yup

 

[GR_CoB]

Born in 1993.
- I remember dad typing away some documents through the night on his typewriter. I remember using that type writer for some school work. Then using a whiteout to fix my mistakes, and trying to align the paper again to type perfectly over the whiteout, as if the mistake never happened...
- I remember Windows 95 and 98 on dad's laptop. Some games.
- DSL Connection noise is wonderful... like crickets almost. Sometimes I could start and finish a meal by the time a page loaded.
- Our only phone (until I was 10-11) was a red rotary dial phone, still remember our home phone number. It was fun calling friends to chat or to call them to go outside.
- Remember getting into cellphones. Unkillable Nokias with snake games, LGs with annoying ringtones, Siemens phones with best mobile gaming abilities at the time, Samsungs with revolutionary flip phones until Motorola won the flip phone game with the Razr. Good times. Sharing ringtones through infrared ports... Having a 3-day battery life on the phone was the norm. Best ones were some color-screen Nokias with 6-7 day battery life. Incredible. But then Nokia pioneered the smartphone concept, and battery life plummeted across the board.
- I remember having to use the blowtorch on dad's Lada 2101. Used it to heat up the crankcase, so it could start in those Russian winters with molasses for oil. Let's see how many of you know about "M8" motor oil.
- I remember having to overhaul suspension on that Lada every year, because the roads (or more like trails with a general direction) absolutely killed bushings in a year time. Of course I wasn't the one replacing stuff, I was just holding the flashlight and handing the tools.
- I remember using floppy discs.
Lots more...but enough for now. Dang, I'm old at 29...

 

[PimTac]

Something automotive related. You are old if you remember these being used for traffic control.

 

[ctrcbob]

Ok. I got you all beat.
Cigarette Machines in mid 1950’s. (Around 1955-1956. Pack of cigarettes was 23 cents. Ok. How do you pay 23 cents when the vending machine only takes quartets? Simple. The owner of the machine, before loading the machine? Cut a small slit in the cellophane and slid two pennies into each pack. Voila. Quarter (25 cents) in and a pack of cigarettes with two cents in celebration out.

Picture this. 1952-1953. Cigarettes cost 21 or 22 cents a pack at corner store, unless you bought the cheapest (rotvgut) cigarettes, such as “Fatima” or “Wings” at 17 cents a pack. Yes, I remember the names.

Another one. 1963-1964. Cigarettes were $2.00 a carton, except if you were at sea (Navy) or stationed overseas. Cost $1.00 a carton because we did not have to pay the tobacco tax.

I quit smoking in January 1977 after 25 years. January 1977 cigarettes cost $8.00 a carton, paying full tax.

 

[aquariuscsm]

Another old memory. We used to eat this stuff for breakfast. It was cheap. The folks would buy the big bag size that was usually stocked on the bottom shelf.

I absolutely love that entire cast! All class acts!