How OLD are you.

[skyactiv]

I'm not, but are any of you old enough that a shop vac wasn't used to vacuum a car interior?

 

[Eddie]

I remember the day WW11 ended. I was in my fathers 1941 Pontiac I6 2 door. We were doing our Sunday drive and it came on the tube type radio. All auto horns were blowing and factories were sounding the 6AM horn that was used to get those ready to come to work. I also remember the Rock Island Arsenal firing the 105 or 90 mm into the test range dummy. IT WAS A HAPPY DAY for sure. I was 6 years old I think. Ed

 

[jkasch]

Eisenhower was elected three months after I was born.

 

[SammyChevelleTypeS3]

Ice cream and donut trucks used to cruise the streets of my childhood neighborhood. My Mom used to buy a donut for our German Shepard/Collie mix (Charcoal, RIP you sweet girl), who would drool in anticipation. I remember one time (early '60s) some wacko woman accused our canine family member of being rabid and fled the scene in terror. I vividly remember that for some reason.

Scott

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we grew up with a collie we (of course) named Lassie. What a great dog she was.

 

[slo town]

I remember the day WW11 ended. I was in my fathers 1941 Pontiac I6 2 door. We were doing our Sunday drive and it came on the tube type radio. All auto horns were blowing and factories were sounding the 6AM horn that was used to get those ready to come to work. I also remember the Rock Island Arsenal firing the 105 or 90 mm into the test range dummy. IT WAS A HAPPY DAY for sure. I was 6 years old I think. Ed

Wow!!!!

Scott

 

[jkasch]

I remember the day WW11 ended. I was in my fathers 1941 Pontiac I6 2 door. We were doing our Sunday drive and it came on the tube type radio. All auto horns were blowing and factories were sounding the 6AM horn that was used to get those ready to come to work. I also remember the Rock Island Arsenal firing the 105 or 90 mm into the test range dummy. IT WAS A HAPPY DAY for sure. I was 6 years old I think. Ed

We might have a winner!

 

[ARCOgraphite]

Used to go to the Moving Picture Drive-In in Lowell in the back of the neighbors 1965 Country Squire wagon for a double feature.
Had to find a good spot where there was a working speaker still wired to the pole to hang on the window

I was Ten years old. One night Alfie was playing followed by Return to Peyton Place. Yikes! Boo!
Nap time after the greasy cafeteria burgers and popcorn kicked in.

 

[Tom NJ]

Imagine that now, kids with toy rifles, playing outside, pretending to shoot each other dead.

Wow, you had toy rifles! We used stick-rifles in our battles: cowboys against Indians, and army against the Russians. And in pirate fights we made swords from scrap wood my father kept in the cellar. If it wasn't raining or we weren't sick we were outside playing - stick ball or roller skating in the street, hide-and-go-seek, kick-the-can, sleigh riding, snowball fights, etc. Had to stay within shouting distance from my mother when she called us in for lunch. The 50s were an ideal time for kids.

 

[Tom NJ]

I'm not, but are any of you old enough that a shop vac wasn't used to vacuum a car interior?

Vacuum a car interior?? What was wrong with a whisk broom and dust pan?

 

[CapriRacer]

I'm so old I remember when McDonald's had a sign that said how many burgers they had sold - and I remember single digit millions!

 

[John105]

Used to go to the Moving Picture Drive-In in Lowell in the back of the neighbors 1965 Country Squire wagon for a double feature.
Had to find a good spot where there was a working speaker still wired to the pole to hand on the window

I was Ten years old. One night Alfie was playing followed by Return to Peyton Place. Yikes! Boo!
Nap time after the greasy cafeteria burgers and popcorn kicked in.

My dad and I went downtown and stood in line to get t shirts and $2 bills canceled at the USPS as it was the nation’s bicentennial. We laughed and decided we should have moved the stamps over to the right so the cancel marks wouldn’t go through Jefferson’s head. Oh to be a kid again

 

[2005jettatdi]

Anyone here old enough to remember having an ice box instead of a fridge?

Only in the travel trailer, bought in 1960 for the move from Seattle to Cocoa Beach. We had to stop for a block of ice each day. I remember the satisfying clunk sound that block of ice made as it was dispensed. When we were up in Seattle for the world's fair, my parents bought a modern trailer with propane refrigerator.

I remember the day if first heard Bye Bye Miss American Pie. It was December 1971. My girl friend of less than two months (now wife for almost 49 years) and I were going to a Christmas party out by the Portland airport in my 65 Plymouth. We close to the levee along the Columbia River when the song came on. I cannot remember much about the party, but I will never forget that moment.

 

[ARCOgraphite]

When video tape rentals became popular in the 80's on the East coast we had to get a VHS.

My first Panasonic VCR had a wired remote. It was easy to find if you dropped it

 

[ARCOgraphite]

Before Ring doorbells we had the NuTone intercom

I don't think it was ever used at the door, other than to play radio throughout the house while my mom cleaned.

 

[andrewg]

I'm so old we used to have neighborhood pine cone fights... and nobody called the cops.

I used to do that. The greener ones were much harder! I could really fling them things!

 

[John105]

Before Ring doorbells we had the NuTone intercom

I don't think it was ever used at the door, other than to play radio throughout the house while my mom cleaned.

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So many jokes about NuTone. There was even a MasterCard parody. Something like that really happened with my buddy’s older bro in HS. His dad overheard the older bro and gf over the intercom, and swiftly drove said girl to the bus station. Maybe we were young and all females appeared very attractive to us, but I can picture “Ginger” to this day and we still laugh about it

 

[SeaJay]

I am waiting for someone to post that they are so old that they bought a brand-new car that did not have Seat Belts.

My pop did in both 1955 as well as 1964.

 

[John105]

My pop did in both 1955 as well as 1964.

I had a college roommate whose car had a two stroke engine maybe 3 cyl, and when I was in college we won the NCAA Div 1 ice hockey. A guy on the team was 5’11” (another clue this was not recent), played in the NHL 19 seasons, and he coached the Washington Capitals. Pretty sure Dell as a co was invented around this time too

Not gonna lie I’d gladly go back like I’m in an Eddie Money song

 

[jkasch]

Wow, you had toy rifles! We used stick-rifles in our battles: cowboys against Indians, and army against the Russians. And in pirate fights we made swords from scrap wood my father kept in the cellar. If it wasn't raining or we weren't sick we were outside playing - stick ball or roller skating in the street, hide-and-go-seek, kick-the-can, sleigh riding, snowball fights, etc. Had to stay within shouting distance from my mother when she called us in for lunch. The 50s were an ideal time for kids.

Yeah. Me, 1960ish.

 

[hank2]

Vacuum a car interior?? What was wrong with a whisk broom and dust pan?

I remember a whisk broom under the front seat being standard equipment. I was usually the "whisker". Actually, commercial car washes were scarce in areas I grew up in. You could add a GI entrenching shovel, a set of tire chains and some road flares from Army/Navy or Pep Boys in the trunk.