Are You Old Enough To Remember

[MawMaw]

Originally Posted by mfblume

I loved reel-to-reel tapes.

I remember when I got my first reel to reel tape recorder!
I thought that was one marvelous invention!!

[Miss Scarlett]

Who had a video disk player that had movies on a disk the size of an old 78 record? That's before the VHS and the DVD came out.

[Abiding Now]

Waiting for the radio to WARM UP.

[Abiding Now]

Wooden screen doors to keep the skitters out.

[Pilgrum]

Milk came in glass jugs that you returned to the store. And soda also came in glass bottles that you returned to the store for a deposit refund. We would go around the neighborhood with a coaster wagon and collect old newspapers and then take them to the recycle place for cash.

[Miss Scarlett]

Originally Posted by Abiding Now

Wooden screen doors to keep the skitters out.

LOL, in the south, we say Skeeeeters..

[johnny44]

Originally Posted by johnny44

Remember when gas was about 17 cents a gallon and they would have gas wars and the price would go down to 13 cents a gallon.We pulled into a gas station and our friend ask for 10 cents of gas and the attendent told him he didn't have no eye droppers.

Did anybody mention the helms bakery truck coming by with all kinds of donuts and pasteries?

[Carl]

I do remember the milk truck and the little two sided compartment on the side of the house used for delivery. It had a door on the outside and inside. I also remember dropping a new glass bottle of milk which of course broke and was a total waste. I don't know how much milk was then, probably about 25 cents like a gallon of gas.

[acjcpastor]

We lived in the country on the end of a dead end dirt road and I remember when I was 4, 5, and 6 years old I regularly hitched a ride with the milk man to go up to the neighbor's house to play. The truck's doors were wide open and I sat on a pile of milk crates or just stood up for the ride. We didn't have seat belts nor did we have a care in the world back then. Can you imagine what would happen today if the UPS or Fed-Ex driver took off up the street with a 4 or 5 year old kid in their truck?

[MawMaw]

Originally Posted by acjcpastor

We lived in the country on the end of a dead end dirt road and I remember when I was 4, 5, and 6 years old I regularly hitched a ride with the milk man to go up to the neighbor's house to play. The truck's doors were wide open and I sat on a pile of milk crates or just stood up for the ride. We didn't have seat belts nor did we have a care in the world back then. Can you imagine what would happen today if the UPS or Fed-Ex driver took off up the street with a 4 or 5 year old kid in their truck?

That reminded me of something similar when I was a little kid.

There used to be an older farmer who would plow up small gardens
for folks around the area with his horse and an old time plow that he
stood behind as the horse pulled. He had an old wagon that he traveled
back and forth in, that the horse also pulled. When some of us kids would
see him coming we would run to him and ask to ride with him up the
road a little while. He would always stop and give us a ride. He
was such a sweet old man that I will never forget.

You're right, that would not play out very well in this day and time.
So sad too.