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I am so old that I remember when ---
Posted: Sep 21, 2011
I am so old (47) that I remember when:
Microwave ovens were brand new and cost $500.
People smoked in grocery stores, elevators, movie theatres and hospitals.
A Whopper cost 49 cents.
Getting a TV with a remote cost $75 extra.
My first job at minimum wage was $2.35 an hour.
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and - karla12
[ In Reply To ..]computers were the size of buses and were 1/100000000 as powerful.
I am so old I remember when... - OldTimer
[ In Reply To ..]the transcription department was always down in the basement in windowless rooms. Those were the days my friend....
That's where I started! - Trampled underfoot
[ In Reply To ..]In the basement with a non-correcting typewriter and transcription equipment that used "bands". Getting a correcting typewriter a year or so later was a BIG upgrade!
in the basement next to the morgue - Bloated Toad
[ In Reply To ..]Deep down in the pit of the hospital, with the morgue just next door, all of us smoking at our desks, typing off these huge "tape tanks" which were then assigned to our work station. The tanks would malfunction and there would be miles of what looked like 8-track tape laying all over the floor. (1984)
We were between.... - Trampled underfoot
[ In Reply To ..]We were in the basement between the morgue and the dietary department. The morgue wasn't any trouble, but we had the occasional cockroach from the Dietary department. I started in 1975; never had the tape tanks, just the bands and then went to cassette.
Typewriter didn't have a plug-in or an "on" switch - It was a manual
[ In Reply To ..]I was horrified when I realized why I couldn't find the "on" switch. It was an old-fashioned office. Office was in the basement and it was so cold I tried to type the manual typewriter with gloves on. The power would go out when the ditto machine and coffee pot were plugged in at the same time, and it was so dark and black, you could only feel your way out to the exit. The pipes froze and burst during a cold snap and I had to chip boxes of medical records out of the ice on the floor. Those were the good ol' days!
Were the dumpsters right outside the window? - AgingMT
[ In Reply To ..]By the time I worked at this particular hospital, the MT Department had "graduated" from the morgue area. But we were next to Dietary with its attendant cockroaches. I remember the time one was sitting on my Surgeon's Syllabus as I reached for it - yuck!
We actually had windows, but just outside those windows were the big hospital dumpsters AND the smokers' area once the hospital went "smokeless."
Ah, those were the days!
and- - maggie
[ In Reply To ..]Television actually went OFF the air every night!
those were the days - olderthandirt
[ In Reply To ..]The candy BUS used to drive down our street in the summer. Nickels could purchase 3 pieces of candy.
Movies cost 25 cents.
Pay phones cost 10 cents.
My grandfather's gas station was also his post office and grocery store and they had real wood barrels filled with ice water and Coca Cola bottles with a huge metal opener to pop the top mounted next to the front door.
My dad got full service gas and the attendant gave us kids pieces of peanut butter flavored hard candy.
We were encouraged to lie down in the back floor board to sleep on long trips. There was room for two kids back there to sleep plus two more on the seat.
There were no speed limit signs.
I remember - sm
[ In Reply To ..]My mom used to let me walk to the store and get her cigarettes, which were 35 cents a pack.
Gas was 17 cents a gallon.
The only seat belt we had was Mom putting her arm across us if she had to stop fast.
Never heard of antidepressants.
Gay meant happy.
Bath salts was something you used in the bathtub.
Grandma gave me honey, lemon and whiskey when I had a bad cold.
I cried my eyes out when Lassie Come Home first aired on TV, black and white and you had to get up to change the channel.
Going outside and playing with other kids.
Never heard the word computer.
A mouse was a thing that we would catch in a trap.
The smell of the purple ink from the Xerox machine at school.
You got swatted by the principal at school and then at home by Mom when she found out what you did.
Everybody knew coffee was hot and not to drink bleach without warnings.
Chickens and cows weren't on hormones.
My mom was a teacher - Not quite as old as dirt
[ In Reply To ..]and I used to help her in the office. That was a mimeograph machine with the purple ink. You'd turn this big handle and send a piece of paper through. What fun!
I also helped my Aunty Ann with her laundry. She had a washer that you had to feed the clothes through the wringer. I loved doing that!
LOL - sm
[ In Reply To ..]I said Xerox, meant mimeograph. LOL My grandma had one of those washers too, I also loved to help. Then the clothes got hung outside on the clothes line.
OMG - We are old, aren't we? - nm - Not quite as old as dirt
[ In Reply To ..]x
Guess it depends on where you live. I had to - send a note to school saying
[ In Reply To ..]that I don't want the principal/teacher/bus driver to hit my child and that was this year.
so old - 1mt
[ In Reply To ..]Remember when:
You could smoke on airplanes.
You only had one TV in the house, it was black and white, 12 inches, and had only 6 channels that you had to turn the knob to change. Physically get up and walk across the room to change the channel!! OMG, how could we handle it.
It was illegal to turn right on a red.
You could get a hamburger, french fries, and a soda for 99 cents.
6 channels??? - we only had 3
[ In Reply To ..]and I'm ONLY 43. LOL!!!
Oh my, we had two - and they were the same thing! nm
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when TV was done for the night! - XanaX
[ In Reply To ..]Wow! Remember when they would play the Star Spangled Banner and then TV was just done? What was that, midnight?
VHF and UHF - Old part-timer
[ In Reply To ..]I told my kids one time how we had 3 VHF channels and 2 UHF and they looked at me like I was nuts. Who ever hears the terms "UHF" and "VHF" now?!
and the little white dot when you turned off the - OhioMT
[ In Reply To ..]TV after hearing the star spangled banner that took a long time to disappear...
I'm so old I remember when .... (sm) - (Love this thread) - Meerkat
[ In Reply To ..]Age 62 here.
I remember when, if you needed cash, you had to drive to the bank, stand in a long line, and cash a check at the teller.
...when having a phone in your car meant you were a rich VIP of some sort.
...when "Flair" pens first came out.
...the first time I played a video game. It was called "Brick Out". You basically just made a little dot go back and forth across the screen, very slowly, and knock out other dots (bricks).
...watching "Howdy Doody" and "Ding Dong School" on TV. And later, looking forward to Sat. mornings when "Captain Kangaroo" came on.
...having "drop drills" every few days in school, during the Cuban Missle Crisis.
...the "March of Dimes" events in school. On that day, each kid was supposed to bring a dime, and then they played a patriotic-sounding march of some sort over the loudspeaker, and the whole school had to line up and go past a jar and put their dime in. In the first grade, I remember being in a state of near-panic because my mom forgot to give me a dime that morning. So, when it was my turn to add to the jar, I just pretended to put in an invisible dime.
...when late at night, there was nothing on TV except a test pattern.
...when cars didn't have seat belts. And later, when they did, my dad used to tease me for wearing mine.
...when "Jiffy Pop" popcorn first came out. Before that, my mom had to fry popcorn in a frying pan, and it would always escape and get all over the kitchen floor.
...Wednesday nights were the "big night" for us kids, when Mom would make Jiffy Pop popcorn for us, and let us stay up late enough to watch "The Beverly Hillbillies" on TV.
...when a big Snickers bar only cost 5 cents, and the movies on Saturday were only 50 cents.
...when I could fill a 20-gallon gas tank for around $7.
...the first time I heard FM radio in somebody's car.
...a Big Mac was actually..... BIG.
... I had many jobs before I became an MT, and in all of those offices, I was always the ONLY ONE who didn't smoke.
...having to get cavities filled at the dentist before air-drills were invented. (That trauma resulted in hand-to-hand combat.)
...when you got a fill-up at the gas station, you also got some sort of a prize, like dishes and stuff.
...when my mom saved Green Stamps and Blue Chip stamps that she got with each grocery purchase. We kids would help her glue them into the stamp books. Once she had enough, we would help her look through the redemption books and make suggestions as to what she should get with them. (I recently opened a lock box I have that I hadn't looked in for years, and I actually have a half-filled book of stamps, myself! An antique, to be sure.)
...President Eisenhower.
...my mom listening to soap operas on the radio while she ironed, and we colored in coloring books.
...enduring the torture of home-permanents my mom would give me. And then walking around for weeks with mortifying, uncontrollably frizzy hair.
...my mom rinsing our hair with vinegar & water, before creme rinse was invented.
...taking my first typing classes on a giant manual typewriter, with the letters on the keys blacked out, and a big key chart up on the wall.
...when every kid had a Slinky. Or a Hula Hoop. Or Rocket Shoes. Or a yo-yo. In Jr. High, yo-yos became must-have ACCESSORIES. During passing period, unless you were walking along making a yo-yo go up and down, you were a total misfit. I had a yo-yo, but I couldn't make it go up and down. It just hung there at the end of the string.
LOL - sm
[ In Reply To ..]I still have a set of china my grandma got me with greenstamps. LOL
I had to get all my hair chopped off after mom gave me a permanent.
Mom always made a big pan of popcorn and put it in a paper bag, buttered and salted it and then we just got bowls full out of the bag.
I remember coming downstairs at night and turning the TV off with the test pattern on and my dad sleeping on the couch. When you turned it off, he would say "I was watching that." LOL
I remember when - mt921
[ In Reply To ..]when the mail delivery was twice a day.
when milk was delivered at your doorstep.
when telephone numbers had letters and numbers.
when you didn't have to lock your doors to your house or your car--you could trust your neighbors.
when dictation was recorded on belts. This was before tapes.
when milk came in glass bottles.
when Smith and Jones were common names.
when all cars on the road were American made.
when gas station attendants washed your windshield and checked your oil.
that's enough for now.
when computers were new in 1982 - XanaX
[ In Reply To ..]my senior year of high school, when our school acquired 2 computers for everyone to share.
Our school had 3 in 1983 - cindy
[ In Reply To ..]and they were for the computer science class that I took. I was just telling my son early tonight that we had that class offered in my senior year of high school and that was big news back that and we learned how to write program in Fortran (a computer language that they really do not use any more) and he fell on the floor he was laughing so hard.
What I remember - I'm 56
[ In Reply To ..]Man with the handlebar mustache at the gas station pumped our gas and washed the windshield, checked the oil and every holiday he dressed up in appropriate costume.
We helped mom roll her own cigarettes.
Grandma taught me here is the church and here is the steeple with my fingers.
Our toys consisted of whatever we found in the yard. Got hours of joy whistling through a blade of grass (thanks grandma for teaching us).
Grandma took us shopping at the S&H greenstamp store.
The most expensive gift we ever got (and it had to be a very good reason for getting one - graduation, etc) was a Cross writing pen.
Atari (for the TV) was the newest in video games.
The TV repair man came out to our house (in the boondocks) to replace the tubes in the back of the TV. - To this day if our TV goes broke I always say, must be a bad tube.
Penny candy.
Going to the hardware store with dad and he said put it on my tab. The same hardware store still had the old cash registers from 30 or so years back.
Learning the newest and greatest operator job that had black and red cords. Put the red cord in the socket and pushed the lever 2 times to let someone know they had a phone call.
Calling the operator and she knew who we were.
Saying Merry Christmas to people and nobody getting offended.
Learning to polka every Sunday night with grandparents to Lawrence Welk.
That's all I can think of right now.
Wanted to be a switchboard operator! - Trampled underfoot
[ In Reply To ..]I'm 54 and I wanted to be a telephone operator, wearing a headset and plugging in the calls like on TV. Alas, it was not to be.
I love the good ol days - here are some more I forgot - I'm 56
[ In Reply To ..]I loved that telephone system. I found a picture on it and showed my SIL, (about 5 years younger than me) and she thought I grew up with the Waltons. LOL
Mom had some clothing parties growing up. Forget the name of line, but they went out of business, but we did have Sarah Coventry jewelry parties.
Before hot rollers there was Dippidy do and old rags mom cut from sheets to curl my hair.
We didn't go on dates on Friday nights because we were "washing our hair", which literally we were. Dad used to wash all the girls hair like he was on an assembly line. :-)
Spanking in public when we did something wrong was the norm. In fact other adults could spank us if we caused trouble.
Making coffee in the percolator on top of the stove.
Using this awful belt type device with feminine products before what we currently use.
Pants were called slacks. Shirts were called blouses and we never wore slacks on Sundays.
Wal-Mart was not a word.
Lite-Brite was the newest in electronics. :-)
1 phone in the house - rotary with a 20 or 30 foot cord.
old too - dangerous toys
[ In Reply To ..]Click-Clacks - giant hard plastic balls on the end of a string that you clacked together and hoped you didn't smack yourself in the wrist or head.
Fun Flowers - Heating gobbledy-goop in die-cast metal molds in an extremely hot "hot plate" and then cooling them in a bowl of water... without parental supervision.
BB guns and wrist rockets.
fun flowers!!! I can still remember that horrid smell! - OhioMT
[ In Reply To ..]nm
Old toys - Shinkey Dinks, use to love those - nm
[ In Reply To ..]x
Me too! They still have them, just not quite the same, tho nm - maggie
[ In Reply To ..]xx
Father Johns - YUK - old
[ In Reply To ..]It was something to help us keep from getting sick. It was horrible tasting and we hated taking it. But now thinking back on it we never were sick growing up. :-)
Oh yea, being so young I listened to everything and did everything my older sister told me to do including sticking my tongue on a cold pipe.
carbon paper, onion skin, selectric IBM - OhioMT
[ In Reply To ..]and to the poster about the rotary phones...we were on a party line and our time limit was 10 minutes in case one of the neighbors needed to use the phone line!
the good old days.....
There was no call waiting so... - sm
[ In Reply To ..]if my friends and I REALLY needed to get ahold of one another, we called the operator and asked them to do an "emergency breakthrough" on their line...or at least that's what we called it. We said we had an emergency and needed to break in on the call. Now that I think of it, that probably wasn't the best thing to be doing...LOL
I remember when - Thinking Back
[ In Reply To ..]A red light at an intersection actually meant STOP.
When people got pulled over and fined for driving an excessively loud car. Now that's all I hear.
Sales clerks had a dress code and could not expose about 8 inches of cleavage.
I remember - Old and thrown away
[ In Reply To ..]Taking family vacations with dad driving the family station wagon; he always had at least 2 six packs and a carton of smokes in the front seat everwhere we went.
Hearing about Marylin Monroe being found dead at her house.
Duck and cover under your school desk (we lived in Florida) in case of a nuclear blast.
Getting 3 days off school for the JFK assassination and then seeing Lee Harvey Oswald get murdered on live TV.
Fast forward a few years, everyone in the pathology deptartment next to the morgue gathering around and oohing and aahing about this newfangled thing called WordPerfect on a computer.
LOL! In my neighborhood, all the loud cars are the - result of catalytic converter thieves! nm
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when a good mystery was solved with clues - not forensic evidence- nm
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No airconditioning, Telephone Party Lines, and 3.00 of gas lasted for days. - Nice thread. No message
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For transcription in 1978 - sweetgirlsmom
[ In Reply To ..]we used correcting typewriters with one sheet of regular paper and four sheets of onion paper with four sheets of carbon paper. When we made an error or the doctor changed his mind, we had to stop typing and erase the first two carbon copies by eraser pencil.
In the 1960's we had incinerators in our backyards and burned our own trash.
We went to drive-in movies in our pajamas. There were two movies and an intermission in between. We played on the playground while our parents went to the snack bar.
At school we recited the Pledge of Allegiance and sang a different patriotic song every morning.
We had air raid drills at school and had to crawl under our desks and cover our necks with our hands. One year we got information on how to dig a fallout shelter in our backyard and stock it with enough food and water for two weeks.
My sixth grade teacher told us about computers that took up entire rooms. He said by the time we grew up computers would be small enough to hold in our hands. We laughed at that. I hope he lived long enough to see laptops and everything we have now.
I had a job doing data entry into one of those room- - size computers! -see msg-
[ In Reply To ..]It was NOT user-friendly, either. If you hit the wrong button, the thing would often crash, and take out the electricity to other businesses all down the street.
The disks were the size of pizza-pans, and each tower (the size of a refrigerator) had 2 or 3 "back-ups" for each regular disk. (Remember the old Katharine Hepburn/Spencer Tracy movie, "The Desk Set?" It was a LOT like that!)
It generated a lot of heat, and was very heat-intolerant, so the room it was in was air-conditioned to North Pole levels. Those of us doing data entry had to dress like Eskimos in the computer room.
When the computer crashed, it was sometimes down for DAYS. I remember one time when the boss stayed at the office on a couch for several nights while they worked at getting the computer running again.
It was unreliable, too. Part of the job I'd been hired for was proof-reading pages upon pages of printout of pen and pencil sales. (It was a drafting supply company). My coworker and I would sit in the break room and take turns reading the data back and forth to each other. It was boring beyond description, but it would've been a sure cure for insomnia.
This was in 1975-76, and I started doing MT shortly after quitting that job.
I learned to do keypunch! - Trampled underfoot
[ In Reply To ..]As a back-up to medical transcription, I learned how to use a keypunch machine. Those jobs went the way of the dodo a LONG time ago!
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