Banter Im so Old I remember

[Deleted member 1217451]

Pez candy dispensers - do they still sell those?

 

[MelancholyArtist]

candy dots on a roll of paper. You'd buy it by the inch at the variety store. No sealed packaging, just out in the open - back when germs weren't an issue.

 

[Saximony]

Eating a whole box of cereal so I could cut out the free cardboard Archies record and listen to it on my 45 record player.

 

[Spear]

I'm so old I remember when there was only four TV channels and you had to put tinfoil on the rabbit ears to get the signal in for two of them.

Lucky you! We had 1 in black n white, when #2 came online what to watch, so many choices!!!

 

[Stanthropical]

Completely free countless news/magazine websites.

candy dots on a roll of paper. You'd buy it by the inch at the variety store. No sealed packaging, just out in the open - back when germs weren't an issue.

So, like 3 billion years ago???

 

[Mrroscoe03]

 

[Mrroscoe03]

These bowling games

 

[Saximony]

These bowling games View attachment 364558

I am an Electromechanical game expert. One of 2 in my area near Chicago. I prefer the Ball bowlers Im currently working on a beautiful 1959 Bally ABC Ball bowler for a customer.

 

[PumpkinPie]

Yearbooks and all your classmates would sign it or write something funny or sweet in it and some wise cracker would write down the seam where the yearbook was bound...

"First one to sign your crack"

Apologies if I posted this before, can't remember, lol, but true

 

[LillyK]

Ames' stores and their soft pretzels and slurpees

 

[Mrroscoe03]

Anyone else remember these ?

 

[Spear]

 

[Mrsusername]

Motorola pagers

 

[BignSekZ]

Linkin logs when they were made out of wood...

 

[BignSekZ]

Phone numbers when they were still 7 digits. Pay phones that had no numbers on them, you just picked up, deposited coins, and told the operator the last name and city of the person you were trying to call ...

 

[Saximony]

Walkmans were a new technology.

 

[Mrroscoe03]

Phone numbers when they were still 7 digits. Pay phones that had no numbers on them, you just picked up, deposited coins, and told the operator the last name and city of the person you were trying to call ...

I remember being able to dial only 5 digits for local. Like 9-1379 .

 

[Spear]

party lines!!!

 

[Mrroscoe03]

 

[Saximony]

Candy Cigarettes