Remember when...

[crazycanuck]

I thought I might start a thread about memories of things we miss in society or events we remember etc...

I remember when it was cool to hang out at WEM (that's west ed mall in Edmonton) & the waterpark was new...

[Mr. Bloom]

I remember when...life was simple;)

But more seriously, I remember reading the posted grades one semester in my Jr. year of college and realized that I had just raised my GPA to exactly my goal...with a nearly perfect semester at 3.97GPA.I floated out of the building to go home for Christmas! This was one of my early milestones/turning points in life.

I also remember when Silver was on the phone trying to reconcile a $5 discrepancy in a famous music star's tax return while I was timing her contractions with SilverDaughter...and also the 2AM phone call to say SilverSon was coming early but I was in Nashville and she was in Memphis...yep, I averaged 100mph on the drive west and arrived just in time for the epidural to wear off!

[shootingstar]

I remember:

Trudeaumania-- Canada's sauve Prime Minister when he was a bachelor, had screaming women meeting him, rumours who he was dating, etc.

When Canada celebrated its centennial as a country in 1967, the children in our school were taught the theme song, there were sport activities which we were given special 100th birthday ribbons

When Neil Armstrong planted his foot on the moon in 1969. I stayed up to watch tv at approx. 1:00 am.


When Paul Henderson scored the winning goal for 1972 Canada-Russia hockey games. Our entire school was allowed to watch this in the gym. OUr cheering could have lifted off the school roof.

The reaction of Canadians to the Vietnamese boat refugees.. there was furor in the press across Canada, both wanting to welcome the people, but also some who didn't want them..more foreign faces..

When the Berlin Wall was pulled down peacefully.

The headiness of getting onto the Internet from home computer --approx. 1992.

The first computer I requested for my dept. I did have to submit a business proposal for hardward & for software. It was a super big deal, since it was the 2nd computer granted for a dept. for a govn't agency I worked for. This was 1988. I used DOS commands, it was so easy to solve operating systems problems. Entire library database of 3,000 records plus software only took up 30 megabytes. Then Windows software blew apart the computer memory requirements.

[bacarver]

We must be on the same wavelength. The thread I just started is my future "Remember when . . . ".

My current remember when takes me back to my childhood when I would get dressed up to go see a movie at the theater. It was important to look nice when you were sitting there in the dark for 2 hours (?!)
Barb

[cylegoddess]

I recall when having coloured hair( pink, red or blue) was so important and even worth the huge yellinng fit my dad had, when he saw it!:p

[crazycanuck]

I remember when Gretz broke the hearts of every edmontonian :( & moved to LA :( *sniff* :(

When it was .25c to use a phone booth!

$2 nights at the movies!

Our first vcr..a beta & thinking ooo when VHS came out.

Rick Hansens Man in Motion tour.

The challenger disaster live.. :(

Getting up at 3am to watch Live Aid from the very start :cool:
Much Music being launched & it was cool. The first music videos

Mr Dressup.. :D (I visited the CBC in T.dot a few years ago & my camera died when I was about to take a photo of his treehouse :(. I did get a pic of me in Peter Mansbridge's chair though :cool: :))

The Beachcombers, Kids of Degrassi street, Degrassi Jr high, Silver Spoons, Different Strokes,The Facts of life, Barnie Miller, Mcgyver were on for the first time..not reruns..

Barbara Frum passing :( & Pierre trudeau :(

[OakLeaf]

I remember when each new Michael Jackson song was debuted with great anticipation and fanfare on radio station KYA.

Carefully sewing the 30th patch into my favorite pair of jeans.

Buying cough syrup with codeine over the counter with less to-do than it now takes to buy decongestants.

Pulling taffy by hand, and burning my hands every time.

[bambu101]

Getting up from the chair to change the channel on the TV.

[Selkie]

People focused on the road when they drove their cars instead of talking on cell phones or texting;

You could walk in a store/restaurant/etc. and not have to hear someone's phone conversation (why do people on cellphones have to talk so loud?);

An attitude of entitlement was more the exception than the rule and was seen as a negative trait;

When I could dance at punk/new wave clubs until 4:00am, sleep a couple hours, then go to work feeling fine! ;)

[sfa]

(why do people on cellphones have to talk so loud?)



I know this was a rhetorical question, but there's a real answer--cell phones have no feedback while regular phones do. When you talk on a regular phone you hear your own voice, but you can't hear it when you talk on a cell phone so you talk louder trying to compensate and end up just looking/sounding like an idiot.

Sarah

[shootingstar]

I remember when each new Michael Jackson song was debuted with great anticipation and fanfare on radio station KYA.

And his songs came on those little vinyl records. The high school sock hops.

I remember the big song hit, 'American Pie' and 'American Woman'.

Being taught in primary school to sing, "Born Free".

The TV regular shows, "Flipper" (the dolphin), "Lassie (border collie dog), Batman, The Avengers, Mission Impossible, Mod Squad.

When our co-ed public school allowed us to wear jeans --1976. They decided it made sense, the temperatures were dropping below -25 C degrees.

Hey crazycanuck, the 25 cent phone booths still exist. One just has to look around harder.
I remember Rick Hansen, the Canadian paraplegic guy who went around the world in a wheelchair. One of his last stops when returning to Canada, was in Toronto at the hospital for spinal cord injured hospitals where I worked. All hospital staff and patients were in the gym when he rolled in. The newspaper press were not there. There was alot of cheering and tears. For the patients who were recently paralyzed for life, it was something that they needed...so much.

I remember the days of conducting business, fax only. No email, Internet. Mid 1980's

[Selkie]

I know this was a rhetorical question, but there's a real answer--cell phones have no feedback while regular phones do. When you talk on a regular phone you hear your own voice, but you can't hear it when you talk on a cell phone so you talk louder trying to compensate and end up just looking/sounding like an idiot.

Sarah

It was rhetorical but because I use my cellphone only once in a blue moon & for short conversations, I never noticed that I couldn't hear myself.

[papaver]

Remember when Miami Vice was cool. :D

[Biciclista]

remember when we used shoe polish?
I found a bottle of white children's shoe polish in the far back of my bathroom cupboard this morning!!!


remember when we thought the resources of the earth were unlimited?

[Reesha]

I remember piling into the car to go to the drive in-- $8.00 for a carload for a double feature! And then passing out before the second, more adult movie started.

I remember asking permission to ride my bike to downtown Francestown, NH as a young teenager... already loving the rides!

I remember riding up Crotched Mountain with my dad-- he taught us to traverse the road as it got steeper.

I remember building the most incredible forts out of the birch logs that were left in massive piles after we built our house. We'd build log-cabin style structures adjacent to giant, car sized boulders. Then we'd get on top of the boulders and play pirates, throwing pine cones, acorns and birch bark rings stuffed with red pine needles at each other.

[Crankin]

When we played outside in the woods for hours and no one worried.
Having my mom ring a bell for me to come home for dinner as I was out playing in the street ("supper").
Getting dressed up for everything.
Sledding down my street because it didn't get plowed within five minutes, like they do now.
Watching Ed Sullivan, the Beatles, and getting my first Beatles album. I would play the record, really loud on Sat. afternoons, with the windows open and sing really loudly with it (5th grade).
Riding my Raleigh 3 speed up huge hills. Riding after dark with the generator light.
When WBZ talk radio was a rock station....
Moving to Florida and realizing that not everyone wore bell bottoms, black turtlenecks, and smoked weed. Culture shock.

When you could actually see 70 miles across the Valley and Phoenix had 300,000 people
Downtown Tempe was sleazy. Then the Pope came to visit and it was redone and became upscale.
KDKB rocks Arizona
Earthen' Joy, the original natural restaurant
Disco dancing at Bogarts at the Town and Country Mall.
My 5 speed from Tempe Bicycles, riding to summer school class in a sun dress, no helmet, and my Sun Devil book bag. I still have that.
Ninth and Ash. Happy hour with friends and my husband's 26th birthday when I was 9 months pregnant
When my first house was built, it backed up to Warner Rd. in Chandler, which was a dirt road. We couldn't get a phone for 3 months because of all of the growth, so far "out." (1980).
When people thought my second house, in south Tempe was in the boonies. There were cornfields and a sheep farm at the end of my street, outside the development.

June 4, 1990 when our plane landed at Logan Airport. It was like the past 21 years had gone by in the blink of an eye. I left as a 15.5 year old and came back as a 36 year old mom with 2 kids.

[shootingstar]

Walking to school all the time. In primary school, I walked back home for lunch. And back to school again. :) I had to cross 3 busy traffic light intersections. And was required to accompany younger siblings on these journeys to school. I began this responsibility when I was 10 yrs. old. (No, it's not unreasonable. I also had a default person, my next sibling after me. :))

I was never driven from kindergarten right through to end of high school. Never. High school was 1 km. away.

Walking to the store and buying bread on my own for 25 cents/loaf. I was 9 yrs. old.

Oktoberfest festivities in our school. (Well, it was a German-based community). The polka dancing, oompah-pah music, etc.

Watching Sonny and Cher show. Baby Chastity was real cute.

Playing double dutch with double length skipping rope and contests we had for jumping the longest and most skips.

Hula hoops were really in when I was around 11-12 yrs. old.

[Tuckervill]

I remember being able to walk into any store and buy cigarettes for my mom. I remember walking to the 5 & 10 in Joplin, MO, to buy my grandfather some snuff when I was only 8. I remember, when I was 16, BEGGING my mother to let me go get her some cigarettes, so I could drive there!

I'm glad my kids don't have to do that.

Karen

[sundial]

I remember when gas was $0.34 cents/gallon. I also remember buying Coke in those short little glass bottles and watching my parents return the glass bottles at the grocery store for $. :)

[OakLeaf]

I remember 6-speed freewheels, Reynolds 531, the very first Terry saddles, natural chamois, cleated shoes for toe clips, down tube shifters, Bell "Biker" helmets, tan grids from mesh back gloves, and the day Greg LeMond raced in our little town in his rainbow jersey. :)

I remember when Cannondale was a luggage company. And when they were a motorcycle company.

[badger]

CC, when were you in Edmonton?

I, too, have fond memories of hanging out at WEM ('81-'86), but I have seriously yummy memories of having crinkle fries with gravy at this Chinese stall at the food court in Meadowlark Mall. They had the BEST gravy on earth. I still dream of that gravy.

I also have great memories of going to Lake Wabamum and smelling that sweet cottonwood smell. And also seeing the cotton everywhere when it's blooming. Every time I smell cottonwood it takes me right back to Edmonton.

oh yeah, and I was in the midst of the Oilers/Islanders battle in '83 and '84. I hate hockey now, it's not what it used to be.

[SheFly]

I remember going to the WHA (Western Hockey Association) games in Edmonton before the Oilers were an NHL team. That was when Gretzgy was dating a woman whose brother worked with my dad - free tickets!

SheFly
(Edmonton was a short stint for me in about the 4th grade....)

[bmccasland]

Pop hits were on 45's. And I couldn't wait to go to the store to check the latest releases.

Phone calls from booths were 10 cents.

The speed limit changed from 75 mph to 55 mph.

It was so cool when I got my 10-speed Schwinn bike, with cable shifters. With real "racing" handlebars. Orange. (I miss that bike - she was stolen along with about 200 others locked up together in front of my dorm while a University student.)

Terry Bradshaw was the big man on campus (LA Tech) before he got picked up by the Pittsburg Steelers. My Dad taught ROTC at LA Tech, and I went to the elementary school affiliated with the College's teaching program. So, I was a LA Tech student, at the age 7-11. ;)

Walking down the street with my Aunt's bank deposit from her flower shop. Now who in their right mind would have a young child walk anywhere these days with bank bag containing $1000?

And the flowers for my Aunt's shop came weekly as cargo on the Trailway's bus. There was no FedEx. If a rural town wanted something, it came by bus.

[redrhodie]

I remember sleeping stretched out in the back of my parent's station wagon, coming home from the beach. Car seat?! Not even seat belts!

[Brandi]

Ahhhh roller skating rinks!

[solobiker]

Gas prices under $1.00

leaving food out on the counter to defrost ( pre-micowave)

Using the Card Catalog at the Library..The good ole days:p

[Tuckervill]

OOoooh, I LOVED the card catalog! I can smell it!

How about riding from Chicago to Little Rock in the well of a '67 VW Beetle because I was the smallest? And not minding a bit.

Karen

[crazycanuck]

I lived in Edmonton from 84-99.

Badger, when did you live there? Were you involved in Guiding at all?? We lived on base then moved to castledowns.

Yep, I remember the goalie for the Islanders thwacking one of the Oilers I believe.. I don't follow hockey as it's way too hard down here & gone are the days of Mess, Semenko, Tikkanen etc.

[deeaimond]

(I miss that bike - she was stolen along with about 200 others locked up together in front of my dorm while a University student.)


how did all the bikes get stolen? at the same time??

[Biciclista]

I remember my delight when I found a 5cent pay phone in some backwoods town somewhere (the rest were 10 cents)
We still had horse drawn wagons selling vegetables and picking up rags in Newark when I was 10 years old.
And the milk man, the Dugan man (breads, cupcakes)
I remember paying 12 cents for a bus ride.
We'd get up early and watch the test signal on the television. It jumped around a lot.

[Ann G]

We had 2 digit phone numbers in the town where I grew up when I first learned to use the phone. My parents had a furniture store, and the store's number was 96. It was before dial telephones, and we told the operator the number we wanted. We had a private line, much better than having a party line where your neighbors could listen in on your calls.

The local dairy made home deliveries. They had little forms like a checklist, and you filled it out and put it in this insulated box by your front door. They'd put your items in the box.

Xerox machines had not yet been invented, and they still used carbon paper. When I was in college, I had a Smith Corona portable typewriter, and I used that correcting tape or eraseable paper to correct typing errors. Several years later, my first computer was an Apple IIe with a green screen, 5 1/4 inch floppy disks, and a matrix dot printer.

When I was young the only people I had ever met who had tattoos were guys who had been in the navy. Pierced ears were considered a bit daring at that point.

When I was in elementary school girls always wore dresses, never slacks and wearing shorts was really unheard of. If it was cold, we wore slacks under the dress. We had steam heat at our house and at school. In the winter we built snow forts and had snowball fights. If our mittens got wet, we'd lay them out on the radiator to dry.

[Crankin]

Hey, I had a Smith Corona typewriter. Too bad I can't type!
We had a knife man who came down the street ringing a bell to sharpen knives and a daily milkman when I was really little, like under 7. And this was in the suburbs. I remember when we became a 2 car family... I was about 6. My mom used to drive my dad to the train on Wednesdays, before that, so she could go to the grocery store.
I remember watching the Mickey Mouse Club, with Annette Funicello (not Brittney), Bozo the Clown, Romper Room with Miss Jean, and Ding Dong School House. We had Mr. Nicolazzo to cut our lawn and once a couple of years ago, when I was shopping in the city where I grew up, I saw his truck! Well, it must be his grandson.

[solobiker]

Having to roll a car window down with a hand crank vs just pushing a button
I prefer the hand cranks


rotary phones

[smilingcat]

learning to drive my younger sister's CJ5 jeep with manual transmission with my dad siting next to me and telling me more gas and don't dump the clutch... and my sister sneering, snickering and laughing at me. She wanted the CJ5 cause that's what Mindy was driving in Mork & Mindy. I was car free till the 80's :).

Oh I also remember NYC subway tokens were 35 cents. I was in college then.

And we weren't allowed to have even a simple four function calculator in exams. Well, back then simple four function calculators weren't all that simple. TI-50 calculator was one of the first scientific calculator. Initial price back in '72 or was it '73 was around $500.00.

I used to know how to use the slide ruler. But haven't seen one since then.

TVs had four available channels even though the dial said 2 through 13. We had ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS. oh TV screens had rounded corners too. I also remember taking vacume tubes (valves for brits and aussies) to the grocery store to check if the tubes had burnt out. It was trial and error to see which tube had burnt out.

Life seemed simpler back then. And I wished to have a personal computer back then, before Apple II/IIe. Before Commodore 64 or even VIC20. First video game I saw was pong and thought wow that's really cool you can play games on your TV.

And yes my term paper was all typed out. Editor used was smilingcat-editor not word. not word-perfect. not open office...

[PamNY]

I remember (and miss) clothes hanging on clotheslines. Apparently I'm not the only one, as there is (or was) "right to hang out clothes" legislation in North Carolina:

http://www.news-record.com/blog/53964/entry/64277

[sundial]

Having to roll a car window down with a hand crank vs just pushing a button


Oh, and those little triangle windows that really didn't let much air in. :p

[solobiker]

Oh, and those little triangle windows that really didn't let much air in. :p

I love those windows. We still have a car with them.

I remember the car bingo games..that little board with picures of cows, buildings, bikes and as you saw each item you would slide that little window over the picture. That was the entertainment on car trips for us.

[Tuckervill]

I was thinking when I posted about sitting in the well of a Beetle, that I also remember how empty it was. Nothing but black scratchy carpet. Because we didn't bring any toys, for a 12 hour drive! Not even a scrap of paper.

Karen

[sundial]

Karen, lol.

[solobiker]

on our long trips in my parents stationwagon my brother got that far back to sleep in, my sister got the back seat to lie down on and I got the floor between the front and back seats. Not very comfortable there at all, but since I was the youngest I usually got the last choice.

[badger]

CC: I was there from '81-'86, then we moved to Vancouver. My mom used to cut Randy Gregg's mother's hair :D

[OakLeaf]

I remember 1200 baud modems, and having to disassemble the phone jack to logon from hotel rooms.

[Tuckervill]

I remember modems that had a cradle that you put the phone receiver on!

Karen

[Crankin]

Yes, when my husband went back to school, to finish his BS, we got this "new fangled" technology, so he could do his homework at home, in that weird, new major, Computer Information Systems. I have a picture of my 6 month old son sitting at the terminal, banging his hands on the keyboard. We had to get the computer paper from some special place that would deliver it, so my DH could see his work. There was no monitor. 1983.

[HappyTexasMom]

Remember when everyone wasn't so tied to the phone, having to answer it, wherever they were? If you called someone and they weren't home, you left a message (or even further back, you tried again later). Now people get irritated with me if I don't answer the phone. Just because I can have it with me at all times, doesn't mean that I do, or that I want to talk on it at all times.

[Fredwina]

Hockey:
I was in attendance at the Last regular season game played by the Minnesota North Stars - also the Last regular season game played by the St. Louis Blues at the Arena
Cars - remember vent windows? and two piece windshields?
Puter's - being jealous that My CS prof (we only had one prof - small college) had a 330 BPS modem instead of a 110 - and the main computer was only about 1/4 mile away
More stuff
Having milk delivered to your door. The newspaper was delevered by a BMW isetta
Playing around records at the "wrong" RPM setting
Having two or three channels on the TV

[Biciclista]

my mother still gets home milk delivery, it's not a thing of the past.
And you can get slide rules on Ebay.. if you want.
It's fun hearing what you all think of as a long time ago.

[OakLeaf]

Oh, you can still buy slide rules, but try using them to do anything important. Just not precise enough. I was the last person in my chemistry class to use one ;) and my grades paid for it, lacking those last couple of digits of resolution.

[shootingstar]

It's fun hearing what you all think of as a long time ago.

I remember producing purple-blue stencil inked copies of the school newspaper on the school stencil-lithographing machine. You could smell the ink when there were alot of copies made. I was 12 yrs. old. Our school did not have a photocopier. Us, kids were given their test copies in class from this type of machinery.

Went to the oldest primary school in the county where our desks were wooden and the top lifted up where we could put our crayons, notebooks underneath. The mean/hurtful thing you could do was dropping the desk-lid on someone's hand.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

my mother still gets home milk delivery, it's not a thing of the past.
Yes, we get milk and cream in glass bottles delivered to our back kitchen porch form a local dairy.
Here's a picture of our old galvanized milk box the milkman puts the milk in (still has the original inner insulating layer):
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2636/3729317081_b512e3f9ea.jpg


I remember producing purple-blue stencil inked copies of the school newspaper on the school stencil-lithographing machine. You could smell the ink when there were alot of copies made. I was 12 yrs. old. Our school did not have a photocopier. Us, kids were given their test copies in class from this type of machinery.

Went to the oldest primary school in the county where our desks were wooden and the top lifted up where we could put our crayons, notebooks underneath. The mean/hurtful thing you could do was dropping the desk-lid on someone's hand.

I remember all this too! In the late 50's-early 60's. Everyone carved their names in those wooden desks. Those purple ink mimeograph machines that spun round and round! I read somewhere that the ink had either ether or formaldehyde in it, and was bad for you to smell it....but we kids all sniffed the stacks of purple-y paper like mad! :rolleyes:

I too remember 10 cent phone booth calls. The Staten Island ferry used to cost a nickel!!
Everyone was outraged when they hiked it to a dime.
I think the subway tokens were 15 cents the first I remember.

And in Greenwich Village when i was a little girl, just like Mimi remembers, the horse drawn Italian vegetable carts all up and down Bleecker St, the fish store with its bathtub full of writhing eels baskets of snails and crabs...and the ragman with his pony cart calling out "Rags! Rags!"
The knife sharpeners with their tiny pushcarts with the spinning grinding stones driven by foot pedal.
I was born too late for the Iceman who delivered ice for everyone's ice box- but my mother told me about that. To this day I sometimes call the fridge the 'ice box', having learned it from my mother.

Golly, I'm really sounding ANCIENT! =8-o

[Serendipity]

oh, my goodness, I remberm all of those!


I remember:

Trudeaumania-- Canada's sauve Prime Minister when he was a bachelor, had screaming women meeting him, rumours who he was dating, etc.

When Canada celebrated its centennial as a country in 1967, the children in our school were taught the theme song, there were sport activities which we were given special 100th birthday ribbons

When Neil Armstrong planted his foot on the moon in 1969.

When Paul Henderson scored the winning goal for 1972 Canada-Russia hockey games.



Shootingstar, do you remember the Centennial Train that went across Canada? Also remember dressing up in period costumes for the celebrations!

And....

Creamsiciles - they were soooo good and only 7 cents

buying bottles of pop - Orange Crush, I thjnk - from one of those vending machines that was actually bottles sitting in some sort of metal chest full of cold water...???
Can't remember how much it was, tho'!

[ASammy1]

I remember producing purple-blue stencil inked copies of the school newspaper on the school stencil-lithographing machine. You could smell the ink when there were alot of copies made.

I loved the smell of lithograph "copies!"

[OakLeaf]

I remember producing purple-blue stencil inked copies of the school newspaper on the school stencil-lithographing machine. You could smell the ink when there were alot of copies made. I was 12 yrs. old. Our school did not have a photocopier. Us, kids were given their test copies in class from this type of machinery.

Went to the oldest primary school in the county where our desks were wooden and the top lifted up where we could put our crayons, notebooks underneath. The mean/hurtful thing you could do was dropping the desk-lid on someone's hand.

Ha, why did I think you were older than I am? :p

I remember typing ditto masters. If you made a mistake, you corrected it by shaving the ink of the back of the master with a razor blade, then tearing off a corner of the backing paper to transfer the correction onto the master.

[shootingstar]

oh, my goodness, I remberm all of those!



Shootingstar, do you remember the Centennial Train that went across Canada? Also remember dressing up in period costumes for the celebrations!

I remember this Serendipity, going inside the Centennial Train looking at the historic educational exhibits, the Centennial fake coin as a memento, and the Centennial song with the guy on TV in commercials, who played some sort of Pied Piper role by leading chanting children singing in unison, 'CAAANADAA, one, two, three, happy Canadians. We love thee....' I was taught this song during that year. I genuinely felt patriotic at that time.

I was also taught in school, the pacifist song, during the Vietnam War era: "How many times must..." Written by aboriginal (native Indian) singer, Buffy Saint-Marie, later popularized by Bob Dylan.

[Serendipity]

I remember typing ditto masters. If you made a mistake, you corrected it by shaving the ink of the back of the master with a razor blade, then tearing off a corner of the backing paper to transfer the correction onto the master.

Yep - and we thought we were sooo technically advanced! :)

[Fredwina]

Some more
I remember being upset that the pre-empted Cartoons for JFK's funeral:rolleyes:
I remember playing in hotel pool with my brother when dad came down to get us os we could watch the moon landing
and we didn't need a container for the milk, if we weren't there, The milkman would let himself in the house and put it in the fridge :eek:
The reason I know the paper man car (aside from the fact it was unusual) the paper came about 4 in the afternoon

[Selkie]

In most areas, it seems that having milk delivered is a thing of the past but it does appear to be making a comeback, at least where I live. We have ours delivered from a creamery that is out Zen's way--comes once a week. But we are paying a premium, of course, for getting milk for a local farmer. Worth it.

[Crankin]

You can still get milk delivery here, too.
I used mimeographs until 1992, when I was teaching. Before I moved here, I worked in a large HS in Mesa, AZ, where there was a copy center. Students did all of the work for the teachers and there were copy machines. Came back here and teachers weren't "allowed" to use the copy machine! So for 2 years, I had purple hands.
Once I started teaching in Shrewsbury, in 92, they had more "modern" stuff and copying wasn't a problem.
I still like creamesicles, though I am sure they cost more than 7 cents.

[sundial]

I remember sniffing freshly mimeographed stuff our teacher would pass out in class. :D

[newfsmith]

I remember getting work sheets and tests that were copied on a "hectograph" which was two frames hinged together like a book. One side was filled with a gel, the other closed to hold the paper tightly to the gel. The origianal was made with a special pencil, the gel was moistened, original pressed on the moistened gel for a few minutes and then removed. Then the blanks were pressed onto the gel and some of the "ink" transferred to the paper. It was only good for maybe 10 copies, but that was enough in our one room school with max enrollment of 14.

I remember our pick-up truck with the key anchored to the steering column by a leather throng so it wouldn't get lost.

I remember when we got an electric well pump and no longer were dependent on the wind to get water.

I remember Mom's excitement when we got a clothes dryer for the first time. She didn't get an automatic washer until I had my first child, using a wringer washer most of her life.