Remember when...

[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):

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!

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

[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?

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.

[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
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
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.