Remember when...

[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):

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

[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?

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
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.

[sundial]

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

[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.