[Fun] I'm So Old I Remember....

I remember having personalized water bottles in the refrigerator.

They were empty glass coke bottles with our initials written on the outside with fingernail polish.

 

My 1970 Trans Am would be about 3 times that amount... If I had kept it.


One of my '67 Olds 442 (I had three at the same time) would be worth over $100,000.00.... It was a 2 door sedan, not the typical 2 door coupe. There was something like less than 500 made that way.


I also had a '64 Chevelle SS ragtop, with AC and a 327.... Special ordered by a guy that worked for GM management, that was the only way to get that combo. I have no idea what that car would be worth today. More than my house I would imagine.



I had a lot of other cool cars but they were rather common, although hot rodded.

 

Speaking of Valiants---forgot the 64 convertable I had in Florida. Used it for a beach car. Forgot what I did with it. And my 99 Dodge pickup which our company still has. As I said-
more than I remember.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYGHLyQ2rQk

 

i'm so old i remember not being a second class citizen if you didn't own a car.
and not being immobilized by the lack of one, even if you lived in some of the smallest, most remote and rural of places.

 

what is a church key?

some old homes here had skeleton key type locks...usually stamped corbin..is that what you call a church key?

 

that was the era i grew up in too. the 1950s and well into the 60s.
you could open both ends of a can to not waste anything.
microwave ovens didn't exist. not as a mass produced consumer item anyway.
you could cook on gas or electric or wood or coal. gas was the best because it didn't go down with the power lines if a big storm came along.
and electronics was all analog, and mostly vacuum tubes.
the only things digital were mechanical relays and diodes or entirely mechanical consisting of gears and cams.
plastics were starting to come in during the 60s. but i remember cast 'pot-metal as well as tinplate.
it was almost as versitile as the later engineering plastics, but didn't generally take as fine detail when cast.
but could be machined where finer detail was required.
we didn't have acc adhiesives yet either, just duco and ambroid and of course elmers and library paste and hot glues that had to be melted to be applied.
instead we had potter's wheels and lead casting kits,
and cameras had film that had to be developed.
but you could turn in your exposed roles and get the prints and negatives back in about a week or week and a half at the drug store.

a "curch key" is what people called a can and bottle opener.
it had a pointed end with a dongly bit you hooked under the edge of the can to make the pointy end pierce the top of the can.
pull tab cans were another thing that didn't exist yet, for little furry wild things to choke on,
and those plastic rings for six packs for them to get their heads stuck in didn't exist yet either.
six, and other multiple bottle or can packages were made of cardboard, that surrounded them and had a handle.
the other end of the church key was rounded, also with the little snaggy hook bit, for popping the caps of the glass bottles carbonated beverages came in.

(it was called a church key, because, you know, how churches didn't like the idea of people getting drunk or stoned, and i guess some people considered a bottle or can their "church")

 

ok that makes sense

we have some of those still but we call them can openers

 

yes

but we still call it a can opener here


i generally only use it on apple juice tins

 

Ok-let's settle this....lemme tell y'all about being REALLY old.

I'm so crumbly I can remember a time WITHOUT iphones!
Without ipads,ipods and without bloody silly watches that laugh at you as they tell you how far you just ran to miss the bus anyway!
Yes,there WAS such a time-a time without poxy 'points cards' to produce at checkouts so you can gather enough points to get sfa worth having!
A time when footwear was done up with laces,not fkn Velcro!
Yep....all this was - ooooh,well I forget now [coz I'm so old] but it was a different century,waaaaaaay back when birds sang rather than coughed.

....but the SADDEST thing is - I remember when farts were dry.........#sigh#.......

 

every railroad station had a western union teletype machine. punched paper tape readers and punches were an option on western union (baudaugh) teletype machines.
continental trailways was the 'other' intercity bus company
wells cargo opperated interstate trucking as well as selling cargo trailers
you could get a real meal in the dining car on an intercity train
an outfit car was a freight or passenger railroad car that the railroad had converted into employee housing
and you didn't need a building permit if you lived out in the woods. even some small towns didn't require them.

 

It was called a church key because people used them to open beer bottles and cans before pop tops and twist lids.

 

My first car was a 54 Chevy convertible with an in line 6 cylinder and one of the first automatic transmissions:

 

i remeber when no one needed a car, unless they lived so far from civilization they needed a jeep!
and population was less then a quarter of what it is now, even in the crowded places.

and freedom existed, because not everything had to be owned.

 

When LSD was (English) Currency

( = One for the Old Brits there)

 

Oh,Wolfie...I remember when a perch AND a rod,were both land measurements and a 3/8th spanner undid everything on a car!

 

I'm so old I remember when


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