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

I remember inventing cardboard just so OWB would have something to play with...

 

IR= Charlie Starkweather and Carol Ann Fugate. And Kathy Fiscus.

 

65 and going strong ( more or less)

 

I'm so old I remember life before The Simpsons.

 

I remember when the word remember was invented.

 

I remember life before language. It sure was hard getting your point across.

 

I remember Vinko Bogataj. (guess this one)

 

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

 

Ya thats the safest way as a microwave can leave parts of it TOO HOT and it destroys the milk also........

 

I remember when most people in my town didn't lock their car doors while shopping. If someone accidentally left their lights on when they went into a store, someone else would reach into the car and turn them off as they walked by.

 

when this same topic didnt appear on every site I visit..

 

Ah man!!

 

i'm so old i remember, before there were such things as websites, or an internet,
when it was a frequent topic of conversation, for anyone old enough to be earning their own keep, when they'd already exhausted the weather, and couldn't think of anything else to say.

 

Clove and Blackjack gum. Renting a three bedroom house in 1964 for 65 bucks.

 

the house we moved into in colfax (california) in 1957, when i was 9 years old, was 60 dollars a month. in 64 we (meaning my dad. there was just him, my mom, and me) bought (mortgaged actually of course) a half acre with two cabins a toolshed, and an enclosed parking shelter on it. cash value $6,700.00. in those days $20k was a more typical house, and for $80k, you could buy the kind of mansion that runs more then a couple of million today.
when we moved in there was oil heat, which we replaced with propane. septic tanks. too far from city sewer. all of which was typical for the area. the water main was down the side of the hill, and we had to have our own pump to pump it up to the house. it was fun living there, even though we didn't have a car, and it was half a mile walk into town. i had the smaller of the two cabins mostly to myself. the school bus stopped down hill from the house and the others nearby. so i only had to walk to school if i missed it. but if i did, then, yes, it was that imfamous three miles, give or take, because the high school was a couple of miles further the other side of town.

there was still 200 dollar an acre land at lake tahoe. you could still homestead b.l.m. land, or lease it for a dollar an acre a year, on a 99 year lease. that was over in nevada where i am now.
in california, land itself, depending on how bit the parcel, but anything 20 acres or more, was less then 350 an acre, and more then a couple of miles from town, less then 150.
so in 1960, five acres and subsistence, two or three acres of vegetable garden, a greenhouse, half a dozen laying hens, and maybe a couple of goats or something,
and build your own tar paper gedesic dome, still made vary practical sense.

 

I am not depressed anymore

 

I'm so old I forgot....

 

I'm so old that I remember my parents telling me that they bought their first house for $5,000.

 

Seriously, one of my earliest memories is 15th August 1945, VP Day.

Saw 'The Fighting Lady' in 1944.

A long ride in a 'horse and sulky' in what must have been about 1943.

A man digging a BIG bombshelter in his back yard, and that MUST have been about August 1942. Any later, and it would have not have been considered necessary.