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

in the 50s and 60s, thanks to mccarthyism it was quite popular to build fallout shelters. i remember duck and cover when i was in grade school.

 

I remember my Gramma sitting in a raised platform a mile out of town watching for airplanes during and after the 2nd world war. A couple of hours and someone else would show up to sit. I remember ration stamps with pictures of jeeps and tanks on them. I remember tanks rumbling through the streets in Oakland California heading for the harbor to be shipped overseas.(I may remember writing this in here or somewhere else before) I remember duck and cover too.

 

i would have loved to have seen the east bay in the time you mention.
i'm just old enough to have seen the last days of the key system, when it was on the lower deck of the bay bridge.
never got to ride it because my dad's pass was good on the ferry boats that were still running and he liked those.
ww2 was my dad's war. but i wasn't born until 1948. he was 27 and my mom was 28 by the time i was.

i remember before there was fed ex and ups, there was railway express agency.

the sacramento division of the southern pacific just ran from roseville to sparks and up to marysville.
the western pacific still ran the california zypher and the zypherette up the feather river canyon.
101 and 102, 27 and 28, and 21 and 22, all ran into the oakland mole to catch the ferry boats
as did 17 and 18 (the wp's cz)

would really have loved to have seen and rode the sacramento northern and the nevada county narrow gauge,
both of which were still going less then a decade before i was born.

i remember edward r murrow doing a special on the liquid cooled univac computer when it was the latest technology,
and still too expense for even many good sized companies to afford.

i remember wanting to have my own computer to play with from then on, and no one really understanding what a computer was,
that a calculator wasn't, or why anyone would want one, for at least another 20 years. well into the 70s.

 

I remember when my yesterday's were only 24 hours ago

 

I remember when the girls in my neighborhood used to ask me if I wanted to hide and show--'ta-tas'. I'm not easy--but I usually gave in.

 

Driving to Colorado with friends in an old Metro Van and if a gas station had gas for 25 cents, pointing and saying, "look they're price gouging".

 

When there where telephone party lines and phone numbers had a two letter prefix like BR (Broadway) or CL (Clifford) and when our phone number went from BR-8994 to CL5-8994.

 

Right. We had a phone box on the wall with a crank on the side. You turned it and an operator would come on and ask what number you wanted. My friends' # was 101W and mine was 354R. Also--you never knew who might be listening in.

 

Party lines, black and white tv, milk man, penny candy :daisy:

 

I remember floppy discs.

 

Just as a side point, my grandmother went west in a covered wagon and lived long enough to see men stand on the moon.

Talk about culture shock.

 

Thanx!

 

I remember doing A-Bomb drills by hiding under your desk, like that would really be effective.

 

OWB,

My grandfather came out to Australia in a sailing ship (Eurydice) at the age of 8 in 1883.

I took 5 months.

 

I remember owning a Timex Sinclair 1000.

 

Oooooh, tape drive. Do you remember having to adjust the head on your tape recorder so the "computer" could read the programs on the tape? Like you said ...Dee Lux!