Remember when?

Remember when there was one phone company and you could call an operator

 

Remember when gas was 18 to 24 cents a gallon? (of course not many do)

 

High test was 25 cents...

 

Silver dollars were actually made from silver

 

The Technotronic jam 1989

 

Anyone remember Delaware Punch?

 

Late 1950’s early 1960’s ?

 

Yes and there were gas wars then too that would bring gas prices way down to 18 cents.

 

That has me rolling hotwater ...hilarious

 

And before vhs there were beta tapes

beta tapes were the HD of vhs

 

before there were either format of video cassettes, there were reel to reel video portapacks. with seperate cameras, and you had to carry both, and a tuner box besides,
and the cameras were as fidgitty as studio cameras and not as much lighter as you might wish. 'live coverage' of the kennidy election was made with them.
first time this was ever televised.

 

Here's a book from 1962... I can't remember it at the moment, but what I read was interesting.... I'm obsessed with comparing, especially time capsules, instead of the big events everyone talks about. I like zeitgeist. I want to know how an average day was like pre-1980s

If anyone is interested, I'll look for the title of the book. I do know I found a copy on archives.org

 

Remember when you were young?
You shone like the sun

I miss great music, even though I wasn't alive.. But I still find some 70s "deep tracks" from time to time, or expand on what I already know (solo albums, etc)

 

frequently been the accusers whom the shoe best fits. and yes, there's pretty much always been at least one. the names and faces change from one election cycle to the next.

 

yes, but you couldn't connect a modem unless you leased one of their's at the rediculaous rates they wanted.

the only way, almost right up until the internet were those 300 baud acoustical couplers.
the birth of the popularity of personal computing ultimately lead to the break up of ma bell's monopoly.
bell labs was a good and useful thing in its time though.

 

How much did that cost at the time $29.99, $39.99. upwards of $69.99?