Remember When......

[Backbeach Jake]

When you never pumped your own gas? And the guy who did it for you cleaned your windshield? You couldn't put 40$ of regular in a car? And when you bought a tank of gas you got a premium, glasses, toys or something. For 39.9reg. and 43.9 hightest.

[justplugit]

When you put a piece of cardboard in the bottom of your shoes to cover the hole in the soles to get a couploa more years wear outa them.

No area or zip code #'s.

Wonder bread was for the poor and Peppridge Farm was for the rich.

Ya borrowed your friends sport jacket for the yearbook picture.

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no answering machines or caller id
when did credit cards come into the scene?
when phone #'s started with letters like Plaza or Linden I remember my # as a kid LI-5-3728.
when they used hand held wet leather as a drag on reels
Smelt fishing off the barges @ the Boston Sand & Gravel plant in Scituate,Ma with a 4 way spread W/ shrimp , and a bamboo pole and you could fill the bucket in 30 min.
coffee 10 cents
when you could hitch hike ,I hitch hiked everywhere,
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[justplugit]

Originally Posted by missing link

when did credit cards come into the scene?

ML, i believe they started to be available to Joe Public around 1960.

Ya Wonderbread, wouldn't be alive without it.

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FIX A FLAT
Triple AAA
parachutes when you jumped out of a plane you fell to your DEATH thank's to the inventor of these your safe now hopefully? what about the life raft was there a random piece of wood around you could float on
oh yea SUNSCREEN who had that my mum used baby oil on me had blisters so bad my T shirts had to be cut up the middle so I could put them on

[Redsoxticket]

doctor house calls

[Raider Ronnie]

Sunday was a day of rest , church , family, ect....
Now it's another work day for lots.

Also,
The Radiers kicked ass every week and the Pats were a joke !

[BigFish]

Remember when you used to have to......

Get up to change the channel on the TV?

Had just a black and white TV?

Had no TV.....just radio???

When there was only channel 2,4,5,6,7,25,38 and 56?

[stripersnipr]

Originally Posted by missing link

when phone #'s started with letters like Plaza or Linden I remember my # as a kid LI-5-3728.
Smelt fishing off the barges @ the Boston Sand & Gravel plant in Scituate,Ma with a 4 way spread W/ shrimp , and a bamboo pole and you could fill the bucket in 30 min.

Blast from the past. And dont forget Dr. Bailey being the first responder to every car accident in town in her big Plymouth.

Linden - 5- 3298.

[Raven]

grandfather clock
mr greenjeans

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[QUOTE=justplugit;523323

Wonder bread was for the poor and Peppridge Farm was for the rich. :hihi[/QUOTE]

MY wife loved this she's from the projects in Waterbury,ct and very poor
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