topic Re: A New Game For A New Year, Everyone Can Play in Our Front Porch

A New Game For A New Year, Everyone Can Play

Loulit — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 23:53:25 GMT

I Am So Old...

(this is the theme)

I remember during ballads at concerts people held up Bic lighters instead of smartphones.

(No politics!)

Re: A New Game For A New Year, Everyone Can Play

DaveMcK — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 01:16:41 GMT

I Am So Old ...

I remember having milk in a glass bottle at school with a paper stopper.

Re: A New Game For A New Year, Everyone Can Play

Loulit — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 06:07:49 GMT

If I wanted this under our front porch I would have put it under our front porch. Please put it back where I know people and they know me.

The topic is politics and current events. The new year is a current event.

People there don't always get along well so I thought this might lighten the mood. Geez.

Re: A New Game For A New Year, Everyone Can Play

EricC28201 — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 12:23:30 GMT

I remember when gasoline cost less than a dollar a gallon...Every Day.

...Gotta add...this topic could be really good for Politics and Society...It would be a record of social changes and If it catches on as a long running topic it could serve to build a sense of community. Why not give it a try and if trolls run amuck then, maybe, consider moving it....but at least give it a chance.

Re: A New Game For A New Year, Everyone Can Play

EricC28201 — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 12:26:53 GMT

I remember when the city used to put public-use barrels of rock salt on neighborhood street corners in the winter.

...Gotta add...this topic could be really good for Politics and Current Events...It would be a record of social changes and If it catches on as a long running topic it could serve to build a sense of community. Why not give it a try and if trolls run amuck then, maybe, consider moving it....but at least give it a chance.

Re: A New Game For A New Year, Everyone Can Play

MMinSoCal — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 22:43:28 GMT

I Am So Old ...

I remember another use for the pencil...to wind cassette tapes.

Re: A New Game For A New Year, Everyone Can Play

Loulit — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 01:17:59 GMT

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Right! That was the plan. That's why I wrote (No Politics!). But they moved it because they missed the point.

I even removed my political sig line before posting just to play nice. There was a chance to get everyone in that category on the same page. But they blew.

Re: A New Game For A New Year, Everyone Can Play

EricC28201 — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 13:29:02 GMT

I'm so old...

I remember when phones numbers really had to be dialed.

Re: A New Game For A New Year, Everyone Can Play

ManicProgressive — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 14:11:48 GMT

I am so old I remember when cars only had:

am radios

one side mirror on the driver's side

the original push button starts for cars -- that little primer button that put some gas in the carburetor.

lock-free gas caps, before the gas crisis and locking gas caps became a thing.

two keys -- one ignition and one door.

Re: A New Game For A New Year, Everyone Can Play

TxGrandpa2 — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 14:28:01 GMT

@EricC28201 wrote:
I remember when gasoline cost less than a dollar a gallon...Every Day.

How about regularly around 29¢, or as low as 10¢ during gas wars...seen any of those lately?

Re: A New Game For A New Year, Everyone Can Play

TxGrandpa2 — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 14:31:08 GMT

Remember "number please" when you picked up the handset?

Re: A New Game For A New Year, Everyone Can Play

ManicProgressive — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 14:33:46 GMT

@TxGrandpa2 wrote:
@EricC28201 wrote:
I remember when gasoline cost less than a dollar a gallon...Every Day.

How about regularly around 29¢, or as low as 10¢ during gas wars...seen any of those lately?

The cheapest I ever saw was 54 cents around 1980.

Re: A New Game For A New Year, Everyone Can Play

TxGrandpa2 — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 15:17:42 GMT

This was in the late 1950's. One station was always in gas wars....and they gave trading stamps, with double for fill-ups... Remember trading stamps (S&H stamps and Top Value stamps. When stationed in the DC area I worked part-time when off-duty in one of the Top Value redemption centers.

Re: A New Game For A New Year, Everyone Can Play

ChasKy53 — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 15:19:36 GMT

I remember asking the operator to "please connect me to" .........

Re: A New Game For A New Year, Everyone Can Play

Loulit — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 15:30:14 GMT

I remember people with sports cars would buy tires with raised white letters:

Goodyear Eagle GT

Firestone Wide Oval

BF Goodrich Radial T/A

Re: A New Game For A New Year, Everyone Can Play

MMinSoCal — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 17:47:57 GMT

...by rotary dial, even before the push-button kind ones.

Re: A New Game For A New Year, Everyone Can Play

EricC28201 — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 18:36:15 GMT

I remember when the Channel Selector on the TV only went to 10

Re: A New Game For A New Year, Everyone Can Play

EricC28201 — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 18:44:47 GMT

A friend and I used to hang out at the local grocery store and collect Bascarts that were left in the parking lot. We returned them and pushed them through a machine that gave us Top Value trading stamps. When we had collected enough we would trade them in for tickets to the local amusement park.

Re: A New Game For A New Year, Everyone Can Play

MMinSoCal — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 18:51:55 GMT

I Am So Old...

I remember high-fashion to be bell-bottoms, the wider the more fashionable. Today, skin-tight is in, and my doctor just refuses to endorse them as a substitute for compression stockings. 😖

Re: A New Game For A New Year, Everyone Can Play

NOTHAPPENING — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 19:31:12 GMT

I remember and I also had a party line (4 lines interconnected with different rings) - honor system - no listening!