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I remember when I was about 7 years old our family was fishing at San Carlos lake, a lady was paying my brother and sisters and me a penny apiece for these. She was using them as evidence to get them banned. As the fish would swallow them and die.
Opened many a beverage with church key before the 'easy open' cans came around. Anybody else remember the commercials featuring LARGE football players who demonstrated them by ripping off the whole top
I'm old enough to remember when the Nationwide Insurance jingle was..."The man from Nationwide is on your side"...not todays..."Nationwide is on your side."
I remember my first experience with a "party line" phone. I was young enough that I'd never answered a phone. We were visiting family on their farm near Boone, NC. Everybody was outdoors and I ran inside for something. When I got there I heard the phone ringing and answered it since I didn't understand the different rings for the different phones on the line. After we did the "wrong number" thing I hung up and it rang again. Being a good little kid I answered it again. I just couldn't understand why they kept calling the wrong number.
How old am I? When The Flintstones first aired, we just called it "the news".
I remember all of it and we were still using rotary phones to boot.
In 1998 I was in Dallas at eurocopter school, I drove down to Houston for the weekend to see my sister and brother in law. My brother in law was an engineer at nasa so I got the private tour of just about everything. we were hanging out in Houston central, and all the phones were rotary phones, no budget for new phones.
I did get to fly the shuttle simulator and operate the robotic arm to load cargo.
i remember party lines.
and home milk delivery in glass bottles.
and buying a quart of beer in a returnable wax coated cardboard carton for 25 cents.
and paying 17 cents a gallon for gas for the lawn mower.
and when i started driving 21 cents a gallon. i could fill the tank on my 59 pontiac catalina for under $5, and still have change left over to buy 2 bottles of coke from the ice chest, 2 ice cream sandwichs, and movie entry for me and my girlfriend.
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