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Thursday with some late Valentine ones.
I remember all of these and a few more:
- Turning the crank on a 78 RPM record player to listen to a record. We also had a player piano, put on a roll and pump the pedals.
- An attendant filling my tank at a Chevron/Standard station for 24.9¢ a gallon. Before I was old enough to drive I recall seeing prices as low as 13.9¢ a gallon.
- The soda machines with bottle required that you stayed there to drink it or pay a 3¢ deposit. We had more than a few after school gatherings hanging around a gas station back then.
jtk
Jim,
You got me on this one :)
But I remember every one of the line items and bought gas at 24.9 cents per gallon except for gas wars when gas was 17 cents per gallon.
I still own my Akai reel to reel tape deck, used it a couple of weeks ago.
I still have the last rotary phone from my parents home in Hampton (PA-20106) then we had a party line phone when we moved to Gloucester County.
Pop bottles were three cents and liter bottles were a nickel. Didn't take long to find enough bottles in roadside ditches to take to the grocery store and have enough money to go to the movies on Saturday.
Mickey Mantle gave Pete Rose his nickname (Charley Hustle) when the Yankees lost to the Reds.
My first computer had a cassette tape drive, no hard drive or floppy disk. Programs were loaded into ram before I could run them with only 640 K of ram. I had a 200 baud modem and could log into local bulletin boards. Black screen with green text no graphics.
Times have surely changed :)
Sillies for Sunday
Presentations for Monday's Presidents
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Just truckin' along.
A few for Thursday.