In my day ...

[olbriar]

Me three... many other things that didn't make the list. Use a skate key, five cent calls from a phone booth, listening to radio shows, mowing grass with a reel push mower, nickel juke box.. three plays for a dime, strike anywhere matches, 78 rpm records, drugstore tube tester, residential streets of sand with no streetlights, cola from the fountain of syrup and carbonated water.... the list is endless when you think about it.

 

[Milo Willamson]

I'll agree with ya there. My generation is one of the earlier generations that were failed by the system in the manner of not being taught to think things through. We were taught how to find information but not to think. I learned that by starting to work at the age of 8. The modern US education system merely teaches the younger generations to simply regurgitate info. And firmly refuses to give any guidance about how to think through a real scenario.

I also had to memorized certian patterns inside different puzzles and learning them on my own too, even Math and everything, I did volenteer cleaning after my Church''s dinners that was about oh duration of the fall and spring time, it seems to me like every other week or something of that matter, and I respected everyone.

 

[BrickHouse]

I suppose I'm also in the 21 group...or maybe 22, as in addition to S&H Green Stamps, we also had Gold Bond Stamps, so we used both. I enjoyed going to the Gold Bond redemption center and looking for the great items.

You got me there. I haven't heard of Gold Bond before.

 

[BrickHouse]

I'd get 21, as well.

I remember gum balls at a penny each. 3 for 2 pennies, 8 for a nickel.

 

[The_Chief]

We would spend all day riding our bikes around town; looking for discarded Coke bottles we could return to the store for the 5-cents deposit each; and buy Bazooka bubble gum for 2 cents apiece and Mary Janes for a penny. We would be gone until the streetlights came on... no one worried about us, freaked out over us, or could even get in touch with us. It was the last great American generation and, at the time, we had no idea.

 

[olbriar]

We would spend all day riding our bikes around town; looking for discarded Coke bottles we could return to the store for the 5-cents deposit each; and buy Bazooka bubble gum for 2 cents apiece and Mary Janes for a penny. We would be gone until the streetlights came on... no one worried about us, freaked out over us, or could even get in touch with us. It was the last great American generation and, at the time, we had no idea.

I was returning bottles for two cents. It was common practice to jump the fence in back of the grocery store and toss bottles to your buddy and selling the bottles back to the store again.

We would hang out near the grocery store and offload produce from the farmer's pickups. We would get to keep some produce for our effort. We played baseball in the empty field that was basically across the street. When a truck backed up to the back of the store, the game was in a produce delay.

How many of you youngsters made your own kites? Played war with tops? Played marbles? How about the nightly game of kick the can? Fox and rabbits in the snow?

 

[BrickHouse]

I was returning bottles for two cents. It was common practice to jump the fence in back of the grocery store and toss bottles to your buddy and selling the bottles back to the store again.

We would hang out near the grocery store and offload produce from the farmer's pickups. We would get to keep some produce for our effort. We played baseball in the empty field that was basically across the street. When a truck backed up to the back of the store, the game was in a produce delay.

How many of you youngsters made your own kites? Played war with tops? Played marbles? How about the nightly game of kick the can? Fox and rabbits in the snow?

The stores in our area caught onto us pretty quick. Then we had to find other sources for that venue. (Reselling the returned bottles) I didn't run with the sporty crowd, we played tag in a stand of trees, war games with BB guns, pellet guns, sling shots and wrist rockets. Built rafts to enjoy the water bodies near by and running from the bulls in the fields we crossed to get some of the places we enjoyed was more than a sport for me.

 

[olbriar]

The stores in our area caught onto us pretty quick. Then we had to find other sources for that venue. (Reselling the returned bottles) I didn't run with the sporty crowd, we played tag in a stand of trees, war games with BB guns, pellet guns, sling shots and wrist rockets. Built rafts to enjoy the water bodies near by and running from the bulls in the fields we crossed to get some of the places we enjoyed was more than a sport for me.

That sounds like a great childhood to me. I lived on the last West street of my addition. There was nothing but trees and then fields beyond. They bulldozed all of trees down and piled them up to burn. The economy must have soured about that time for the pile of trees remained a major play toy for a couple of years. King on the mountain was great. Deep in the pile were a couple of well hidden forts. It was a sad day when they torched that pile.

 

[Rico ANDROID]

Well! In MYYYY day , we didnt have to "rent/steam" music by subscription..... we OWNED it .... and all that for 1CENT
(..... then a collection acgency got the rest.. 😆)

 

[The_Chief]

Even purchased content on streaming services is at the mercy of the service: the service can pull that content offline at any time, for any reason. The buyer has no recourse because that's in the terms & conditions they agreed to (usually without ever reading them). That's why I buy physical media: DVDs and Blu-rays. Our player is offline and not connected. Why? Ad fillers. You put a 20-year old DVD in a connected player and you'll get previews for 5 or 6 upcoming movies! I didn't buy the disc to watch commercials for new crap. You know what, though? Any time we want to watch that movie, we don't have to go online, access our paid content, and hope something is still there. We pop in the disc and enjoy my homemade popcorn.

 

[Milo Willamson]

Even purchased content on streaming services is at the mercy of the service: the service can pull that content offline at any time, for any reason. The buyer has no recourse because that's in the terms & conditions they agreed to (usually without ever reading them). That's why I buy physical media: DVDs and Blu-rays. Our player is offline and not connected. Why? Ad fillers. You put a 20-year old DVD in a connected player and you'll get previews for 5 or 6 upcoming movies! I didn't buy the disc to watch commercials for new crap. You know what, though? Any time we want to watch that movie, we don't have to go online, access our paid content, and hope something is still there. We pop in the disc and enjoy my homemade popcorn.

And it is yours, without purchasing anything from Google TV!

 

[Milo Willamson]

Even purchased content on streaming services is at the mercy of the service: the service can pull that content offline at any time, for any reason. The buyer has no recourse because that's in the terms & conditions they agreed to (usually without ever reading them). That's why I buy physical media: DVDs and Blu-rays. Our player is offline and not connected. Why? Ad fillers. You put a 20-year old DVD in a connected player and you'll get previews for 5 or 6 upcoming movies! I didn't buy the disc to watch commercials for new crap. You know what, though? Any time we want to watch that movie, we don't have to go online, access our paid content, and hope something is still there. We pop in the disc and enjoy my homemade popcorn.

And it is yours, without purchasing anything from Google TV!

Well! In MYYYY day , we didnt have to "rent/steam" music by subscription..... we OWNED it .... and all that for 1CENT
(..... then a collection acgency got the rest.. 😆)


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Had a lot of them, and still have the copies of my albums too!