Are you old enough to remember...

[MoodyBlues]

Dentists not using gloves?

 

[LGee3]

Dentists not using gloves?

And they were mean too...

 

[LGee3]

....remember when there were only 2 kinds of Marlboro's ?

 

[mikedt]

....remember when there were only 2 kinds of Marlboro's ?

There still is in this country....
Marlboro produced by State Tobacco Monopoly Administration and China National Tobacco Corporation under license from Philip Morris. Cheap.
Marlboro via black market/grey market import. Expensive.

 

[LGee3]

There still is in this country....
Marlboro produced by State Tobacco Monopoly Administration and China National Tobacco Corporation under license from Philip Morris. Cheap.
Marlboro via black market/grey market import. Expensive.

There are maybe 12 different Marlboro blends these days. And yes, expensive. I stopped cigs back in 2003 and was smoke free til last year when I bought a 'Gentleman's pipe' and now puff on that with my coffee in the mornings. I use Paladin black cherry tobacco.

 

[MoodyBlues]

I use Paladin black cherry tobacco.

I love the smell of black cherry pipe tobacco.

(And I'm as anti-smoking as they come.)

 

[LGee3]

I love the smell of black cherry pipe tobacco.

(And I'm as anti-smoking as they come.)

My grandfather smoked a pipe and Paladin black cherry... Somehow I feel I am channeling him when I light up and smell the aroma of the smoke.

 

[lunatic59]

I am old enough to both remember and forget dentists not wearing gloves.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

I didn't go to the dentist very often when I was young. Probably accounts for why I don't have many teeth left now. The only time I remember from back then was in about 4th grade. The boys in my grade decided to try pile on sledding with a flattened out cardboard box. I was last. I missed and went upper palate first into thick ice covered snow.

Anybody remember the Ice man?

 

[Unforgiven]

We had a milk man. I remember at 3 or 4 years old sitting in the front seat because that had a seat belt. Meanwhile my older siblings slide side to side in the seat beltless massive rear bench seat on every corner.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Close BUT the Iceman delivered his product with tongs.

 

[MoodyBlues]

When doctors made house calls? (I'm not.)

 

[MoodyBlues]

...or masks?

Or dental dams?

 

[olbriar]

I too smoke a pipe. I started the habit when when I was in grade school and never looked back. I remember when a pound of quality tobacco cost 10 bucks. I remember when cigs could be had out of a vending machine for a quarter a pack. By the carton they were just over two bucks. Matches could be struck on anything. Very few brands had filters. An ashtray at the end of every isle in every store.

There was no McDonalds but when they came to town burgers were a dime and fries were twelve cents. All male staff and there was no going in. You ordered from their window and ate in your car. The food was hot and fresh and served quickly. Hamburger, cheeseburger, one size of fries, one size of soft drink, and vanilla or chocolate shake was their menu.

I certainly remember the dentist not wearing gloves as well as my family doctor coming to the house. Gar was seventeen cents a gallon then.

I remember when soda pop first came out in a can, when they came out with the pull top, and the pop top. I still have a can of beer that takes a church key to open it. I remember when TV dinners hit the market. Two cent deposit on cola bottles. Helping unload pickup trucks of produce at the market for a watermelon. You picked out the meat you wanted and the butcher would take it from the case and wrap it up and mark a price on the paper. A bar code was you never took someone's stool and you put a nickle in the jukebox now and then.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

^^^He's older than me^^^

I loved pull top cans though. A razorblade on a ring.

I missed coal heating. I thought those stalls in the basement were for horses.

...Westerns dominating Primetime TV?

 

[MoodyBlues]

^^^He's older than me^^^

He's older than me, too--and since I'm older than dirt, what does that make him?

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Dream Weaver?

 

[MoodyBlues]

When gas stations had attendants, dressed in crisp uniforms with hats, who ran out to greet you/your parents, filled your tank, checked your oil and tire pressure, and washed your windshield?

 

[olbriar]

Older than Dirt² here. When I was first driving there were stations that still offered full service. They charged a couple of cents more per gallon of gas for their services. If you owned a car with questionable tires (me) it was a bargain to have them air up the tires now and then.

I have purchased gas that was dispensed from a glass top pump. They turned a handle which pumped the gas up into the glass top that was a graduated cylinder marking gallons.
Once the amount you were purchasing was reached, they stuck the nozzle in the tank and pulled the lever and gravity drained the glass cylinder into your tank. I'm sure the term pumping gas was spawned by these old pumps. Regular or Ethyl was your choice of gas back in the fifties/sixties.

 

[Milo Willamson]

When doctors made house calls? (I'm not.)

One of my grandmothers friends was a house doctor, he helped me diagnosed on what was going on, before diagnostics with GERD, simply mistaken as a stomach flu.