You might be older than dirt if you remember..

[ticklishscribe]

The death of actor Errol Flynn. c 1959, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

 

[Vanillaphant]

I’ll tell you what I want
What I really, really want
So tell me what you want
What you really, really want
I wanna – huh
I wanna – huh
I wanna – huh
I wanna – huh
I wanna really, really, really wanna
Point out that this is factually incorrect...

"Wannabe" by the Spice Girls is a quarter century old.

Chorus!
If you wanna be my lover...

Oh boy. lol I apologize for this post!

 

[desdemona]

Walkie Talkies. CB radio. VHS tapes. The original Muppet Show. Sonny and Cher. Hee Haw. Bobby Goldsboro.

 

[shark]

Stuff I still have...
rotary phone
windmill drill
yankee drill
LPS
soldering iron..the old type where the tip determined the heat
duxseal
45 records
slide projectors


Things I remember
chloroethane..great insecticide
28 cents a gallon gas
10 cent phone calls
50 cent draft beer
8 track tapes
star drills

 

[Mrcool]

Hearing about the Altair 8800 in a magazine thing holy fuck were in the future but remebering this was the mid 70's and relizing the chances of my parents buying me the Altair 8800 was quite slim

 

[chicago]

Taking oatmeal baths when you had chicken pox as a kid.

 

[Bugman]

Huntley and Brinkley.

Watching these broadcasts live.

 

[arachnid95]

Taking oatmeal baths when you had chicken pox as a kid.

Ewww, what? Is that a thing people actually had to do...? I've never heard of that before! XD

 

[chicago]

Ewww, what? Is that a thing people actually had to do...? I've never heard of that before! XD

http://m.wikihow.com/Make-an-Oatmeal-Bath



My grandma grew up just after the depression so I guess maybe it's a bit older than dirt. When I had chicken pox as a kid, my mom or granny would fill a sock with oatmeal and tie it around the bathtub faucet. When the water would run, it would go through the sock. It was supposed to calm the skin and be gentle in case you're like me and have a ton of allergies.

 

[ticklishscribe]

US Admiral Halsey had a body rash just before the Battle of Midway c. 1942, and was in the hospital taking oatmeal baths. He was disgusted.

 

[arachnid95]

http://m.wikihow.com/Make-an-Oatmeal-Bath



My grandma grew up just after the depression so I guess maybe it's a bit older than dirt. When I had chicken pox as a kid, my mom or granny would fill a sock with oatmeal and tie it around the bathtub faucet. When the water would run, it would go through the sock. It was supposed to calm the skin and be gentle in case you're like me and have a ton of allergies.

Ah, I gotcha. That wasn't at all what I was picturing; I had this image in my head of an actual bathtub full of oatmeal... X'D

 

[chicago]

Ah, I gotcha. That wasn't at all what I was picturing; I had this image in my head of an actual bathtub full of oatmeal... X'D

That sounds pretty costly lol

 

[Bohemianne]

... the film "The Spy Who Loves Me"

yeah baby yeah... 😀

 

[chicago]

Not using area codes

 

[arachnid95]

The meteors crashing into the turbulent, red-hot surface of the freshly born earth, resulting in the creation of our lovely moon from ejected planetary material.

...You know, if you were literally older than dirt. XD

 

[Bugman]

Chicago - I distinctly remember gasoline at 33 cents a gallon. And, if I remember correctly, that was "high-test" (premium).

Yep. And sometimes less when competing stations had "gas wars.' Then during the oil embargo in 1973-74 gas stations started posting prices by the half gallon because the old mechanical pumps only went to 99.9 cents. If they had any gas that is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis