Old versus young

Candy cigarettes. Hilarious!

I'm not familiar with the Space food sticks. Hey, maybe people now can smoke candy cigarettes! I had fun pretending like I was smoking with them.

No internet. No commercials on cable TV. Phones with real rings. Walter Cronkite.

There was a peace to it that I miss a great deal.

I’m not familiar with space food sticks or candy cigarettes!

We didn’t have the Internet but I think we had more privacy. Now it’s easier for people to find information on you and make robocalls. We got the occasional wrong number or sales call but now they call and call. Now you’re practically forced to do everything online and I won’t if I have another option. I still go to the bank to see the nice tellers. Can’t get that on the stupid Web.

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Originally Posted by Travelinglady I'm not familiar with the Space food sticks. Hey, maybe people now can smoke candy cigarettes! I had fun pretending like I was smoking with them.

Sad in a way that young kids long ago were allowed to pretend they were smoking with candy sticks.

Anybody remember those Polaroid pictures? That was considered so advanced, watching the picture develop instead of dropping them off at the photo place and waiting a few days.

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What I remember is when the film cartridges came out and flash cubes. You didn’t have to pull hot bulbs out to put a fresh h one in. I remember too dads first movie camera, had to have this very bright lamp on.

I remember that too, as we’re just 2 years apart.
Those flash bulbs would temporarily “blind” you so you never looked directly at it.



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Mimeograph machines and carbon paper. If you made a mistake typing or writing you had to use Wite Out on ALL copies.

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I remember all those cameras and used the mimeograph machine when I was first teaching.

Remember the days where hired people did more for you? I remember that a major department store chain (In the South) hired women to check out your bra sizes and find a bra for you--and the store had seamstresses to alter your purchases. And the workers helped you pick out clothes and put back the ones that didn't fit. The men's section had men to measure for suits and alter as well, as well as pick out clothes. Now this store has only two workers for a whole floor!

And gas station workers checked your oil, washed your windshield, and put the gas in for you.

And workers took care of your credit and debit cars.

I see more and more stores are having self checkouts.

And people, not computers, answered the phone and helped you.

I miss all that!

I especially miss the gas station attendants. Five and dime stores with their real sodas, real glasses and pies. Department stores. I miss mom and pop restaurants that had grilled cheese and tomato soup with limit menu of daily specials that really were home made food.

Trav and Nam, I miss all that too. I won’t go to a self checkout if there’s humans available, even if the line is long which it often is. I have a favorite checker at the grocery store and no machine can replace her. It’s all about money now. Machines don’t need breaks or paychecks yet they can still be overworked and therefore they break down….like humans.

We used to get free steak knives and glasses from the gas station. I still have one of the knives. Yeah they cleaned the windshield, checked the tire pressure etc. Full service is a joke now. What service? They only fill your tank. I’ve been doing that myself for decades now.

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One thing I recall is our TV having tubes. If the TV stopped working my father would take the back off of the set, look for a bad bulb (or perhaps two) and take them to a store where they had a machine you could plug the bulbs into. The machine would tell you if the bulb was good or not. Once you found the bad tube, you could buy a replacement, take it home, & plug it in. Wala! The TV worked!

TVs and all other appliances are so complicated these days--and they don't last all that long.

Oh, I remember that. And shoe repair, radio repair, vacuum cleaner repair, glass milk bottle s that you recycled, pop bottles that you returned, phones that lasted a lifetime….

I remember going to the music store to buy 45 rpm records and then, when I was just a bit older, 33 1/3 rpm albums.

Posters too. Right where the records were there were sleeves hanging up with samples of posters you could buy. I loved looking at those. I had a parchment like poster with the desiderata on it. There were rock bands and cute kitten posters with saying like hang in there.

I miss Sears and Montgomery Ward catalogs--and those stores, too.

ANd banks used to give gifts to people who opened accounts!

My grandpa used to go around to banks and open savings accounts for the gifts and interest that they used to have. He had a lot of money squirreled away when he died. Banks don’t do that any more, mores the pity

Yeah, you almost have to pay them to put your money in their bank! And remember the high interest rates? They're nil now.

I remember I was around 10 when I had my first savings s account I started with something like $5. And earned interest on that, today, tbh I don’t think they’d let a kid start with so little and they certainly wouldn’t get interest.

Things certainly don’t last like they used to. My Conair hairdryer lasted just 6 months and I’m still waiting for a replacement from the company since it’s under warranty. My previous one was also a Conair and lasted 11 years but maybe I got a lemon. I’ve used their stuff since I was a teenager.

Passbooks with bank accounts where the teller would date stamp and initial each transaction. It was more personal and now they are trying to get us to install their stupid app. App, app, app. I hear one can get scammed more easily using that. I still go to a human inside the bank.

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I think I've owned CONAIR before. I hope yours was just a lemon.

I don't like all the APP dealings either.

I don't use those self order things at places like McDonald's. I go up to the counter to deal with a person.

I don’t use self checkouts anywhere, when they start giving me a 5%discount for checking myself out I’ll use them!

I hope so too. I received my replacement dryer this week. The temp from the low setting feels more reasonable. On my old dryer it seemed awfully hot for low….

Even my doctor’s office has a self check in. But I go to a human. I’m still recovering from Covid lockdowns and isolation.

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