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  1. Posts : 2,578
    Vista 64 bit and 32 bit (SP2)
       #21

    Layback Bear said:
    Imperfect1 said:
    Anyone remember the milk man? And the ice man? And the paper boys hawking the headlines? And the Western Union delivery guy who almost always had very bad news!
    I remember the milk man. He ran over my dog Jiggers and killed him.
    OMG Layback Bear. That is so tragic! You must've been broken hearted. I'm so sorry. Those memories never go away, do they?
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  2. Posts : 25,847
    Windows 10 Pro. 64/ version 1709 Windows 7 Pro/64
       #22

    Imperfect1 said:
    Layback Bear said:
    Imperfect1 said:
    Anyone remember the milk man? And the ice man? And the paper boys hawking the headlines? And the Western Union delivery guy who almost always had very bad news!
    I remember the milk man. He ran over my dog Jiggers and killed him.
    OMG Layback Bear. That is so tragic! You must've been broken hearted. I'm so sorry. Those memories never go away, do they?
    I remember having to bury Jiggers twice the first one wasn't proper and the critters got to him. The second grave was much deeper and with adding large amounts of black pepper his grave was never bothered again. I was about 10 or 11 years old. Jiggers was my first dead buddy. I don't forget any of my dead buddies.
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  3. Posts : 7,466
    Windows 10 Home Premium 64bit sp1
       #23

    Too funny this Thread killed it

    I remember taping songs off the radio and the quality was @#$#!

    and tape decks lasted till the mid 90's or late 90's if i recall

    You forgot to mention gas was like 55 to 65 cents in the 80's to early 90 then it went up to 95 cents then few years later more then a dollar

    Also parents could and would pop you any given time and yes all adults had permission to straighten you up if you were out of line

    Teachers also could put a hand on you and it wouldn't be considered a issue
    Detention was after school who knows wh at they do now

    Yes and we played outside all day till the late evening then dinner bath and bed
    also no sleeping in

    Parents used to get me up early as hell to cut lawn do yard work etc and if i didn't i would be in trouble kids have payed Gardners now

    @LaybackBear my Hamster was killed by my Nieghbors cat -My neighbor was playing with my Hamster and lost it in the yard later that night his cat swooped on it we chased it down beat the cat and got back my bitten up hamster i tryed to nurse him back but 2 to 3 days later he died and my dad was watching tv and tells us he didnt make it
    The neighbors got me a new one but after that they kept dying guess the ghost of the old hamster wasn't having it lol
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  4. Posts : 627
    Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
       #24

    Remember going into the bush to pay and see what I could find.
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  5. Posts : 3,371
    W10 Pro desktop, W11 laptop, W11 Pro tablet (all 64-bit)
       #25

    Great thread. I grew up in the 50's & 60's, so a little earlier than many here.

    1) The library was 5 miles away and we had to ride our bike there. No access to Wikipedia and my parents wouldn't spring for a set of encyclopedias either.

    2) Letters were 5 cents to mail, a postcard was 3 cents.

    4) If you were really fortunate, you had an AM only transistor radio with a tiny speaker and used a 9V battery. Batteries back then weren't rechargeable and didn't last very long so you often couldn't listen to your radio because you didn't have a battery for it. Only wealthy people had HiFi or Stereo systems.

    5) We didn't have cassette decks so didn't do any recording off the radio.

    7) When we left the house, we were always supposed to carry a dime in our pocket so if we needed to make a phone call we could do it from a pay phone (if we could find one).

    9) No such thing as a game console, we only played board or card games.

    10) We only had B&W TV (Oh, no!) and only got 2 channels. My parents had 2 remote controls, my sister and I, as they would tell us to get up and go change the channel on the TV! (By the same logic, they had 2 dish washers as well.)

    11) In addition to Sat morning cartoons, there were usually cartoons in the afternoon after school.
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  6. Posts : 25,847
    Windows 10 Pro. 64/ version 1709 Windows 7 Pro/64
       #26

    T.V. Console. A piece of furniture. Very heavy, took 10 men and a boy to get it into the house. Had a screen the size of a small dinner plate.
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  7. Posts : 7,878
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #27

    I always try to explain to my kids that when I was growing up we didn't have DVR's, or even VCR's. While we had a TV, if you watched a particular show (Dukes of Hazzard...in my case), you were either home on Friday night at 8PM to watch it, or you simply missed it.

    I remember when we got our first VCR, sucker was over $400, it popped up from the top and it had a wired remote control.
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  8. Posts : 9,600
    Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit
       #28

    Layback Bear said:
    T.V. Console. A piece of furniture. Very heavy, took 10 men and a boy to get it into the house. Had a screen the size of a small dinner plate.
    And the screen was the same shape. A portable took two men and a boy.
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  9. Posts : 233
    Windows 8.1 Pro
       #29

    boohbah said:
    we used to get extra sweets by returning pop bottles to the sweet shop and getting 2 pence per bottle,

    the funny thing was we were getting the empty pop bottles out of the stack of crates behind the sweet shop.

    years later my mum told me that the shop keeper knew and she (my mum ) would pay for the sweets later .
    not sure that taught me any lessons about honesty though!

    i think it had more to do with keeping it from my dad.


    I used to do the same here in Australia, bottles were 20 cents, bottle crates were $4, a crate would hold 12. I made a little bit of cash early on!
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  10. Posts : 233
    Windows 8.1 Pro
       #30

    I remember when I was growing up in western australia,

    in the mornings you had the milk home delivered,

    a hot bread van cam around everyday

    a 300ml milk at school free for every student

    being caned at school (almost every day!, in primary school, swearing; high school, smoking) upto about 1982.

    And yes parents could and would pop you and yes all adults had permission to straighten you up if you were out of line

    Many others my scrambled brain can't remember!
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