Do You Remember This?

[cwhatever]

old style phones you were mobile back then and didn't need a pay phone or home phone, WOW HOW COOL WAS THAT!!!!



the beeper



back in the day when you got a beeper that could do more then just recieve beeps, you felt like you were on top of the world and now look what we got. what next?

 

[TheAtheistReverend]

still see beepers every day :O

 

[MacFett]

still see beepers every day

Are you in the medical field, drug dealing or work in a pawn shop?

 

[TheAtheistReverend]

Are you in the medical field, drug dealing or work in a pawn shop?

Two out of three could be applied to my work environment.
I work in a hospital.

 

[zuben el genub]

I"ve still got and use IBM Clicker keyboards. Only keyboards the kid couldn't kill. Very heavy handed.

 

[TheAtheistReverend]

Can anyone finish this rhyme?
Little Willy, dressed in sashes, caught on fire and burned to ashes...

1950s era poetry

 

[saptech]

Ole fashion penny candy...

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/candy-crate_2223_53185882

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/candy-crate_2224_114156470

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/candy-crate_2227_26111005

 

[HotRoderX]

when candy came in a tin wrapper instead of these little hard to open plastic baggy things.

 

[cwhatever]

Ole fashion penny candy...

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/candy-crate_2223_53185882

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/candy-crate_2224_114156470

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/candy-crate_2227_26111005

the first one i like and still get every now and then. it comes in a bag with like 15 in it.

 

[cwhatever]

when candy came in a tin wrapper instead of these little hard to open plastic baggy things.

yeh, hate them hard to open plastic bags.

 

[chrlswltrs]

still see beepers every day :O

I really can't understand why the medical industry won't let beepers die. As much money as they make you think they could afford to upgrade to at least a dumb phone

when candy came in a tin wrapper instead of these little hard to open plastic baggy things.

Are kit kat still packaged like that?

 

[MacFett]

I really can't understand why the medical industry won't let beepers die. As much money as they make you think they could afford to upgrade to at least a dumb phone

I am sure it has to do with reliability, both of device and signal

 

[HotRoderX]

yeh, hate them hard to open plastic bags.

I agree the bags are garbage no idea why they switched to them unless they where cheaper.

 

[HotRoderX]

Are kit kat still packaged like that?

No there not they use the baggy things like everyone else

 

[cwhatever]

I agree the bags are garbage no idea why they switched to them unless they where cheaper.

It might be because the baggy preserves it better. The foil was not airtight so bacteria and stuff can get into it so it must be safer to have it in a baggie now.

 

[cwhatever]

these used to be everywhere, nickle a call then 10 then 25 cents. they still have some here in fl in poor areas for people that have no phones in the house. like ma community pay phone.

 

[MacFett]

There is a pay phone at a 7-11 up the street from us, it does not have a coin slot. It only accepts prepaid calling cards and credit cards.

 

[saptech]

these used to be everywhere, nickle a call then 10 then 25 cents. they still have some here in fl in poor areas for people that have no phones in the house. like ma community pay phone.

Remember these also...

 

[Bob Maxey]

Ole fashion penny candy...

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/candy-crate_2223_53185882

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/candy-crate_2224_114156470

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/candy-crate_2227_26111005

I remember all of them. I have had them all, I should think.

I also love Sen-Sen for the breath. Do you remember Teaberry, Black Jack, Beeman's and Clove gum? Wax lips? Old school Fizzies in the long strips of foil? Candy dots? How about Barley sugar pops?

One of my favorites is C. Howards gum. Especially their violet gum.

I fond a few web sites that sells candy from the past. Ordered the above gums a few years ago. I found a site that created gift baskets based on the year. A nice assortment of candy old farts remember and kids never knew existed.

Thanks for the pictures.

 

[Bob Maxey]

I am sure it has to do with reliability, both of device and signal

Seems to me that a beeper saves time. No chit chat. Perhaps the better signal/reception is a good idea. I want my doctor to have 1245 bars when I am dying on the O-Table or in the E-Room.

 

[cwhatever]

What Ever Happened To The Full-Size Spare Tire?

this is so funny to see people traveling on these for miles at high speeds, come on follow directions. also my truck has no small spare.

 

[Seanette]

My DH HATES those miniature spares, and has been known to buy another full-size wheel for the car and have a tire put on it, so he has a full-size spare.

 

[saptech]

I remember the first time I bought a used car from a car dealer and noticed the doughnut spare tire in the trunk. I went back to the dealer and told the salesman that I had the wrong spare tire, that I got a volkswagen spare.

He said let him see it and when I did, he told me that is the type of tire that comes with cars now days. This was around late 1980s and the car was a Pontiac Bonneville.

 

[cwhatever]

I remember the first time I bought a used car from a car dealer and noticed the doughnut spare tire in the trunk. I went back to the dealer and told the salesman that I had the wrong spare tire, that I got a volkswagen spare.

He said let him see it and when I did, he told me that is the type of tire that comes with cars now days. This was around late 1980s and the car was a Pontiac Bonneville.

pretty crazy but is what it is now. unless you have a 4x4 truck.

 

[kevincott]

Things I remember ...

- The smell of gas: from gas stations and everyones' garage
- AT&T as a land-line monopoly: you had to rent your telephone
- Dog ears on the TV antenna
- Carburetors in new cars
- A door-to-door salesman trying to sell my parents a 'cassette tape' player
- Saturday morning cartoons
- Not owning a microwave
- Encyclopedias and White-out


edit:
- Learning BASIC at the DOS prompt in high school
- 5 1/4 inch single sided floppies (before you hole-punched)