Who remembers these things back in the day ?...come and add your own memories..

jujube said:

....and then there were the "pater noster" elevators that I remember seeing in Europe in the 1960's (I don't think we had them in the U.S.) Scary things, to me.
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Loved those elavators, we can still find an occasional one.. there's always great delight from us oldies when we do and horror from the young...:ROFLMAO:
 

jujube said:
The "QWERTY" keyboard that we still use was designed to slow down typing on the old manual machines. The most-used letters were spaced out to make it harder to type fast because the hammers would stick.

Back in, I think, the 70's, a new keyboard was invented that bunched the most commonly-used letters in the middle of the keyboard on electric typewriters, like the ones with "type balls". With no hammers to stick, typing could go a lot faster. Needless to say, the new keyboard did NOT catch on.

Remember how the "electronic" typewriters would "buffer"? You'd be typing quickly, finish, lift your fingers and the typewriter would type on for a while.
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Data Entry with older software went much faster than what is used today. Clerks and their fingers would outpace the screens.
 
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I remember never being allowed to make long distance phone calls. My school was fed by four different townships and each had a different phone exchange making each long distance from the other, but I wasnt allowed to call the kids in the other townships. So you ended up being friends with the kids that were a local phone call, even if you didn't really like them.lol
 
As if the 60’s were not back in time enough, we would visit my cousins, taking things back another 20 years. No phone, running water, and back in the woods. The men would tell stories of bears, deer, and big fish and kids would listen. Chickens, old cars to play in, and gigantic boulders to climb upon. Sure was fun!
 
Yes I remember our home telephone number. I remember escalators , 3 for 1 cent candies, walking to school with 4 feet plus of snow, roller skates with the key, tobagging, milk delivery, pop shoppe delivery, full gas station service, store catalogs. There was something magical about that time that’s missing in today’s world.
 
One telephone in the house and it was either in the kitchen or the hall, meaning there was no such thing as a private conversation.

"Party lines", 2, 3 or 4 households on the same line. Everybody had the nosy old lady who would listen in on others' conversations. You could hear her breathing or her dentures clicking. My dad would say, "Stop listening, Mrs. Frederickson" and she'd always say indignantly, "I am NOT listening!"

When someone called "long distance"....." IT'S AUNT ROSE AND SHE'S CALLING *LONG DISTANCE*" and everyone came running because you knew it was a new baby or a death or something VERY important as no one called just to say hi or ask about your weather. That's what letters were for.
 
jujube said:
One telephone in the house and it was either in the kitchen or the hall, meaning there was no such thing as a private conversation.

"Party lines", 2, 3 or 4 households on the same line. Everybody had the nosy old lady who would listen in on others' conversations. You could hear her breathing or her dentures clicking. My dad would say, "Stop listening, Mrs. Frederickson" and she'd always say indignantly, "I am NOT listening!"

When someone called "long distance"....." IT'S AUNT ROSE AND SHE'S CALLING *LONG DISTANCE*" and everyone came running because you knew it was a new baby or a death or something VERY important as no one called just to say hi or ask about your weather. That's what letters were for.
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and when we wanted to let folks know we got home ok we would place a collect call from uncle Fester and they would refuse the charges.
🤭😉😂
 
BeefStu said:
I never knew about TV dinners until I left my parents' house. Mom would have had to be very P Oed at Dad before that would appear on the table.
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I begged and begged for a TV dinner because I thought they were the height of "with-it-ness". Mom finally gave in and bought me one. What a disappointment. Yuk. Nasty. Mystery meat, mashed potatoes obviously made with library glue, tasteless corn and a gummy brownie made from some left-over sponge rubber.
 
Aunt Bea said:
and when we wanted to let folks know we got home ok we would place a collect call from uncle Fester and they would refuse the charges.
🤭😉😂
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I saw an episode once where the guy answers the phone and the operator says, "Collect call from Mr. It's-a-boy-7-pounds-6-ounces-everyone-doing-fine. Will you accept the charges?" The man says no, hangs up and says to his wife, "Your sister had the baby."
 
I have the same landline phone number for 71 years. Only change: no rotary and all numbers instead of introductory letters to rest of number. I remember my grandma's phone number!!!!!!!! With its letters, too. Loved calling my grandma Rose. She lived only 8 or 9 blocks away. Sometimes, rarely, I will pass by her home and remember her. She had a basement apartment not far from my elementary school which my son also attended for pre-K and Kindergarten.
 
People with hyperthymesia can recall almost every day of their lives in near perfect detail, as well as public events that are personally significant. Those affected describe their memories as uncontrollable associations, so when they come across a date, they "see" a vivid depiction of that day in their heads.

Actress Marilu Henner has a highly superior autobiographical memory, a rare condition identified in only 100 people worldwide. This trait drives her to advocate for more funding for brain research. Give Marilu Henner a random date in the past and she can recall it with amazing clarity.
 

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