Remember When....

[itlw8]

remember when the girl down the street had polio and was in an iron lung and now is in a wheel chair.

Remember when the whole town lined up to get the polio vaccine on a sugar cube in the school gym

remember when you got mumps measles or chickenpox before the vaccines.

Remember when those disposable diapers were no more absorbant than the cloth diapers ( you had to fold)

remember when school got out before Memorial Day and did not go back until after Labor DAy

Remember drinking Kool Aid out of colored aluminum cups in the summer.

Remember when you attended preschool you were one of the Rare ones and the parents were all Drs, Dentists and Lawyers.

Remember when on a Friday night saying to the man who pumped your gas. 50 cents please.. And will you check the oil please.


Going to the drive in on a Saturday night. going to the movies that was fancy and only had one screen in the building.

Calling all adults buy Mrs Mr Rev Dr unless they were good family friends and told you you could call them by their first name.

Remember getting your first job for $3 an hour. or babysitting for 50 cents an hour.

[Laurel]

I remember when a girl wouldn't be admitted into the movie theatre with slacks. She had to wear a dress or skirt. I was a preteen then.

There were not restaurants on every corner and no McDonald's. The first fast food restaurant near us was like a McDonalds but it was called the Teddy Bear. I was in high school then. A date would take you to the Teddy Bear. There were restaurants but they were few and far between in populated areas.

I remember when my mom sent me to the neighborhood store for a loaf of bread and was upset when they raised the price from 25 cents to 26 cents. Then we'd get bored on the way home and swing the bread around over our heads. Can we say crooked toast?

These are GREAT everyone. I'm having so much fun reading them!

Besides green stamps, my mother in law smoked and she redeemed cigarette points for a high chair for our first child. Can you imagine that happening now with all the anti smoking campaigns?

Oh and boxes of laundry detergent used to have things in them. You could collect a whole set of glasses (one by one) or bath towels. My mom sewed the striped bath towels into swim cover ups for my sister and I.

Laurel

Oh and when we loaded up our wagon with 'pop' bottles and they paid a penny for each bottle. We got to keep the money and spent it on penny candy.

[Laurel]

Did anybody have a full set of Funk and Wagnalls encyclopedias? You would buy them at the grocery store. Each week they had a new one. We collected the whole set.

Laurel

[Laurel]

I grew up in the 80's and 90's, so I'm a bit younger, but I still remember a lot!

Remember when there were latch-key kids? I came home from school on the bus and "watched" my 6-year-old brother when I was 8-years-old until my parents came home from work. One time I lost the key and we were locked outside... No cell phones. We were resilient little kids though--I made my brother crawl through the doggy door and let me in! I would even make him dinner (sandwiches, cut up fruit). Now parents panic over leaving 12 year olds alone for an hour.

Remember when kids could roam the neighborhood? Our parents had no clue where we were, just around... and we knew it was time for dinner when we heard Mom yelling from the deck!

Remember when there was NO diversity in food? At least where I lived. I heard of sushi for the first time in high school, avocado for the first time a few years before that. My son is 1 and has had Ethiopian food, for heaven's sake!

Fun thread!!

My mom and dad got tired of yelling from the back porch so my dad, being somewhat of a do it yourselfer, mounted some kind of really loud buzzer on top of the house. All four family members had a beep code. When I'd hear two buzzes it meant time to go home for dinner. ::

Laurel

[Cradle2crayons]

Even after all these years, I feel a little disappointed when I sniff a baby and don't smell baby powder.

I learned to drive throwing out my arm to stop the kid in the seat beside me from pitching in the floor. It took me years to break that habit.

I still do it. Even though since I started driving, there have always been seat belts. I guess it's just instinct . I also tell the kids to "hold on" even though they are snapped in a car seat?? Lol

[Starburst]

My oldest two slept on their stomachs. The third slept on her side. The last slept on her back. Each one because the experts said it was the right thing to do at the time!!

I remember no seat belts in cars. My brother and I just played in the back seat or the very back of our station wagon without a care in the world!

One year we went on vacation with another family...all in one car. Four adults, five kids and two large dogs. All crammed in like sardines and not one seatbelt! My dad put a small bench in the back of the station wagon to make a "third row" for the smallest kids. The dogs wound around our feet. Nobody though for a second it was unsafe.

My uncle was a Volvo mechanic and my mom and aunt always had some form of Volvos (several through out the years). My aunt and uncle had 3 kids and because my mom worked a lot and my aunt and uncle usually watched my brother and I, my uncle added an optional double seat (could be folded down) with seat belts to the back of my aunt's Volvo station wagon.
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I got one from a (90's) kid point of view:

Remember when kids were encouraged to go outside and play in the dirt/mud? (its slowly coming back, to the chagrin of many OCD moms)

Remember catching tadpoles or fireflies during the summer?

Remember when babies and toddlers didn't know how to use computers?

Remember when Saturday morning cartoons were worth watching?

Remember when cartoons really were cartoons and not computer animated?

Remember when everyone was obsessed with beanie babies instead of Facebook?

Remember when curfew was "when the street lights turned on"?

Remember when the only "reality" TV show was Cops and The News?

Remember when MTV was still about music?

Remember when everything was on VHS and everyone had VCRs (I still have a few VCRs, lots of VHSs)

Remember when having your own land line number was every teenage girl's dream?

Remember when if your parents needed you to call them, they would page your beeper?

[Laurel]

My uncle was a Volvo mechanic and my mom and aunt always had some form of Volvos (several through out the years). My aunt and uncle had 3 kids and because my mom worked a lot and my aunt and uncle usually watched my brother and I, my uncle added an optional double seat (could be folded down) with seat belts to the back of my aunt's Volvo station wagon.
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I got one from a (90's) kid point of view:

Remember when kids were encouraged to go outside and play in the dirt/mud? (its slowly coming back, to the chagrin of many OCD moms)

Remember catching tadpoles or fireflies during the summer?

Remember when babies and toddlers didn't know how to use computers?

Remember when Saturday morning cartoons were worth watching?

Remember when cartoons really were cartoons and not computer animated?

Oh I would like to hear from younger generations too! I wonder what their perspective is.

We caught lighting bugs and tadpoles too. I have never seen a lightning bug where I live now though (South Florida). I have seen flies but so few that, at first, I thought we didn't have flies here. ::

About babies/toddlers using computers I am a little concerned. My daughter bought my grandson (3 in Nov.) a little tablet type one for kids. I can't decide how I feel about it. I did tell her not to bring it to daycare though and try not to let it become a crutch. This topic is probably another thread though.

Laurel

[Size18]

-Remember when using 'paper diapers' meant you were a bad mother? Then later in the 70's people thought you were strange if you used cloth and now it is back to cloth (except for me :

Remember when you used to take a needle and make a slow nipple faster?

-Remember when you had to sterilize bottles?Laurel

Boy, do I ever remember!

I started babysitting in the late 60's, and cloth diapers were the standard. Then came the 70's, when plastic diapers (disposables) started making their debut, albeit a slow one. Hardly anyone used them. Cloth diapers were still the norm, however, on the rare occasion when I babysat for someone who used disposables, I loathed changing a dirty, because unlike a cloth diaper that could be rolled, folded, and used to wipe baby's bottom, disposables... once soiled, were spent.

I have taken many a hot needle/diaper pin to baby bottle nipples in my day.

Sterilizing baby bottles was such a fad, wasn't it... one that quickly went by wayside once it was learned that sterilizing wasn't necessary.

[Familycare71]

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I got one from a (90's) kid point of view:

Remember when kids were encouraged to go outside and play in the dirt/mud? (its slowly coming back, to the chagrin of many OCD moms)

Remember catching tadpoles or fireflies during the summer?

Remember when babies and toddlers didn't know how to use computers?

Remember when Saturday morning cartoons were worth watching?

Remember when cartoons really were cartoons and not computer animated?

Remember when everyone was obsessed with beanie babies instead of Facebook?

Remember when curfew was "when the street lights turned on"?

Remember when the only "reality" TV show was Cops and The News?

Remember when MTV was still about music?

Remember when everything was on VHS and everyone had VCRs (I still have a few VCRs, lots of VHSs)

Remember when having your own land line number was every teenage girl's dream?

Remember when if your parents needed you to call them, they would page your beeper?

I remember all of these except the beeper one! I do remeber at the end of practice I would call my house collect- they would deny it and that's how they knew to come and get me
I remeber choosing between beta and VHS when we bought our first VCR.
I remeber our first tv with a remote!
... The first time we had cable!
... Am cartoons while I got ready for school and sat am cartoons
... How exciting cordless phones were.
... How you had to have cell phones installed in your car::
... Recording songs off the radio
... Going to music stores
... When they first said cd's were indestructible!
- I could probably go on and on

[Size18]

Remember with the cloth diapers you had to fold them a certain way to put them on and use diaper pins? Those big huge colored pins!

Remember the plastic or rubber pants to use over the diapers.

Oh, yes, I sure do, and very well may I add! Changed dozens of charges throughout my babysitting years who wore old-fashioned diapers... used the same on my kids.

I remember folding diapers at change time when I was a babysitter. I always held the safety pins in my mouth when I diapered, and when night-time came, applying double diapers to baby's bottom was standard practice.

I remember both pull-on and snap-on rubber pants, and for a time (the 70's), rubber pants came in pale pastel colours. Traditional white rubber pants were still the most popular though. EVERYONE used white rubber pants.

[Size18]

Remember when those disposable diapers were no more absorbant than the cloth diapers ( you had to fold)

Remember getting your first job for $3 an hour. or babysitting for 50 cents an hour.

Yep and yep! I remember early disposable diapers had no elastic leg-gathers, and looked much like a regular ordinary flat cloth diaper when on. I also remember how bulky they were.

Yes, .50 cents an hour was the standard going babysitting rate when I first started sitting, then when the rate went up to $1 an hour I thought I was rich!

[Laurel]

Boy, do I ever remember!

I started babysitting in the late 60's, and cloth diapers were the standard. Then came the 70's, when plastic diapers (disposables) started making their debut, albeit a slow one. Hardly anyone used them. Cloth diapers were still the norm, however, on the rare occasion when I babysat for someone who used disposables, I loathed changing a dirty, because unlike a cloth diaper that could be rolled, folded, and used to wipe baby's bottom, disposables... once soiled, were spent.

I have taken many a hot needle/diaper pin to baby bottle nipples in my day.

Sterilizing baby bottles was such a fad, wasn't it... one that quickly went by wayside once it was learned that sterilizing wasn't necessary.

Well I did a little research the other day on sterilizing bottles. I think they did it at first because the water supply wasn't as sanitary as it is today. I think it was in my day but maybe since earlier generations did it we just did it because we weren't educated about WHY we were doing it. Ours moms did it and said we had to. ::

Laurel

[Size18]

How many of you babysat in the 60's/70's/80's?

Remember changing cloth diapers with pins and rubber pants?

Remember dunking diapers up and down in the toilet to rinse?

Remember the strong ammonia odour of diaper pails that would burn at your eyes when you lifted the lid?

[Laurel]

I babysat for 50 cents an hour and I also sold Girl Scout cookies for 50 cents a box.

Laurel

[Size18]

Well I did a little research the other day on sterilizing bottles. I think they did it at first because the water supply wasn't as sanitary as it is today. I think it was in my day but maybe since earlier generations did it we just did it because we weren't educated about WHY we were doing it. Ours moms did it and said we had to. ::

Laurel

ROTFL! Great point about the water not being as safe (back then) as it is today.