You know you are getting older when..............

[hogpatrol]

When I was a youngster, my mother would give me a dollar and send me to the grocery store. I'd come back with a sack of potatoes, can of soup, bag of crackers, bar of soap, pack of noodles and a candy bar. Can't do that anymore, too many cameras.

 

[Snuggie]

You really hit the big time if you had a glass gallon milk bottle!! 50cents!!

 

[muleman69]

Don't feel old but the wife seems to whisper a lot these days, not sure why she don't just SPEAK UP

 

[Pwc]

Remember the iceman in his big black rubber "aprom" over his shoulder carrying 50lb blocks of ice for the "ice box". Stealing ice chips frpm the back of his truck with the neighbor kids. Minature milk bottles (pint size) with cardboard disk lids at school lunch. Milkman delivered to your door, read the note in the empty bottle and left what e er it said and took waey the empties. Using a spoon to skim off the cream on the milk for parents coffee. Wonder Bread in the wax paper wrapper with "RED, YELLOW AND BLUE baloons; helps buid strong bodies 8 ways!" Later it was 12 ways.

On radio any black and white TV, only in the daytime: "I'm Buster Brown, I live in a shoe, that's my dog Tige, he lives in there too..arf,arf". Smiling Ed, and Froggie; "Plunk your magic twanger Froggie...Hiya kids, hiya, hiya..."

Robbie Benson and the double R Bar ranch, Inner Sanctum, One Man's Family, The Great Gildersleeve", Fibber McGee and Molly, Big John and Sparky, Lorenzo Jones, trying to find out who he is...

All this, around the time I used to knead the oleo to make it turn yellow. My finger is get'n tired...

 

[SEM]

The milk man! I had forgotten about him, Foremost Dairy my mom would set the ordering tabs up for the items that she wanted in an empty milk bottle when we managed my brother and I would add an extra item or so, up until they figured out how the mistakes kept happening, still remember that piece of oak base board my mom was deadly with it

 

[MikeT49]

Remember the iceman in his big black rubber "aprom" over his shoulder carrying 50lb blocks of ice for the "ice box". Stealing ice chips frpm the back of his truck with the neighbor kids. Minature milk bottles (pint size) with cardboard disk lids at school lunch. Milkman delivered to your door, read the note in the empty bottle and left what e er it said and took waey the empties. Using a spoon to skim off the cream on the milk for parents coffee. Wonder Bread in the wax paper wrapper with "RED, YELLOW AND BLUE baloons; helps buid strong bodies 8 ways!" Later it was 12 ways.

On radio any black and white TV, only in the daytime: "I'm Buster Brown, I live in a shoe, that's my dog Tige, he lives in there too..arf,arf". Smiling Ed, and Froggie; "Plunk your magic twanger Froggie...Hiya kids, hiya, hiya..."

Robbie Benson and the double R Bar ranch, Inner Sanctum, One Man's Family, The Great Gildersleeve", Fibber McGee and Molly, Big John and Sparky, Lorenzo Jones, trying to find out who he is...

All this, around the time I used to knead the oleo to make it turn yellow. My finger is get'n tired...

Chocolate milk on Fridays. If ya helped the milkman, you got a extra one. IIRC, colored margarine was illegal in Wisconsin.

 

[jds holler]

My first Cabela's catalog measured about 6"x8", and had about twenty pages in it. The Oregon State hunting regs, would fit in your shirt pocket. S&H Green Stamps were the way that Mom might get a new electric mixer that there never seemed to be extra money to buy. jd

 

[MikeT49]

You actually did "cut and paste", inserting modified written instructions into a procedure to keep the shops moving on back shift. The real typing was done by the steno pool on dayshift using the WANG. We never thought about being PC telling WANG jokes.

 

[jimcasey01]

Getting a handout from the teacher, mimeograph, and smelling the paper.

 

[jimcasey01]

My grandparents had a smokehouse that was full of milk bottles. The bottles were placed on a fence post and I used them for target practice. If I had those bottles in the 80's-90's I could have retired then.

 

[NorCalMikie]

On radio any black and white TV, only in the daytime: "I'm Buster Brown, I live in a shoe, that's my dog Tige, he lives in there too..arf,arf". Smiling Ed, and Froggie; "Plunk your magic twanger Froggie...Hiya kids, hiya, hiya..."

Big sister use to listen to Inner sanctum on the radio at night. Us to scare the crap out of me. She is 8 years older than me. Gang Busters, Sky King, Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of men? The Shadow knows, and some of the TV shows after school. LOTS of Charlie Chan, Tim Tyler's Luck and one of my favorites, Hopalong Casidy. If you want to be like Hoppy, you got to eat like Hoppy.
Still remember some of the TV serials, mostly related to spies during the later war years. Serials with float planes somewhere in the South Seas. THOSE were the good old days.

 

[MrMajestic]

Feeding Hobos that knocked on our door, Mom always made them a plate even though we didn't have much. She wouldn't let them in the house though and they ate on the front porch. They would thank her and then move on..

 

[hogpatrol]

Help me out guys. What was the name of those stand alone root beer joints? They were tops for ice cream sodas and such.
For real beer, "Make the three ring sign, Ballantine".

 

[rjtfroggy]

My grand father had an ice route and my father used to deliver the ice. I still have the old ice saw that they used might even be able to find the claw they used to carry the ice.
As for the milkman when I was 12 or13 I used to get up on Saturdays around 3:30 to deliver with him, work all morning for 2-3 bucks and a couple chocolate milks.
Wonder bread I wish we could get the old style back new stuff taste like crap.

 

[rjtfroggy]

hog patrol would that be the A & W root beer stands.
My fathers one and only beer, got me started as a beer drinker.

 

[garandman]

.... If You wore plaid pants in high school.

Or you might be a 2019 millennial hipster.

 

[JFrank]

You know your old when your grandson shows you a 78 record, and you actually know all the songs

 

[Deleted outa08]

On your third trip to the garage for a hammer you realize you have AAADD. (Age activated attention deficit disorder).

Mike, I can`t believe you keep a hammer in the garage.The last time mine was missing I found it on a shelf in the master bedroom closet.Apparently I moved it there, so I would remember where to look for it. I suffer from another syndrome called CRS. Can`t Remember Shit!

 

[MrMajestic]

Dots, and eating the paper that stuck to the bottom, root-beer barrels, candy cigarettes, pixie sticks, bazooka Joe, wax bottles, as said before baseball cards with gum inside then sticking Mickey Mantle or Sandy Koufax in your bicycle spokes!. And also as previously stated, bought with 2 and 5 cent Pop bottle returns. This was always the highlight of our Grandmother visit as they were my Aunts and Uncles bottles, we only got milk and water at home. Kool-aid was a treat!

 

[Deleted outa08]

If you guys get MeTV in your area ,they have lots of shows from the 50`s and 60`s. Kinda lets me remember when life wasn`t as hectic as it`s been made into know.I start the day with Leave it to Beaver and watch a recorded In the Heat of the Night,in the evening. The channel just started running The Flintstones on Monday which was the 59th anniversary of the first show. Good stuff. Feels like yesterday until I get up and start to walk, then age shows up again.