I'm so old I Remember when:

[Rick589]

And a banana one by the same company.
And then there's cow tails and Charleston chew and chick-o-stix. Actually most of these are still available at places like Candy-opolis (at least they were pre-lockdown - anymore, who knows )

Wow, yeah I remember all of those. Thanks for the memory.

 

[Rick589]

How about Zagnut? Is that still made?

 

[Daisy June]

I remember when gas was less than 17¢ a gallon...

And you:

I remember riding in the rear-facing third seat of our station wagon. There were seven of us, and the baby was up front with the parents, three were in the middle seat, and three in the way-back seat. That was my favorite seat!

 

[Nomadicus]

I remember when the biggest scams were in the classified sections of mainstream magazines. "Send $1 in a SASE for blah blah blah". Then one of the biggest scams was for getting people into the fish bait business with promises of becoming rich raising worms and crickets.

 

[Nomadicus]

I'm so old I remember when you searched for something on the internet that is what came up instead of a hundred other things that didn't pertain to your search. Things not even related. Just span trying to get you to spend money on bling because someone wanted to make an easy buck.

 

[Rick589]

I'm so old I remember when you searched for something on the internet that is what came up instead of a hundred other things that didn't pertain to your search. Things not even related. Just span trying to get you to spend money on bling because someone wanted to make an easy buck.

Oh yeah, we’ll I’m so old I remember needing to use an actual paper phone book and an actual paper road atlas.

 

[LaurenRitz]

Speaking of scams: My brother was going to breed fish. He had a "business partner" who was a neighbor (I think they were both about 15?). He was doing all the work, the friend doing the finances. Somehow there was never enough money for supplies, and no profits.

Well, if fish won't do it, maybe breed rats for snake food...with the same partner. He could be trusted, you see.

Somehow they stayed friends.

 

[Rick589]

Remember when Lollipops were actually full sized? Or am I not remember correctly?

 

[Rick589]

Here’s one. Remember the dream book, the Sears Catalog? I can remember leafing through the entire thing and listing all of the things I wanted and was going to buy…….with no conceivable way to buy anything. I was a kid after all.

 

[LaurenRitz]

When you could get a lollipop that wouldn't fit in your mouth (unless you were one of my brothers having a one-up contest.)