Finish this sentence! I remember a time when.............

[WILCO]

Now, there's a problem I never had....

I've had it in the past. Too much trouble.

[AggieEE]

Anybody remember when two gas stations at the same intersection would have a gas war?

[km101]

....gas was .19 cents a gallon. I could fill up my old 56 Chevy for $5.00 or less.

A date with a movie and a pizza afterwards was less than $10.00 (much less!).

It was safe to hitch-hike and pick up hitch-hikers!

Cokes in the machines (6 oz., still the best) went up to .06 cents! We bitched about having to have a penny!

[EMC45]

When penny candy was a penny and in big glass jars behind the counter glass and they would slip a couple in on ya on the house.

[sparky45]

..When the Saturday Matinee would have a bunch of cartoons, serials or 3 stooges and a feature. AND if you had a quarter, you also got popcorn and a soda.

[TheGrimReaper]

When I was worried aboit a red invasion instead of having to fight my own government in my back yard.

Yep, and we played Red Dawn outside.

[HATCH]

When the American President really cared about the American people.

[Blacksmith]

Drive In Movies had dollar a car night. AKA the passion pits.

Milk was delivered in bottles that had a bulge at the top to collect the cream so you could whip it. Before it was all homogenized. And there was a little cardboard disk to seal it.

Mom had a sprinkler top she would stick in an empty pop bottle fshe filled with water to sprinkle on the clothes when ironing.

Every back yard had a clothes line for drying the laundry.

A rifle range in the high school basement.

[Dannmann801]

I remember grandma washing clothes in a washer with a wringer on the top.

I remember collecting pop bottles for the $.02 cent deposit then using the money to buy candy. When it got bumped to $.05 we thought we were really cookin', but then the price of candy went up too.

I remember being a kid and leaving the house in the morning and being gone all day with nobody worrying about where I was and what I was doing or if I was ok.

[twotoescharlie]

22's at $6.00 a brick, Winchester wildcats @ local Richway. I still have some of them.

TTC

[Harter66]

My Dad went off because he had to pay 65 cents for a gallon of white gas inside in a can when just last month it was 35 cents at the pump.

Hughes Air West was ''The only way to fly'' w/ ''3 feet for your 2 legs''.

Writing a check at the gas station 1 town over for $110 for 148 gallons of gas.

Delivering gas money pinion pine firewood rounds 65 bucks a cord. Split,delivered,stacked in season for 90,85 if you took 3+ at 1 time.

[Rex]

I got $40.00 a week for putting up hay. And that wasn't 40 hour weeks.

[starbits]

Steak and eggs for breakfast on a Frontier Airlines flight.

10 cent movies.

Melting lead on the kitchen stove and casting cowboys and indians with my Dad.

The first time $5 didn't fill my gas tank because gas had sky rocketed to $0.35 per gallon.

Starbits

[waksupi]

13.9 cents for gas during the gas wars.

[TenTea]

The air was clean, sex was dirty and a joint was not a good place to be seen in...

[41 mag fan]

People from other countries envied the U.S. and wanted to come here for a better life, now instead they despise the U.S. and want to destroy it.

[montana_charlie]

Doctors made house calls, and we paid him on the spot.
We only went to his office for 'emergencies' like a broken bone, and hospitals were for surgery.

Medical insurance was unknown because medical costs were sane enough that most people could figure out a way to pay their bill ... and were responsible enough to actually do it.

CM

[uscra112]

....at 11 years old I could walk down to the little general store and buy .22 ammo.......IN MASSACHUSETTS.

[DHurtig]

I remember helping my uncle milk the cows and then pour the milk in the separator in the basement. Skim milk went to the hogs. Still can't abide skim milk and the wife yells at me because whole milk is not healthy.

[Harter66]

Well thanks for reminding me my daughters broken leg cost 58k and my appendix was only 22k that a cheap entry level pawnshop rifle is 300 and a beater farm truck is worth more for scrap than parts.

Way to go , I mean is it so hard to keep the negitive PO'd politics in the pit where it belongs,the sun came up and you got a pulse it don't get any better . You could of course fix the politics for 35 cents a head .

If you don't mind can the politcs and let us return to ''I remember when 12oz bottled cokes were a quarter in a machine ''.