Thread: Do you remember?

Nostalgia aint what it you to be

Typing on a real typewriter
Payphones push button B ....
Packets of 5 ciggies, given on airlines
Tiffin
5 Boys
Milk Motoring?

Originally Posted by david44

Nostalgia aint what it you to be

Typing on a real typewriter?

Yes. No to all the others - not a Brit.

I learned to touch type on a typewriter, can't remember how many words a minute. But i won some prize or something. I also learned shorthand!!

62 words a minute error free on a manual in High School typing class. Only guy in the class. Great way to get to know all the lovely ladies. Also it turned out, much to my surprise, to be one of the more useful things I ever learned in HS.

Originally Posted by david44

Typing on a real typewriter
Payphones push button B

The typewriter was a curiosity in my grandparent's home, which I played with. That's not to say the digital age was there, then, just that by the time I was in high school, computers and word processors were becoming more common. But I never used a typewriter to write anything for a purpose.

Button B on the public phone, however...yes indeed.

Originally Posted by david44

Typing on a real typewriter

Yes.

Originally Posted by david44

Payphones push button B ....

No, but I can remember using the old dial type of the 60s and 70s.

Originally Posted by david44

Packets of 5 ciggies, given on airlines ?

I think I can remember packets of 5 cigarettes but not on airlines. I don't smoke and as a boy, sweet cigarettes were more my thing.

Originally Posted by david44

Tiffin

Never heard of it.

Originally Posted by david44

5 Boys

I'm not sure what you mean so probably no.

Originally Posted by david44

Milk Motoring?

Do you mean milk monitoring? If so, yes. If not, no.

Tiffin = chocolate bar
Five boys = chocolate bar with 5 pieces all with boys heads - can nor remember if it was cadburys or Frys but certainly a famous bar.
Packs of 5 ciggies - retailed widely woodbine park lane etc think they disappeared in the 60's

One out of five.

The telephone.



In my grandmother's village phone box

My grandparents had a party line - phone service in rural New Hampshire in the 1950's. Everyone knew everyone's business.

Party lines were still in use in the UK up until late 70's/ early eighties- US of A was well ahead.

Free bag airlines gave out to passengers.
Smoking on the plane.

Originally Posted by Iceman123

Party lines were still in use in the UK up until late 70's/ early eighties- US of A was well ahead.

As always?

By 2000, according to USA Today, there were still over 5,000 party lines still in existence in the U.S.,

Originally Posted by Iceman123

Five boys = chocolate bar with 5 pieces all with boys heads - can nor remember if it was cadburys or Frys but certainly a famous bar.

Thanks.

I can remember Bar Six.

Does anyone remember Frys Punch bar? - uk - same shape as cadburys fudge but with a taste and consistency between that and a curly wurly - loved them

Originally Posted by david44

Typing on a real typewriter
Payphones push button B ....
Packets of 5 ciggies, given on airlines
Tiffin
5 Boys
Milk Motoring?

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

Yes. No to all the others - not a Brit.

Same here.

Do you remember?

punch cards
the Macintosh
pong
The Mario Brothers
valley girls
This Is Spinal Tap

Originally Posted by Cujo

Free bag airlines gave out to passengers.
Smoking on the plane.

Was one of my first school bags. Qantas V-jet Club. And in Suva Grammar, everyone with an airline bag was the bee's knees. Most bags were Air NZ, my Qantas one stood out.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

in Suva Grammar

BOAC were sought after as anyone had BEA or Aer Lingus

a Souv enir, were you the class Fijit tho?

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

My grandparents had a party line - phone service in rural New Hampshire in the 1950's. Everyone knew everyone's business.

Likewise Davis. There were about 8 households spread out over 50+ klm's on the same line but everyone was wise to the fact that if they heard a click it meant someone else on the line had picked up and was listening in. The Grandmother had a hearing aide device that had a box which was like 3/4 the size of a cigarette pack with a cord and earpiece. She figured out that by placing the box near the handset and dialing it up to maximum gain, she could still listen in without having to pick the handset up and give the game away. Picked up more dirt on the phone than she did with a dustpan, as my Grandfather use to say .

Anyway here's 2 photos younger people would never be able to understand the correlation between, but we do!;

Originally Posted by wjblaney

punch cards

Yes for controlling automatic NC lathes.

Originally Posted by Headworx

Anyway here's 2 photos younger people would never be able to understand the correlation between, but we do!;

Oh yes casettes that's unravel in the car or the 8 track

Still have a few Mars Lumograph pencils by Staedtler very fine non roll pencils

Do you remember?

Not having to wear a condom when lucky enough get a little strange

Transistor reel to reel "spycorders"

Originally Posted by Iceman123

Party lines were still in use in the UK up until late 70's/ early eighties- US of A was well ahead.

When I moved away from my parents home in rural Ohio in 1981 they were still on a party line...so my locale was not well ahead. "Everyone knew everyone elses business" that is so true...

I remember manual typewriters, we had one.

I remember payphones sans "Button B" and rotary dial phones as we had one of those too. You've got to look really hard now to find a payphone anywhere. But there are still some in existence.

"Milk Motoring" Is that referring to home delivery of milk? Yup we had some of that too. The little truck that delivered our milk looked a lot like this but with a different logo.

What's going on with all the nostalgia threads on the forum? Its starting to feel like a wake!