I’m so old…

[mikemorvan]

I thought about this thread coming home from church. I remember when churches were open 7 / 365 / 24. You could always go in and pray, get right, etc. Then I remember when someone broke into our church and stole all the sound gear. Church got locked after that.

When I was little i don’t remember seeing fences around church properties and all manner of security systems and armed guards (congregation members) in church. Times have changed.

Methiolate, mercurichrome, and a BandAid brand band aid could cure nearly anything that involved exposed blood. My dad made us eat a gob of Vicks VapoRub if / when we had any issue involving breathing.

[ThisLadyHunts]

I remember something along the lines of mi- cure-a-comb…but I don’t recall its use ?

Seems to me that mercurochrome, also a mercury-based antiseptic, was the generation before merthiolate. My grandmother always had mercurochrome in her medicine cabinet (which she kept in a kitchen cabinet) and my mother had merthiolate and, later, iodine (which she kept in the medicine cabinet above the sink).

[Goldeneagle]

101 octane at the pump was common, and 103 if you searched really hard.

Curt Gowdy had an outdoor TV show called "The American Sportsman".

Watching Fred Bear on American Sportsman was what got me wanting a bow. I got a Bear Little Bear for Christmas of '69. Still have it. I was the Fred Bear of Oak Cliff.

[Walker]

Seems to me that mercurochrome, also a mercury-based antiseptic, was the generation before merthiolate. My grandmother always had mercurochrome in her medicine cabinet (which she kept in a kitchen cabinet) and my mother had merthiolate and, later, iodine (which she kept in the medicine cabinet above the sink).

Monkey blood

[mikemorvan]

Watching Fred Bear on American Sportsman was what got me wanting a bow. I got a Bear Little Bear for Christmas of '69. Still have it. I was the Fred Bear of Oak Cliff.

The episode where Fred Bear killed that polar bear with his trusty recurve was epic black and white tv.

[SaltwaterSlick]

For years, Bonanza came on on Sunday nights and Chevrolet always introduced their new model year cars/trucks during the commercials of the show that aired Labor Day weekend. Y'all remember that?!

[jerp]

I remember thinking the world was coming to an end when it went to .99, and I was coming have to pay $30 to fill my 30 gallon tank.

My last year of college - 1979. I was working at a gas station/convenience store when gas went over $1.00 for the first time. One of my jobs was to change the gas price sign using a long pole and metal numerals that hung on little hooks. However there were not enough hooks for the extra digit to show a price over a dollar. I had to climb the sign and tape a 1 to the left of the decimal.

[GarGuy]

For years, Bonanza came on on Sunday nights and Chevrolet always introduced their new model year cars/trucks during the commercials of the show that aired Labor Day weekend. Y'all remember that?!

I remember being in a little country church 1970ish . We had a new fire and brimstone preacher named Thell Gunnells there who got long winded. One of the deacons spoke up interrupting his sermon "wind it up preacher. BONANZA IS ABOUT TO COME ON!".

That remains a family joke around here to this day.

[GarGuy]

The episode where Fred Bear killed that polar bear with his trusty recurve was epic black and white tv.

Heck yeah!

[E.TX.BOWHUNTER]

I remember when we hunted and fished for food because food was expensive at the grocery store. Man that has done a 180.

[clay4626]

I am so old they used either to put me out when i had my tonsiels (ms) taken out
when sears catalog came the old one went to outhouse and it was not there to read.
Those slick pages were the <<<<<

[Goldeneagle]

Before there were any video games, we rolled car tires up and down the street for entertainment.

[curtintex]

Before there were any video games, we rolled car tires up and down the street for entertainment.

What did you do before the wheel was invented?

[BlackHogDown]

Dang y'all are old!

Before there were any video games, we rolled car tires up and down the street for entertainment.

And rolled hoops down the street with sticks, right?

[Duckologist]

I remember when we hunted and fished for food because food was expensive at the grocery store. Man that has done a 180.

Not for all of us.