OT...Remember when

Photo Egg · May 2018

Remember when you could put $2.00 worth of quarters in the self serve car wash... and it was enough!
I think it cost me $37.50 today and I could have used a shot of oxygen at the end.lol

bgebrent · May 2018

I can’t remember shlt.

tml1230 · May 2018

Great post!
In my very humble opinion everybody on this site, particularly on a day like Mother's Day... Should utube and listen to the Alan Jackson song "remember when"-- whether u like country music or not, u gotta be brain dead not to have that song make u think.

RRP · May 2018

Funny that you posted this. Just yesterday I replied to a fellow my age or even younger about gas wars when station owners would feud by posting cheaper prices across the highway. Best I ever recall was .19 per gallon!

PoppasGrill · May 2018

Photo Egg said:

Remember when you could put $2.00 worth of quarters in the self serve car wash... and it was enough!
I think it cost me $37.50 today and I could have used a shot of oxygen at the end.lol

There is one self serve wash near me and it’s .25 for 4 minutes, with no soap( owner hasn’t filled the soap in months) and uses reclaimed water.
Back when cigs were .50 a pack and a gallon of milk was .90.
When the girl running the register knew how to count out change and didn’t have to touch the picture on the screen to ring up your Coke and bag of peanuts.

SamIAm2 · May 2018

Remember "We now conclude our television broadcast" messages announced every evening by CBS, NBC, and ABC affiliate stations? When we waited for the morning newspaper delivery to learn who was elected president, when sugar was something YOU added to morning cereal?

GATraveller · May 2018

tml1230 said:

Great post!
In my very humble opinion everybody on this site, particularly on a day like Mother's Day... Should utube and listen to the Alan Jackson song "remember when"-- whether u like country music or not, u gotta be brain dead not to have that song make u think.

I'm getting soft in my old age because that song makes me tear up every time I hear it now.
When I first started driving gas was around $0.79 per gallon.

Rascal · May 2018

Remember WHAT??

Fred19Flintstone · May 2018

BikerBob · May 2018

After the "We conclude.." message the American flag came on for a while. Next afternoon there was a test pattern before programming began again.
Remember listening to Cisco Kid, Fibber McGee and Molly and Amos and Andy?
My mother listened to "her shows" soap operas while doing housework. A fan in the summer no AC. Screw in fuses in the electric box.
Don't get me started.

Brisket_Fanatic · May 2018

Watch out Darian, the wash bays around here you can just put in your debit card and it will run until you hit stop - you never hear the beeping so you just take your time and them BAM!

Nice thing with living in a small religious town you can wash it by hand in the bay on Sunday am and spent $1 to presoak and $1 to rinse it off.

Theophan · May 2018

RRP said:

... Best I ever recall was .19 per gallon!

I know I remember when it was 25¢, not sure I remember when it was lower than that. I was alive when it was lower, but I'm not sure I was paying attention to gas prices.

Of course, we made less money back then, too, so it sort of equals out! A decade later, I worked for the summer at General Motors' Fisher Body Plant #1 spot welding on an automotive assembly line, and I made something like $3.75 an hour, and that was BIG MONEY in those days. Bought myself a TV to take to college, felt like I was RICH. These days they are trying to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour... So when gas was a quarter or less per gallon, we made a LOT less money.

caliking · May 2018

Pops keeps bugging me to wash the cars at home every week. With dishwashing soap and a hose, like we did when I was a kid.

And every week I tell him "That's what rain is for! "

fishlessman · May 2018

we shared a party line with the funeral home across the street

GrillSgt · May 2018

Remember when your dad kept a hammer sitting on top of the TV?

lousubcap · May 2018

@caliking - better to get car wash soap as the dishwashing soap is not paint friendly: (from the inter web so it must be true)
"Don't use household cleaning agents like hand soap, dishwashing detergent, or glass cleaner on the paint. These aren't formulated for use on a car's paint and may strip off the protective wax. Do... use a dedicated car-wash product, which is milder and specifically designed for use on automotive paint."
I use Dawn dish soap whenever (and quite infrequently) I will deep clean the paint (clay bar) and then layer on the wax. FWIW-

Fred19Flintstone · May 2018

fishlessman said:x

we shared a party line with the funeral home across the street

"Fishless Mortuary. You stab 'em, we'll slab 'em!"

tharding · May 2018

We kept the pipe wrench out to use to turn the TV antenna. We could pick up two stations.

1voyager · May 2018

There was only one TV station available when we lived in Brunswick, GA.

blasting · May 2018

Remember when smoking on an airplane was a thing?

Remember when the first person in your neighborhood got that magical box (the microwave)

Remember taking trips as a kid and sleeping on the back window ledge - seatbelts were optional

Remember when teaches could hit you in the classroom.

At our cottage we had a cold smoker like @ikapigian, except it wasn't used for smoking. well, I guess you could smoke while using it...

Remember hitching a ride, when it was a thing.

Rember the original Hibatchi grill craze

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Focker · May 2018

Brisket_Fanatic said:

Watch out Darian, the wash bays around here you can just put in your debit card and it will run until you hit stop - you never hear the beeping so you just take your time and them BAM!

Nice thing with living in a small religious town you can wash it by hand in the bay on Sunday am and spent $1 to presoak and $1 to rinse it off.

That's what I do. I bring a 5 gal and a mit, my own soap, and work quickly. 2 bucks. Vacs are free.

caliking · May 2018

@lousubcap - oh I hear ya. But my Pops would likely tell you "I need special car soap like I need a hole in my head."

Washed his Mercedes with Dawn too. That, and 25yrs of driving it in India didn't seem to do much harm to the paint job on it!

lousubcap · May 2018

@caliking - I may just move over to your Dad's approach. Besides I don't have that many years left on the planet to worry if it all goes south.

AlbertaEgger · May 2018

Remember when I got a lot more work done because I wasn't part of a bbq forum...

saluki2007 · May 2018

Ozzie_Isaac · May 2018

Theophan said:

RRP said:

... Best I ever recall was .19 per gallon!

I know I remember when it was 25¢, not sure I remember when it was lower than that. I was alive when it was lower, but I'm not sure I was paying attention to gas prices.

Of course, we made less money back then, too, so it sort of equals out! A decade later, I worked for the summer at General Motors' Fisher Body Plant #1 spot welding on an automotive assembly line, and I made something like $3.75 an hour, and that was BIG MONEY in those days. Bought myself a TV to take to college, felt like I was RICH. These days they are trying to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour... So when gas was a quarter or less per gallon, we made a LOT less money.

When gas was 25cents and you made $3.75/hr it took 4 minutes to earn 1 gallon of gas.

When gas is 2.80 and you make $15/hr it takes you 11 minutes to earn 1 gallon of gas.

theyolksonyou · May 2018

Botch · May 2018

3 odd ones, just from last weekend.
I couldn't call my Mom to pick me up from the airport, finally realized I forgot to make my yearly payment to Tracfone in March.

Remember when you could always find a pay phone? There are still a few in the SLC airport, but not in Sioux Falls. I asked an airport employee if there was a payphone anywhere, and she said, "I don't think so, anymore; here, use mine!"

Remember when total strangers would help you out? How many places left in the world would a total stranger lend you their cellphone?? I called Mom, and the employee and I had a nice chat afterwards.

Eating breakfast at a bagel place the next morning, I saw a guy working on his laptop in the outdoor area (he was the only one out there). He got up, came back into the shop, and went to the restroom. He finally came out, and bought a refill, all along leaving his laptop on a table outside, open and unattended. How many places left in the world, could you do that?!?

If it weren't for the mosquitoes, and the lack of mountains, I'd move back to Sioux Falls for retirement.

thetrim · May 2018

Sioux Falls is a cool town. I used to work their regularly and started during January. I remember seeing the falls the first time, and they were one big block of ice. I also used to go to a real nice steakhouse there. Can’t remember the name of it.

Botch · May 2018

thetrim said:

Sioux Falls is a cool town. I used to work their regularly and started during January. I remember seeing the falls the first time, and they were one big block of ice. I also used to go to a real nice steakhouse there. Can’t remember the name of it.

My 40th HS reunion is this coming July, and the Friday mixer and Saturday night formal dinner are in a cafe overlooking Falls Park, that'll be cool.

RRP · May 2018

blasting said:

Remember hitching a ride, when it was a thing.

Back when I was in college my freshman & sophomore years near KC, MO there was a guy who drove clear across MO to St Louis every Friday and returned every Sunday. He charged $1 each way! That was too rich for me so I always hitch hiked when I wanted to go home. My parents did not approve of my hitch hiking so I always told them a guy who lived in a nearby town gave me a lift and then they would drive 35 miles to pick me up. The reverse method also worked.

By my Junior year I had saved enough from a summer job to buy my own car..

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