The "Olden Days"...what's your memory

[joann1975]

My sweet favorite little niece is here and I am taking pics of her with the digital camera...

So I started to explain to her about back "in the olden days" how we had to put film (she had no clue) in the camera and take the 24 or 32 pics....depending on the film....then drive it to walmart or wherever...then wait 3-7 days and go back to walmart to pick it up.

I explained all this to her and she just looked at me like I was dumb.... so funny how things have changed!!!

What do you guys remember that would be foreign to the kids in your life?

[PromisedLand]

When life was simple..you could let your kids play outside without worrying about them being kidnapped, or worse.  Someone mentioned above neighbors keeping an eye on each other's kids..now it seems we hardly know our neighbors...fathers playing baseball with their kids at the local parts.  Most of the time now they baseball diamonds are empty.  Fathers being fathers.


Jim

[virgo1969]

Oh yeah, does anuyone remember Aspen soda? It was green apple flavored.

[virgo1969]

The Northwoods Inn is great.  We still go there every now and then. I love throwing the peanut shells on the floor. Does anyone from So. Cal remember the Japanese Village and Deer Park in Buena Park? Early 70's. Or the Lion Country Safari in Irvine where you drove your cars on this road and the wild animals were all around you coming up to your car and stuff? I think it closed in the early 80's.

And don't get me started on the Knott's Berry Farm chicken and boysenberry pie. Sometimes we drive out there just to have dinner. YUMMYLICIOUS!

The drive-in's were the best. We had one out here that had 6 movie screens so we would movie hop if we ran into friends that were seeing a different movie. I can remember sneaking into the drive-in in the trunk of a '76 Buick LeSabre with my sister driving and she purposely drove over every speed bump she could find and must've drove around the drive-in for a good 10 minutes with me and my friend in the trunk the whole time with the AM radio blaring so no one could hear us yelling. She thought she was so funny.

[scaredmom330]

what was the old movie camera? 8 milimeter? remember you put one reel on one end and another on the front? remember watch home movies...

[scaredmom330]

riding a bike w/o a helmet, playing outside all day in the neighborhood and your mother had no idea where you were, drinking from a water hose, swimming in the swimming hole,trick or treating alone all over town. sleep out in a tent. gas wars, yeah gas was .24 cents a gallon,penny candy and yeah I detassled corn too, babysitting for 50 cent an hour..car hops, drive in where a car load was $5.00. My first real job I was a car hop and made 50 cents an hour, had to ride my bike there after school and home after dark, and when I was promoted to waitress I made $1.00 boy did I think I was rich. Lol am I telling my age now or what...lol

[joann1975]

SIM...we still have drive ins here... You risk getting shot... but we go sometimes anyway... it's kinda fun sometimes....dodgin bullets and stuff.. ok not that bad there.. but there are a few scary people there... and I just try to never need to go to the restroom!

I remember when I was little my Mom and her friend took all us kids in the big baby blue station wagon to see The Incredible Shrinking Woman (it came on 1st) then On Golden Pond came on next...and we were so mad we had to stay and see the 2nd one!