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39. Gotcha.

Reply to Susan Calvin (Reply #38)

Sun Mar 22, 2026, 10:42 AM

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As I get old, and by definition I am aging daily, [View all] PCIntern Yesterday OP

Great post luv2fly Yesterday #1

Familiar stuff. It's amazing how much things have changed Ocelot II Yesterday #2

I remember the sonic booms. Delmette2.0 15 hrs ago #35

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I remember all of that Walleye Yesterday #3

School bus issues were very common PCIntern 23 hrs ago #4

Yes, I remember those days... MiHale 23 hrs ago #5

I remember those days too. multigraincracker 23 hrs ago #6

Thanks for the interesting post MustLoveBeagles 23 hrs ago #7

Remember when cigarette ads featured doctors telling smokers it would improve their health? sop 23 hrs ago #8

I have magazines that have ads like that in them Mossfern 2 hrs ago #42

i agree, except the blu laws were repealed when i was around AllaN01Bear 23 hrs ago #9

I remember much of what you wrote about. When I was a little girl I made leg braces for my Tiny Tears doll out of yarn. Vinca 23 hrs ago #10

Yes Jughead 22 hrs ago #11

Your post was interesting to me, thank you PCIntern! Diamond_Dog 22 hrs ago #12

Being a public school kid lonely bird 22 hrs ago #19

Many places still offer fish on Fridays to this day. Diamond_Dog 21 hrs ago #25

I wasn't Catholic lonely bird 5 hrs ago #36

"Esso" and "Enco" in some regions. The name "Esso" survives in the sniglet "Esso-asso", for someone who ... eppur_se_muova 22 hrs ago #13

Our town, the family of 5 kids all came down with polio at the same time. One of the kids later became a 3Hotdogs 22 hrs ago #14

On the good side, though, otchmoson 22 hrs ago #15

Oh yeah! Picturelady 18 hrs ago #34

I never stopped to wonder what happened to mercurochrome mainer 22 hrs ago #16

My mother always had a small bottle of merthiolate or Mercurochrome, cksmithy 22 hrs ago #17

I remember all that as well nuxvomica 22 hrs ago #18

OMG, Sinclair the dinosaur! We had one and I loved it! Ocelot II 20 hrs ago #31

As I recall... GiqueCee 22 hrs ago #20

All of that, yep, remember it well Attilatheblond 21 hrs ago #21

Oh, I remember those Brylcream commercials: "a little dab'll do you." CTyankee 21 hrs ago #23

Almost all of this is familiar. I was born in 1951, and will mark 3/4 of a century next month. 3catwoman3 21 hrs ago #22

I am reminded of the air raid sirens. FuzzyRabbit 21 hrs ago #24

You missed at least a couple on the Esso timeline. Susan Calvin 21 hrs ago #26

Not in Philly PCIntern 5 hrs ago #37

Piney Woods. Susan Calvin 3 hrs ago #38

Gotcha. PCIntern 3 hrs ago #39

there was a restroom devoted to smokers in my high school Brainstormy 21 hrs ago #27

Early Fifties Tiny Tabby 21 hrs ago #28

Wow, we posted about the green stamps exactly the same time! GoodRaisin 21 hrs ago #30

Great reflections. Anybody remember Green Stamps? GoodRaisin 21 hrs ago #29

Sure: PCIntern 20 hrs ago #32

I remember most of these.... Bayard 19 hrs ago #33

;-{)...... Goonch 3 hrs ago #40

Yup. There it is! PCIntern 2 hrs ago #41