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   masterskrain said, 5 months ago

   I remember when there were 3 T.V. Channels, or 4 if you had an “Educational Television” channel in your town.
   Televisions were Black and White, and had NO remote, Telephones had both a “Dial”, and a “Wire” to the handset. Only the very rich or very important had a telephone in their car, and even then you had to go through the “Mobile Operator”,
   “The Simpsons” was not on television.
   Gas was $.27 a gallon!
   My first car, a 1970 VW Beetle WOULD NOT hold $5 worth of gas, the tank wasn’t big enough!
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   celecca said, 5 months ago

   PEDAL pushers (short enough so you wouldn’t catch your pant legs in the chair of your bike)
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   Lerf1950 said, 5 months ago

   I remember garter belts and stockings. I have blessed the inventor of panty hose since the day I chucked the last garter belt. It’s been decades since I had the marks of those things impressed into my thighs.
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   Happy, happy, happy!!! said, 5 months ago

   clam diggers…
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   trivers said, 5 months ago

   I hate to age myself, but remember when flip-flops were just for summer and the beach and not normal “shoe” gear? What goes around, comes around, except gas prices!
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   T_Lexi said, 5 months ago

   @trivers

   Yes, and they were called thongs back then. Say that now, and you get a big snicker…
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   Comic Minister said, 5 months ago

   Oh yeah! Garter belts and thigh high stockings are great on some women!
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   vernester said, 5 months ago

   You guys need a copy editor. It’s “pedal pushers.”
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   runar said, 5 months ago

   Capri pants and pedal pushers are not quite the same things. Capri pants were introduced in 1948, and made very popular by Mary Tyler Moore as Laura Petri on The Dick van Dyke Show. Pedal pushers are similar, but they are sometimes cuffed, while Capris never are. What kept pedal pushers out of bike chains was their close fit moreso than their length.
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    ellisaana said, 5 months ago

    @runar

    As I recall, capri pants were once marketed to women who wanted to walk on the beach without getting the pant legs wet.
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    Ratbrat said, 5 months ago

    Ah, the wonderful memories of sitting all day in a hard school chair with the metal clasps of the garter best digging into my flesh.
    Guys may think they are sexy, but if they had to wear them they would think again!
    Long live tights and panty hose!
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    cbrsarah said, 5 months ago

    In my day tennies were called sneakers. They weren’t called tennis shoes (tennies) till the 70’s unless you were tennis player.
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    Jon88 said, 5 months ago

    @celecca

    Indeed, “pedal.” Remember when publishers employed copy editors?
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    mr_sherman said, 5 months ago

    @Jon88

    How about being smart enough to know that spellcheker doesn’t work for homonyms.
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    peter stampfel said, 5 months ago

    @Jon88

    my wife is the publisher of DAW books. copy editors work on all our books, 5 to 7 a month. and i remember 19 cent gas and no tv at all. milwaukee got tv (nbc) in 1948-only 1 channel till the 50s.
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