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Lady Strange · 80's Rock Chick

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WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

Back in my day only OLD people use to say stuff like "Back in my day..."

Phew, I'm glad that has changed!

Lady Strange · 80's Rock Chick

WebGuy wrote:
Back in my day only OLD people use to say stuff like "Back in my day..." Phew, I'm glad that has changed!

Me too!

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

I like these kinds of threads, I just can't come up with anything. hmm

back in my day, when people drove, they just drove. They didn't talk on the phone too at the same time. hmm

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

Back in my day, djs were real people in real studios playing real music that they loved. smile

I'm bringin that back. smile

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

Back in my day all the girls wore POW bracelets on their wrists every day during the Vietnam War. The bracelets had the name, rank, and service division of the soldier on them. And it also said if the soldier was a prisoner of war, missing in action, or killed in action. If the POW was released or found, there was a number on the back of the bracelet you could call to return the bracelet to him or his family.

My dad was for the Vietnam War, my mom was against it. I had a POW bracelet, but I had to keep it hidden from my dad. He thought they were "propaganda" put out by the college kids in protest of the war.

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

Back in my day the girls couldn't wear pants to school. You had to wear a dress or a skirt. During the winter you were allowed to wear slacks (not jeans) under your dress but as soon as you got to school you had to take the slacks off. It wasn't until 1972 when the school board finally allowed girls to wear slacks all day in class.

Also during that time all kids walked to and from school. The only kids that got a ride were the kids that lived in the country and had to take a bus in to school every day. You also ate breakfast and lunch at home every day....there was no government food program in the schools. The only government requirement was that schools sell milk in the morning. Milk was a nickel and we had a milk break every morning. Some kids wouldn't drink their milk and leave it inside their desks. Every Friday was "clean out your desk day" and the teacher would assign kids to take all the soured milks into the bathroom and dump them in the sink. bleh

-- Edited by ghostdancer at 10:32, 2008-03-15

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

Back in my day there was a lot less traffic on the roads. Most families only had one car. Moms stayed home and took care of the kids and house while dads worked, so there was no need for a woman to have her own car. If a woman needed the car to run errands, she would pile the kids in the car and take her husband to work in the morning.

It was considered unusual if a woman had a job outside of the home, and many men considered it an insult if their wife wanted to work.....it was like telling him he wasn't a good provider for the family.

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

Back in my day record albums were around $3.00 and 45's cost 50 cents; a double album was more expensive....$5.00. Concert tickets were $5 to $7 for good seats; cheaper seats were $3.00, and every concert sold out fast!! Concert t-shirts were $6 or $7.

Everyone had a lighter for the encore....probably because everyone was smoking loco weed at the concert. Funny, but the cops never did much about that either...they usually looked the other way.

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

This thread is so much fun I can't stay away from it! smile

Back in my day all the boys in high school drove muscle cars.....Mustangs, GTO's, Olds 442's, Trans Am's, Charger's, Chevelle's, etc. On Friday nights everyone went out to the airport.....they had a strip to race on, and it was "The Happenin' " place to be!! The guys would race against each other for bragging rights and the girls got their fill of eye candy......meaning the cars of course!! biggrin

Every once in a while the guys would let us girls race their cars. My brother had a '71 Chevelle SS and it was sweeeeeet!! My boyfriend had a Charger and the thing was a rocket!! They'd let me race their cars sometimes; sometimes I won races, sometimes I lost. But the thrill was the name of the game!!

I think that's why even now, whenever I see one of the old muscle cars out on the street, my heart still races and I get an adrenaline rush!!! biggrin

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Kind of in the same genre as Ghost's last post...

Back in my day, for fun on Friday night, you'd go "cruise the strip." The biggest one was in Goshen. All the guys would drive up and down this one street showing off their cars and picking up girls. In fact, that's how my mom and dad met and how I was conceived. No drag racing though, too many people and cars in one area to have enough room. If you wanted to race, you'd take your car to the OC Dragway. (Which is still there, but it's a legit IHRA track now.)

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

Back in my day most neighborhoods had mom & pop grocery stores in them. You could walk to the store and they knew you by name, knew your family, and would ask how things were going. Now you drive to a store, buy what you need, but no one knows you.

I miss the sense of "belonging to a community" that the mom & pop stores offered. cry

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

its awesome to see how sandy is takin this thread and runnin with it!

all fun reads!

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

I'm showing my true age JD!! biggrin

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

Back in my day I saw the first team of men go to the moon. We all crowded around the black & white tv in the living, and I remember my mom and dad saying what an accomplishment that was. I also remember thinking to myself that I didn't believe we were really at the moon.

As I've aged over the years, I still have my doubts about us really being there to begin with. The Cold War with USSR was still going on.....Russia had put a spacecraft up before us, and of course us being a "superpower" couldn't let Russia do something that we couldn't do. So the next obvious step for us to take would be to say we put a man on the moon. Some day, if they allow civilians to book a flight to the moon, I hope to be around so I can go. I want to see for myself if we were really there all those years ago. confused

JD The Jazz Doctor · Grand Poobah

maybe thats that whole forbidden area...whats it called again, area 41, 61? Roswell?
the movie set for the moon movie?

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

Area 51, JD. And yes, I've really thought a lot about this off and on. We supposedly had a place out in the desert somewhere where the astronauts trained for this mission. Who's to say if we were seeing real moon footage or if we were seeing training missions.

Now I don't want to come right out and say the government lies to us constantly, but we all know they do, so..............

Anyway, I'll keep the rest of my thoughts on this to myself. It's probably better if I do. biggrin

garougal · Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult

Hahaha! Fair enough Sandy...I've wondered the same myself. There's beens some pretty interesting documentaries doen about that very question. My dad was so intrigued by the "evidence" presented to say that the moon photography was a hoax. That was such a big deal when he was a kid.

Lady Strange · 80's Rock Chick

garougal wrote:
Hahaha! Fair enough Sandy...I've wondered the same myself. There's beens some pretty interesting documentaries doen about that very question. My dad was so intrigued by the "evidence" presented to say that the moon photography was a hoax. That was such a big deal when he was a kid.

My dad was interested in that too. And I have also seen some really interesting documentaries about this subject.

squonk · RetroMan

Back in my day...
When I started smoking cigarettes, they were .65 a pack. When I quit, $1.75 for a 25 pack of Newport.
We did walk everywhere. My mom didn't get her driver's license until she was 34 yrs old. (men didn't let women drive. It was easier to have an affair if she couldn't come over to the mistress' house/apartment)
Peanut Butter & Jelly with Chicken Noodle soup and Fritos was considered "nutiritious"
Bikes had 1, 3, or 5 speeds. Rich people owned 10 speed bikes. They were often stolen because people paid as much as $250.00 for the really nice ones!
I bought two 1960 Buicks for $1100.00. Both started and drove down the road (one didn't have reverse) evileye

. Four years ago, I bought a 1960 Oldsmobile for $9,500.00 and it needed work.

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

Back in my day, almost all companies/busineeses prided themselves on great customer service. The customer always came first and the customer's satisfaction was of the upmost importance! If you had a problem with goods you bought or the product was somehow defective, the company bent over backwards to remedy the situation. If you paid a bill and somehow the money wasn't applied to your account, a supervisor would immediately begin searching for the reason why, and the problem was usually taken care of in less than 3 business days. Businesses were glad to have your business and they showed it by saying "Thank you" when you purchased something from them. They taught their employees simple, common courtesy which they expected their employees to use while transacting with customers.

Nowdays it's as if companies/businesses couldn't care less about their customers or customer satisfaction. Most times if you call a company about any type of a problem with goods or services you are usually routed through an automated system which takes forever and a day to get an actual live person on the phone to speak with you. And nine times out of ten you are speaking to someone that barely comprehends and/or speaks English. If you are dealing face to face with someone their attitude is usually "I could care less, just hurry up and fill out this form so I can go do something else." Most companies and businesses no longer teach their employees to say "thank you" when you make a purchase in their store; simple, common courtesy has almost disappeared. Most employees don't even know how to properly count your change back to you.....they usually just hand you the coins and a wad of bills and send you on your way.

It seems to me that a lot of companies/businesses have forgotten what customer service is really all about.....the customer and what kind of an experience the customer has/had with a business!! hmm

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

ghostdancer wrote:

Back in my day, almost all companies/busineeses prided themselves on great customer service. The customer always came first and the customer's satisfaction was of the upmost importance! If you had a problem with goods you bought or the product was somehow defective, the company bent over backwards to remedy the situation. If you paid a bill and somehow the money wasn't applied to your account, a supervisor would immediately begin searching for the reason why, and the problem was usually taken care of in less than 3 business days. Businesses were glad to have your business and they showed it by saying "Thank you" when you purchased something from them. They taught their employees simple, common courtesy which they expected their employees to use while transacting with customers.

Nowdays it's as if companies/businesses couldn't care less about their customers or customer satisfaction. Most times if you call a company about any type of a problem with goods or services you are usually routed through an automated system which takes forever and a day to get an actual live person on the phone to speak with you. And nine times out of ten you are speaking to someone that barely comprehends and/or speaks English. If you are dealing face to face with someone their attitude is usually "I could care less, just hurry up and fill out this form so I can go do something else." Most companies and businesses no longer teach their employees to say "thank you" when you make a purchase in their store; simple, common courtesy has almost disappeared. Most employees don't even know how to properly count your change back to you.....they usually just hand you the coins and a wad of bills and send you on your way.

It seems to me that a lot of companies/businesses have forgotten what customer service is really all about.....the customer and what kind of an experience the customer has/had with a business!!

Amen, sista!!