CAROLINA CHAT
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Joined: Aug 2011
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From: Thomasville, NC Where we beat headers into submission!!
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (OLive-6933)
I'm still trying to figure out how you'd dial Olive on a rotary phone. LOL. (I'm kidding, I know you had to send it with a smoke signal)
I'm still trying to figure out how you'd dial Olive on a rotary phone. LOL. (I'm kidding, I know you had to send it with a smoke signal)
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Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 3,578
From: Charlotte NC
Vandyke7-1234 = VA7-1234 =827-1234
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From: Thomasville, NC Where we beat headers into submission!!
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Posts: 2,793
From: Colorado
I got 11. But only because in the 70s and 80s Eastern Colorado was very slow to change. I think the IGA here used green stamps until I was like 10. Our local store, a run down sort of roadside grocery you'd see in a horror flick, still had glass bottles until it closed about twenty years ago. And we could just dial four numbers on the phone to get anyone within 50 or 100 miles or so.
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From: Colorado
Couple things you left off.
Adjusting the vertical hold on a TV
Motors that you cranked to start
I'm sure I will think of more.
I'm 36 now, but our farm hasn't always been technologically advanced. We used to have a fleet of trucks from the 50s. The first TV I remember was a black and white, and we only had three channels, CBS ABC NBC, until I was like 12.
Adjusting the vertical hold on a TV
Motors that you cranked to start
I'm sure I will think of more.
I'm 36 now, but our farm hasn't always been technologically advanced. We used to have a fleet of trucks from the 50s. The first TV I remember was a black and white, and we only had three channels, CBS ABC NBC, until I was like 12.
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Joined: Jun 2011
Posts: 7,050
From: North Carolina
When I lived in High Point in 69 you only had to dial 5 digits of the 7. You could leave off the first two. I remember $0.10 soft drinks and $0.30 gas.
I think it's funny that Travis only got three, really young or bad memory?
I think it's funny that Travis only got three, really young or bad memory?
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From: Colorado
Yeah, Travis, 3? Not sure how old you are. But who didn't at least have a hifi in the basement?
Edit: might have helped that, not only did we live a ways off the beaten path, but my Great Grandmother was 96 before she went into the nursing home, so I saw some of these things at her place.
Edit: might have helped that, not only did we live a ways off the beaten path, but my Great Grandmother was 96 before she went into the nursing home, so I saw some of these things at her place.
Last edited by CPTCO; Jan 9, 2015 at 09:23 AM.
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Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 7,233
From: Thomasville, NC Where we beat headers into submission!!
How many do you remember?
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (OLive-6933)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16 Hi-fi's
17 Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19 Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (OLive-6933)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16 Hi-fi's
17 Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19 Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers
We used to have a Green Stamp store that you went to with your books of stamps to "buy" items with.
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Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 11,715
From: Raeford, NC - Where if it ain't broke, we fix it!
The ones I remember
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (OLive-6933)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16 Hi-fi's
17 Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19 Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (OLive-6933)
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16 Hi-fi's
17 Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19 Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers