Remember when?

[67newport]

 

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Apparently very desirable and pricey. Before my time.

 

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[67newport]

 

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A man buying cigarettes from his hospital bed, 1950s

 

[amazinblue82]

"once upon a time "...

 

[3175375]

My dad smoked Tareytons.

 

[amazinblue82]

i have a clear late 1960's memory of this one. my mom switched from "Pall Mall" to these.

1968 to be exact. my mom was 28 at the time .. smack dab in the Phillip Morris target market.

Interesting time to be a woman at least in America in late 60's. Strong, independent, burning their bras, wearing mini skirts, skinny bodies were "in", etc.,

We still see the social and economic effects - be they good or bad - of this general era in the world today.

 

[Old Mike]

"once upon a time "...

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My Mom (registered nurse) was practically a chain smoker and she and my Dad smoked Camels (they did eventually switch to Camels filtered). I remember the back seat of our Buick, my Grandma sitting next to me smoking Viceroys (which stunk the worst for some reason) and my Dad and Mom up from with the Camels. It was 20 degrees out, and I got yelled at for rolling the window down because I couldn’t breathe. I don’t know how I didn’t get cancer from the second hand smoke.

 

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[cuda hunter]

I can't say I was old enough to remember the majority of things on this thread.
However I do know that the Western Airplane (post 1582) is at the old Colorado Springs Airport before it was moved.

 

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What 5 megabytes of computer data looked like in 1966: 62,500 punched cards, taking four days to load.

I also remember the error printouts that were handed to me the next day after submitting my program (on cards)…

 

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[carguy300]

Those were the days my friend!!

 

[Rustyrodknocker]

I have a confession in regards to party lines. Way back when, myself, my younger brother and 2 friends, age 13-10. We were trying to call about a used dirt bike and my friends had a party line. 2 old ladies were blabbing for ever, we were polite and patient, after about 30 mins we explained what needed the phone for and we got a, to bad! My friend took the muffler off his lawn mower and moved to the back door, took the phone receiver over, he cranked the mower, revved it up and Iput phone out the door. They hung up!, we made the call and the dirt bike had been sold. Only young once!!

I certainly hope you learned a lesson from the behavior that you and your buddy took part in on this day. If you had not been a couple of lazy little procrastinators waisting a precious 30 minutes on those two old air bags, you could have scored that dirt bike...

That's called learning the hard way.

 

[carguy300]

We were not Lazy in those days! We didnt have hand held crap to entertain us!, good ole fashioned imagaination kept us busy.

 

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Snow fort

 

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