The "Back in my day" thread.

[TRD270]

Basic in junior high.

I went to hunter jr, wasn’t really on the curriculum 😬 . Not even sure we had a computer lab

 

[lhracing]

Fortran 4 in 1970

 

[Spork]

I remember the gun counter at Fred Meyer.

 

[Brad J]

Going "into town" was going to Grand Central before they became Fred Meyer

 

[Stephen]

Going "into town" was going to Grand Central before they became Fred Meyer

I remember the Grand Central across the street from our house had part of its roof collapse during a snow storm. Then several years later after it'd become a Fred Meyer, to roof collapsed again the day after Christmas.

The building is now a Smith's Marketplace. So watch yourself when you go in this week.

 

[cruiseroutfit]

Frank's
Iceberg
Reams
Corner Canyon
Stuffing
CB radios

 

[rholbrook]

We were the first family to get PONG in the neighborhood and we started playing that and stopped playing lawn 🎯

 

[Rot Box]

Back in my day we rode three wheelers and I lived to tell about it 😂

 

[DaveB]

Back in my day there were no front wheel drive cars, no video games, no computers at your house and the ones at the university used paper punch cards. When I started doing engineering work in the 70's the entire engineering department shared one VT100 terminal. Also loved going to the A&W drive in for a frosty mug as a youngster. Rode home made mini bikes. Learned to drive in a 68 Camaro and a 59 Chev Apache 4x4 (on dirt roads.)

 

[lhracing]

Many stories...

 

[glockman]

Back in my day there were no front wheel drive cars, no video games, no computers at your house and the ones at the university used paper punch cards. When I started doing engineering work in the 70's the entire engineering department shared one VT100 terminal. Also loved going to the A&W drive in for a frosty mug as a youngster. Rode home made mini bikes. Learned to drive in a 68 Camaro and a 59 Chev Apache 4x4 (on dirt roads.)

My folks met at an A&W🤣.

 

[OldGeezer]

If you wanted to go to the Easter Jeep Safari all you had to do was show up. Find out where the trail leaders were and get in line. No fees and no reservations. And you could ride in the back of pickup trucks too.

 

[JeeperG]

Growing up in Enoch, we used to shoot prairie dogs from our back porch, gun racks in pickup trucks displaying rifles for everyone to see, high school parking lot had a lot of trucks with guns on racks and probably unlocked. We still have the muzzleloaders, truck and people in this photo.

 

[glockman]

Back in my day, I'd mow the lawn for enough money to buy a can of pellets for my Sheridan pellet gun. Pellets lasted about as long as the cut grass. Rinse and repeat weekly.

 

[nnnnnate]

Back in my day we played one pump in the field, but really pumped more than once so you'd shoot more accurate.

 

[STAG]

I don’t qualify for this thread 😂

 

[Skylinerider]

Back in my day, you ate lunch super quick in the winter so you had time to finish a game of Oregon Trail on the Apple IIe computers in the computer lab. I miss that warm green glow of the screen while getting dysentery.

 

[N-Smooth]

I don’t qualify for this thread 😂

This thread makes me feel young so you should just see your way out

I remember pre-internet quite well and knew where my friends were because of all the bikes in the front yard. I took my parents' brick cell phone to baseball practice and told my teammates it was mine- and they were all super impressed.

 

[N-Smooth]

Back in my day, you ate lunch super quick in the winter so you had time to finish a game of Oregon Trail on the Apple IIe computers in the computer lab. I miss that warm green glow of the screen while getting dysentery.

I think I've mentioned this on here before but I used to give my family naughty names-


"Butthole was bitten by a rattlesnake and died."

 

[SoopaHick]

I don’t qualify for this thread 😂

Same. I wish I did though!