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when gas was $0.99 a gallon!

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When a cable box looked like this:

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atari with the joystick
Nintendo, and duck hunt with the gun
The first sega genesis, my brother bought
one and we all gathered around it as a family
and played for hours.
(Can you tell I am a techie geek)
.25 For payphone
When gas was under $2 a gallon, and milk was even less
When you could use the excuse "I didn't have any change" when you didn't call your parents to check in, cause no one had cellphones.
When you went to the encyclopedia and the library instead of google.

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There was no such thing like call witing/unlimited calling/caller id on home lines

Home heating oil was 99 cents a gallon

Cell phones were for really cool people and looked like vcrs!

Being cool with Walkmans

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I remember when Vanna White used to actually turn the letters.

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I remember gas at less than a dollar a gallon.. and my bff and I scrounging the floor for 2 bucks in change to get enough gas to get us home!!

I remember walking up to the crossroads and getting a bag of chips for 25 cents at Almar's deli and a soda for a 50 cents at the beer distributor.

I remember when food markets were not the giant things they are now - they were maybe half the size and didn't have hardly any specialty, international products.. and way less pre-packaged convenience foods.

I remember when tv dinners and pot pies came in metal trays.

I remember when it was 'weird' to see anyone wearing makeup in 6th grade.. and still a novelty to see 7th graders wearing it!

I remember when mini skirts with matching leg warmers were in, when everyone went Ooh La La over Sassoon jeans and when Jordache were the coolest thing ever. I remember when Gloria Vanderbilt introduced black denim and I just about died to have a pair. I remember Z Cavaricci pants, envelope jeans and Capezios. I remember backward V Forenza sweaters and when everyone wanted to wear Gunne Sax dresses to the school dances.

I remember my Commodore 64 and thinking that making it print my name thousands of times in different colors was a fine example of computer programming! LOL

I remember when getting a mixed tape from a guy you liked MEANT something.

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I remember gas under $1.00 a gallon

When the electric bill did not consist of power supply charges that were higher then your actual electric bill

Could fill the oil tank in our house for less then $300

Tolls were less then $5.

Beepers were the in thing.

Ice skating cost $2 a session

Going to a baseball or football game for a family of 4 was less the $50.

Get a McDonald's value meal for $2

Taxes on LI were actually affordable

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I remember when the Gap sale rack had tons of $3.99 stuff and it wasn't just kids stuff .

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Sweet Jesus do I feel old now.

I catch myself saying that life was so much better back in the day.. More often than I'd like to admit.

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Gas was $1.00 per gallon
Candy was 50 cents
Potato chips were 25 cents a bag
A bus ride was 75 cents.

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LA Gear was in style

you could put tape over a part of the cassette to record over it

TV dinners took 40 minutes in the oven

Coffecake Muffins at Tate's were $1.50

Bazooka's were $.01 and then double it price to $.02 ( cut our stash down to half)

The worst punishment our parents could give us was to not to go outside and play.

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Pepsi Light

Opening a bank acct in HS at Citibank for my Paragon Sporting Goods paycheck and it being the only bank with an ATM!!!


My first "real job" (with benefits/paid vacation) at NYNEX Mobile (salary $18,200) in LIC where we installed phones in your car. We also sold portable "bag phones" and finally the Motorola Flip phone that sold for $3495.00.

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i remember when my dads boss came over and brought in his car phone it was as big as an office phone and had a long wire that had to stay attached to the car

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I remember metal subway tokens that cost 80 cents per ride. Then $1. Then $1.10, $1.25, 1.50... and it has been a shitshow ever since...

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Sitting around the computer with 10 other people in awe of AOL chat rooms.

14/f/town

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Having a beeper instead of a cell phone and knowing all the codes to send to boyfriends

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The tolls were so cheap that there were change baskets to toss your coins in

My parents' VCR had a wired remote control

We used to play games and draw with chalk on our regular old suburban street without any parents watching us.

You could buy an unscrambled cable box out of someone's trunk in the grocery store parking lot

We got Prodigy with our dial up modem, chat rooms (inviting and not inviting certain people), hacking programs, instant messaging became IMing

Crystal Clear Pepsi!

Gimp bracelts/keychains

French rolling the bottom of my jeans

Wearing two or more different colored socks on the same foot

Hypercolor shirts

up down up down left right light right A B A B select start

warp zones in Super Mario Bros

blowing on the Nintendo cartridges

Nintendo power pad for the olympics game and the gun for duck hunt

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When all we had were rotary dial phones with cords. And then the cord extenders came out but still you could only get as much privacy as far as that cord would go!

And having to type all my reports on a - gasp - typewriter and if I made a mistake I had to use the white out strips and hope I could get it straight. And if I needed a copy I had to use carbon paper!

And if I loved a song I had to wait for it to come on the radio and tape it on a cassette and the beginning and end always got cut off or spoken over.

And if we needed a phone number or service provider we had to get out the white pages or yellow pages and if we needed directions we had to unfold a big old map!