Remember that time before we had cell phones? How about before altoids?

Answer 1

Cell phones? Good gosh, I remember when the phones were only "land lines", and you limited how long you talked cause they were "party lines" (means several people shared the same phone line), and instead of push buttons for the numbers, it was a dial, that took forever to use. If you wanted to make a long distance call, you had to get the operator to do it for you. I remember when we went to my dad's sister's house and you had to talk very quietly cause she was the operator for the town and when the switch board buzzed, she pluged in a thick wire with a metal end on it, into a hole and asked that person who they were calling, then she would find the thick wire that went to the person's phone they wanted and would plug that into a different hole, and then would tell the two people they were now connected and could go ahead and talk. When they were done, a different sounding buzz would happen and she would pull both wires out of the holes and they would retract into their own space on the board. I remember that when my grandmother had to make a phone call, she had to wait for the opperator to come on the line and when she gave the "number" of who she wanted to talk to, it wasn't all numbers, but would be like: anderson348. You can not begin to imagine what things were like not that long ago. To watch TV you had to go to the set and turn it on there, if you wanted the sound adjusted, you had to go to the set and turn a nob to raise or lower the sound, if you wanted a different channel, you went to the TV itself again, to turn a round disk to change the channels, and as for the channels. If you were able to get three of them, you were big time. Only the "major" three were available, NBC, CBS, and ABC (and like I said, if you had a TV that was able to get all three, you were probably rich). The only calculators we had was our brain, a pencil and a piece of paper (pencil so you could erase it - no such thing as a "clear" button and ink pens did not erase back then) Kids now days would not be able to function in the world we lived in. They couldn't do with out all their electronic stuff, to do so much for them. Kids now days would be helpless if they had to live like we did as kids.

Answer 2

Before altoids? Hell I wish I could remember before I even started to have altoids.

I do remember when the TV stations would sign off at night, dial set payphones, soda fountains, milkboxes on the doorstep, GRIT being sold door to door, AM radio rocked, 8 tracks, vinyl, Chevy big blocks,
Wolfman Jack being beamed from Mexico all the way into Canada ( XDRS), the first video game (Pong), The Pepsi Generation, The Real Thing, The Lime In the Coconut, Shaft, Drive In Movie Theaters....

Answer 3

Read the can. Altoids have been around since the 1700's in some form or another

Answer 4

According to wikipedia, altoids date back to King George III in the 1780's. It must have been all that coffee breath after the American colonists revolted at the Boston Tea Party.

Answer 5

Very well. It was a much better time. I remember TV with no remote control. Manual typewriters. No answering machines too. The world still managed to go round and round anyway.

Answer 6

HaHA!! Who remembers nonelectric typewriters???
Who remembers record-players that came in a great big box??

I got my first electric typewriter when I went off to college...

Altoids: BLECCH! Too strong for me.

Answer 7

I too remember party lines, and 8 tracks & only getting like 5 channels on tv.

Answer 8

How about before TV took over our lives and the computer revolution took away the time lapse between things happening and us learning about it. The only thing we have a hard time getting today is the truth about things.

Answer 9

I remember party lines!! Talk about a simpler time!!

Answer 10

Heck, how about before computers? Before television?