We had better music, better television, and better movies. In spite of or because there was no CGI. There was no such a thing as big tech. We rode our bikes without helmets and in the summer. We left our houses in the morning and had to be back home when the street lights came on for dinner. During the school year we walked to school rain, snow, or shine. We had more freedom and we where better off for it.

@margaretthatcher6828

Ай бұрын

True and well said.

@cindytrayer4279

Ай бұрын

Exactly. We were on our own all day playing, learning to problem solve, developing common sense, not being afraid. Once our generation is gone, the world will really be in trouble.

@carolynking1625

Ай бұрын

​@@cindytrayer4279I doubt it will be in any trouble. It will just swing back the other way or go on with the new ways of life, no problem as we did, not walking a hundred miles barefoot in the snow to school every day as our grandparents did😂.

@Rick-np9vz

Ай бұрын

@@carolynking1625 your reply! If made to my mom at that time wouldn't have been good for you! Because she didn't put up with disrespectful sarcastic children like you!

Great post! Remember all of them.

S & H green stamps!! They even had an episode on the Brady Bunch, about that!!! That episode was on in the late 60's/early 70's !!!

@samanthab1923

Ай бұрын

My mom & Nan would pool their stamps together for lamps & such

@navret1707

Ай бұрын

I well remember sitting at the kitchen table pasting those green stamps into the books with mom hanging over my shoulder supervising.

@lylecoglianese1645

Ай бұрын

@elizabethbowie9753, and Gold Bond!! 🤔

@carolynking1625

Ай бұрын

Green Stamps then, gas points now! Really not much difference! And Sears catalog is just like internet shopping now.

@ruggyrugs5784

Ай бұрын

We had those green stamps here in the UK, my mum used to collect those.

What I miss the most from my youth is my parents. I think most of us born in the 40s to 60s don't recognize ourselves as old as we lived during the greatest advances in EVERYTHING, including outlooks and attitudes.

I'm a baby boomer, and yes we were traumatized by the cold war at school.Especially because we were told that there were missiles pointed at us (NYC) by the Russians. We would constantly be taken down to the basement when the bell rang, have us crouch close to the walls with our arms covering our heads.We lived not knowing if the real thing was happening or if it was another drill.I was in elementary school and it was a relief when the crisis was over.As you can see, the memory is still very much alive in my mind!I'm 75.

I'm 79 lived it Loved it. Should have mentioned the phones were mostly on party lines. Usually 2,3,4 phones on the same line. If someone was on the phone you had to wait till they finished then you could use the phone. Then rock and roll came along and things really picked up.🤠🤠🤠😜

@BelleSouthUs

Ай бұрын

I was surprised this didn't make the list too. It's the 1st thing I think of at old fashioned dial-ups. We lived in the city but my grandparents lived in the country. Don't tell but I was a nosey middle schooler & listened to many conversations I wasn't invited to.

74 yo boomer and proud of all the changes we brought to society. I remember most all of your examples. Our music and lyrics were fantastic by comparison to today. Peace love and rock and roll All GREAT goals.

Today is May 2024. I tho't about the paper shortage & save the trees from back in the 70's. Recently, I asked my mailman, "Remember that paper shortage of 2020??!! How come t.p. disappeared from the shelves, yet there's never a shortage of junk mail???!!!!" He laughed then said, "If it weren't for junk mail, I'd be out of a job," !!!!

@sharonjohnson8512

Ай бұрын

There would be no issue if we used alternative plants for paper. Bamboo or hemp for example.

@lylecoglianese1645

Ай бұрын

⁠@@sharonjohnson8512, then some morons would be protesting the destruction of Bamboo and Hemp forests!! 😵‍💫 😳

@carolynking1625

Ай бұрын

2020 was no paper shortage but a mad dash on everyone stockpiling the toilet paper and paper towels. The older paper shortage wasn't caused by people hoarding it but some other weird event.

I remember all this I am 66 now but don’t call me old lol 😂

@bren6967

Ай бұрын

Gotcha young whippersnapper.

Got my first pair of roller skates with GREEN STAMPS AROUND 1964, LOL

@Rick-np9vz

Ай бұрын

Oh steel wheels were the worst! But I would like to be paid for every time a pebble stopped me!

@JohnIorii

Ай бұрын

Me too two books of stamps

We used to take the old sears catalog and make a door stop with it... We folded every page from the top corner down until it got to the center where the pages met... My mom was an operator for Southern Bell... Our dishes were purchased with S&H Green Stamps when I was a kid...

@bren6967

Ай бұрын

We made Christmas trees with Sears catalogs, old phone books, and Reader's Digest. Fold as stated, cover in green or gold spray paint, sprinkle some glitter, and decorate with all sorts of trinkets and handmade ornaments.

@cherylrichards8951

Ай бұрын

Or, we purchased our dishes one piece at a time (dinner plates one week, coffee cups another week, etc.) at the local grocery store.

As kids we would make "chain belts" from the aluminum can tabs.

@carolynking1625

Ай бұрын

Thank you! Then I'm not the only one remembering that fun!

@thesarcasticcrafthoarder-b5733

Ай бұрын

We made danglely curtains out of those aluminum can tabs

Some of them, I don't remember doing. We had drills in school, but we went into the hallway for cover, not under the desk. I remember 'Party Lines', where we share the phone lines with others. Had to wait if someone was using to make a call. You could HEAR what they were saying to each other. Yep.

@carolynking1625

Ай бұрын

I always wanted to listen in to our party line! But my parents seemed to always be around when they were on the phone and they wouldn't let me!

@kimgrattage6049

Ай бұрын

We were first family in our street to have s TV, small thing it was with smaller screen. Whole street who could'nt afford one came ours to watch World Cup Match whrn England beat Germany, they were sore after being thrashed in WW1 and 2. Lol. Then when we had moon landing in 69 everyone was in again to watch that. Everyone brought sandwiches, crisps?, beer for the men, sherry gor the ladies, pop or as you Smericand call it soda for the children. After the programmes were over someone would wheel upright piano outside and we'd have a knees up, aka, party. Because there was'nt much on TV people made their own entertainment, those without TV listened to radio shows. Later in 60s when radio 1 was launched here young people turned into that. My mum always had pop music on in the 60s. She and dad loved Duane Eddy, Eddie Cochran and other rockerbilly music from the 50s. Our music here had different sound compared to USA, but lot of our music made it's way over the Pond and vice versa. We sent you The Beatles and Rollinb Stones, you sent us The Beach Boys among many others. Nice to share was'nt it? Mum and dad had a radiogram with turn table on it for records, always dancing to 50s rock and roll, mum was teenager back then and dad in early 20s. They got wed in 57, had me month before legends Buddy Holly, Big Bopper and Itchie Valens were tragically killed in air crash. Was told when older that the world weeped that day. Feb 3rd 1959. 😢

@robertboyes2505

28 күн бұрын

My sister was on the phone a lot, and she would be talking to a lot of her friends at the same time. My mom got angry at her, and forced her to get off the phone.

Remember ALL areas you described .....plus todays craziness! Yikes!

Remembered them all, also A&P red tartan stamps. I also remember 29.9cents a g 1:45 al. gasoline. No seat belts in back. Center facing back seats in station wagons. HEAVT METAL GARBAGE CANS..i really felt sorry for the trash collector. Paper bags with trash.. before the invention of plastic trash bags.

@carolynking1625

Ай бұрын

We took trash to the Town Dump ourselves in Sherborn MA. They were all in those paper bags. Now I don't know how they did it! Touch a paper bag with anything liquid and it would get a hole in it! How did that not happen to the bags in our house we threw over the garbage piles in the Town Dump!?

That was me on my mini bike unattended!! And I remember making long distance phone calls at 20¢ or more a minute! That was stressful if you were a kid!

@carolynking1625

Ай бұрын

We had a development full of boys who rode their minibikes up and down Peckham Hill Road in Sherborn MA in the early 1970's. They were the cool kids. I was glad when my best friend's brother got in with them and became a cool kid.

I was born in 68 and I remember a lot of this stuff. S&H green stamps!!! I totally forgot about those!

I remember everything on your list. I was born in May of '64 and I just turned 60. WOW. Yep, this video has really made me feel old.😢

I still use a pool cue I got with s&h green stamps in North Town, I believe, in about 1967.

Remember all of them!

I was born in '69, I remember we had milk deliveries, my aunt keep her milk box out front even after deliveries stopped, my Dad worked the Post Office, I remember seeing the changes from the 70s on out.

@elizabethbowie9753

17 күн бұрын

Those milk boxes came in handy for little kids. They'd sit on them so someone could help them get their winter boots off !!!

This boomer remembers (and still has) the "church key" can opener which was used of cans before the pull tap/pop top came into wide usage. it is a metal bar with a curved wedge with a small metal piece below it for catching hold of the rim of the can. You lever it up to pierce a triangle-shaped hole in the can. The other end is often either a straight rectangle shape or a loop and is used to open bottle caps that aren't twist off.

@GhostRider-sc9vu

Ай бұрын

Yup, the Church Key greatest invention of all times,😎

I remember all of them and the old crank telephones. Owned a slide rule until calculators showed up. The Wish Book was eagerly anticipated. Lived in Key West when the Cuban Missile Crisis happened. We were just 90 miles from Cuba, so "duck and cover" was frequent.

I also remember, we got glasses from a box of dry laundry detergent! Tumblers in the large box, & juice glasses in the small boxes! And gas stations gave you a steak knife if you bought so many gallons of gas !! I still have 2 of those & they Still work fine !! Also, supermkts. gave away dishes. Dinner plates, cups & saucers, creamer sugar sets... gravy boats... depending on much groceries you bought. Families were larger, so one of us had to go to the store for something!! Then in the late 60's, gas stations gave us flower power stickers to stick onto our car, in bright colors. Cars lasted longer then & we had an early 60's car. It was black, so these dayglow stickers showed up really good!! They also gave away these little Styrofoam (?) balls to put on top of the car attenna!! (remember those? car antennas?)! These came in dayglow colors too. It was a fun way to find your car easier, in a big parking lot!

Nick, did you know that the "Indian" in the litter commercials, was not an actual Indian.

@debswatching

Ай бұрын

True. He was of Italian descent who portrayed Native Indians in old Western Movies. He adopted the name “Iron Eyes Cody, donned a wig and fringed costume for the ad campaign!

@wordwoman4349

Ай бұрын

If one were making this litter PSA today, the narrator would say "Native American," not "Indian."

@BelleSouthUs

Ай бұрын

My illusions have been completely shattered.

I'm not 55 for another week, but I remember the green stamps, the Sears catalog was a godsend to our family, the pop tops, the crying Indian was at every commercial break, and going outside and playing with no adult supervision. These are what I remember from this episode.

I was born in 1975, and my parents still had the milk delivered to our house in the mid-1980s. There were six kids in our family, so we had 2 gallons of milk delivered twice per week. We'd wake up in the morning and the 2 gallons of milk were already sitting on the back doorstep where we usually found our cat licking the condensation from the milk jugs.

I remember when we had to duck and cover in our elementary hallway 😊 also I remember when I used to love drinking from the top of the cream bottle that came from the milkman because it was really creamy at the top after you open the bottle. Loved the milkman coming to our home. It was exciting to see him with his caring case. Thanks ☺️ for the memories of the 1950’s-1960’s !! 😀😍😆 10:41

I absolutely remember every one of those things! I recently asked my grandson to make a phone call with a rotary phone I have that still works, after an hour I had to explain it!

@EllyWoman777

Ай бұрын

I did the same with two of my Great Grandchildren. I let them try to make a call on my old Princess phone. They picked up the phone and said hello without dialing a number. I had to laugh. One of them started turning the dial with his hand. He didn't even put his finger through the dialer. I finally showed him. LOL! Times have changed!

My mother bought a Singer sewing machine and cabinet with S&H Green Stamps in Tulsa sometime around 1970. I was really young but I remember it and can even show you where the store used to be...relatively. Used to get Green Stamps from the grocery store and I liked it when they would put their finger in the machine and spin it to make the stamps come out

I was in high-school in 1976. Calculators were still not readily available for all students. My 11th grade Chemistry teacher solved that problem by teaching all the students to use easy to find sliderules. The school had a ton of them.

My dad drove bread truck back in the day. And later on my mom was a telephone operator.

I was born in 1973 and I remember paper food stamps and rotary phone and Trading stamps.

LOL, I remember S&H Green Stamps from when I was a little kid. This video made me Google them to see what happened to them. Apparently you could still redeem them by mail until about 4 years ago!

From the Milkman's daily deliveries to flipping through the Sears catalog, these were everyday experiences that shaped our childhoods.

As someone who is firmly a Gen X, there’s a few things I remember on this list.

@tamarasauls8855

Ай бұрын

I am too. Do you remember collecting the pop tops, connecting them together, making long chains of them? They'd be hung in doorways and I think used as garland. I'd put one on my finger and wear as a ring too!

@BelleSouthUs

Ай бұрын

​@@tamarasauls8855 I'd forgotten about that. Kids today probably don't even know about tying clover blossom stems together into necklaces. We've made grass & weeds extinct. Lol

@tamarasauls8855

Ай бұрын

@@BelleSouthUs Ahh, yes! And the search was on for 4 leaf clovers too! Lol

@BelleSouthUs

Ай бұрын

@@tamarasauls8855 Wow at the memories of childhood friends that come rushing back 😁

I'm 52 and I remember the Sears catalog. I loved it. And the Toys R Us Christmas catalog!

Our milikman was part of our family. He would stop for a few minutes. I remember sitting on his lap.

I remember all of these things but the slide ruler. Nice thinking of them again.

We had So much fun with the Sears Catalog ,circling the toys that we wanted for Christmas. It made it easy for my parents, though we didn't get everything we wanted, of course ! Lol

I remember most of this stuff, but the most intense thing was the drills. At school, we were instructed to empty our purses, hide under our desks and put our purses on our heads. Seriously. Like that was going to help if we got hit with a nuclear warhead. Sigh. Even as a kid, I knew that was stupid. That fact that technology has improved so we get our perks through apps instead of having to paste stamps into a book, we can shop online (although the Sears Christmas catalog was exciting stuff), that we can call or message anybody in the world in just seconds ... all that is mindblowingly cool. But the fact that we aren't quite as worried about being nuked ... well, that's a real quality of life thing. 😌

The only one I don't remember is the two digit zip code. I remember taking a tour of the local telephone company (back when it as known as Ma Bell). There was a L-O-N-G bank of operators pulling cables and plugging them in. There were HUNDREDS of what looked like car batteries powering the phone system.

OMG the Operator!!!

I remember getting the walking doll for Christmas. Mom later told me it was bought with green stamps.

Born 1953 and having trouble wrapping my head around the fact that I'm the geezer now

We still have the milk man in Washington.

Im a late boomer. 1963. I don't remember the milk being delivered or the post being twice a day. I remember all the rest.

The “Crying Indian” wasn’t even Native American, he was of Sicilian ancestry.

Im Gen X boomer but I remember doing duck and cover in Ca for earthquake drills

We still have duck & cover drills in schools here on the Pacific coast line but they are now called earthquake drills.

@carolynking1625

Ай бұрын

And don't you have shooting spree drills too?

@clarencesmith2305

Ай бұрын

@@carolynking1625 Not in my days, the 1970's because guns were allowed my high school stopped the rifle club in the 60's.

I remember that my Mom hide the Christmas catalogues when they came and brought them out at the first of December. We kids would go through them constantly until the pages were wrinkled. It wasn't until I was in my teens that I learned that they came out in October then September. My Mom was smart because five kids getting excited for Christmas and clamoring to write Santa that early would be tiring.😀📖🎄

Our area had more of the yellow TV (Top Value) stamps. We also had a redemption store less than a mile from here I lived. It was a sad day when they discontinued the stamps and closed the redemption store!

I resemble all of this video, they forgot being able to smoke cigarettes anywhere including movie theater, restaurants and work.

Didn't have delivered milk when I was a kid, but I got a huge amount of Green Stamps at my wedding in the 70's! I traded them in for a Slow Cooker that lasted for, maybe, 10 years. Only got mail once a day and bought items from Fuller Brush, Watkins, and Avon. Hubs used a slide rule for his math. Duck and cover where I grew up was for tornadoes, kind of a big thing for us, though we did them for the bomb too. I vaguely remember having a party line on our house phone that got changed to single line soon after, but I definitely used the operator. And our phone numbers used a name prefix before the numbers.

Got my first wristwatch (for starting first grade) from S&H Greenstamps! What about Party Lines? No, kiddos, it was not a way to go to a party... It was two families who shared the same telephone line!

I have perused all of the relevant Sears Wish Books on KZread. I recommend it for a terrific trip back to one's childhood.

We were raised with morals. The parents today have no idea what this is and have failed their children

@ivanhorvat8964

Ай бұрын

You Got that RIGHT 🤔😣👎🥺🐈😏

@peggyfillmore1971

Ай бұрын

I work in retail...boomers are rude too. Maybe if parents and grandparents would get off their phones and pay attention to those kids ,they wouldn't act up .🤣

@peggyfillmore1971

Ай бұрын

Lol the crying Indian was ACTUALLY Italian NOT Native American🤣

@ilionreactor1079

Ай бұрын

"The parents today" You mean: YOUR kids?

@BelleSouthUs

Ай бұрын

​@@peggyfillmore1971 Oh my goodness, say it isn't so! I loved him so much bcz of his heritage. I promise, as a kid he literally kept my conscience from being a lazy litter bug.

We had Carnation milk men & Blue Chip stamps ( just like S&H)😂

Good Video. Before Pop Tops, We Opened Cans With A Can Opener. There Were Only Three TV Channels Here, Until The Mid-Seventies. ICEES Were A Dime. Thank You.

I remember all of these.

the milk man started to become obsolete in and around 1991 in our neighbourhood. my first boyfriend (in high school) had a wee gig in the afternoons / weekend helping out our local “milko”. 😊 there was plenty of them on the roads too. it was rather busy and cut throat industry.. all for moo juice. lol * i still can’t wrap my head around getting milk from a nut.! 🤣😂

Slide rules, aka slip stick, is what took us to the moon. I remember my first calculator- Sears Electronic Calculator. All it did was add, subtract, multiply and divide and cost me $150 in 1974 dollars.

Remember all of these ..

I remember the party line . You could listen to others conversations.

This was fun. Makes me want to spray & sniff Mosquito repellent, play Hide-n-Go Seek & catch lightening bugs in a jar 😁

@samanthab1923

Ай бұрын

Ah! Summer nights. You forgot that tightness of your skin from just a tad too much sun ☀️

@BelleSouthUs

Ай бұрын

@@samanthab1923 That's a PTS trigger that I blocked out bcz there was never "just a tad" of sun for this freckled faced girl & if sunblock had been invented, my parents didn't know about it back then. Lol

As a Gen X born in the 70's raised by wonderful boomer parents, I remember Sears & Roebuck catalogs (I circled the Star Wars toys), S&H green stamps (we'd fold them in 5 stamps, then cut them, then use a special sponge to wet the adhesive) and used the operator to make calls (especially to manipulate collect calls). Milk men were definitely gone in my lifetime, but your video had duck & cover where the girl was over the boy. That is wrong - boys were taught to cover the girls. I remember my boomer parents telling me about cheap gas and going to the theater and about their cool cars (which are super cool today).

I Remember those fire drills. In the 70s tornado drills. But the teacher would never be down on the ground with us she will be walking around making sure we kept our. head down I never understood why wouldn't she on the ground with us. I remember the Rollie phone. Black and white TVs. I was born in 1969. I remember the 80s more. The good old days. That made us strong. This generation they are a bunch of weakness. They will lose their mind if the internet went down. Hell I still have my house phone. Yeah I said I have my house phone. 😏

@samanthab1923

Ай бұрын

I’m born in 59 so remember Air Raid Drills. 😂

I was still ordering from Sears until they moved out of Canada. I used my green stamps to get my entire collection of pots and pans for the kitchen. Duck and cover was also over here in Quebec/Canada. You forgot the Indian head we got up with everyday before going to school since the television only started programs at noon and suppertime.

S&H Green Stamps are loyalty points in paper form.

@carolynking1625

Ай бұрын

Right on!!

I am too young to remember two digit codes, but when I find these old addresses I don't have the heart to throw them away!

Only remember, mail once a day. I remember getting merchandise for the S & H green stamps. And redeeming them BEFORE they stopped accepting them. Mail delivery was better.

I remember all 10 very well. It was a much better time. I got and still have a paint sprayer and a Dymo label maker I got with Green Stamps. One that wasn't mentioned was phone numbers that started with letters, like PL9-1234, or party line phones when there were two or three homes that shared the same phone line and you knew it was yours by the way your phone rang. Ours was 1-long 2-short (that's 1 long ring followed by 2 short rings). If there was another ring pattern, you didn't answer it, although you could pick up and listen in. Also...sometimes when you wanted to make a call you would pick up the receiver and one of the other parties was talking. Then you had to wait until they were finished. I was a great era to grow up in.

I remember all of these except the mail delivery. People too young to remember wonder why we don't like the present ways so much. To me it was so much more peaceful when the world didn't have to move so fast, and instant gratification wasn't a thing. All the new things designed to make life better have had the very opposite effect.

🙂I'm a boomer,my favorites were the real pretty gals...Thanks!😎💯💥👍🤍!

All but multiple mail deliveries a day and duck and cover drills. A young 66 yo here.

@carolynking1625

Ай бұрын

Me too! 66 and remember it all but duck and cover drills or any multiple mail deliveries. Our public mailboxes had multiple pick up times on them. But mail to our homes was once a day, delivered by the friendliest fantastic mailman around! I miss that man!

The old aluminum can tabs we didn't throw out, we kept them and made them into chains! Then ended up throwing the chains out😆!

I was pretty young when those green stamps came along, as well as everything else. But I do remember my mother using them all the time. That is, the green stamps, I mean.

I was from Generation Jones

@marylist1236

Ай бұрын

There were Too Value & Plaid stamps also

I don't remember 2-digit zip codes. We had fire drills in school but no duck and cover. I never learned how to use a slide rule. I grew up on a small farm so we drank milk from our own cows.

It's kind of nice to grow up and see the ending of it.I was at the tail end of all of this stuff.If not getting into some of it at some point as a child It's even more. Funnier is that it wasn't just about the baby boomers. It was about the next generation seeing it and almost accepting it themselves. It's quite interesting. How I could remember all of this? I bet you guys don't even remember that guy with the bread bread truck with the donuts in the morning. The old truck, like a 1930 old truck. The back door would open and the sliders would come out with donuts that were bakely fresh with bread. And if you remember that 1.😮👍🙏🤷‍♂️😆😆😆

i remember in australia before aluminium soft drink cans they were made of steel

@davidhudson5452

Ай бұрын

Thats ale u minium ans can openers

Along wirh calling the operator by dialing 0, we dialed 411 for information.

Pop top cans!!! And ORIGINAL coke dammit!

Marlboro man

@carolynking1625

Ай бұрын

OMG My favorite commercials!!! I still go to tears when I hear that Magnificent Seven song and remember thinking it came from Marlboro cigarettes, not a movie! I was heartbroken for decades thinking I would never hear that song again once Big Brother banned cigarette ads, like all the other fun cigarette ad songs. Then I heard it on that movie and about had a heart attack the TV dictators will find out it was played on there! Cigarette commercial song on an old movie! Oh ho!

I'm a Gen Xr and I remember almost all of these

I commented on another post a KZreadr said, that boomers don’t know how stressful it is for kids these days with the fear of war hanging over their heads and how it affects them for the rest of their lives. I let them know that boomers lived through growing up under the threat of nuclear war and practiced hiding under their desks once a week, it didn’t affect them at all.

New generations cant even find the toilet in their own house without the phone and its GPS

We also had a breadman.

8:40 A slide rule doesn’t work without the middle piece. A clip made by someone who doesn't know what one even looks like.

Well, as a boomer born in the early 50's, never knew or had S&H green stamps. No, not on Vancouver Island, Canada. Definitely, the Sears catalogue - it was pretty much like the online of today except not delivered to your door. I lived in a rural area and never had door to door post service. Never had a post box at the end of our drive. Had to go to the post office. Don't remember duck and cover drills at school. But the "Cold War" was a very big disturbing topic in the early to late 50's until every one just shrugged and moved on. Not every boomer had the same experiences. That is what is wrong with labels. They stereotype.

My parents took me to a park in Vegas when I was around 4yrs old. It was incredibly hot that day and my Dad told me not to go down the metal slide. So..I sneakily tried to go down the slide anyway, and while wearing shorts. My Dad heard me screaming and ran up the slide to get me. The metal slide was so HOT the skin on the back of my legs literally stuck to it when he picked me up!! 😳

what about TV yellow stamps?

pop-top cans were dangerous you could cut your finger easily. I remember all of these.

I used to live in Brooklyn 7, New York.

This gets the description of the historical 2-digit zip code wrong. The map in the video shows the first 2 or 3 digits of the modern (current) zip code, not the 2-digit codes introduced in 1943. In the old system, major cities were divided up into zones, each having a 2-digit code; so the codes were not unique nationwide, just within a city. In the modern zip code, digits 1-3 uniquely identify a region of the country, with digits 4-5 carried over from the original 2-digit code. Optional digits 6-9 narrow it down even further, to individual city blocks (or even individual large buildings).

The Indian was an Italian American who went by the name of Iron Eyes Cody, he waa born Espera Oscar de Corti

68 and you are keeping this family safe But there is something clearly not mentioned in the comments

I remember all these things. Born 1954

@barbarareed7830

Ай бұрын

Born in 1946. I’m older than dirt.

Walmart… YUCK!

I was so jealous of my best friend who had six siblings and two parents getting these ten or fifty point Green Stamps or huge sheets of single stamps while all we ever got in a tiny family of just me and my parwnts were a few of the tiny one point stamps. At the same time, it sounded frightening her family sometimes used over $100 buying groceries! I was trying so hard to save $100 with my .25¢ a week allowance. How could they use up such a huge amount of money on a grocery trip!?