Only BABY BOOMERS will REMEMBER these things - PART 4

Considering the popularity of the Sears Catalog, I have always been surprised that Sears did not jump on the internet when it became available. It would have been as big as Amazon became. I also miss telephone books especially the Yellow Pages.

Telephone operators were also the "911" people in an emergency.

Sooo many great memories feasting on the Sears Wish Book catalog!!!!!

The worst part is your parents forever being gone 😢

😂 Lucy was hysterical!!!!

My siblings and I were the remote controls!!! 😂

The National Anthem would always sign off the two stations we had, NBC and CBS until 1964 when the ABC affiliate began broadcasting in our area. Then in 1965 the local PBS station came on the air, but for only a few hours a day.

Growing up, there were only three TV channels. But it seemed there was more quality programming than we have now with unlimited options. The "big" TV set only had a 19-inch screen. Getting up to change channels didn't seem inconvenient. My dad always yelled if he felt I was turning the knob TOO FAST, saying it would break the set, although I never knew anyone who had that happen. Having control of the channel selection, if my parents went out, felt like winning the lottery!

I was 12 years old during the oil embargo. There was a gas station on the corner down the street. Every day I would wake up at 4:30 so I would be ready when the station opened at 5:00. I went up and down the street with my Radio Flyer wagon selling coffee, tea, hot chocolate, newspapers, bowls of cereal or hot instant oatmeal and other things. My family was poor, so I had to go to the bank and ask for a small loan to buy a couple large coffee makers. The bank manager just loaned me two the bank had. When it was all over, I returned the coffee makers. I had another $4000.00 in my bank account. A huge sum for me back then. I don't think I charged more than a quarter for anything. Got my picture on the front page of two newspapers and an award from our town Chamber of Commerce. The bank manager helped me invest the money and I was able to use it to be the first in my family to get a college education, a degree in Agricultural Engineering. I think I may be the only person that looks on those few months with happiness.

Thank you. 😊Regarding typewriters, one of my fondest memories as a child was getting to visit my grandmother, (a journalist/reporter for our local newspaper), in the newsroom. The collective rhythm of many journalists typing was just a special memory for me then.❤

I know it takes a lot of work, research and thoughtfulness to create this content. Thank you for your efforts.

I started driving in 1977, I was 16. Gas was soooo cheap back then. It was 62 cent a gallon, lol.

Thank you for the fond memories, I am a boomer born in 1956, one year my Mom ordered a new coat for my Pop, didn’t come in time, so she cut the picture out and wrapped it up, so he’d have it to open!?!! How much fun?!!?!

Loved the Sear catalog all year round!!!I loved how you could just plug a tv in and presto.............you have tv!!!!I remember my principal had a weekly schedule for the teachers to get gas..........mine was 10am and the sub would go to my room until i returned.Fortunately the lines during the day were much smaller then what you show.I was a trunk operator at The Whittier daily news when i was in college!

Remember when "public" and "independent" TV stations were allowed to broadcast their shows? You could watch almost anything, and you often did, especially in large cities with dozens of new stations and new shows. Remember when there were only 2 or 3 TV stations? Maybe 5 if you lived in or near a large city. No nudity, sex, violence or gore, that would wait for the internet and home computers.

I'm always excited when a new Memory Mountain video comes out. Especially when a Baby Boomer one comes out! I was born in 1961. 😊

The 1973 gas shortage was something that I was lucky to have never suffered through. My parents owned a large chain of grocery stores with gas pumps, and he was partners with our gasoline supplier and refinery, plus we had private company only pumps at our central offices for family and employees. There were only a handful of times that an individual store would be out of fuel for a day at most. We were blessed, with parents who had foresight and excellent planning for the future of our business.

There were two payphones in our high school lunchroom.... I still remember using one to call my best friend at lunch whenever she was home sick-she would do the same for me. We had to catch each other up on the latest happenings at school -you couldn't miss out on the day's gossip just because you were sick-(or pretending to be sick!)

This little voice in my head said,: "I want to go home." I think I just connected with my past self.

Those TV sets are classics themselves. I think we owned one of those models at least. One can still obtain typing ribbons, although typewriters which work are more difficult it seems.👍