You know you're old when...

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by 3.0L

Mom caught us many times skimming the cream off the top for our cereal.
Man, that was good!

My Mom used to make whipped cream from scratch. Heavy cream, vanilla extract, sugar. Then she'd whip it up with the dual paddle hand mixer. You had to be quick to get one of the paddles to "clean" off.

[vreihen16]

We can still buy milk in glass bottles here, from a small regional dairy. No delivery though, and they collect a $3.00 bottle deposit on each one.....

[Lady Jane]

[wizardofOz]

Originally Posted by Artemis

Back in the 70s my dad used to play tapes with compilations of his favorite 60s music inside the car. Beatles, Elvis, etc. He knew virtually all the English lyrics - we didn't understand the language, had no clue. So we asked what the songs were about and could "la-la-la" most of them. This was one of those songs. If we wanted to hear some song again, he usually flipped over the tape to play a song on the other tape side and subsequently flipped it again to hear the initial song again for a sing-along.

That makes sense, I'm guessing its those black cassette tapes you are talking about back in the 70's. I remember putting a finger through those white holes to retract and tighten the tape and may have destroyed one or two by accident.

Pretty sure one or two boxes are lying around somewhere.

[wizardofOz]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

We can still buy milk in glass bottles here, from a small regional dairy. No delivery though, and they collect a $3.00 bottle deposit on each one.....

I don't think we have any glass bottled milk locally, all we do have is plastic containers now, shame really.

[Artemis]

Originally Posted by wizardofOz

That makes sense, I'm guessing its those black cassette tapes you are talking about back in the 70's. I remember putting a finger through those white holes to retract and tighten the tape and may have destroyed one or two by accident.

Pretty sure one or two boxes are lying around somewhere.

We also had a reel to reel tape recorder.

Not allowed to touch the device when it was spooling fast forward or fast backwards. A matter of keeping all fingers and the tapes intact.

[Llarry]

Originally Posted by Artemis

We also had a reel to reel tape recorder.

Not allowed to touch the device when it was spooling fast forward or fast backwards. A matter of keeping all fingers and the tapes intact.

My much-loved Teac X-700R open-reel tape deck stopped functioning years ago, leaving me without a way to listen to my large collections of tapes. I couldn't find anyone who could fix it. I ended up selling it for a pittance and dumped something like 70 tapes into the landfill.

I started with open-reel audio in 1965 and continued to record for about 20 years. That X-700R had dbx noise reduction. It was probably my 10th open reel recorder.

Now I feel old...

[Lady Jane]

Originally Posted by Llarry

My much-loved Teac X-700R open-reel tape deck

I have my dad's reel deck. According to my mother, he purchased it in 1976, made one tape then it went in long term storage with their F & E as they were transferred overseas. When they rotated back to Canada, he was into CDs and the deck never saw the light of day again. I also still have the tape he made but I figured it's probably unplayable. It makes a nice conversation piece. And speaking of DBX, I also have three units in boxes. A DBX3BX, a sub-harmonic synthetizer and a DBX router.