Old Enough To Remember?

[JetRanger]

 

[Larry Fine]

I remember when a couple of my friends parents phone numbers started with a series of letters of the alphabet not numbers.

EXAMPLE: My uncle for example... his number, as I memorized it,
was TX2-6127, not 892-6127.

We had ATlantic (28) 2, 5, and 8; ELgin (35) 3, 5, and 8; and MIlton (64) 3, 4, and 6.

 

[Mophead]

Anyone remember the draft lottery? Only drawing I ever got lucky with. Mine was toward the last of the second set of dates. Never got a draft notice. Buddy of mine was number 3 out of the hat. He went for six years of National Guard instead of the jungle.

 

[Uncle Phil]

Anyone remember the draft lottery? Only drawing I ever got lucky with. Mine was toward the last of the second set of dates. Never got a draft notice. Buddy of mine was number 3 out of the hat. He went for six years of National Guard instead of the jungle.

Oh yeah, mine was 93 or 95 so I joined the USMC.
I figured if I was headed to the jungles I might as well be with the boys that knew how to shoot.
I ended up stateside for my entire tour programming their computers.