Do you remember when silver coins were still in circulation?

Nope, but if I did, I wish I was buying all the gold I could at the time!

I remember getting Silver Dollars from the bank to look for dates that I needed. I took the rest back to the bank. Got a complete set of Roosevelt Dimes , complete set of Franklin Halves and a complete set of Washington Quarters except for 1932 D and S from circulation.

Yes, in the late 1950s I would go to the bank and get silver dollars. Then in college (1964-1968) I would retain silver coins and even go to the bank and get rolls of quarters to remove the silver coins. I continued to always check dimes and quarters. 90% halves had disappeared.

@nags said:
That was before my time... When the transition was made, what was the approximate melt value of the silver coins relative to the face value? At what point what there enough of a spread to have non-coin people start plucking the silver from circulation?

For a long time the melt value was not much over the face value, initially just a few cents on the dollar, but a lot of people figured "they're going to be worth a lot of money someday!" My mother was one of those people, and because my Dad handled a lot of change on his job they were able to put aside a little over $1,000 face in 90% silver before it finally disappeared. My (distant) future father-in-law did as well.

Both my parents and my first wife's parents were Depression era adolescents, and they knew what hard times were. They saved that silver as a fall-back resource until they died in the 2000's. My Ma said that she slept better knowing it was there.

Absolutely remember silver coins in circulation... Except silver dollars... But I could still go to the bank and get them for a paper dollar. But a dollar was a lot of money to me back then.

I was born two years after the last 90% silver coinage was made. By the time I was old enough to spend money; it was all clad. But, I DO remember my father having a HUGE, plastic, piggy bank shaped like a liquor bottle, which was complete with a label. It was filled with silver coins that he had pulled from circulation. He and I cashed it in, when silver hit almost 50 bucks an ounce. I bought some certified coins with my share.

Oh, yes. I was in the 10th grade when the Coinage Act of 1965 was passed. I was pulling silver out of circulation in some quantity in the late 1960s.

I got a lot silver dollars from the bank in the early 1960s

Started my first paper route in 1957 or 1958, all the dimes, quarters and halves were silver. All the Lincolns were wheat backs, I found all but a 14-D, 22 plain and 55 DDO in circulation. I filled many blue Whitman folders back then. An occasional Barber or Standing Liberty Quarter would even show up. Silver Dollars could be replaced with paper dollars at the bank so they were the first to go if I needed money for a large purchase or a date in the early 1960s.

I really don't remember because I was never looking for silver in pre 1964.
I started working for a grocery store in 1972 and that's when the journey started, I was looking for silver coins every day !

Growing up in Philadelphia I had a neighbor who collected coins. In 1962 and 1963 he told us neighborhood kids to save every silver coin we could get our hands on. He once gave me a Morgan silver dollar. The rumor on the block was he had gone to the bank in the mid fifties to buy a few rolls of pennies. Turned out one roll was all 1955 double dies! He went back and got a few more rolls - same story. He built a tremendous collection from that good fortune. After he died the collection was broken up and sold as his son did not have an interest in coins. Looking back, he definitely influenced me to become a collector. Great time and place to grow up in.