See the options below:
In olden times is a bygone era.
OR Like in times gone by OR bygone days
Merriam Webster
olden adjective
: of or relating to a bygone era
Merriam Webster
days gone by
idiom
: days/times in the past : bygone days
- They have many happy memories of days gone by.
like or as in olden times, times gone by, days gone by, bygone days
Then there's the "super formal" one: in days of yore
Cambridge Dictionary
The conjunctions as and like have the same meaning when used in comparisons.
Like is a little more informal.
- Nobody understands him as I do.
- Nobody understands him like I do.
Like old times = colloquial American English. You hear it in movies.
"It would be great to hang around like old times". No in is needed.
No in is needed.