Things You Remember that Someone 25 yrs old or Younger Doesn't.

[bertha katzenengel]

Not really looking for events. Looking for things.

Top-loading, $3,000 VCRs. And Beta, for that matter. Oh, how superior Beta was!

Amber- or green-screen computer terminals

12-in. floppy disks

Rotary phones

Typewriters

and how about transistor radios? and funky ones?!



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[taterguy]

1. Unprotected sex

[Bunny]

3. Good times. Good times.

[Indi Guy]

4. Good one!

...

[begin_within]

30. It was never safe, though

Plenty of other STDs and pregnancy

[av8rdave]

45. I can still remember when sex was safe and flying wasn't!

Ah, the good old days, when the greatest risk of sex was a pregnancy.

[Bucky]

329. Only now getting a cavity search at the airport is the safest sex there is

I am supposed to be enjoying the screening process, right?

[av8rdave]

331. Pretty sad when that's as good as it gets! :(

[boilerbabe]

345. Flying still ain't safe!

Heard on NPR that a plane crash landed at Heathrow because of the landing gears getting sheared off! No one was killed, but a few people were injured. I would have had to do an underwear change on that one fer sure.

On the other front, I was a total slut during the 80s.

[boilerbabe]

343. I hear ya there! n/t

[orleans]

355. oh god--those were the days! (sigh) n/t

[LibraLiz1973]

393. It was coming to an end as I was coming of age

But, good times!

[RFKHumphreyObama]

2. I remember just about all of those

And I'm only 27.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

10. Same here :)

[Arugula Latte]

72. Oops...posted in wrong place.

[TZ]

5. 8 track tapes!!

and the player:

[Aristus]

44. How about reel-to-reel? My parents had one of those.

Although it did have an eight-track tape player in the side of the cabinet as a nod to emerging technology. B-)

[Jimbo S]

150. I still have 8-track tapes

but nothing to play them on, and can't anyplace that will do a transfer. :(

[CreekDog]

188. remember the fast forward on the 8-track?

all it did was turn off the volume.

:spray:

[doc03]

408. There were 4 track tapes for a short time before the 8 s

[doc03]

412. Chiller Theater with Chilly Billy Cardill

[Omphaloskepsis]

6. The Amiga..

[begin_within]

31. I almost bought one in 1989

but bought a Mac instead and Macs ever since.

[Midlodemocrat]

7. When the 'remote' to the cable television was actually a box

cabled to the tv.

[sasquatch]

257. And when wine didn't come in a box

If you wanted to haul around wine all day you had to buy a spanish wine bag.
:D

[The Animator]

432. I usually WAS the remote...

If my parents and I were watching TV and they wanted to change the channel they just said Charlie go change the channel... This was both before, and after we had cable.

[Raven]

8. Black & white TV and greenstamps.....

Yikes, I'm ancient!!!!!

[RebelOne]

71. I remember green stamps. I got a lot of things with them.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

407. My grandparents had them.

After the 4-hour drive in the baby blue Ford station wagon, the stamp books were one of the first things I'd look for. After the candy jar. :-)

[NMDemDist2]

9. Reel to Reel

[BarenakedLady]

11. Pong?

:shrug:

[nadine_mn]

12. omg - I had a blue radio like that

[SPKrazy]

13. dial phones, party lines

black and white tv

Vietnam war

too many things

[yellowcanine]

320. Listening to the old ladies gossiping on the party line and busting out laughing.

Used to piss them off but then again, they would hang up so you could use the line.

[Spirochete]

388. We had a party line when I was a kid

I used to like to dial our own number, then sneak away, and let my parents answer it:

"Hello"

"Hello"

"Hello"

"Hello"

<Hang up>

"I wonder who that is that keeps calling and not saying anything..."

[LibraLiz1973]

394. Party Lines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Holla!

[EstimatedProphet]

14. Black & white TV, clotheslines

I know clotheslines are still around somewhere, but I haven't seen anyone use them in years.

[momophile]

54. I just put up a clothsline this past summer

part of my plan to save the planet.

[EstimatedProphet]

102. Good for you

We've got a place for one which we'll probably use when it's warmer

[alphafemale]

185. Clothes Line? That's a Solar/Aero Clothes Dryer. Thank you much.

If it's a windy day clothes will dry nearly as fast as they would in a dryer.

[Muttocracy]

250. Some gated communities ban them!! seriously! n/t

[swag]

15. Walter Cronkite reading the news

I love those Panasonic ball radios.

[wain]

228. The DRAFT - ended by.....

Richard Nixon!

[mcscajun]

312. Walter passing the report over to Bob Trout "In London"

Foreign Correspondents who actually had lived abroad and had a feel for what was going on. Real news for the whole time...no fluff.

[Left Brain]

379. Walter breaking ever-so-slightly

when he had to announce that President Kennedy had died.

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. That it's not polite to talk during movies or concerts

[SoxFan]

17. Video arcades

If I wanted a Tempest or Batlezone fix, I had to lug a bag of quarters to the mall. These kids with their X Boxes and Play Stations....bahhh!

[fizzgig]

248. there was an awesome arcade in my town when i was in jr. high/high school

it closed down about 10 years ago...i was so sad

[Maine-ah]

18. reel to reel, and hell no, we aren't going to develope that film

into real pictures, we're gonna turn 'em into slides!

[FloridaJudy]

19. Punchcards

"Do not fold, spindle or mutilate"
UNIVAC
DOS
Zork
Leather Goddesses of Phobos
78 records
45 records - and the plastic thingie you added to fit them on a 33 spindle
Skate keys
Air Raid drills
The Peanut Gallery
Mimeograph machines
Carbon paper
Freedom riders
Drive in movies (with the heavy metal speakers you hung in your car window)
"Back alley" abortions
Smoking banana skins (did nothing for me)
Pet rocks
Phone phreaks
Trading cards (not the sports ones: the ones with horses, puppies of flowers)
Separate facilities/drinking fountains for "white" and "colored" (was that ever a bad idea!)
The Cuban missile crisis (take that, Dana Perino!)
Huntley and Brinkley
HUAC
Sit ins
Laugh In

Lava lamps, Rubick's cubes, Dayglo colors and penny candy are back, but I remember the first time through

I'm older than dirt

edited to add: I thought of a few more

[bertha katzenengel]

67. HUAC? No offense intended but are you old enough to remember

the hearings? Have you no sense of decency, at long last, Senator?

[FloridaJudy]

213. Not the hearings per se

I was too young to really understand, and my family didn't get a TV until the mid-sixties in any case. But I remember my parents taking about it, and a favorite school teacher was blacklisted and fired because he was a Communist Sympathizer ("Com-Symp" - gods! I just remembered the phrase). That's why the title "Homeland Security" gives me the chills, and I think Ann Coulter is a Fucking Idiot.

HUAC was active until the late sixties, long after "Tailgunner Joe" had drunk himself to death, but its prestige and power were much reduced (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HUAC).

Oh, and a couple more I remember:

"I Led Three Lives"
Library paste (there's a wonderful dirty limerick about it)
Checkers (the dog, not the game)
Saddle Shoes
Those X-Ray machines in shoe stores which determined if the shoes fit. We loved to stick our feet in and look at the bones while wiggling our toes. Why everyone born before 1950 doesn't have toe cancer is a mystery!
Bucky Beaver and Ipana Toothpaste
...and hundreds more

There's a wonderful book I read recently The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson - a memoire about growing up in the fifties. Bryson's about my age, and it was a great exercise in nostalgia.

[Kucinich4America]

280. What the Hell was the point of Leather Goddesses of Phobos anyway??

A text based sex game....back when computers weren't capable of generating any sort of artificial intelligence.

I had that one and the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy game, both for the C-64. Hitchhikers was actually more entertaining.

[orleans]

356. i think you left a couple things out

those little yellow 78 records for kids

plastic/cardboard records on the back of a cereal box

roller skate key

dog n suds drive in

[MissMillie]

20. MTV playing videos

shoulder pads
Jessica McClure in the well

[BurtWorm]

21. Smoking in elevators and movie theaters.

[suninvited]

36. I remember smoking in my hospital bed

in 1979...they had ashtrays in all the hospital rooms.

[av8rdave]

48. I remember that...visiting my dad in the hospital in the late 60s, and he was smoking

[Left Brain]

380. ELEVATOR OPERATORS!!

Sheesh, my gramma was one.

[calico1]

22. I remember that when you wanted to heat some

leftovers you put them in a pan on the stove. Nobody had microwaves.

Other things I remember:

Jiffy Pop popcorn you popped over the burner

Rabbit ears on TV. Also the TV roof antennas. Remember those?
My dad would go up on the roof to adjust it while my mother yelled at him whether the picture was good or not. LOL

UHF TV. Whatever happened to UHF?

Gauze shirts with rhinestones.

Dr. Scholl's sandals that you could buy off a rack in the drugstore and they cost $6.99

Danskin

Leg warmers and headbands and cutsie outfits for when you worked out (if you were a woman)

Bonne Bell when Bonne Bell was big. And the June Bonne Bell sales when you could get a gallon of Ten-O-Six

Lemon Up

Protein 21

Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific

Maybelline when they made ONLY eye makeup

Pantene, Revlon and Max Factor when they were sold ONLY in dept stores

Morning, afternoon and evening editions of the newspaper

AM stations that played hit music

[begin_within]

37. First time I ever used Jiffy Pop,

I thought you had to cut a hole in it to let the steam escape. I ended up with popcorn all over the place.

[bertha katzenengel]

73. Lemon Up! I loved that stuff. I loved the cap. Do you remember . . .

. . . PSSSSSST?



OMG - they still make it? I found that image from drugstore.com and it's for sale!! :puke:

[calico1]

Psssssst....

It's not a wet shampoo....oh no...

Pssssst...it's not a dry shampoo....oh no

Spray and brush is all you do..then go

Let Clairol freshen your hair..instantly

With Psssssst!!!!!!!

:rofl:

Hehhe. Every time I used that stuff I always ended up shampooing my hair to get the gunk out. There was also "Mini Mist"--I think that whas the name of it. And it was even worse!

I LOVED Lemon UP. I had the shampoo and the face wash. My face felt so clean when I used it.

[fudge stripe cookays]

270. How about beer shampoo?

[Canuckistanian]

333. I couln't even get a good buzz off it

A major disppointment in my youth.

I blamed society.

[fudge stripe cookays]

398. You darned

Canadians are such beer snobs. It was at least like, what.... .000000000000012 percent, right?

:P
fsc <-- married to Canadian Maudite lover

[Manifestor_of_Light]

425. Before that, there was Minipoo Dry Shampoo.

Basically talcum powder you combed thru your hair to soak up the oil.

[Canuckistanian]

330. I still remember the jingle

That's how I know you have the EXACT amount of "S"'s.

Oh, you have a picture too.

[carly denise pt deux]

384. Gee your hair smells terrific........

That stuff smelled so good, that stuff must had had some type of aphrodisiac in it....today's Axe body spray has nothing on that shampoo!
Carly

[Der Blaue Engel]

226. Jiffy Pop!

I still buy that at the grocery store down the street. It's fun and it actually tastes better than microwaved. :)

[yellowdogintexas]

435. just don't try using an iron to heat it up. Failed Dorm Room Experiment #1

1966

[trackfan]

303. That's still how I heat leftovers - unless I'm at work.

The only leftover I use the microwave at home for is a slice of pizza - it's very efficient for that.

[orleans]

357. love (donovan's song playing over: wear your love like heaven)

space food sticks

kiddie a-go-go

snugglebun doll (complete with bottle warmer)

(sunnyand70s.com)

[BurtWorm]

23. Renting your telephone in perpetuity.

What a racket AT&T had going!

[trackfan]

146. If I remember correctly they had a phony company with a different

name that rented you the equipment. I think it was Western Electric, or something like that. But it really was still AT&T.

[Crabby Appleton]

156. Western Electric was the hardware division of AT&T

they made the actual phones and other equipment, most of WECO became Lucent Technologies in the mid-90's. In many areas, the total bill for local telephone service was for the equipment lease.

[pstokely]

437. Some people still actually rent their phone

the senile

[BurtWorm]

24. The sound of a needle being placed on a record

Arrested Development's first CD begins with that sound, for anyone who doesn't know it.

[youthere]

25. When Michael Jackson was famous for something else.

[texas1928]

97. When he was black and had a normal nose.

[PassingFair]

385. Things change....

[meow2u3]

26. Black-and-white console TVs

where you had to get off your ass to change the channel.

[suninvited]

42. And there were only three channels to turn it to...

four if you could pick up PBS

[MorningGlow]

57. I was going to say...

making the kid in the room get up to change the channel! (Yeah, that was me!) :P

[bertha katzenengel]

75. Wasn't that why everyone had kids? To change the channel?

:P

[Left Brain]

420. Yup, that's what my folks said.

oh and my mother didn't need a dishwasher. She had me and my sister.

[Burma Jones]

27. 35 dollar an ounce weed

[begin_within]

32. $10 an ounce when I was in high school, 1975

[Iggo]

53. Yep, 5 bucks for a half a lid.

Wsan't planning on riding the wayback machine all the way back to the 7th grade this morning, but thatnks for the ride all the same.

[zabet]

56. I remember when a nickel bag

was 'four fingers deep'.

I remember high quality commercial
dope selling for the astronomical price
of $300 a pound.

:smoke:

[Burma Jones]

70. 10 bucks for dirt weed, 35 for Colombian

I have no idea what weed goes for these days......

[IzaSparrow]

108. 60ish a dime...

is what a friend told me. :hippie:

[yellowcanine]

128. Affectionately known as "Colombian Gold." Friend of mine had a belt with that stenciled on it.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

61. What is it now?

[montanto]

183. depends. Stuff is better now

$200 and up. ++ home delivery, a selection, a guy who knows what each one does. Its a boutique bz in some places. not that I know anything about it.

[YankeyMCC]

28. Typwriters are coming back apparently

At least around my home town :

THE TYPEWRITER: Producer Kezia Simister takes us to a typewriter repair shop in Arlington, Massachusetts where the owner has been seeing a lot of new customers: kids who prefer typing their school papers the old-fashioned way, rather than on computers which often they find distracting.

http://www.here-now.org/

[Hellenic_Pagan]

337. I had a friend in college

who carried a typewriter around with him. He was from a remote part of the world, and said he didn't want to get spoiled by computers so that when he went home he would still be cool with only having a typewriter.

He is the only person my age i know of who has used a typewriter. I once tried to use one to fill out a form, but my two friends and i had a hard time lining it up... and it didn't really have backspace or delete. We ended up scanning the form and saving it in .pdf and filling it out on our computers. :eyes:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

427. I learned to type on an IBM Executive that was the same age I was.

And it cost $600 in 1955, which was probably two months' salary for a lot of people. It had proportional spacing. Some letters were wider than others, and it clicked when it backspaced. Each click represented 1/32nd of an inch. And if you had to erase it, and then erase the copy under the carbon paper, and then retype it, you had to eyeball it to get the letters in the right place.

When I went off to college in the 1970s, I took an IBM typewriter with me (before they had Selectrics with balls) and I remember my new roommates went into shock. They were horrified that I had a 40-pound IBM typewriter with me, because that meant I was a serious student who typed her own papers!! How terrible!!

[YankeyMCC]

29. Bank books

You know the little pamphlet like books that you took to the teller and it was stamped with the deposited or withdrawal and updated balance.

[FloridaJudy]

215. Oh yes, and the "Christmas Club"!

You put in $2 a week, and after 50 weeks you had $100 to spend for Christmas. No interest, as I recall. What a scam.

[orleans]

358. the christmas club! HA! i remember that! n/t

[DarkTirade]

33. I'm only old enough to remember the 5 1/4 inch floppies.

And man, did they ever suck... :)

[SacredCow]

39. Same here....

but I worked at a company owned by a complete and utter packrat, so I did see some...

I remember feeling like I had really saved some dough by getting a hole-punch and making my single-sided 5.25 discs double-sided... Good times with the Atari 1200XL!

[DarkTirade]

41. Did that actually work? :P

[SacredCow]

49. Oh, yeah....

It worked fine. In fact, I remember the manufacturers later put a warning on the boxes saying NOT to do it because single-sided discs were the ones that didn't meet the quality standards for double-sided, blah blah blah... But I never had a problem with it.

[DarkTirade]

50. Bah. Quality standards. Who needs 'em? :)

I remember when 3 1/2 inch disks first started using double-sided... they went from what, 540k to 720? :) And then... Double Density! Woohoo! A little more than a meg. That was HUGE.

Now I've got a tiny little SD card barely bigger than my thumbnail that holds 2 gigs...

[SacredCow]

55. I work with a fair amount of older equipment...

So I still use the 3.5 floppies from time to time...

[DarkTirade]

64. I still have most of my old ones packed away.

I'm sure most of them have gone bad in the interim... but ah well. C'est la guerre.

[yellowcanine]

299. "quality standards" for floppy discs? That is pretty funny right there.

Anybody who trusted anything to a floppy disc and didn't make at least two back ups immediately was asking for trouble.

[MissMillie]

163. oh hell, I remember the 8 inch floppy

seriesly...

[AnneD]

324. Data Punch Cards...

in trays made into reel to reel tapes.

Slide rulers and how they work.

Car key or sweeping with a broom that changed our TV. Remotes were primitive then. We could chane TV channels by jangeling mom's car keys or sweeping the carpet.

Shag carpets and decorating with Earth tones-gold avacado orange.

Sherpa coats, tye die, nehru jackets, white lipstick, blue eyeshadow.

[Cabcere]

199. Same here

and agreed. :hi:

[Hellenic_Pagan]

338. The hard plastic ones? Yeah they did suck.

Mine always fell apart in my backpack or would messup just when I needed to print out my homework or essays.

[begin_within]

34. Fizzies, Great Shakes and legal cherry bombs

[yellowcanine]

241. and urban legends about the kid that swallowed a fizzie and blew up.

[begin_within]

254. I thought that was Pop Rocks + Coke

[yellowcanine]

263. Yes indeed Pop rocks and Little Mikey. But that was mid 70s. Fizzies were 1950s and 60s and in

fact, a version of the "Little Mikey exploded" tale did involve fizzies in place of Pop Rocks. But the tales began long before Little Mikey and Pop Rocks. I am sure that the tales with Fizzies were started by kids who placed a Fizzy on their tongue (as most kids did sooner or later) and then imagined what would happen if they just swallowed the thing down. Similar stories were spread about Alka Seltzer tablets ("Pop pop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is!" - another 60's icon). And of course there were the "homemade Fizzies" involving Alka Seltzer tablets and Kool-Aid.

[begin_within]

285. That's the only way I ever used Fizzies

Just putting them on my tongue and let them play out in my mouth. It was really a candy, as far as I was concerned. I tried dropping it into a glass of water once, but it was boring.

[yellowcanine]

293. Moxie sodas from the vending machine. We used to dare each other to get one.

Horrible stuff. Obviously everyone did not think so because the vender kept stocking them.

[Perry Logan]

35. Sucky special effects.

[Robb]

38. Red boxes, blue boxes, cheese graters

Phone Phreaks in general. Free pay phone calls with physical devices.

...And not being able to use the password "sparky" for my first green-screen email address (remember Lynx?) because it contained "spar". :D

[madinmaryland]

40. Gas Wars with 19 cent a gallon gas!

[Mugu]

135. And they pumped the gas into your car for you,

then checked the engine oil and tire pressure, and washed the windshield. Then they gave you dishes or inflatable plastic dinosaurs.

Regards, Mugu

[KamaAina]

161. And they gave you free maps, too.

Mmmm.... maps...

[yellowcanine]

321. Hey I did that - 1st job. I had one lady would roll up and order 50 cents worth of gas.

This was in 1968 and gas was about 30 cents a gallon so she wasn't getting much even then.

[FloridaJudy]

217. And gas stations gave away free dishes

With every fill-up. They were still doing that in the early seventies, as I recall.

[yellowcanine]

295. And orange styrafoam balls to put on the radio aerial; ESSO gave out "tiger tails".

[RebelOne]

43. Phone party lines.

They were a pain because the other party could listen in on your conversation.

[CBHagman]

65. Which Alfred Hitchcock used in a memorable episode...

...of his TV show.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0508227/

:scared:

[BrotherBuzz]

206. Even more of a pain when your buddy was on the party line.

I couldn't call him directly because the line was always busy (me). I had to call him by dialing my own number and hang up. Both phones would start ringing, and I'd pick up the receiver when it stopped ringing (someone answered on the other end). It was odd, but it worked. Oh, back in those days, having even a second telephone in the house was a rare thing.

[Kucinich4America]

281. My grandparents had a party line until well into the 80's

And I don't think they ever had anything but a rotary dial phone.

[av8rdave]

46. You needed a quarter to play a video game, and

it only had two controls...a joystick and a button.

[DarkTirade]

51. I was from a much later generation.

We had TWO buttons for most of our games. :)

[av8rdave]

52. You know, I screwed up....we did have some with two buttons

Those were pushing the envelope for me!

[Aristus]

47. Koogle sandwich spread.

[geardaddy]

157. Sir Grapefellow, Kaboom, Quisp, and Funny Face drink mixes

[MilesColtrane]

171. I had forgotten about Funny Face drink mixes.

I always preferred them over Kool Aid when I was a kid.

They were reformulated when it was determined that calcium cyclamate caused cancer.


Unfortunately, they replaced the cyclamates with saccharin.

[Auggie]

211. Chinese Cherry and Injun' Orange -- holy cow!

They were eventually replaced with Choo Choo Cherry and Rolly Jolly Orange.

[Hellenic_Pagan]

346. In high school I had a tshirt

That had that Quisp dude on it. on the back it says:

Text

I just thought it was a weird trippy shirt. i had no idea it was a cerial brand!

[Hellenic_Pagan]

347. In high school I had a tshirt

that had that Quisp dude on it. the shirt said

down down the stomach
through round round round the system too
with 26red youre sure to say relief is just a trip away

I just thought it was a trippy shirt. I didnt know it had to do with cerial.

[orleans]

359. rice krinkles

[chknltl]

58. Believing in my government.

Sitting in the living room with a gang of kids waiting for the NBC peacock to come on IN COLOR...which opened Walt Disny's "Wonderful World Of Color"...Walt was alive back then. We had the first color TV set on the block!

I remember as a wee kindergarten kid being highly fearful of SPUTNIK! I kept my eye out for it whenever I went out doors that summer.

Cap guns and caps and that damned blood-blister you got when the damned thing fired while you loaded it wrong.

Tricycles

Malts

Drive In Movies

A cavalier attitude about littering. Folks just didn't give it a second thought really. (Well at least we wound up doing better...still a ways to go though).

Skateboards with those REALLY REALLY bad metal rollers.

Guys thinking they were cool while wearing turtlenecks.

Girls thinking they looked cool in beehive hair-"dos" while ignoring those geeks in turtlenecks.

Church Key bottle openers oh and there were no twist tops on your pop bottles... speaking of which I remember walking alongside of the road with my wagon picking up pop bottles, (see cavalier attitude about littering), because I knew where to turn them in for nickles and if I collected enough I could go to the Saturday matinee AND afford a pop and some popcorn.

The Fifth Dimension and Nancy Sinatra on The Smothers Brothers show, speaking of the Smothers brothers:

Yo-Yos

Duck and cover drills at our grade schools.

The Domino Theory (see you were wrong then and history proved you wrong yet over 50-thousand Americans died you bastards! How many Vietnamese died huh??? Yet you GOD DAMNED BASTARDS are at it again! F**k YOU Kissinger!

Johnie Unitus and The Baltimore Colts and that damned Broadway Joe guy and even worse: Howard Cossell's voice.

Walter Cronkite kept it real.

Earl J. Wagadorn was the best friend of a nice kid who's mom was the first black lady to actually star in her own sitcom. (OK trivia fans what was the name of the show?)

Thunderball XL-5 and Supercar

Having the hell scared out of me once a week when that show "The Outer Limits" came on.

That Kennedy family...they were so perfect...America was so great!

The notion of "stay at home mom" hadn't been invented yet cause that's just what moms did! Dad as the breadwinner holding down one job and feeding a family of four was the way stuff worked too. Thanks repugs for screwing that one up.

Reflecting back on it all now...I think being or even supporting a republican should be a felony fine. If We The People get another chance at this Democracy thing I'll suggest it to my congressman. I swear I can not think of a single thing a republican has done good for America since that Lincoln fellow.

[MorningGlow]

60. Julia?

The first sitcom to star a black woman--Diahann Carroll? (Even scarier--I remembered how to spell Diahann...)

[chknltl]

80. Bingo

WOW...I am not sure what gets the bigger WOW, the fact that someone remembered all of that or the fact that someone actually read my musings.


further musings:

How come cops don't have ray-guns?

Where are all those flying cars?

The cell phone ain't the same as a wrist radio...well I guess that one worked out better than planned but I keep misplacing the damned thing all the time so maybe a compromise: Wrist Cell Phones!

Why aren't there colonies of normal folks up on the moon?

Or cities under the sea and sea-farms...where are all those undersea farms...I thought for sure we would have them!

Shots without needles STILL HURT! They shoulda gotten that one right...hell they STILL use needles more often than not and my love for them has not changed from when I was a kid. Had to get those damned things once a year, fretted about it for 364 days before going in to get them too! Now that I am older I get to fret for 364 days prior to getting my annual bloodwork done!

Shouldn't we have had a man on Mars over 2 decades ago?

I guess having a stupid camera atop ones monitor is cool enough but it ain't the same as a having a telephone with a live person's image smiling out of it...and weren't we supposed to have those at each and every phone booth?

World Peace...I was sure we would have World Peace by the year 2000...what happened?

DAMNED REPUBLICANS! See? I have really been strongly against the death penalty but perhaps I may need to rethink that one...DAMNED REPUBLICANS!

[MorningGlow]

59. The only computers around were the size of an entire room

Riding in the car without having to wear a seatbelt (if you were a kid, you got to bounce around in the wayback of the station wagon like a ping-pong ball).

The only jobs "acceptable" for women were 1) mommy; 2) teacher; 3) nurse; 4) secretary. I had a little spiral-bound book with different pages for each school year and a pocket for report cards and such, and under "What I want to be when I grow up" for girls gave you ONLY those four options. :scared:

Being able to stay out playing in the summertime "till the streetlights came on".

Note: OMG OMG OMG I still have my Tote-A-Loop radio! It's yellow. :P

On edit: And watching black-and-white "educational" films in school, with the sound all shaky like the people were talking underwater (when it was in sync at all), and the film catching on fire and melting, and rewinding the film on the reel till it came loose and went fwap fwap fwap till the teacher turned it off.

And, speaking of watching films in school, being chosen to turn the filmstrip when the accompanying record went "DING!" Serious calamity if you missed a "ding" and the filmstrip stopped matching the narration--your classmates would yell at you. What a high-stress job!

[yellowcanine]

103. Punch cards, line printers, and RJE (remote job entry) terminals.

I did my master's thesis on an RJE terminal. And drop a box of punch cards with all your research data and you might as well drag out the notebook and reenter the data.

[MorningGlow]

113. I used to make a bit of money alphabetizing punchcards for my uncle

He was an insurance salesman, and there was a punchcard or two for each customer. I don't think they were ALL his customers--there were far too many--I think he got some cheap labor out of me for his entire office. That was okay, though. He was the greatest guy. :D

[Phx_Dem]

62. Pull-tabs

[yellowcanine]

120. Beer and soda cans that opened with a punch opener.

[madeline_con]

232. Chains made from them. n/t

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

399. i remember pat buchanan was pro pull tab and he came out

against forcing companies to replace them. i'm not kidding.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

63. Scientific calculators. The must-have was the HP41CV.

[MilesColtrane]

168. I remember 58008 upside down on a calculator spells boobs.

It got big laughs in the seventh grade.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

178. We had a sequence of numbers

13470 50 50738 50135 30 373519 3 13209
=
OLHEI OS BELOS SEIOS DE GISELE E GOZEI
=
I looked at Gisele's beautiful boobs and came.

[MilesColtrane]

181. Wish I'd known how to read Portuguese in the 7th grade.

Wow, whole sentences.

[Hellenic_Pagan]

348. Yeah,

I remember a boy showed me 55378008 in fourth grade and thought it was hilarious. I think he liked me :eyes:

[CottonBear]

182. I used to use one of those! n/t

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

207. I didn't have one, but I fudged a lot with one my friend had.

I was like, "TEN digits??? And you can type LETTERS??? AWESOME!!11!"

[NewWaveChick1981]

66. OMG! I had one of those ball radios, but mine was red.

And I was hot stuff when I played it too. :rofl:

I remember TVs that had a dial instead of a remote, and I remember huge box TV remotes that made a loud clicking sound when you changed channels. :rofl: I also remember riding my bike and playing with my friends in the neighborhood because there was no such thing as video games or computers.

[MilesColtrane]

68. The Strange Change Machine by Mattel

How was this thing ever on the market?

It was basically a powerful heating element. You placed hard plastic cubes onto it and watched them transform into figures (dinosaurs, monsters, creatures)
You could also reheat the creatures and crush then back into cubes.

Nothing like letting your kids play with molten plastic.

I also remember Lawn Darts.

[orleans]

360. JARTS

[Arugula Latte]

69. OMG. I had both of those radios pictured.

I still have a picture of me dressed in bell bottoms, holding up my newfangled radio like the one pictured at bottom, which twisted open. Coolness!

[Arugula Latte]

74. How about "New Zoo Revue"?

That hippo (Henrietta, I believe) was so damn annoying. As was the whole show. Even I thought it was annoying when I was a kid. Yet I still watched it.

[MorningGlow]

77. Ugh--haaaated New Zoo Review

But the lower depths of my hatred was reserved for "Hodgepodge Lodge", late in the afternoon on PBS--a BO-RING show starring some lady with dirty fingernails teaching a couple of annoying cipher kids about nature. I think I had to suffer through it to get to Electric Company on the other side...

[bertha katzenengel]

78. oh no, OH NOOOOOO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

thanks for the memory :puke:

:)

[Arugula Latte]

138. Here's a clip of the theme song

Not the greatest visually, but it will bring back those (bad) memories!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=e18_KL8PUYM

:hi:

[LanternWaste]

79. I had a serious crush on the young lady (the human, not the hippo)

I had a serious crush on the young lady (the human, not the hippo) who was on the show.

[Arugula Latte]

91. You must mean this bright-eyed young lass ... Emmy Jo!

And here is her cohort, the ever-earnest Doug (Is he Groucho Marx's son or something?):



Here is the theme song, where they point out that Freddie the Frog is not very bright:

La-La-La-La-La-La-La, La-La-La-La-La-La-La
It's the New Zoo Revue, coming right at you . . .
Where three delightful animals have fun with what they do.

We learn with our friend Doug (our friend Doug!) I'm his helper Emmy Jo (Emmy Jo!)
With Freddie! Charlie! Henrietta! We have fun learning what we don't know.

Delicate and feminine is Henrietta Hippo.
Very wise and very smart is Charlie the Owl. (Whooo!)
Not so smart but lots of heart is Freddie the Frog.

It's quite an unusual thing, the animals talk and sing . . .
With Doug and Emmy Jo, every day's a different show!

It's the New Zoo Revue, coming right at you. It's the New Zoo Revue, coming right at you!

[Jimbo S]

151. Ah, but no mini-skirt

[yellowcanine]

131. Is that the one that had Gary Gnu with the News?

[Arugula Latte]

136. I think that was a different show.

But here is a clip of Gary:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mAwVIZDAUF0

[CreekDog]

191. The Great Space Coaster

Get on board! :woohoo:

[geardaddy]

158. Yep, Henrietta Hippo. n/t

[CreekDog]

190. was Freddie gay?

:shrug:

[madeline_con]

233. Was Gary Gnu on that show?

No gnus is good gnus.

[mainegreen]

282. Oh my god. I remember that!

I think the last time I thought about that was 28 years ago!

:rofl:

[orleans]

361. garfield goose

family classics with frazier thomas

[calico1]

76. When you got a cup of coffee from Dunkin Donuts or

some other place and the lid had no opening. People would pull part of the lid off and make a little opening so the coffee would stay hot. Eventually they must have gotten the message and now all these lids have a tab for an opening.

[Catbird]

81. Poodle skirts

[LanternWaste]

82. The Wonderful World of Sid & Marty Krofft.

The Bugaloos (of which I've turned on to one of my co-workers) who are in the air and every where, flying high, flying free....

Far Out Space Nuts

Sigmund and the Sea Monster

and of course, who could forget HR Puffn'stuff.

[Morrisons Ghost]

127. I loved all of those shows

A couple of years ago one of the cable channels ran a Sid &Marty Kroft marathon and it brought back alot of memories of my childhood.My wife had never watched any of those shows and after one episode of HR Pufnstuff she came to the conclusion that Sid and Marty had to have been stoned when they created it:rofl: I can't say I disagreed with her but as a kid it fascinated me:)

[Catbird]

83. A competent, reasonable Republican president

[Taverner]

85. I had no idea you were around during the time of Teddy Roosevelt!

[Catbird]

229. Well, maybe not quite.

But I did follow in his footsteps as President -- of a college club. At least this is what I was told.

[Taverner]

84. 45's, casette tapes, MIX TAPES, Reaganauts (yuk!), text based video games,

Rotary phones, party lines, CB's, i could go on

[yellowcanine]

96. Ha! How about 78s? Full sized record with one song per side.

[yellowcanine]

101. 50,000 watt AM rock and roll radio stations. WFIL in Philadelphia, for example.

[CreekDog]

610 KFRC and Dr. Don Rose

:rofl:

ps-he was on WFIL before coming to SF.

[BrotherBuzz]

252. KEWB was the hapening bay area station before KFRC

Cripes, we had Casey Kasem and Gary Owens.

:rofl:

[CreekDog]

256. i never heard that station

there was only one Dr. Don...was Gary Owens the Laugh-In announcer?

[BrotherBuzz]

314. Yes, Gary Owens was the Laugh-In announcer

In 1959, KEWB was the first bay area station to run with the Top 40 rock and roll music format (same year I received my magic transistor radio!). KFRC didn't switch until the mid sixties. I'm an old fart and don't have much of a clue as to who Dr Don was because by the time Dr Don splashed, I was well entrenched in alternative bay area FM stations (mostly KPFA), and only dialed in AM for the ball games.

[Adsos Letter]

260. Hah! I used to listen to KFRC on a little red plastic transistor radio...

made in Japan, it was. And I can still here Dr. Don's voice and the KFRC bumper music...

[AllegroRondo]

86. Saturday Morning Cartoons

because that was the only time of the week they were on TV.
the second Saturday in September was like Christmas, thats when all the new shows and new episodes started.

[MorningGlow]

87. And NOTHING but reruns during the summer

There was no "summer season"--we were all outside and had no time for TV.

[livetohike]

88. Milk and bread were delivered to the house

The doctor made house calls. We had a dress code in public school. Girls were not allowed to wear slacks...

Black and white TV - "rabbit ears" - you actually had to get up and change the channel manually.

Transistor radios and the batteries wore out pretty quickly.

[BuelahWitch]

89. Anyone else here play with Dawn dolls?

I liked them better than Barbies when I was a kid in the early '70s

[NewWaveChick1981]

92. OMFG! Dawn kicked Barbie's ASS!

:bounce: :woohoo: I had all of them. Angie and Longlocks were my favorites! I saved my weekly allowance to buy the dolls and all of the cool outfits. I still have some of that stuff. Did you have the majorettes? :)

Oh, and BTW, I got a Dawn Fashion Show stage for my 10th birthday, and I was the envy of all my friends. :P

[BuelahWitch]

99. No, but I had the Fashion Show stage too

And the car, I believe...had so much fun with those damn dolls!

[madeline_con]

234. They were the little ones, right?

I had those.

[MorningGlow]

114. Oh yeah they were great!

My mom hated them, though, because she'd always find their little white undies and shoes deep in the shag carpeting.

[orleans]

362. scooba doo doll

but mine had black hair

[bertha katzenengel]

90. Who remembers Wonderama?

does anybody here have an aardvark?
does anybody here have an aardvark?
everybody here has a right & left ear
but nobody here has an aardvark!



Apparently there were a lot of hosts (Sonny Fox?!), but I only remember Bob McAllister.

[Arugula Latte]

95. Well, good thing Vincent Van Gogh never showed up on that show.

[MonkeyFunk]

98. I do!

Sunday mornings, followed by Bowery Boys movie.

Kids are people, too! Wockeroo!

[MonkeyFunk]

93. I had that panasonic radio!

and I also remember Creepy Crawlers.

[orleans]

363. i loved spirograph--but here's a creepy crawlers box for you

[yellowcanine]

94. $200 hand calculators that only did arithmetic operations and had a battery that lasted about 2

weeks.

[yellowcanine]

105. And this was when $200 was nearly 2 week's take home pay.

[BrotherBuzz]

149. Oh, but Texas Instruments had the one with all the bells and whistles...

and sold for 600 dollars. That model retired the slide rule.

[DainBramaged]

266. "Great big numbers and those little tiny feet"

I remember the TI commercials well.

[Mugu]

288. You mean something like this one?

[TrogL]

100. Horses in use for non-farm tasks

Kids riding horses to school, horse-drawn milk delivery.

[texas1928]

104. News casts that did not spend half their time on celebrity crap.

They actually did the news and they actually questioned the government.

Newspapers were the way you stayed current on stuff.

Hell, getting busted by the principal, or your teacher. I got paddled a lot in school.

[bikebloke]

106. Creepy Crawlers

You'd dribble some plastic goop into a mold, then cook it solid on the stove gadget. Voila! You can scare your friends with wiggly bugs and worms.

Candy cigarettes

"It's 10 o'clock. Do you know where your children are?"

TV test patterns when they weren't broadcasting at night. Stations would sign off, playing teh Star Spangled Banner.

[Hardrada]

350. I used to like chocolate cigarettes, They had little paper tubes

around them and were in a cigarette-type box.

Also real but discontinued cigs like Spud.

[orleans]

364. give a hoot don't pollute

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rgKB9X_Xuic

[Manifestor_of_Light]

428. When the station signed off, they played the Carmen Dragon arrangement of "America the Beautiful".

I played in a summer camp orchestra under Carmen Dragon back in high school, and he was a wonderful, friendly man. We played his arrangement of America the Beautiful and it's amazing what creative orchestrations he did with an old saw like that. It's great.


And this was before his son "The Captain" got famous with Toni Tennille. (Love Will Keep Us Together)

Carmen Dragon had a daughter named Carmen Dragon (I shit you not) who is a harpist.

R.I.P., great arranger and conductor!

[EstimatedProphet]

107. Powder-blue Ford LTDs that weren't up on blocks

[yellowcanine]

115. Two door hardtops with a V-8, 4 on the floor, dual exhausts and metal flake paint..

[LibraLiz1973]

395. Hysterically laughing now! GOOD ONE!!

[BuelahWitch]

109. The Big Money Movie in the afternoon?

In my case, channel 27. Youngstown, OH, but I think many places had them. I think that's partially where my love of old films comes from, my grandma and I watched it almost every day.

[lildreamer316]

110. Avoid the Noid. n/t

[yellowcanine]

111. $1 haircut with "whitewalls" shaved around the ears.

And don't even think about asking the barber to "layer" it.

[yellowcanine]

112. Polio shots from a syringe that was 4 inches long and 3/4 inch in diameter.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

221. How about polio vaccine sugarcubes?

They were pretty weird. I hope they didn't stop using them because they were bogus...If so, I'd better go get a shot!

[EstimatedProphet]

116. Cash

[blockhead]

117. Spirograph

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

179. I SO wanted to have one of those.

Parents decreed that I would become bored and tire of it shortly, and didn't buy me one. To this day I believe they were wrong.

And yes, they did sell in Brazil, with the same (or maybe a slightly Portuguesized) name.

[orleans]

365. i think you should buy yourself one!

i bought myself some colorforms and playdough and silly putty about five years ago just because i really liked them.

i also liked spirograph--i didn't get tired of it.

[yellowcanine]

118. Ooh, ooh,ooh DRIVE-IN MOVIES and roller skating CAR HOPS

[NewJeffCT]

123. there are still a few roller-skating car hop places in CT

at least 2 or 3 in northern CT along the northern border near Mass.

[calico1]

198. There is one close to me...

about 10 minute ride, in Groton.

[mainegreen]

283. We still got drive in movies up here.

There are about 3 drive ins within half an hour of me.
We always go in the summer!

[KitchenWitch]

119. Personal computers that used cassette tapes for the software and the memory.

[alphafemale]

121. Anyone remember Merlin?

http://tvcream.squarespace.com/toy-list/merlin.html

[NewJeffCT]

124. I remember it

don't remember too much about it.

[Der Blaue Engel]

224. Yep! I had one when I was 11.

:)

I loved that thing and played with it for hours. :D

[alphafemale]

287. I think I was 12 or so. Some pictures of my nerdy little self may still exist.

The pictures of me between about 10 and 16 are ones I'd rather burn than be seen. :D

[TZ]

235. My sister got Merlin for xmas the same year I got simon

Between the beeps of Merlin and the boops of Simon it was a LOUD holiday

[orleans]

366. i remember merlin! i loved it! n/t

[yellowcanine]

122. 6 ounce Coke bottles and nickel Coke machines.

[Z_I_Peevey]

129. Soft drink machines that opened from the top, like chest freezers,

with little metal tracks that you slid the pop bottles across and, finally, up and over and out.

They smelled great, like the inside of an old ice house. (Something else I remember, by the way. Big blocks of ice purchased from the ice house, which were then chipped in a toothy terror of a machine that stood outside, under the awning.)

[yellowcanine]

133. When we wanted to make homemade ice cream we got a block of ice and smashed it up inside a burlap

bag with a sledge hammer.

[Hellenic_Pagan]

339. You mean the plastic six oz bottles?

I know those! I like em cause theyre cute! :silly:

I know, thinking a container is cute is dorky. :eyes:

[NoPasaran]

125. Elevator operators

Movie theater ushers
Newsreels and cartoons before movies

[Phx_Dem]

126. Doctor Who

[mwooldri]

255. Which Doctor Who?

This one...



This one,



Or even this one?



All dead now.

[Phx_Dem]

277. Tom Baker was the best imo.

[Hellenic_Pagan]

340. I loooove Dr. Who

But he is also yummy as Barty Crouch Jr! (and i hated that character in HP GoF!)

[Lorien]

130. Mood rings, pet rocks, Space Food sticks. n/t

[SOteric]

132. Earth Shoes.

[RetroLounge]

134. Several things

Jukeboxes where you could see the 45rpm RECORD play.

Electro-Mechanical Pin Ball machines

Sock Hops

Backseat in my Impala the size of a Living Room Sofa.

Judy in the back seat of above mentioned car. :evilgrin:

Pre-MTV days when Music was made to listen to, not to watch.

Pre-Aids sex.

RL

[yellowcanine]

137. Lovers' Lanes and drive in movies were great for that kind of stuff.

"Park" in a Lovers' Lane these days and they would probably haul your ass off to Gitmo.

[LeftyMom]

139. Probably not much. I'm 26.

But I remember a lot of the stuff people here have posted.

[sasquatch]

140. I'm 27 and I remember all those things

Do they still make transister radios?

[hunter]

141. Travelers Checks

I remember getting travelers checks before any long trip because most of the places my wife and I went didn't take plastic. You could go to a bank and get cash with a travelers check if you weren't getting enough cash back in change, but depending upon which state you were visiting, you often couldn't get cash with an ATM or credit card.

I still have a rotary phone. My kids' friends used to look at it like :wtf:

[alphafemale]

433. Actually, I'd be interested to see if a kid could figure out how it worked.

The rotary phone that is. :D

[Lydia Leftcoast]

142. Gasoline at 25 cents a gallon that always included a window wash and oil check

McDonald's hamburgers for 15 cents
Absolutely everybody, from little kids to old people, watching the Ed Sullivan Show
Credit cards being called "charge plates"
Having to talk to a teller to get cash from the bank
Sunday closing laws
Tuition at the University of Minnesota at $125 per quarter for a full-time commuter
Seeing New York City Opera productions and other cultural programming (Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts) on NETWORK TV on Sunday afternoons (before they were crowded out by non-stop football)
Walking 5 blocks to school in the morning, 5 blocks back for lunch, 5 blocks after lunch, 5 blocks at the end of the day. Probably one of the reasons why there was only one fat kid in my entire elementary school class. Also, the kids who would be called "hyperactive" today ran between home and school instead of walking.
Having only one car per family was the norm, and a two-car garage was a sign of affluence
Passenger rail service from Minneapolis to Duluth and Winnepeg
The Greyhound bus would stop and pick you up if you went to a street corner along its in-town route and waved
Drugstores with soda fountains
Few toys needed batteries
Dressing up in a skirt with a crinoline, white anklets, and Mary Jane shoes
Spoolies curlers
Hearing TV shampoo ads advising people to wash their hair at least once a week
Anti-bigotry ads on TV using a marionette named Johnny.
Turkey dinners at Walgreens (yes, that Walgreens) for 69 cents
Nylons with garter belts were the norm, and pantyhose cost $2.00 a pair (equivalent to $10 or $12 today)

[Celeborn Skywalker]

145. Regarding the cultural programming,

I really wish they still did that. I'm 24 and in my life it seems there has never been enough attention given to "higher" culture on television. It's always perceived as elitist for some reason. I do remember that A&E and Discovery used to not air as much trash as they do now. They used to be good networks.

[CBHagman]

153. See if you can't find Classic Arts Showcase.

It's available free to local stations. My area runs it on one of the community college networks.

Classic Arts Showcase is a video program of dance, classical music, jazz, animation, and classic film. They run everything from Naxos music videos to clips from The Bell Telephone Hour
http://www.classicartsshowcase.org/

[Celeborn Skywalker]

164. Wow, thanks for the link!

I noticed that I have it available on the Dish and never even saw it.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

429. Johnny Carson and Dick Cavett used to have jazz and classical people perform on their shows.

I remember Beverly Sills doing variations on "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" in French, allegedly written by Mozart, Itzhak Perlman, Yo Yo Ma, Joan Sutherland, Julie Andrews, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson on Dick Cavett, variety shows and good talk shows in general, like Ed Sullivan, The Smothers Brothers Show, Shindig, Hullabaloo, The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder, Overnight with a curly headed guy with a moustache and Linda Ellerbee, Merv Griffin, Jack Paar, etc.

Hell, speaking of country guitar players who were true virtuosos (an extinct breed) I used to watch Hee Haw so I could see Roy Clark play and John Henry Faulk spin his tales! The most memorable musical moment I saw was Roy Clark and Gatemouth Brown battlin' it out. I think Roy Clark almost couldn't keep up with Gatemouth.

[orleans]

367. woolworths and the "fountain" drinks n/t

[Heidi]

143. Live radio news coverage of John Lennon's death. (nt)

[Arugula Latte]

144. Lawn darts!

[Strawman]

323. The good ones with metal tips

None of that plastic bullshit

[no name no slogan]

147. The Cold War and The Evil Empire

nt

[rug]

148. Ice men delivering ice.

[leftofthedial]

152. when I was 25

[LanternWaste]

154. Writing letters and Thank You cards...

Writing letters and Thank You cards...

and correct spelling and punctuation... :hide:

[Crabby Appleton]

155. Self-service vacuum tube testers in drug stores

When I was a kid (just after the earth's crust cooled) if your TV or radio quit working, you pulled out the vacuum tubes (valves in Brit) and took them to a store that had a self service tube test and check to see which one was bad. Haven't seen one in a very long time; you're going to have to be way older the 25 to remember these.

[geardaddy]

159. Lancelot Link Super Chimp

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mm3CtlvMA90

[calico1]

160. "Ayds" diet candies.

Anyone remember them? I used them once when I was in college and had put on 10 lbs eating junk food. They were not bad. They were like a caramel. You ate it and drank a hot drink afterwards. What an unfortunate name that turned out to be!

[MilesColtrane]

162. I remember the fluoroscope at the Buster Brown shoe store.

Although, they were supposed to have been banned by that time, there was one at a store in Memphis.
I was dying to try it, but my mom would have none of it.

Speaking of shoes, every kid wanted PF Flyers because their ads said that they would make you "run faster, jump higher".




Just thought of another suspect product...

CLACKERS



They had the unfortunate propensity to shatter, sending shards into your eyes.

[geardaddy]

170. Do you remember Bumpers?

Jack Purcell Bumpers.

[MilesColtrane]

174. I think so.

Didn't they have a stripe on the toe?

[geardaddy]

176. Exactly!

I always loved those sneakers!

[Oeditpus Rex]

194. If you want shoes with lots of pep

Get Keds, kids, Keds!
For bounce and zoom in every step
Keds, kids, Keds!
You'll be a champion with style
You'll hit that ball a half a mile
They're tough; they last a long, long while
Keds, kids, Keds!



http://www.tvparty.com/tv6/keds.ram

[WorseBeforeBetter]

409. Ha ... Clackers!

I can still hear that sound, and fortunately remained shard-free.

[Oeditpus Rex]

165. Nine-inning ball games that lasted just over two hours

• Top 40 AM radio.

• Test patterns.

• Space flight being a Big Deal.

• Two-Bit Beer Nights.

• Lap belts.

• Dialing (literally) 'O' to make a long-distance call.

• Waiting until after 8 p.m. to do it because it cost about half as much that way.

• Making it a station-to-station call because that was also cheaper. (But if you made it person-to-person and the person you wanted to talk to wasn't there, it didn't cost anything.)

• Fixing stuff instead of buying new stuff.

• Information underload.

[orleans]

368. you mentioned fixing stuff--remember tv repair shops?

i haven't seen one of those for awhile

[murielm99]

166. Campfire brand marshmallows

carefully packed in blue and white boxes, with a layer of waxed paper between the two rows. They were so much fresher than those things stuffed into plastic bags today. White powder would stick to your fingers when you picked them up.

Iron lungs and many kids wearing leg braces and using crutches. Then, the Salk vaccine.

Ginny dolls, which preceded Barbie. Tiny Tears, Betsey Wetsey. Odd Ogg.
Howdy Doody and Mr. Bluster. Winky Dink.

[calico1]

167. Coffee cans that held a lb of coffee

and had the little scooper thingie in it. Every brand had those and were a whole lb.

Coffee was made in percolators.

Laundry detergent with freebies like towels, measuring cups, etc.

"Salvo" laundry detergent. It was dry but came in tablets, not loose powder.

Green Stamps that you would get just about everywhere. You would stick them in a booklet like stamps then you could exchange it for stuff like blankets, lamps, etc.

The shoe repair shop. When your shoes started wearing out, you had new heels put on them or taps. It was a common thing.

[SeattleGirl]

169. The TV show "Queen for a Day"

One of my aunts was a contestant once.

[Hatchling]

172. Morning and afternoon mail.

Spoolies!



Aluminum glasses!





Taking soda bottles back to the grocery store for a refund.

[mcscajun]

300. OMG I hadn't thought about morning and afternoon mail in AGES.

I set my hair with spoolies. Better than criss-crossed bobby pins, that's for sure!

Those aluminum 'glasses'; ugh. I've never forgotten those. Nasty business drinking out of them.

[Hatchling]

325. The glasses certainly were gross.

But we always fought over who got the red one. Go figure.

And spoolies were a lot better than those hard plastic curlers, or my mothers favorite, rag curlers. Those things hurt.

[mcscajun]

326. We didn't have them in my house, but my Aunt did. They set my

teeth on edge. I can still remember the sensation even now.
:freak:

[Kashka-Kat]

173. Not having to have ID to write or cash a check. It was just assumed you were who you said you were

[Roon]

175. The hot dogger

[mcscajun]

301. I had one of those! Basically, your food completed the circuit.

An Electric Chair for tubular meat. :spray:

[MilesColtrane]

177. ARK II on Saturday morning in the 70's

Jonah, Samuel, the ever nubile Ruth, and Adam the talking chimp drive through the 25th century, post apocalyptic United States in the coolest RV ever made, spreading good vibes.



Here's the opening:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63_lcQUdxxE

[kwassa]

180. the new, ultra-modern Princess phone!

Do you remember when you DIALED a phone?

Princess phone:



old phone:

[cloudbase]

184. Slide rules.

Funky stuff like barrel jumping and motorcylce racing on ice on Wide World of Sports.
Dressing up for air travel.
When shopping meant going to a bakery, a butcher and a greengrocer.
$20K annual salary was a pretty big deal.

ETA: watching the moon landings.

[IndianaJones]

187. I'm 36 and don't remember those. nt.

[cloudbase]

196. Then you sure wouldn't if you were 25 then!

Some of the worst advice I ever got: Buy the best slide rule you can, because you'll be using it all your professional life. I've still got it, and blow the dust off once in a while just for grins.

[yellowcanine]

322. I had a slide rule in high school. Before calculators it was the way to go.

Three significant digits and all that bullcrap.

[orleans]

369. always dressing up for air travel

my friend's father was a pilot and my friend would wear a suit and tie to fly when he was 17 in the early 70's

i'd wear a damn dress!

[CreekDog]

186. Banana Republic used to sell safari clothes and whatnot

it didn't sell anything you could wear and look cool in.

[Crabby Appleton]

218. So did Abercrombie & Fitch, high-end sporting gear and

safari clothes, I still have an old and very well-worn Abercrombie safari jacket.

[knitter4democracy]

334. That was my favorite store during my safari period in high school.

I was such a dork. :blush:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

189. Wow, y'all are FRIGGING OLD.

Reading about these things is wild. $600 calculators?

:rofl::rofl:

[Burma Jones]

193. Well, back then we didn't have anything made in China........

There was no WalMart.....

[mcscajun]

305. No. It was all made in Japan, or Taiwan.

:D Oh yeah, and HERE! Stuff was made in the U.S.A. Amazing.

[no name no slogan]

237. get off my lawn, whippersnapper

[Burma Jones]

192. Creepy Crawlers, Chemistry Sets and other toys that could KILL YOU

I had Creepy Crawlers when I was 6 years old and fondly remember the hiss and steam when you would plunge the 300+ degree metal mold into the water tray.....

I also remember melting things on the hot plate.....


I had a chemistry set when I was 7 and it included an alcohol burner with which I would create the most toxic and foul odors by combining sulfur with any number of other chemicals in a test tube and then cooking it off......

[Adsos Letter]

261. Chemistry Sets...

YAY!!!

:woohoo:

[Hardrada]

351. I got one in 1958 for Christmas and of course immediately

tried to make explosives and rocket propellants!

[Adsos Letter]

354. That's what every good, red-blooded American guy...

of our generation did...

:D

[Hardrada]

377. So true!

Lucky I never had much success.

[mcscajun]

302. I did a lot of things with the alcohol burner and iron filings.

Sparks are fun!

Sulfur mixtures, of course. :D

All kinds of potentially hazardous chemicals in a big double-doored metal box with sharp edges. :evilgrin:

[Hardrada]

378. I don't think you can even send one of those in the mail now!

[Mugu]

313. I remember my chemistry set had cyanide,

sulfuric acid, nitric acid, etc. There were some warnings about mixing the cyanide with dilute acids, but that was about it.

One of the toys that I had, but haven't seen anybody mention is a (I think) Master Blaster. You set it on your shoulder like a bazooka after pumping it full of air. When you pulled the trigger this thing said BOOM! It was incredibly loud and the ball of air would knock over cardboard soldiers across the basement. I have had hearing problems every since that thing. Suppose that's why they weren't around long.

Regards, Mugu

[orleans]

370. snl's bag o glass

(dan aykroyd)

[flying_wahini]

195. When divorce was a REAL stigma and a woman

who lived with a man without getting married was a "tramp"


and you could get a gallon of gas, a loaf of bread and gallon of
milk and still get change back from a dollar.....

[calico1]

200. I used to go to the corner store every afternoon for my

Mom. I would get 4 quarts of milk for $1.20. I remember her bitching when it went up to $1.22. Heheh. Oh, and in those days you bought the quarts because you didn't have the one gallon jugs.

[nadine_mn]

197. Halloween costumes for girls that didn't make them look like skanks

although they weren't flame retardant

[zanne]

208. Good one, Nadine!

I was watching some "kid's show" on TV a few days ago and "tweens" were wearing more makeup than a hooker. These girls couldn't have been older than 11. How sad.

[zanne]

209. Smoking in a hospital bed. nt

(That doesn't sound right). I mean, smoking in a hospital or a doctor's waiting room.

[flying_wahini]

201. The Pacer and The Pinto ?

these little cuties;


?

?

and tangee lipstick and Mary Quant cosmetics?

Apollo 11's close call?

[calico1]

202. Pen pals!

I used to have pen pals from all over the country and we would exhange these little books that different people made, You would sign them and pass them on. Did any of you have pen pals?

[mcscajun]

304. I got a pen pal from the World's Fair in NY in 1964. She was from Finland.

I was not quite thirteen, she was sixteen. We exchanged letters for maybe a year.

[orleans]

371. i was pen pals with a nun for a short time (catholic school for awhile,

don't ya know)

i had a pen pal in the 80s--great guy in california. rodger.

[Stinky The Clown]

203. Winky Dink

http://www.tvparty.com/requested2.html

And more specifically, the Wink Dink kit, which included magic crayons and an acetate tricolor sheet that was stuck to the teevee screen by static electricity or (yup) water.

[CBHagman]

267. Thanks for the earworm.

Now I'll have that theme song in my head for the next 12 hours.:crazy:

[WinkyDink]

286. You rang? ;)

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

204. The childrens television show "Boomerang."

What does it do? It comes back to you.

[flying_wahini]

205. Twiggy ! men said she was too skinny and built like a boy!

?


My mother; "she looks like she's starving!!"
My dad; "that girl has no curves, she's just bones"

[lost-in-nj]

210. QT (quick tanning) lotion

that turned orange if you went in a pool

and the as in the back of EVERY magazine that promised you ooddles of prizes of you sold their magazines and products

stopping all work on the Commodore at noon on Friday so you could do a back up and be done by 5!!!






lost

[ColesCountyDem]

212. Geritol.

100-proof 'iron tonic' for those who felt 'run-down'.

[hvn_nbr_2]

214. 5-cent juke box tunes, 25-cent hamburgers, duck-and-cover drills. nt

[Redstone]

216. The sound of a Zippo lighter opening, striking, and closing.

Redstone

[lost-in-nj]

219. and the smell

oh god I remember that



:hi:

lost

[Redstone]

220. That smell is naptha; one of the original components of napalm, which is NOT

"jellied gasoline," as most people think.

"Napalm" is from the components: Naptha and palm oil.

Redstone

[DarkTirade]

244. That's all napalm is, really?

Hell, you can still buy naptha at the hardware stores as a paint thinner nowadays.

[yellowcanine]

239. speaking of smell.....mimeograph copies.....before xerox got cheaper.

[Adsos Letter]

262. And being able to hold the Zippo between thumb and first 2 fingers...

and "snap" it open...and replacing Ronson flints...and having one leak in your pocket...

I've still got my silver-case Zippo from the Army...

[baldguy]

222. Holding on to your old car because it could use leaded gas

I didn't want to pay 65 cents for a gallon when I could get it for 62 cents.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

223. 15 cents, a nickel and a dime, at Burger Chef you eat better every time

For a nickel and a dime you get: french fried potatoes, thick thick shakes and the greatest 15 cent hamburger yet.

It pretty much sucked. :rofl:

[lost-in-nj]

284. OMG Burger Chef

was totally awesome... would put McDonalds and burger rat to shame

and I STILL remember the shakes....the best ever.... to this day

was yours all stainless steel????
ours was.....


lost

[GoddessOfGuinness]

317. Stainless steel...I still remember when they enclosed it in glass

So you could stand in line without getting wet. :rofl:

[KatyaR]

225. Three digit phone numbers--

ours was 401, and my grandparents' number was 402. I think I was 12 or 13 when we got a 7-digit number, and I could never remember them.

Party lines.

No zip codes--you could address a letter to John Smith, Nowhere, Oklahoma, and YOU WOULD GET IT!

Five-cent postage stamps.

Round-robin letters--my grandmother, her sisters and her sisters-in-law wrote round-robin letters for years. The first person writes a letter, sends it to the next person. She reads the letter, adds hers to it, and sends it to the next person, and so on. When the first person gets the letters back, she takes our her old letter, adds a new one, and starts the cycle all over again. I bet they did that for 30 years. It was too expensive to make long-distance phone calls. I loved it when she got those letters--we had so much fun reading them.

[calico1]

227. I lived in the Bronx and I remember

being little and our address was Bronx 57, NY. When zip codes came along for a long time people would still write Bronx 57, NY 10457.

I don't remember 3 digit phone numbers but I remember the numbers beginning with letters. Ours began with "CY."

[mcscajun]

306. Yours was CYpress, mine was FOrdham.

Bronx 58, NY

[orleans]

372. WOodland 8 here n/t

[Catbird]

230. Tangee lipstick

I'm not sure if this counts because you can still buy it if you find the right websites.

[allalone]

416. Vermont country store

[Gormy Cuss]

231. S & H Green Stamps.

Free towels and drinking glasses in the laundry detergent box.
Clinics dispensing sugar cubes with polio vaccine.
Third class mail.
Phone numbers that started with words rather than numbers (e.g. PEnnsylvania 6-5000.)
Dairy home delivery of nonhomogenized milk in glass bottles.

[Deep North]

236. Apollo missions...

I loved it when everything on TV was pre-empted for a launch or the latest on the mission.

[LucyParsons]

238. I'm 28

I recently had a young staffer from another office come into my office use our typewriter. She looked about 21 or 22. I pointed her to it, and she just looked at me blankly, and asked, "Yeah, what do I do?"

So I showed her where the on-button was, and said, "That's about it, you're all set."

She continued her wide-eyed, now somewhat panicked look, "But... but... how does it WORK?"

Hahahahahahahaha.

I remember:

Typewriters

Rotary phones

Carbon Copies

Records

Filing cabinets

Full service gas stations

The birth of MTV

Geraldine Ferraro

The Cold War

BI (Before the Internet)

Hand-written letters

When stamps were 19 cents

When phone calls were a dime

When vending machine Cokes were 50 cents (or less)

When gas was 79 cents

When Michael Jackson was black

[baldguy]

242. I remember typing my college papers on a typewriter

It had no "on" switch.

[LucyParsons]

247. Yeah, that made it even WEIRDER to me

It was a freaking new, ELECTRIC typewriter. Practically a word processer. hahahaha

[orleans]

373. yes, but do you remember these pictures?

and



by "lee"
i remember seeing these in the a&p store

[yellowcanine]

240. dimes, quarters and half dollars made of solid silver. None of this clad crap.

And even the occasional silver peace dollar showed up. I sold a magazine subscription to a neighbor once for a school fundraiser and the old guy paid me in silver peace dollars.

[bertha katzenengel]

274. Silver Peace Dollar?

Sounds like something i should seek... never heard of it.

[yellowcanine]

278. Minted from 1921-1928 and again from 1934-1935. Replaced the Morgan Dollar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Dollar

It was known as the "Peace Dollar" because the inspiration for it came from a desire to issue a dollar coin commemorating the end of WWI.

[ThoughtCriminal]

243. Voting - and knowing that it counted - nt

[AZBlue]

245. Waiting in line at the college computer lab so you could type your paper.

I said something about that to a college student the other day and they looked at me like I'd grown two extra heads.

[bicentennial_baby]

246. Mimeographs!

:bounce:

[Hellenic_Pagan]

349. I liked the way those smelled!

I liked in elementary school when our teacher would pass out coloring pages or handouts. we would all sniff them. i dont know if that was a good thing or not though. :dilemma:

[Ellen Forradalom]

249. Trying to find a job during the Reagan era

Wang word processors

Selectric typewriters

Reel-to-reel tape

Streaking

Henry Kissinger

[GaYellowDawg]

251. Rubik's cube keychains

- Smoking areas at school
- Only three networks

[Maccagirl]

253. Drive-In Movies

And the fact the JFK, MLK and RFK were real people-not some figment of our imagination.

Oh, and MTV didn't suck at one time.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

258. Blimps.

[Adsos Letter]

259. Curb feelers...

those antennae-like things that used to attach to wheel wells so you could sense when you were close enough to the curb when parking...

We need an older-than-dirt smiley...

[mcscajun]

307. I've seen one or two around here, but they're gender-specific

that is, they've got beards. :evilgrin:

Here's one of 'em.

I remember curb feelers, but not the last time I saw one (outside of a classic car show, that is.)

[Catsbrains]

264. Hostages in Iran.

[sarge43]

265. Back when dinosaurs ruled --

78rmp records

Rotary phones and party lines

Fuller Brush Men

Door to door newpaper delivery

Saturday Evening Post's short stories and serialized novels, plus the beautiful illustrations

All the great radio programs - Lone Ranger, Inner Sanctum, etc

25 cent a gallon gas

[terrya]

268. Home milk delivery

Yes, I remember that.

[Blue Diadem]

275. We had Jewel Tea (coffee and tea delivery) too

Did you have one of those aluminum portable boxes for the milk? We did, but some homes had built in insulated units with doors on both the inside and outside of the house specifically made for home delivery.

[lizziegrace]

414. Charles Potato Chips delivered

:)

[DainBramaged]

269. FM converters for your car, carburetors, points, 2-ply tires

Sunoco 260 for 31 cents a gallon (and it was 105 octane) 10 cent sliders at White Castle, street racing for gas money, radio antennas that collapsed into themselves (and broke in the car wash every time) the smell of new vinyl in a car, the sound of huge engines sucking air and trying to get traction as you mashed the throttle into the floorboards, getting your oil checked and windows washed at a gas station, the Texaco Star theater on the radio, the Shell answer man, Esso gas stations, Route 66.

[yellowcanine]

279. Vacuum windshield wipers! Suckers would stop when you went up hill.

American Motors was so far behind the times that when I was looking at new cars in 1970 and the salesman told me that vacuum wipers were standard and I had to pay extra for electric wipers on a new Javelin I turned around and walked out the door, figuring that if American Motors was that clueless about something like windshield wipers the rest of the car probably sucked also.

[Mugu]

311. I was thinking about vacuum operated windshield wipers just the other day.

Just like you say, didn't work when you accelerated, but just about jumped off the car during deceleration. The good old days, weren't.

Regards, Mugu

[Frank Cannon]

271. The Mattel THINGMAKER

An open, high-temperature plastic-baking oven that was the centerpiece of many a Mattel craft toy. It was absolutely guaranteed to burn you and give you a blister at least a couple of times.



Good times. Good times.

[Blue Diadem]

272. Wringer washers, TV dinners in aluminum trays n/t

[jakefrep]

273. The Carter Administration

Margaret Thatcher

Pierre Elliot Trudeau

[LiberalEsto]

276. blotter

and orange sunshine

[WinkyDink]

289. The egg-, milk-, and bread-man! Live (B&W) television! Karen and Cubby! Pinky Lee!

Roller derby and Pretty Judy Arnold!
No air-conditioning!
Three-cent stamps and thirty-cent gas!
Wringer washers, hand mowers, televisions with turning knobs, transistor radios!
Real potato Mr. Potato-head!
Jujubes, candy cigarettes, wax fingernails and lips, red-hot gumballs!
Dodge-ball, tag, jump-rope, sidewalk hopscotch, hide-and-seek, "Captain, Captain", hula-hoops, Silly Putty, skates with keys!
Golden Books, Classic Comics Illustrated, Katy Keene, Little Lulu, Archie, Scrooge, Richie Rich, D.C. super-heroes!
Howdy Doody, Wonderful World of Disney, Philly Bandstand, Queen for a Day, Truth or Consequences, Omnibus, Zorro, The Rifleman, Cisco Kid, Ramar of the Jungle, Romper Room, The Mickey Mouse Club, Ozzie and Harriet!

Ah, nostalgia!

[Left Brain]

421. What about Lassie & Rin-Tin-Tin?

[Duer 157099]

290. Eating Space Food Sticks

is that what they were called? They were the predecessors of today's protein bars, the chocolaty or peanut buttery kind.

They were good, but too small! Like a longer Tootsie Roll.

[Duer 157099]

291. The Helm's Bakery trucks

Similar to ice cream trucks, but they drove around in the early mornings, delivering fresh baked goods (donuts!) to your door!

Was that a national thing, or only So. Cal?

Oh man, why didn't Krispy Kreme pick up on that idea I wonder?

[Duer 157099]

292. Wallabies

They were like Earth Shoes but cooler

[Jimbo S]

294. Basketball "shorts" were short.

Nowadays with players wearing whatever it is down past their knees makes them look like clowns.

[yellowcanine]

296. Leather football helmets!

I am not old enough to actually remember them, just wanted to say that.

[yellowcanine]

297. Carbon paper and typewriter ribbons!

Those I do remember. Messy stuff.

[Duer 157099]

298. When a "Moon Bouncer"

was one of these:



not one of these:

[orleans]

374. hoppity hops

[Burma Jones]

308. Charles Chips Delivery Trucks

Trucks actually came to you delivering big metal containers of potato chips........

[CottonBear]

387. We had Charles Chips delivered from 1969-1974! n/t

[no name no slogan]

309. Record stores that had RECORDS in them

I miss the rows and rows of 33 1/3 records, lined up in bins, just waiting to be looked through.

Flipping through CDs is just not the same.

[mcscajun]

310. 5 cent White Castle burgers

I remember when they went up to (gasp) 6 cents! The waitresses calling out orders: "Three on one!" "Four on two!". Dime jukeboxes (3 tunes in the jukebox for a quarter) in the booths at White Castle. IF you hung around long enough, you might just hear the tune you paid for. :D

A dish or a kitchen towel "free" in boxes of powdered laundry detergent. Powdered Laundry Detergent!

Million Dollar Movie -- on WOR-TV in NYC, ran the same movie twice a day, every day for a week. "If you missed any part of this movie, or wish to see it again..."
"Tara's Theme" from "Gone with the Wind" was used as the MDM trademark opening.

Inkwells in grammar school desks (already obsolete, but still there)
Fountain pens and later, cartridge pens. Ballpoints were not countenanced for penmanship classes.

Penmanship classes! Yes, we got grades for it.

Cone-top soda/beer cans (with bottle caps as sealers).

The Seltzer man delivering syrups and blue glass seltzer bottles to the apartments.

The knife grinding cart with the big bell going through the neighborhood, looking for business from the housewives. Kitchen knives and household shears, sharpened while you wait.

Soda coolers in grocery stores, filled with ice water - you pulled your favorite bottle out of the wet and cold by reading the color-coded bottle caps, and wiped it down with a (usually damp) towel hanging on the side of the cooler, next to the bottle opener.

Double Features - TWO Movies, back to back for one admission.

"Special Reports" breaking into television programming meant really big, usually scary news. You dropped everything and sat down at the TV.

When "Citigroup" didn't exist yet, but First National City Bank did. The various bank mergers that created Chase Manhattan Bank (JPMorgan Chase these days) Chemical Bank (Also subsumed into JPMC) and Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company (also subsumed into JPMC); said mergers all advertised heavily on local TV.

Banana splits at Woolworth's that cost whatever price was written on the little slip of paper inside the balloon you picked out for the waitress to Pop; cost was anywhere from a penny to .99 cents. Naturally, it was a scam; there were very rare sightings of that penny banana split.

A sixteen ounce Pepsi for 15 cents, and a salami and cheese hero for 35 cents.

The Zipper Hospital - sold nothing but sewing notions/supplies of every conceivable kind and of course, they repaired busted zippers.

When Air Conditioning came to the local movie theatre "20 degrees COOLER Inside!"

Old London Cheeze Doodles (*not "Old London" anymore, of course*) and the jingle from the TV commercial: "Old London Cheeze Doodles, Oodly-doodly, oodly-doodly cheese-flavored fun. Cheeze Doodles are the whole family's favorite! They'll soon be your favorite too...For a happy party snack, Cheeze Doodles are the oodly-doodly one!"

Yes, I'm old. And weird. :silly:

[Richardo]

315. Spashdown.

Hell of a way to get your astronauts back, innit?

Now they just walk down the stairs.

[orleans]

375. you mean they don't splash down anymore?? then what's the point? n/t

[terrya]

316. "The Ed Sullivan Show" on Sunday nights

Wild and crazy Ed, and Topo Gigo, and Senor Wences...and some other acts like The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones and The Doors.

[puerco-bellies]

318. Don Kershner's Rock Concert

And the Midnight Special Rock Concerts TV shows on Friday or Saturday night.

[yellowcanine]

319. "Tricky Dick" Nixon on TV, "Let me make one thing perfectly clear" and "I am not a crook!"

Not at the same time of course.

And Spiro Agnew talking about the "nattering nabobs of negativism" meaning Walter Cronkite of course.

[DemReadingDU]

327. $0.25 cent movies, in the movie theater!

$0.35 cents price for adult!

snacks
$0.05 candy bars
$0.10 bag of popcorn
$0.05 1 dip ice cream cone


metal roller skates that had to be tightened with special key

we didn't always have color TV nor air conditioning

small record players that played 33 1/3, 45, 78 records
It seemed like every week we had to replace the needle!


"speak & spell"
http://www.99er.net/spkspell.html

[hedgehog]

328. Sunday Blue laws - and stores were actually closed on major holidays

like Thanksgiving and Fourth of July!

[Canuckistanian]

332. Lawn Darts, Clackers and 'Puffa-Puffa Rice' cereal

(Note the 'Banana Splits' promo on the box)

[Left Brain]

422. A-ya A-ya!

funny.

[knitter4democracy]

335. Hong Kong Fooey! With the cat!

I loved that stupid show as a kid.

I remember watching the news with the number of days the hostages had been held in Iran in the corner and asking my mom what the number was for and getting sad.

My dad when he was a liberal. *sigh* Stupid talkradio.

[struggle4progress]

336. I used to use a crank phone on a party line ...

[Hellenic_Pagan]

341. Yeah, I'm googling stuff in this list

or looking it up and reading about it on Wikipedia.

Im learning a lot about American pop culture! Yay!

Thanks you guys!

[LibraLiz1973]

397. Oh SURE... rub it in !!

lol

Kidding... I'm so glad I was alive before "all this" became "the norm"

[boilerbabe]

342. What happens when you get so old that you can't even remember ?

I love rotary phones, hate cell phones (only have one for when I travel in my junk 21-yr old truck, or get drunk and call people in CA at 3Am)

Remember the first Texas Instruments calculator, that cost like a million dollars in 1975?

How about the first video game (Pong)

Speaking of phones, there was a small town in Maine that just got rid of their crank-phone system a few years ago. Bryant Pond near Rumford....

Commodore computers, Lexicon word processors,Footsies and Hula Hoops! We could go on for days!! Creepy crawlers, Easy Bake Ovens, Mystery Date, where the "Dud" is probably the one everyone would pick today...

If I watch TV, I am probably watching TVLand

XXXXOOOO:)

[Adsos Letter]

344. Those pneumatic brass tubes department stores used to use...

to send checks, etc. upstairs to accounting...

[Hardrada]

352. Elevator operators, trolleys in Northern cities, red caps,

railroad smoking cars, being allowed to play an LP record in Marshall Fields to see if you wanted to buy it, S&H Green stamps, door to door bookset salesmen,
bubble gum cigars, small town haberdashery stores and hat shops, chckens being killed out in back of the meat market, people saying the rosary on local radio, store tabs, bar tabs (I once had a bar tab of $400.00 in 1968. In today's money that would be a bar tab of 2000 dollars!!)
Drug stores that had real drugs in the back where pharmacists actually prepared prescriptions and medicines. (They would sometimes let me stand in the corner and watch). Risding on old pickup truck running boards. (Don't try this, kids).

[MrSlayer]

353. The Flavor Fiend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqQqEWyfbik

[carly denise pt deux]

381. I just KNOW that song is going to be stuck in my head all day now!

I forgot all about those commericals, thanks for the memory jogger
Carly

[carly denise pt deux]

376. OMG where to start............

Captain Kangaroo in the morning before school
records, record players 33 45 78
mixing cassette tapes, using the local radio station and a cassette recorder, usually the first 3 seconds of every song was cut off
8 tracks, trust me you are not missing anything there....
film strips in school (or do they still use those?)
soft drinks in glass bottles
soft drink vending machines where you had to open the lid, slide the drink to the end of the machine to pick it up.
Space food sticks
Jello 1-2-3
toys are not radio controlled, battery powered or electronic, had to use the imagination to play with them.
if we had to find info, we had to go to the library, no internet
K-tel records
polaroid cameras.....had to pull the picture out, wait a bit, tear off the outer paper to see pic.
Carly

[Hardrada]

382. E.J Korvette's stores in Chicago, S.S. Kresge, Woolworth's

and the wood floors and the lunch counter, Gambles and Coast to Coast stores,
Railway Express to deliver packages, Nyall Pharmacies.

[Left Brain]

383. Tooth Powder

[Left Brain]

386. Beany Copters

[Spirochete]

389. Wildroot hair tonic

Suicide knobs on car steering wheels
Trying to draw a circle with an Etch-a-sketch
Hush puppies
Stingray bicycles

[femmocrat]

402. Brylcream (" A little dab'll do ya! ")

Butch wax (for crew cuts)
Peach pomade
Shaving mugs with a brush

[youthere]

390. When "Saturday Night Live" was funny.

[BulletproofLandshark]

391. Fraggle Rock

[orleans]

392. paper dolls, hit parade, tiger beat, vanilla phosphates, chocolate cokes n/t

marbles (the shooter marble, tiger's eye)


tiddley winks


casper the ghost glow in the dark board game (where you played it in the closet!)

[likesmountains 52]

405. Paper dolls...my sisters and I spent so many hours making dresses for them...

[LibraLiz1973]

396. Noxzema. "You Can't Do That On Television", Movies of the Week

The Sherman Oaks Galleria (see Fast Times @ Ridgemont High for a visual)

Those clear phones that flashed different colors when they rang





Drive in Movies (Fuck, I miss them!)

Arcades (Fuck, I miss them!)

Miniseries- Think Roots, Winds of War, The Thornbirds

Windows you rolled down yourself

CB Radios

[femmocrat]

400. Slide projectors, Movie projectors, Filmstrips, Overhead projectors....

and all that other AV equipment gathering dust in school storage rooms.

[femmocrat]

401. Laser Discs!

Almost forgot those!
We had an entire in-service session on how to use them once.

[pstokely]

436. I'm under 25, they had them in school

They may still be using them for all I know

[Faygo Kid]

403. Where I left my car keys.

What? You mean I have that one wrong, too?

Never mind.

How about this: I was a charter member of the Huckleberry Hound Fan Club in 1958. Beat that, whippersnappers.

[Penndems]

404. The AMC Pacer and Gremlin . . .

. . . and the DeLorean.




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3. When television switched over from black and white to broadcasting and filming shows in color.

4. The Beatles.

5. Disco.

6. Watergate, Nixon and the Viet Nam War.

7. The Reagan Presidency.

8. Eight-track tapes.

9. What commuting was like before the Washington, DC Metrorail was built.

[likesmountains 52]

406. Double features at the movie theater on Saturdays...

[CBHagman]

410. Life before the spare tire look, flip flops, and bare legs.

Gather round, children. Let me tell you of industrial-strength undergarments -- girdles and the like --and embarrassment when said underwear was inadvertently exposed. The brassiere was functional and not a fashion statement. Slips and petticoats, ideally, remained under the skirt and not on view.

We even had rude songs to commemorate the underwear faux pas. I see London, I see France...

Moreover, women did not squeeze the flesh of their middles upwards and out of the tops of their jeans, either -- oh, and jeans were called dungarees -- and no one would have walked around in winter wearing a coat and flip flops.

Back in the day I never saw a man's pants fall off as he walked down the street. We had something called "belts." Now there are trouser crotches hovering dangerously close to the sidewalk, and at any sudden movement a gentleman may find himself unwittingly disrobing before passers-by.

I am old and full of days, my children, and have seen these things with my own eyes.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

411. Dark Shadows, Love American Style...

and "making out" in a baby blue Ford Pinto. Ah, good times. :-P

What a hoot ... I had both of those radios.

[doc03]

413. The Pet Rock n/t

[lizziegrace]

415. Carbon paper, mimeograph machines

remember all your test papers in school had purple ink??

Clackers
single-speed bikes
roller skates with keys
Laugh-In
parade of the tall ships in Boston Harbor for the Bicentennial
The Bicentennial Celebrations
Pintos, Vegas
Dodge Darts with pushbutton transmissions (ugh!)
Black and white console televisions

[allalone]

417. did anybody go on lime runs?

it was a car thing. usually a girl and her boyfriend. During the day a couple of guys would go out
and plant clues to the next place to drive and they would throw a paper bag of lime on the side of the road. It would burst and leave a white spot. so when you saw it, you had to get the clue and go to the next place. We did this at night of course and covered usually 3 counties. Orange, LA and San Diego. we mostly ended up at the beach with a campfire.
of course now if you threw out a bag of anything, you'd end up in gitmo.

[allalone]

418. smudge pots

do they still use them?
back yard incinerators for your garbage.

[Stuart G]

419. I got me one of those rotery phones...that I saved,,

AND GUESS WHAT...........IT STILL WORKS, AND I USE IT ALMOST EVERY DAY...:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: .....see thread on clutter...

[orleans]

423. nice pointy sticks i used to love playing with

and sticks and circles

[crim son]

424. Harvest Gold stoves;

the fact that "techno music" is shit; how to entertain myself with nary a t.v. or computer in sight; the virtue of the hand-written correspondence; NOT being able to call somebody immediately to tell them how bored you are; "too thin" people who were, in fact, "too thin"; uninterrupted quiet and its virtues; naivete... damn, that was good...

[UrbScotty]

426. I'm under 25, and I remember some of these things.

Mom used to have a typewriter, and Grandma had a rotary phone.

[enigmatic]

430. I collect radios

I have them both in light blue; I need to break them out and flip the dials now:D

[enigmatic]

431. Playtapes

I had one of these when I was 7 years old; the 4 Beatles playtapes I have are some of my most prized posessions:

http://www.8trackheaven.com/playtape.html
http://www.friktech.com/btls/tapes/ptp.htm

[The Animator]

434. The list goes on and on

The Atari 2600

Commodore Vic 20s

Wacky Wall Crawlers

Dragons Layer being so much more advanced than everything else At Showbiz Pizza that I was actually afraid to play it.
When EVERY video game only cost a quarter to play.

Space Ace

Sit and Spins

The Superfriends

The Saturday Preview Specials
http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0840/

Menudo

Cannonball Run

Captain Chaos!

Popeye the movie starring Robbin Williams and Shelly Duval

Snoopy Snowcone machines

Watching "Race For Your Life Charlie Brown" in a movie theater.

Converse shoes with a zipper

GhostBusters, Teenwolf, Goonies, and Gremlins.

Riding around with a E.T. doll in my bike's basket.

Crying when Optimus Prime died in the original Transformers movie.

Oh and the lest I forget to mention:

Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Select, Start... will get you thirty extra men in Super Contra.

[nadine_mn]

438. Ice cream trucks in your neighborhood...and you weren't afraid of child molesters

now they are just creepy

[Deep13]

439. Triangular vent windows in cars. ...

AM radios with a center-dash speaker.

Cars with out air conditioning or power brakes.

"Regular" tires (non-radial).

"Regular" gasoline (leaded).

The small chrome circle or partial circle inside the steering wheel for the horn.

Push-button car door latches.

Circular air filters.

Cars without center brake lights.

[MaggieSwanson]

440. The Sunshine Family!

I had the Sunshine Family Farm, with a water pump that worked and a cow you could really milk.

Freakies Cereal.