I remember when....

I also remember when....

there were other sports at the beach besides guessing who has real boobs vs. implants.....

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(samiam @ Aug 6 2007, 05:21 PM) [snapback]491536[/snapback]</div>

That's cause all of the "other" people who disagreed with the folks you idolize were so marginalized and oppressed that they couldn't make *any* of their opinions ("hatred") known.

The "good old days" was a Northern-European American creation, at the expense of most other ethnicities/religions. It may have been *your* reality, (it was mine, too) but it was NOT reality.

 

I remember Sheriff John singing, "Put another candle on my birthday cake I'm another year old today"

I remember Bob Mcallister on WONDERAMA waving his arms around and singing something....

I remember Hobo Kelly asking us kids to look in the dryer for presents and goodies...

I remember Felix the cat and VAVOOM blasting holes through snow mountains.....the master cylinder and rockbottom too!

Watching the black and white TV landing on the moon.

When CB radios only had 23 channels.......

I remember when I wore puka shells and had long hair, ditched school and went to the beach and partied like there was no tomorrow.....tomorrow...tomorrow

I remember commercials on TV for Raleigh Hills, if you know someone that needs help with drinking...

enough for now, glad I can still remember...

 

I remember when MTV used to show music videos.

I remember when cartoons were only on on Saturday Morning, the way God intended.

I remember when most people considered Richard Nixon to be our worst president ever.

I remember when Mad Magazine was funny.

I remember when Saturday Night Live was funny.

 

I remember when there were only 2,155 registered PriusChatters . . . then I came along. :lol:

Now there are 28,864 . . .
. . . but sadly, some are no longer with us here on Earth.

Welcome to PriusChat No. 28,865 . . . whoever you are.

 

I remember when "Star Trek" was on NBC.

I remember "Laugh In."

I remember: a mechanical push button transmission control on the dashboard of a car.

Three on the Tree.

When color television tubes had rounded edges.

Transistor radios were new.

Postal Zones.

Picking up the phone at my grandmother's house and asking the operator to connect me to so-and-so's house by name.

Railroads. Real railroads with passenger service.

Ghoulardi.

When cable TV was CATV -- Community Antenna Television.

The Corvair. (My grandmother owned one.)

Lastly, right around 1968 or so after all the assassinations and unrest that were occuring, I was about 10 or 11 and I remember lying awake at night thinking if the world was this messed up now, what would it be like when I was a grown up?

Dan

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Aug 6 2007, 01:25 PM) [snapback]491335[/snapback]</div>

Holy smokes, all of those are from my youth! I can't add any to that; at least not right now.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Dan-Wolfe @ Aug 7 2007, 12:25 AM) [snapback]491703[/snapback]</div>

Okay, add those to my list as well.

 

When/if you reached 100,000 miles on your car, the odometer reset to 0 (now that was BP (Before Prius ))

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(tleonhar @ Aug 6 2007, 12:48 PM) [snapback]491548[/snapback]</div>

I remember putting a sheet of plastic over the TV screen and drawing a bridge with a grease pencil so Winky Dink could get across.

 

I think we used to call it the "T.V. Set" when I was a kid.

Oh, And remember rotary-dial telephones? (and NO caller I.D.)

My first car cost 600 dollars ( a 70 VW beetle purchased in 1979).

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Stev0 @ Aug 6 2007, 09:08 PM) [snapback]491650[/snapback]</div>

I remember when Laurel & Hardy and the Tarzan films (with Weismuller) were the absolute peak of my week and a new Mickey Mouse film was there too.

And for breakfast on Sunday morning the first course was porridge (with fresh cream and jam), then bacon and eggs with pork sausages and baked beans, then bread with thick butter and marmalade.

But then I had to walk the 2 miles to Church where the Sermon lasted 30 minutes and I couldn't understand a word. They were the longest minutes of the week.

 

When your utility bills carried the warning "Please do not fold, bend, staple, or mutilate"

 

Sky King, Kukla Fran and Ollie, Romper Room, Fury, My Friend Flicka. And a few years later Elvira would host the horror movies on Saturday afternoon.

There were dairy farms in Mission Valley and Johnny Downs danced on the top of a milk bottle.

We put playing cards on our bikes with clothes pins so the spokes would hit them making a cool sound.

We had horned toads in the back yard.

Every spring a family of quail would perch on the back fence at dusk.

Putting on my bathing suit to dance in warm summer rain when there was an unexpected downpour.

It snowed in San Diego when I was in Junior High. All of the classes stopped and went outside to watch the fluffy white flakes fall to the ground.

You could buy Royal Lunch Milk Crackers (they don't make them anymore.)

The doctor made house calls.

We played with sparklers on the Fourth of July.

$1.00 Tuesdays at the movies and you could stay all day. Double features with shorts or cartoons in between.

Lincoln logs made of wood, Tinker Toys made of wood, Legos that didn't snap together so that the wall you built could easily fall over and spill all of the pieces. Our set had doors and windows that would open and close, but there weren't enough to finish the walls tall enough to put a roof on the "house".

I remember when it was a big deal that Barbie could bend her legs. And she didn't have weird alien joints like my brother's G.I.Joe.

You tied your shoes with laces because there was no such thing as Velcro.

I had to wear hard leather saddles shoes in black and white. You wore black shoes in the winter and white shoes in the summer. The change happened on Easter and Labor Day. Black patent leather shoes with white socks with lace edges.

You could get a free puppy from a cardboard box at the grocery store on the weekend.

Bubble gum was a penny from a machine at the grocery store.

Lunch boxes had a thermos with a mercury glass liner that would break if you dropped it.

You could take fun classes in the summer for summer school and anyone that wanted to could sign up.

 

Everybody was Kung-Fu Fighting!

 

Oh Henry
Eat it, Eat it, Eat it 'till you're satisfied...

 

Erector Sets came in red metal boxes instead of purple pills.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(koa @ Aug 7 2007, 02:13 PM) [snapback]491958[/snapback]</div>

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Fast food was the drive-in, car hops came out and took your order, then brought your food on a tray that hooked over a partially rolled down window.