Back in the day...

[LurkerSpeaks]

I know this is going to date myself.. but

Can you remember when Snack Pack pudding came in individual cans?

 

Can you remember when the phone company brought out your phone when they set up your service?

 

Can you remember when television channels consisted of ABC, CBS, and NBC? (unless you were able to PBS)

 

Can you remember when you had to get up to change the tv channel?

 

Can you remember when you had to defrost your freezer?

 

Can you remember when the Ford Pinto was popular?

 

Can you remember when Flip Wilson was on tv?

 

Can you remember when Bea Arthur was known for Maude instead of for Dorothy?

 

Can you remember when Nancy Sinatra sang "These Boots are made for walking?"

[flguy]

Yes to all, and then some

[bigguyinpasadena]

Would put you arounf 40-45,not so old

I love hearing older locals talk about the days in socal before freeways.And I love to here tales of "the life"pre stonewall.

And then I steal their canes and slap them }(

[Candyman]

Remember it all!!! Oh course, here at Shady Pines we all watch Nick at Night and the only solid food we get is Snack Pack pudding.

 

Now if only I can get a good trade in on my Pinto before it explodes into flames.

I have my eye on a snazy yellow Vega

 

What more amazing is that Mr. Rick is into it all and he was only a baby then. Come to Daddy }(

[doctordoctor]

do you remember when the hot radio stations were on AM?

 

do you remember when the milkman delivered your milk to your house?

 

do you remember not usually wearing seat belts and cars with no buzzer warning you to do so?

 

I do and I'm only 43...we could go on about this

[+ Charlie]

I not only remember all of these, I remember when they first started to install seat belts in cars, as a pricey option. In fact, I remember when turn signals were also an option (my first car didn't have them--we used our hands out the window to signal).

[Rick Munroe]

>Can you remember when Flip Wilson was on tv?

 

Yes, this past Sunday morning on TV Land (guests were Howard Cosell, Marty Feldman, Taj Mahal and Sandy Duncan).

 

>Can you remember when Nancy Sinatra sang "These Boots are made

>for walking?"

 

Click here if you can't: http://scopitones.blogs.com/scopitonescom/files/boots.mov

 

She makes Jessica Simpson look like a dirty old dish rag (btw, Derek and I were at one of our favorite straight gyms on Long Island last night, and they show videos there, and when Jessica's video for "Boots" came on, all the guys gathered around to watch, with their jaws dropped open. Derek said to me, "I'd like to shove my dick in some of those open mouths," and I said to Derek, "Now that they're all horned up, we should lure some into the locker room and blow them." Neither of us got our way.)

[Rick Munroe]

>Come to Daddy }(

 

Only if Daddy cums on me. }(

[+ deej]

>do you remember when the milkman delivered your milk to your

>house?

 

I remember when the last horse-drawn milk wagon was retired in my home town.

 

I remember when the interstate highway was brought into town. (It was something of a local travesty. They had to burn down a GORGEOUS 3-story farm house to make way.)

 

Growing up, I always wondered why "West Side Park" was a good 10 miles EAST from The West Side of town (which is where we lived). These days, The West Side is another 15 miles further west, but West Side Park is still in the same location. ;-)

[+ deej]

>do you remember when the hot radio stations were on AM?

 

I can still hear the jingle in my head: "WLS in Chicago".

[flguy]

Do you remember the Fuller Brush Man?

Do you remember a 36 inch TV with a 10 inch screen?

Heck, do you remember only B&W TV?

Do you remember only one bathroom for the whole family?

Do you remember when a car wash was a bucket, sponge and YOU?

Do you remember before there was McDonalds?

 

I do remember as a kid playing on I-75 while they were building it, what a great place to ride your bike.

 

Seems like those days were so much more simple, less stress and fewer responsabilities. Being a kid was great and sometimes it would be nice to go back.

 

Thanks for this thread.

[LurkerSpeaks]

This topic came to my mind last night as I lay in bed, trying to fall asleep. thought it would be fun to reminisce about times past in a friendly, no-harm way...

 

Here is a few more for you...

 

Can you remember when the first readily available mass microwave oven came out? (the amana radarange)

 

Can you remember when the only choices to improve tv reception was either rabbit ears or a big old antennae stuck on your roof?

 

Can you remember when you had a choice of VHS or Beta?

 

Here's one for the slightly younger crowd...Can you remember all the excitement when "Cruising" with Al Pacino came out?

[Boston Guy]

WPTR, Albany, NY.

WKBW, Buffalo, NY.

 

Great Rock and Roll stations.

 

:-)

BG

[Boston Guy]

>Do you remember a 36 inch TV with a 10 inch screen?

>Heck, do you remember only B&W TV?

 

Yup. Do you remember the NBC Peacock and how amazing it was to see color on a TV screen? Or how about rabbit ears? And console TV's with built-in record players. In our neighborhood, a console color TV was definitely a status symbol!

 

BG

[+ Charlie]

Do you remember Sunday evenings listening to Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, and Phil Harris on the radio, because you still didn't know anyone who had a tv? (We finally got a black and white, 13" Emerson, and the neighbors would come over to watch it with us.)

[Boston Guy]

Now you're getting past my time. :-)

 

My older siblings remember when my family got our first TV. But we had a TV early enough that I was watching Captain Kangaroo, Romper Room and the Life of Reilly before I was in kindergarten.

 

But I do remember listening to shows on radio with my family as well as watching TV.

 

Speaking of TV, do you remember Amos and Andy (on TV or radio)? Car 54, Where Are You? Highway Patrol? Death Valley Days?

 

BG

[+ deej]

>Can you remember when you had a choice of VHS or Beta?

 

I'm willing to bet that vinyl LP's are but faded memories (if even that) for some of our younger posters, too.

 

Remember 8-track tapes?

[Boston Guy]

>>Can you remember when you had a choice of VHS or Beta?

>

>I'm willing to bet that vinyl LP's are but faded memories (if

>even that) for some of our younger posters, too.

>

>Remember 8-track tapes?

 

Vividly. But mostly in small cars with shag carpets. :-)

 

BG

[+ deej]

>>Remember 8-track tapes?

>

>Vividly. But mostly in small cars with shag carpets. :-)

 

ROFL

 

I did drive a Vega hatchback (sorta by my choice), but no shag carpet and no tape deck.

[Chuck50]

But do you remember Party Lines. Different rings for the ones on the party line. Those were the days. HUGS Chuck

[Chuck50]

Not to mention the cream on the top of the milk bottle. HUGS Chuck

[Boston Guy]

Geez, I had forgotten those. We'd see them in vacation houses. It would be funny to us kids when someone in another house would pick up and say "Are you ever getting off this phone??"

 

Do you remember rear vent windows? And vent windows that opened? Push-button transmissions? (Was that in Dodges??) How about the windshield washer pump in VWs that was powered by the air in the spare tire?

 

Bosco? Cocoa Marsh? Fudgsicles and Popsicles for a nickel? Or penny candy? And wax lips? And those funny wax things with the sweet liquid inside them?

 

BG

[+ deej]

You can actually still buy wax lips:

 

http://www.candydirect.com/novelty/Wax-Lips.html

 

How's that for a blast from the past?

 

Party favors for halloween, anyone?

[Boston Guy]

Who says you can't go home again?

 

Do they still make those straws filled with flavored sugar? :-)

 

And I just remembered balsa wood airplanes with rubber band propellors. And that makes me think of balsa wood rockets.

 

BG

[+ deej]

>Do they still make those straws filled with flavored sugar?

>:-)

 

Don't know if they still make them, but I still see them in stores. ;-)

 

A little neighborhood store I visit a lot still has what we used to know as a penny-candy counter. The proprietor is like the dutch uncle to every kid in the neighborhood, teaching them to count change and such. Very much a throwback to a simpler era.

 

(On the downside, they also now have beef jerkey "snuff".)