Remember when...

[GrogNerd]

Remember when remember when threads where in Morse Code and you had to take the trolley to the ticker tape reader to have that heavily mustachioed man read them to you because you and most everyone you knew were illiterate?

sh*t... you were lucky, we couldn't afford Morse Code. we had to use smoke signals. or semaphore

 

[Whsoj]

Remember the atlatl? Man that changed everything. We got rid of those neanderthals for good after that

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Remember when the word "fleece" meant the skin of a sheep with the wool still attached instead of a man-made fiber? Remember reading a book in bed, under the covers with a flashlight when you were supposed to be sleeping? Remember when you could get a shave at the barbershop with a straight razor, hot lather & a hot towel?

 

[Magic8Ball]

I remember... B&W TV, 35mm cameras, boom boxes, pong, party phone lines, bb guns and being grounded for a month, Dad asking me to pull his finger

 

[brewsnthelou]

I remember riding in cars without seat belts, sitting on my dads lap helping to "drive" when I was little, playing basketball on the driveway with my dad and brother...sledding with a metal sled on the big hill after the first awesome snow of the winter...being left in the car while mom ran in the grocery store ( and no one called the cops to complain )
Having to change the TV station on the dial and mom yelling that I was sitting too close to the tv - cause who wanted to get up off the couch and walk across the family room to change the 5 channels we got
Good memories, the best

 

[MaxStout]

...Having to change the TV station on the dial and mom yelling that I was sitting too close to the tv...

I remember being told that if we sat too close to the TV, the radiation would make us glow in the dark and we'd have kids with 12 fingers and two heads.

 

[Jacob_Marley]

Remember when you could bring beer, even kegs, into outdoor concerts including major rock concerts.

In the Detroit area I'm thinking about Pine Knob Music Theater pre-1983.
1983 was when Pine Knob got their liquor license and bringing-in your own beer was banned. Prior to then, a loose keg of beer or an "Oly Ball" rolling out of control down the hill in the "lawn seating" area could occasionally be seen.
The idea of bringing kegs of beer into a rock concert now seems so incredible. How times have changed.

 

[Jacob_Marley]

For that matter ... remember the Oly Ball?
I've tried to find a pic of one online but have never been able to find one. A novel concept if you were in the mood for Olympia Beer.

How about "I brake for Artesians" ... I still have a couple of those bumperstickers in the attic somewhere.

 

[Zuljin]

Seatbelts? We rolled around in the cargo area of the station wagon and rode on top of a toolbox bolted to a flatbed truck. Man, that truck was cool. Dualy flatbed with exhaust up the side.

Yep. TV with knobs. Then we got cable with the buttons and fine tuner on the fake wood box. It was hooked up to the console TV.

People smoked everywhere. That wasn't so great, but that's what they did.

And we too sat in the car while our patents went in the store.

And medical attention came from a bottle of monkey blood.

 

[MaxStout]

On hot nights in the summer, when we were real little, my parents would load us into the "way back" of the station wagon and drive us to A&W for root beer. Sometimes we were in our pajamas, but we didn't care--it was a treat.

 

[bleme]

Remember when the word "fleece" meant the skin of a sheep with the wool still attached instead of a man-made fiber? Remember reading a book in bed, under the covers with a flashlight when you were supposed to be sleeping? Remember when you could get a shave at the barbershop with a straight razor, hot lather & a hot towel?

My barber, who still did that, retired 5 years ago :-(

 

[bleme]

Seatbelts? We rolled around in the cargo area of the station wagon and rode on top of a toolbox bolted to a flatbed truck.

We had an El Camino and every once in a while I got to ride in the bed. Most of the time I had to stand, sandwiched between the passenger seat and the back window. It wasn't so bad around town, but that 2.5 hour drive to the beach was exhausting!

 

[wolfstar]

Yuppers, we were a "full-service" gas station. We cleaned your windshield, checked the oil and radiator [overflow] and checked the tire pressure on all four tires! All for 27.9 cents a gallon!

glenn514

Yup, I worked at one of those places when I was a teen ager...It was the very last of a dying breed in Westerly Rhode Island.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

My barber does hot towel/straight razor shaves. One more reason you need to visit me gratus

 

[kingboomer]

This came up at work today. I haven't seen a military vehicle convoy (stateside) in years. When I was a kid I remember seeing groups of military vehicles driving around. Sometimes 5-10 passing thru town, occasionally 50+ driving down the highway. I never lived what I would consider "near" a military installation, so its not like I saw them daily, but a few times/year.

I guess they outsourced or something, now about the only time I see a military vehicle, its strapped to the top of a flat bed truck

Either a flat bed truck or in the memorial day parade

 

[passedpawn]

I remember walking to the local pool and bursting the tar bubbles on the street with my toes. My dad hadda take kerosene to them later.

I remember long summers with nothing to do but hanging with my buds in the woods where there was an abandoned farmhouse where we imagined all sorts of things. There was an abandoned tractor so old a tree had incorporated it into the middle of its trunk.

I remember long weekends consisting of nothing but picking dandelions and playing lawn darts. There was no technology to divert our attention back then. We didn't even have digital watches. We spent hours just looking for clover with 4 leafs. Who does that anymore?

 

[masskrug]

I remember when:

 

[russrob81]

The global warming scare was a hole in the ozone layer or Y2K would kill us all

 

[jasonsbeer]

I remember when: S&S

I remember before they had the TV ratings in the corner.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Remember when the people who are now touting "global warming" were telling us things like "we're due for another ice age, the next ice age is coming"? I think thoe were the same people who told us the 21st century was going to be so wonderful, we'd all have 4 hour workweeks, everybody would have all this quality time to work on becoming better human beings, we'd all have flying cars, yada yada yada...
I still haven't seen any flying cars.
Regards, GF.

 

[GrogNerd]

I still haven't seen any flying cars.
Regards, GF.

the way a-holes around here drive, it's best we not have flying cars

ever

 

[Beernik]

Remember listening to an entire album in the proper order.

I did that this morning.

 

[GVH_Dan]

The global warming scare was a hole in the ozone layer or Y2K would kill us all

I remember all the Y2K hype. The way my municipality decided to deal with it was turn all of their calenders back to 1987 because the days still lined up with the year 2000. When we got our tax bills, someone just crossed out "1987" and hand wrote "2000". Saved the town a ton of money and the lights stayed on.

 

[beaksnbeer]

Remember Surge?

Coke's greatest bombed opportunity.

Someones's selling Surge soda syrup on e-bay

 

[mjdonnelly68]

Fish heads
Fish heads
Rolly polly fish heads
Eat them up
Yum

Dead puppies aren't much fun!

 

[TxBrew]

Someones's selling Surge soda syrup on e-bay

I've also seen the syrup available for those soda making machines.

 

[Homercidal]

Dead puppies aren't much fun!

LOL! My kids hate that song. (I think they secretly love it, but they yell at me whenever I start singing it!)

 

[CreamyGoodness]

 

[passedpawn]

I'll follow creamy with another video of the opening credits of the Waltons, a show that partly defined my childhood.

 

[Varmintman]

Remember when every street corner had a phone booth and every time you walked bay you checked it for money. Only cost a dime to make a call as well

 

[Beernik]

Had to explain the "busy signal" to my housemate's 11 year old.

It began with "Back in the days when phones plugged into walls..."

She got a smirk on her face like "This might be bull****."

 

[gratus fermentatio]

I had to explain to my niece once that B&W TV was wasn't a broken TV, it was SUPPOSED to be that way cuz they hadn't invented color TV yet.
Regards, GF.

 

[kingboomer]

I had to explain to my niece once that B&W TV was wasn't a broken TV, it was SUPPOSED to be that way cuz they hadn't invented color TV yet.
Regards, GF.

I remember my Grandpa telling me that that's how the world looked back then

 

[gratus fermentatio]

I remember my Grandpa telling me that that's how the world looked back then

That's both f'd up & funny! AND (to a kid at any rate) verified by The Wizard Of Oz You know, how KS is B&W while OZ is in color.
Regards, GF.

 

[masskrug]

I remember when HBO came to town. You would flip the switch and it would come on. If you waited until late at night you might see some nudity!

 

[gratus fermentatio]

I remember when HBO came to town. You would flip the switch and it would come on. If you waited until late at night you might see some nudity!

Remember trying to see the porn through the scrambling signal? And then trying to descramble it? Nothing like a little scrambled porn to motivate a teenager to study electronics.
Regards, GF.

 

[Jacob_Marley]

Had to explain the "busy signal" to my housemate's 11 year old.

It began with "Back in the days when phones plugged into walls..."

She got a smirk on her face like "This might be bull****."

A while ago I was doing some consulting for the Ad agency Young & Rubicam in their Interactive Services department and after work, a bunch of us were chewing the fat while sitting around in the conference room, me and a co-worker and about 10 guys from Y&R ... mostly from college grad age to about 27 or so.
We were talking about technology and I said; with a show of hands, how many in the room had *not* ever seen a rotary dial telephone in person.
Of the 10, every hand went up.
I felt very old.

("... tell us again about the party lines, grandpa ... was it lots of fun??")
<sigh>

 

[unionrdr]

Ah yes,rotory phones & party lines & nosy neighbors...what a time that was!

 

[Chadwick]

Party lines. Indeed. I remember that stuff. You picked up the phone and you heard Betty gossiping about that unruly neighbor kid (which was me).

 

[gratus fermentatio]

A while ago I was doing some consulting for the Ad agency Young & Rubicam in their Interactive Services department and after work, a bunch of us were chewing the fat while sitting around in the conference room, me and a co-worker and about 10 guys from Y&R ... mostly from college grad age to about 27 or so.
We were talking about technology and I said; with a show of hands, how many in the room had *not* ever seen a rotary dial telephone in person.
Of the 10, every hand went up.
I felt very old.

("... tell us again about the party lines, grandpa ... was it lots of fun??")
<sigh>

And if somebody called when you weren't home, you missed that call & didn't know they called until they either called you again or told you in person.
Regards, GF.