I remember when . . . .

[Ziguezon]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

I surely do enjoy this thread.

I have a very vivid memory of a serious conversation, because we were teenagers and all conversations are derious at that age, of my group sitting at the lunch table. We were discussing whether to ask for 8-track players or the new cassette players for graduation. Heavy, man, real serious consideration.

I hope you decided to go with the cassette player.

I remember getting my first walkman style cassette player, made by Panasonic. It was huge and made of clunky metal, but it lasted forever. I think my first cassette was Get Lucky by Loverboy

[RDaneel54]

I remember...

Mom making our lunches for school - peanut butter sandwiches in waxed paper.

One cent would buy candy or gum.

Silver coins were used, there were two kinds of dimes in circulation and half dollars were regularly seen and used.

Nobody knew what Science Fiction was.

Making a black and white TV with the help of a family friend; still only got a couple channels.

Spending the entire day away from home and nobody worried, "Just be in before dark."

The whole neighborhood would report what you did to your parents.

Mittens connected with yarn that went up one arm of your coat and down the other.

Developing my own pictures for fun.

My first calculator which cost $100.

My first new car that cost $3,336.

The music from the Ice Cream truck.

Outhouses.



Then, when I was older and living in South Korea...

Missing the gas shortage and Nixon's resignation because I was overseas.

Crowded trains and buses (now its crowded roads because there are so many more cars).

Being able to get lunch for 100 won.

Spending time in the market and seeing/smelling all the fresh farm food, fish, etc.

The music from the truck that emptied the outhouses.

Outhouses.

Dean

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

Originally Posted by James_Wilde

Wow! Is there nobody in here under a hundred?

I remember glow-in-the-dark monster models.

I remember seeing Star Trek (when it was just Star Trek) in prime time on NBC.

I remember playing with Lincoln Logs, then Erector Sets, then 150-in-1 electronics kits.

I remember driving 90MPH up interstate 95... because that's what everyone did.

I remember when all auto air filters were doughnuts in a metal canister.

I remember when all stewardesses had to be pretty.

I remember Laugh-In.

I remember listening to my parents' Grundig 880 record player and 4-band stereo (FM, AM and 2 shortwave channels with the countries that used certain bands marked on the screen). In the evenings we'd try to tune in Europe and Japan, just for grins.

[crich70]

The 1st movie I remember seeing in the theater was Walt Disney's Pinocchio (a re-issue) back in the early 70's. I also remember when CBS Radio Mystery Theater with E.G. Marshall was actually on the air rather than an old recording of the same. I also remember when you could still find records for sale in the local dept. store along side the cassette tapes. Then the records were phased out due to a new thing known as a CD and finally the cassette tape went too.

[xg4bx]

i remember when cartoons were cool and had cool action figures:mask, silverhawks, thundercats, visionaries, etc. now kids have educational cartoons and spastic japanese nonsense.

i remember headbangers ball on saturday nights.

i remember frantic copulation anywhere and everywhere instead of in bed with the curtains closed after the tv show is over lol.

i remember joel episodes of mystery science theater.

i remember smoking doobies,laying back in the middle of a cemetary and staring at the stars while marilyn manson carried softly from the car stereo.

i remember exploring and aimless drives before gas got too expensive to waste.

i remember writing. i used to be pretty good at it.

i miss my troubled, drugged up, cutter ex girlfriend. those were the times when i felt alive. its been 11 years but i still miss her.

i remember having the original lead paint voltron and metal tonka trucks. now every toy is practically nerf.

i remember watching uncle floyd and tom baker doctor who on uhf with my dad.

i'm an odd boy lol.

[RCcoleinger]

I remember when I could buy a pack of smokes, put some gasoline in my car, take my girlfriend out to dinner and a movie, for twenty U.S. Dollars.

Ronnie Coleinger

[wannabee]

I remember starting this thread and thinking " wouldn't it be nice to remember all the good stuff life brings in stead of the other."

The bread man would hand you a loaf for free when a group of kids followed his bread van. We're talking 7 and 8 year olds and no real guns.

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

Originally Posted by xg4bx

i remember when cartoons were cool and had cool action figures:mask, silverhawks, thundercats, visionaries, etc

Huh! Not saying they're wimpy-come-latelies, but...

Try the original Johnny Quest... bad guys actually got shot, blown up, crashed in biplanes on rough Andes mountains, wiped out in avalanches, and had speedboats dropped on them! Now THAT was a cool cartoon!

Or The Herculoids, The Arabian Knights, Space Ghost, the Fantastic Four, and the Filmation Superman, Aquaman, Flash, Green Lantern and Teen Titans cartoons of the 60s.

(Notice I did not mention the Filmation Batman cartoons.)

Wait... did someone mention Tom and Jerry? Or watching the original Warner Brothers Looney Tunes cartoons every Saturday morning (before they started cutting the cartoon violence out of them)?

[crich70]

I remember the good old days when adults were trying to get Looney Tunes off the air because they said there was too much violence in the cartoons. Now we have live action programs for kids that make the cartoon violence of those times look tame by comparison. I also remember when they made the 2nd TMNT movie and they toned down the actual violence because kids were getting hurt trying to imitate their hero's on the half shell. And I remember when there were movies coming out in theaters that actually had a G rating. I can't remember when the last one was though. Most seem to be at least PG now. I remember the mechanical horse outside Ben Franklin's that gave kids a 5 minute ride for a penny. Haven't seen one of those in quite a while. And there were arcade games like pac man that only cost a quarter to play. Do arcade games even still exist today? As late as the early 90's (when I was in college) that same quarter would buy you a postage stamp.

[crich70]

Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan

Huh! Not saying they're wimpy-come-latelies, but...

Try the original Johnny Quest... bad guys actually got shot, blown up, crashed in biplanes on rough Andes mountains, wiped out in avalanches, and had speedboats dropped on them! Now THAT was a cool cartoon!

Or The Herculoids, The Arabian Knights, Space Ghost, the Fantastic Four, and the Filmation Superman, Aquaman, Flash, Green Lantern and Teen Titans cartoons of the 60s.

(Notice I did not mention the Filmation Batman cartoons.)

Wait... did someone mention Tom and Jerry? Or watching the original Warner Brothers Looney Tunes cartoons every Saturday morning (before they started cutting the cartoon violence out of them)?

There was also the Ray Rainer show (here in the midwest) that usually featured an episode of the old Flash Gordon serial each day. I'd try to catch it each day before having to go to school. And shows like Emergency, Adam-12, and Dragnet were on daily showing realistic situations without going overboard on violence.

[William F]

I remember...mmmm... some of yesterday I think...Maybe I'm thinking about tomorrow...
But there was one...no, wait a minute...it rhymes with orange I think...
Ah heck with it, probably wasn't important anyway.

[Stitchawl]

I remember black and white Saturday cartoons, with Molly Moo Cow, Farmer Brown, and the cat he kept either throwing down the well or shooting with his shotgun. Cartoons with that clown who was drawn by an artist at the beginning of each episode, then jumped off the paper.

Episodes of 'Spin & Marty' on the Mickey Mouse Show... and Annette's 'bumps.'

Carrying my lunch to school in a 'Red Ryder' lunch box.

Carrying a 'school bag' and not being embarrassed about it.


Stitchawl

[crich70]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

I remember black and white Saturday cartoons, with Molly Moo Cow, Farmer Brown, and the cat he kept either throwing down the well or shooting with his shotgun. Cartoons with that clown who was drawn by an artist at the beginning of each episode, then jumped off the paper.

Episodes of 'Spin & Marty' on the Mickey Mouse Show... and Annette's 'bumps.'

Carrying my lunch to school in a 'Red Ryder' lunch box.

Carrying a 'school bag' and not being embarrassed about it.


Stitchawl

I think that was Dave Fliesher and Coco the clown. I remember the song about farmer Brown and the cat too. Part of it (the version I remember) goes, "Old man Johnson said he'd shoot that cat on sight. Loaded up his gun with 10 tons of dynamite! Sat down and waited for that cat to come around, and 99 pieces of that man were all they found, but the cat came back the very next day......" We used to sing it at boy scout camp when I was a kid. lol. A version can be found here as well:
http://www.kididdles.com/lyrics/c020.html

[Steven Lyle Jordan]

Originally Posted by William F

...it rhymes with orange I think...

That makes me think of H.R. Pufnstuf, whose character, Witchypoo, sang a song: "Oranges, poranges... who cares? There ain't no rhyme for oranges!"

Which makes me remember the other programs by Sid and Marty Kroft, like Lidsville, the Bugaloos, Sigmund the Sea Monster, and... of course... Land of the Lost!

Mind you, I was getting too old for Saturday morning cartoons by then... but what the heck, I watched a lot of 'em anyway!

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by crich70

I think that was Dave Fliesher and Coco the clown.

Yes, I think you're right. 'Coco the Clown' rings a strong bell!


Stitchawl