I remember when . . . .

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

I remember Flubber!

I remember my red transistor radio - listening to CKLW!

I remember cap guns!

Do you remember crystal radios? Did you ever use a hammer to try and set off a whole roll of caps at once?

I remember being given packages of 100 Black Cat firecrackers for the Fourth of July. The entire package could be set off all at once, bouncing around with each pop. That was always considered a waste. It was more fun to light each individually and hold it in hand until throwing it into the air at the last moment.

I remember home made go carts.

I remember "Rat Fink."

I remember when 10 speed bicycles with dérailleur gears first appeared.

The scariest movie for me was when I saw this one at about 8 years old. The scene at ~0:26, the clawed hand appearing in the tent, gave me nightmares for weeks after.

[crich70]

I remember when tv's had 2 dials UHF and VHF for the stations, when if you missed an episode of a show you missed it, the electric company (tv show for kids), when looney tunes were on tv during the week, bozo the clown & friends, when cd's first came out, when home video games looked like 8 tracks, when you could still get 3 comic books for under a buck, when you could buy charlston chew candy bars & mickey mouse ice cream bars, when library cards were paper with a metal piece for the stamper (like a time card stamper), ads for sea monkeys on the back of comic books, when postage stamps cost well under a quarter a piece & so did a pay phone call & when tv guide was a thick book that was stapled together.

[Shimarenda]

Originally Posted by Hamlet53

Do you remember crystal radios?

I remember putting together crystal radios. That was so much fun!

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by crich70

I remember when you could still get 3 comic books for under a buck,

I used to buy then from the corner store for 10 cents each... And a small coke, made with syrup and fountain seltzer cost 6 cents.

I remember having to ask complete strangers to 'cross me,' (take me across the street) because I was too young to face traffic by my self... and even though they were strangers, it was safe to do so.

10 cent Icecream bars from the Good Humor Ice Cream truck that used to stop in front of the playground every two hours.

Stitchawl

[crich70]

I also remember friday night creature feature on tv. It might be Frankenstein or the Wolf man or a menace from outer space or some other such. Then on saturday mornings they had a rotation of Ma & Pa Kettle, Charlie Chan or Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce). And there were no station logo's in the corner of the picture every 5 minutes or so back then either unlike today. Also when I went to the Dr. they had clear plastic rockets for the little kids that contained a sucker or two.

[wannabee]

We used to get someone to distracted Nick the grocery guy while someone slipped over his back fence and hand the empty bottles over. Then walk around to the shop and cash them in for lollies. He got wise though and bought a dog.

I remember under the dressing sheds at the beach diving for coins in the sand after each wave. They had fallen through the floorboards and shone in the sun when revealed by the waves.

I remember playing cricket on the road and every now and then someone would shout "car".

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I remember listening to Mr Rider's transistor radio in the playground at school and looking up at the moon in a bright blue sky and hearing Armstrong taking that giant leap for mankind. Then finding out half the class had stayed home and watched it on TV.

I remember that you could do whatever you like and go wherever you like after school as long as you were home before the street lights come on.

Giving up your seats for adults in the bus. Riding on the platform in the bus and talking to a friendly bus driver. Waving at the bus between bus stops and they'd stop for you.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Shimarenda

I remember putting together crystal radios. That was so much fun!

With hand wound tuning coil made on toilet paper rolls and a zillion coats of shellac to keep it tight. I cheated (my dad was a Ham Radio operator), and used a 'silicon diode' instead of the cat whisker arrangement. Ground (Earth to those over the pond) was the Radiator, The Antenna was 5 turns around the bedroom ceiling. I could get Cincinnati (I was in New Jersey) at night.

I remember:
5 cent cokes (glass bottles)
5 cent pay phone calls
The first color tv (at the back of the store because Red was weak
That transistor Radio (a classmate had one. My portable still had tubes and a B battery)
The Yankees were still winning pennants in a row

[shootingMaNs]

I remember getting up so early on Saturday mornings that you saw the test pattern on TV before the Farm Report came on.

I remember my brother and I riding our Radio Flyer red wagon down a really steep hill, and we both lived to laugh about it.

I remember listening to the Reds late at night on my lime green Radio Shack transistor radio when they were on a west coast road trip.

I remember getting an Atari 2600 for Christmas, and thinking that Combat was the greatest game, ever.

I remember taking my Sony Walkman to school with a book bag full of cassette tapes.

[paul1403]

I remember when Australia switched over to decimal currency, and the character on the TV ads called Dollar Bill explaining what a dollar was.

I remember when we switched to metric, and all the distance and speed signs were replaced at once, literally overnight.

I remember when colour TV started here, and marvelling at how green the grass was at the Melbourne Cricket Ground during the test transmissions that summer.

I remember when there was no AFL (Australian Football League), just the VFL (Victorian Football League), SANFL (South Australian National Football League), and other state leagues.

I remember State-of-Origin matches between Victoria and South Australia, and the euphoria when we (South Australia) beat the despised Vics.

I remember when one day cricket was considered a fad, and not real cricket (actually, I still think that's correct).

I remember when Richie Benaud and Bill Lawry were not calling the cricket on the TV

I also remember when TV stations signed off each night around 11.00pm or so with a little jingle, the evening prayer, and the National Anthem (I also remember that this was God Save The Queen, not Advance Australia Fair) while 'Er Majesty 'erself took the salute on Horse Guards Parade on a fine black charger.

Speaking of which, I also remember the Chrysler Charger ("Hey! Charger!"). My mother worked on the assembly line of Chrysler's factory south of Adelaide for many years, before it was bought out bu Mitsubishi, helping to make the Hemi engines that went inside the Chargers

I remember the TRS-80 (or trash-80s as they were known), and my first computer, the System-80 from Disk Smith electronics.

I remember when Dick Smith actually owned and operated Dick Smith Electronics.



Paul.
Canberra, Australia.

[GA Russell]

I remember when the Army-Navy game was a really big deal.

Gas was a quarter when I bought my first car.

I remember when the bus and street car were a dime.

I remember the first woman I knew (a friend of my sister in college) who got her ears pierced.

I remember when women who died their hair blonde were considered loose.

I remember when the Mass was in Latin.

I remember when the NBA didn't have a television contract.

I remember when only the Hall of Famers made $100,000 a year.

I remember the first time they brought a rear-engine racer to the Indianapolis 500.

I remember Bill Veeck's exploding scoreboard.

I remember buying my first record, Meet the Beatles, I think three days after Sarah Palin was born (It was the Saturday following their first appearance on Ed Sullivan).

I remember when the girls weren't allowed in the boys' dormitories in college, except for a couple of hours on Saturdays.

I remember when Bonnie and Clyde was a flop, and that it was brought back a couple of months later for another try (which obviously worked).

I remember the original Hardy Boys stories, before they were re-written and sanitized.

I remember when comics cost a dime, and then when the price was raised to 12 cents.

I remember when a pack of chewing gum was a nickel.

I remember seeing Lee Harvey Oswald on the local New Orleans news for standing on a downtown street corner and distributing "Fair Play for Cuba" pamphlets.

I remember listening to the 1964 Indianapolis 500 when they made the announcement that Eddie Sachs and Jim McDonald had died.

I remember seeing Emile Griffiths kill Benny Kid Paret on the Saturday Night Fights.

I remember watching the 1962 Grey Cup on Wide World of Sports when it became so foggy that the announcer (was his name Jim McNeil? - the one who announced the death of the Israeli athletes at the '72 Olympics) couldn't see anything. The game was eventually stopped, and continued the next day.

I remember seeing the ball hit Tony Kubek in the throat in the 1960 World Series.

Speaking of the TV needing five minutes to warm up, I remember turning the set on to see the end of the Miami-Boston College game, and when the picture finally came on, the ball was at the peak of its arc and descended into Gerald Phelan's hands!

[Stitchawl]

I remember sitting in the corner candy store (soda fountain) and hearing on the news that Kennedy had just been shot.

I got kicked out of my first college dorm for bringing a girl into the TV room to watch "Hullabaloo." (The bedrooms were upstairs, not even close!)

There were only three kids in my high school (over 2,500 students) who knew the rules of Soccer, and they were all sons of foreign diplomats.

I remember "going steady."

I remember seeing "Bonanza" on a color TV, my first experience with color.


Stitchawl

[SneakySnake]

Originally Posted by Ziguezon

I remember seeing the original star wars movie in the cinema.

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me too! the second movie I saw at the movies the first one being "when eight bells toll" although I don't remember that one as I fell asleep in the car.

Originally Posted by BenG

I remember having to walk all the way across the living room to change stations on the TV and there were only 4 channels.

ahem! There was only one channel and it started at 5pm with Get Smart.
I remember doing the bob down in the phone box with Max and my brothers.
I also remember that the people across the road (old with no children) had a colour television! But we never saw it.

I remember when paddle pops were .08 cents

I remember when you always had a jelly tip at the pool. An expensive ice cream at .15 cents.

[Stitchawl]

I remember buying ice cream from Ben & Jerry... the guys, not the shop, at their first ice cream shop in Vermont.

I remember Brylcream and ButchWax and wearing a DA haircut.

I remember when cigarettes cost 24 cents from the vending machine. You would put in a quarter and get a pack with a penny taped to the side.


Stitchawl

[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.

[issybird]

I remember the smell of Yardley Slicker lipsticks. I'd love to have one again just for the smell, but they go for astronomical sums on eBay.

I remember having my books punched out at the library.

I'm amazed no one has mentioned this: I remember the smell of dittoed (mimeographed) work sheets in school, and their purple ink.

I remember when you didn't need a bicycle lock, much less a helmet.

I remember "duck and cover." Yeah, that'd work. And Fallout Shelter signs.