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Posted by: Avonlea22 09-Sep-2004, 08:24 AM
This will hopefully be a fun topic. Pretty simple: Post something that shows your age. Ok..just kidding...a bit. This is what I'm talking about:


Do you remember when Yogurt came in waxed paper containers?

Do you remember when TV dinners were in aluminum trays?


Posted by: TheCarolinaScotsman 09-Sep-2004, 01:07 PM
Do you remember before cars had fins?

Do you remember when a substance abuse problem in school referred to bubble gum?

Posted by: MDF3530 09-Sep-2004, 02:41 PM
How about these?

New Coke
Apple Computer's "1984" commercial
"Where's the beef?"

Posted by: emerald-eyedwanderer 09-Sep-2004, 03:38 PM
unsure.gif Well I guess there's no point in asking my do you remember questions...

Posted by: Avonlea22 09-Sep-2004, 03:47 PM
Do you remember the computer game Pong?

Posted by: Richard Bercot 09-Sep-2004, 03:48 PM
Do you remember when girls we not allowed to wear Pants to school, just Dresses and Skirts. biggrin.gif

Do you remember the Day President Kennedy was shot? sad.gif

Posted by: Avonlea22 09-Sep-2004, 03:48 PM
QUOTE (MDF3530 @ 09-Sep-2004, 04:41 PM)

New Coke

I'm sure there is a whole generation (maybe the Pepsi Generation) that doesn't even realise why Coke is now called Coke Classic.

Posted by: Aaediwen 09-Sep-2004, 03:58 PM
Challenger explosion is the first news article I remember on TV. Most of what I might list here really wouldn't be showing my age accurately. I could make it sound like it though thanks to things I know of which are quite a bit older than myself.

Posted by: BluegrassLady 12-Sep-2004, 11:27 PM
Were you a "frat" or a "greaser" in high school?

Posted by: Brandelynn 13-Sep-2004, 12:05 PM
Can you sing the theme song to 'The Smurfs'?

Posted by: deckers 13-Sep-2004, 01:20 PM
QUOTE (Brandelynn @ 13-Sep-2004, 01:05 PM)
Can you sing the theme song to 'The Smurfs'?

La la la la la la, la la-la la laaaaah

Posted by: deckers 13-Sep-2004, 01:22 PM
QUOTE (Avonlea22 @ 09-Sep-2004, 04:48 PM)
QUOTE (MDF3530 @ 09-Sep-2004, 04:41 PM)

New Coke

I'm sure there is a whole generation (maybe the Pepsi Generation) that doesn't even realise why Coke is now called Coke Classic.

Actually Coke Classic was a marketing ploy. Coca-Cola purposely made New Coke taste. . . well, not so great. Their plan was to bring "Old" Coke back and see a huge explosion in Coke sales.

Unfortunately, it never happened as planned, and Coke took a big hit in credibility and sales.

I know the guy who took all the product photos for Coke Classic just a couple of months after New Coke came out, but several months before everything switched back.

Posted by: Brandelynn 13-Sep-2004, 02:31 PM
QUOTE
La la la la la la, la la-la la laaaaah

What? Just the first eight measures? biggrin.gif
Okay then, here's another: what's the name of the villain in 'The Smurfs'? And no fair Googling it, either!

Posted by: MDF3530 13-Sep-2004, 03:03 PM
QUOTE (Brandelynn @ 13-Sep-2004, 03:31 PM)
What?  Just the first eight measures?    biggrin.gif
Okay then, here's another: what's the name of the villain in 'The Smurfs'?  And no fair Googling it, either!

Gargamel, and he had a pet cat named Azrael.

It's sick I remember that.

Ain't it amazing how sometimes we can remember the most trivial stuff, but we still can't remember where we put our car keys biggrin.gif ?

Posted by: Avonlea22 13-Sep-2004, 04:13 PM
QUOTE (deckers @ 13-Sep-2004, 03:20 PM)
La la la la la la, la la-la la laaaaah

that sounds a bit like Gilmore Girls music. smile.gif

Posted by: Dreamer1 13-Sep-2004, 07:35 PM
Do you remember watching movies at the Drive-In, in your pj's??

Do you remember the First Episode of Batman on tv?

Do you remember those 4-pronged TB tests, or drinking Polio vaccine from little paper cups (and how ultra-sweet that stuff was?)?

Do you remember watching the First Moon landing on tv (beyond words!) ?

Do you remember when "Dark Shadows" started? (Our mom wouldn't let us watch it sad.gif !)

Posted by: Aaediwen 14-Sep-2004, 02:47 AM
45 or 33 RPM? (I've only seen a 78 a couple of times, never heard one)

Posted by: tsargent62 14-Sep-2004, 09:30 AM
Do you remember the name of Maxwell Smart's partner? How about the boss? No Googling!! nono.gif

Posted by: deckers 14-Sep-2004, 09:58 AM
Six Million Dollar Man action figures?

Peanut Butter and Jelly all in the same jar?

The days before car seats?

Banana seats and sissy bars?


Posted by: deckers 14-Sep-2004, 09:58 AM
QUOTE (tsargent62 @ 14-Sep-2004, 10:30 AM)
Do you remember the name of Maxwell Smart's partner? How about the boss? No Googling!! nono.gif

Agent 99.

Forget the Chief's name, although Max just called him Chief.

Posted by: ANNHAM 14-Sep-2004, 08:16 PM
Do you remember 5 cent cokes? 10 cent cokes? Nickle candy bars?

Posted by: ANNHAM 14-Sep-2004, 08:18 PM
First time you watched a color TV? and what show you watched?

My friends parents won a color TV in a Reader's digest contest when they were first coming out. I was invited over there to watch Rudolph. smile.gif

Posted by: SCShamrock 15-Sep-2004, 12:57 PM
I remember when..................................

My first pack of cigarettes cost 55c,

gasoline was 45c per gallon,

girls worried about their reputation,

everyone watched "The Waltons"

the "instamatic camera"

Gnip-Gnop

Nixon's first Watergate speech

the day Elvis died,

the day John Lennon was murdered,

Walter Cronkite giving the number of days of the Iranian hostage crisis

prayer in school,

putting peanuts in your coke,

fallout shelters,

clackers. (I know someone else remembers these)

the Beta max was about $450, the VCR was about $600, and the CD player was about $500.

the 20 lb cell phone,



I better stop or I'll look up from this computer and think I'm in 1969.

Posted by: Brandelynn 16-Sep-2004, 12:33 AM
When the person driving the ice cream truck didn't give you the heebie-jeebies?

Posted by: urian 16-Sep-2004, 08:52 AM
When JOhn Belushi Died?

When the Berlin Wall came down?

When George Bush puked on the Japanese Prime Minister.(I kow that wasnt so long ago but..it was still funny as heck!)

When there was only one HBO?

When satellite dishes were as big as your house?

When the only way to get more than 3 channels was rabbit ears?

When it was safe for kids to go outside and wander down the street?

Posted by: Avonlea22 16-Sep-2004, 08:55 AM
...when grocery stores were as small (or big, depending how you look at it) as todays pharmacy's?

Posted by: urian 16-Sep-2004, 11:29 AM
When politicians were honest?





(eh..neither do I tongue.gif )

Posted by: Brandelynn 16-Sep-2004, 01:19 PM
QUOTE
urian Posted on 16-Sep-2004, 12:29 PM
  When politicians were honest?

Wow. I'd like to book a trip into that alternate universe.
Guess maybe it depends on what the definition of 'honest' is. But then, did we ever determine what the definition of 'is' is?

@-,-'---

Posted by: urian 16-Sep-2004, 02:52 PM
QUOTE (Brandelynn @ 16-Sep-2004, 01:19 PM)
But then, did we ever determine what the definition of 'is' is?

@-,-'---

Do you remember when the media didnt have a field day over everything.




Yeppers...That was emabrassing and painful to watch....the whole ordeal..ugh...at one point i felt dumber for watching it

Posted by: TheCarolinaScotsman 21-Sep-2004, 06:01 PM
QUOTE (SCShamrock @ 15-Sep-2004, 02:57 PM)
I remember when..................................

My first pack of cigarettes cost 55c,

gasoline was 45c per gallon,


First pack 16c

gasoline 18c/gallon unless it was a price war then 12c/gallon



Oh yeah. Some mornings, the way my joints feel, I think I can remember when God first made dirt.

Posted by: Brandelynn 22-Sep-2004, 06:31 AM
QUOTE (urian @ 16-Sep-2004, 03:52 PM)
Do you remember when the media didnt have a field day over everything.


Yes, I think so... Wasn't that before the rise of Ted Turner and the 24-hour news network? Oy. A slow news day at one of those places must me absolute unmitigated h*** for the folks that work there. 'Cause I know I can't stand to watch it on a slow news day!

@-,-'---

Posted by: tsargent62 22-Sep-2004, 10:36 AM
When MTV really was <b>Music</b> Television? When you could sit and watch music videos 24/7?

When you could work on your car withouth having to worry about computerized this and vacuum hose that?

Johnny Lightning toy cars? Of course, the cool kids had Hot Wheels. cool.gif

Posted by: ANNHAM 22-Sep-2004, 09:27 PM
Do you remember the first "video games" that came out? I remember something like a ping-pong game. It hooked up to the TV. There was a little white "ball" that bounced back and forth on a black & white screen. The paddles were white lines on either end of the screen that one could move up or down depending on where the ball was going.
Anne

Posted by: Aaediwen 23-Sep-2004, 04:06 AM
QUOTE (tsargent62 @ 22-Sep-2004, 11:36 AM)
When MTV really was <b>Music</b> Television? When you could sit and watch music videos 24/7?



Johnny Lightning toy cars? Of course, the cool kids had Hot Wheels. cool.gif

I remember comming home from school and watching MTV on a daily basis. Would watch it until MTV Raps (or whatever the title was) came on; then, off really quick.

Remember Yahoo Serious?



And I had quite a collection of Hot Wheels. Too bad so many of them got washed away in the flood in 1990 sad.gif I've probably still got some of them around somewhere in the attic though. Maybe.

Posted by: gettin-away 23-Sep-2004, 05:57 PM
How 'bout .....Johnny West, Jane West, their kids Jay and Jamie and horses. Fort Apache, Chief Cherokee, and all the accessories.

Or maybe the "Vertibird" helicopter

or the SSP Racer....insert the rip cord and pull!!!

I preferred Matchbox cars to Hot Wheels....they looked better with my HO scale train.

gettin-away

Posted by: gettin-away 23-Sep-2004, 06:50 PM
And for TV shows anyone remember "Lancelot Link and Marta Hairi"

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gettin-away

Posted by: Dreamer1 23-Sep-2004, 07:23 PM
QUOTE (gettin-away @ 23-Sep-2004, 08:50 PM)
And for TV shows anyone remember "Lancelot Link and Marta Hairi"

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gettin-away

laugh.gif laugh.gif I never had the chance to see that when we were kids, but my hubby introduced me to it a few years ago. (He had watched it religiously when he was growing up, and loved it.) It was running every weekend on a local station for a while. What a HOOT!!!! laugh.gif laugh.gif

Dreamer1

Posted by: MDF3530 23-Sep-2004, 08:19 PM
A little something for my generation...

Do you remember the best show MTV ever had punk.gif punk.gif punk.gif :

Posted by: RobertH 11-Oct-2004, 09:34 PM
The first amphibious car.

Flapping polaroid photos in the air to develop them, and remembering to wipe the "fixer" on them.

Nixon ending our involvement in Viet Nam.

Nixon resigning.

28 cent gas.

GI Joe (the original).

Waiting all year to see the Peanuts Christmas special, because there were no videotapes or CDs!

Posted by: TheCarolinaScotsman 11-Oct-2004, 10:29 PM
Does anyone remember J Fred Muggs and Dave Garroway on the Today Show?

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Posted by: Avonlea22 12-Oct-2004, 05:58 PM
Do you remember:

Fill it to the rim...with Brim?

Posted by: Annham 14-Oct-2004, 07:07 PM
Do you remember Captain Kangaroo & Mr. Greenjeans? biggrin.gif

Posted by: RobertH 14-Oct-2004, 07:51 PM
You can trust your car
To the man with the star...

Texaco!

Posted by: RobertH 14-Oct-2004, 07:52 PM
Sorry for a post after a post, but just remembered this...

How about getting free glasses with a fillup (for 22 cents a gal)!

Posted by: ronw1 17-Dec-2005, 10:10 PM
how about McDonalds commercials had Ronald show up in his flying burger, penny candy, quisp cereal , quake cereal, when sredded wheat came in packs of three. and of course pepsi coke rc etc came in bottles 12oz


Posted by: TheCarolinaScotsman 18-Dec-2005, 03:42 AM
QUOTE (ronw1 @ 17-Dec-2005, 11:10 PM)
pepsi coke rc etc came in bottles 12oz

How about when Coke came in 6 oz bottles and cost a nickle, same as a pay phone. (Remember phone booths?)

Posted by: cynni 18-Dec-2005, 12:39 PM
Do you remember wax lips? When J.F.K was shot? The Real McCoy's?

Posted by: Fiddler 18-Dec-2005, 01:45 PM
How about the Indian head test pattern when NBC signed off for the night?
The sit-com, "I remember Mama"?
Nickle fizz at the local drug store?
Buck Rogers, Captain video, The Buster Brown Show, Sky King?
God, I am old!

Posted by: MacEoghainn 18-Dec-2005, 03:04 PM
QUOTE (Fiddler @ 18-Dec-2005, 02:45 PM)
......God, I am old!

ditto! wheelchair.gif

Posted by: Maddie 18-Dec-2005, 09:18 PM
QUOTE (MacEoghainn @ 18-Dec-2005, 04:04 PM)
ditto! wheelchair.gif

same here. angel.gif

Posted by: ChocolateFilk 18-Dec-2005, 10:01 PM
QUOTE
same here


I am probably only a handful of steps behind ye....

And do you remember "Charlie Says, I love my Good and Plenty. Charlie says, It really rings a bell..."?

Posted by: TheCarolinaScotsman 18-Dec-2005, 11:42 PM
Who remembers Boston Blackie on the TV? Arthur Godfrey on the radio? For N.C. residents: Hurricane Hazel? The year it snowed every Wednesday the entire month of March?

By the way, ya'll ain't old, you're seasoned.

Posted by: MDF3530 19-Dec-2005, 12:27 AM
I've actually heard old radio broadcasts of "Boston Blackie". A couple of radio stations here in Chicago have old time radio shows. One is locally-produced and the other is syndicated.

Old stuff I remember:

"Hey Mikey! He likes it!"
"Where's the beef?"
The McDonald's Big Mac jingle ("Two all beef patties/special sauce/lettuce/cheese/pickles/onions/On a sesame seed bun)
The Oscar Mayer bologna jingle (That's how I remember to spell bologna-"Oscar Mayer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A" biggrin.gif )
Rubik's Cube
The endless debates I had with friends as a kid over which game system was better-Atari or Coleco Vision
Hearing "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" for the first time
When what people now call "Power Rangers" was called "Voltron" (it was just as lame back then as it is now)
Seeing the first three "Star Wars" movies when they first came out
Microwaves that used to take up most of the counter space
When Nike first came out with the Air Jordans (I still think those are sharp!)
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Posted by: Eiric 20-Dec-2005, 04:30 AM
Do you remember when the Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot?

Posted by: stoirmeil 21-Dec-2005, 12:12 PM
Do you remember Howdy Doody? Eisenhauer as the president? How about when 5 cent candy bars went up to 7 cents because of the Cuban crisis and the price of sugar? And when the flag went from 48 to 49 and then 50 stars? I remember Hurricane Hazel more by name, but her sister in the same year I remember vividly as a big fright of wind and flooding, huge ripped out New England maple trees and a bathtub full of water for drinking (I might have been 4 years old, in Rhode Island).

Posted by: ronw1 23-Dec-2005, 08:21 PM
i remember spending the summers at my grandparents, following grandpa around learnning things from him, climming the apple tree in the back yard. having family stop by and play penny poker till the early hours (not me to young) and playing wiffle ball with my cousin from sun up till sun down (rock lobster anyone) i am sure that this will bring back those days for most of us

Posted by: kiltedlover69 14-Jan-2006, 03:36 PM
remember when the challenger blow up?
(I do I skipped school and seen it all on TV)

Remember the Big wheels? or better yet the green machine?

how about shogun warriors?


Posted by: cynni 15-Jan-2006, 09:54 AM
Do you remember The first man on the moon, Hazel?
I can even remember the outhouses. My grandparents had a 3 seater. lol.gif

Posted by: JaneyMae 23-Jan-2006, 09:10 AM
biggrin.gif I remember the soft nose of my first horse and her breath on my cheek and how gently she took the apples out of my hand and she tried not to let me fall when I rode around the pasture standing on her back pretending I was in the circus with Toby Tyler.

Posted by: MDF3530 23-Jan-2006, 09:10 PM
QUOTE (kiltedlover69 @ 14-Jan-2006, 03:36 PM)
remember when the challenger blow up?
(I do I skipped school and seen it all on TV)

Remember the Big wheels? or better yet the green machine?

how about shogun warriors?

Yeah, I remember the day the Challenger blew up. We were on a condensed day schedule at school, so the whole school was watching it at lunch.

Oh man, I loved riding my big wheel biggrin.gif . I went through about five of them.

Posted by: nehtar 27-Jan-2006, 09:34 PM
How about the rubix cube? I think I spent three years trying to solve that thing never got it.Matchbox cars the doors opend and everything, Free with a fillup at Shell gas stations I would beg my dad to go there. When gas pumps didn't go past 99 cents and you had to pay twice what the pump said.

Posted by: marti64 01-Mar-2006, 11:02 AM
Since Nobody has posted here in over a month, HERE GOES!!!

I remember the Challenger disaster.....I was Student Teaching in Hudson NH with 40 4th graders who were supposed to do Science experiements with Christa McCaulliffe on TV.

I remember our first color tv......and watching Captain Kangaroo in Black and White.....b4 then, I couldn't figure out why the Captain had a friend tthat he called "Mr. Greenjeans!!!"

While reading all otf the other posts, they are similar to the things I remember as I got older.....

Am I dating myself yet????

Marti

Posted by: sisterknight 18-Mar-2006, 10:39 AM
do you remember gidget movies???
or elvis movie: girls,girls,girls??

Posted by: ChocolateFilk 18-Mar-2006, 11:21 AM
QUOTE
Matchbox cars the doors opend and everything, Free with a fillup at Shell gas stations I would beg my dad to go there.


I had 20-30 matchbox cars back in the 60s. In the 70s I got several cars of Yesteryear. I still have those and in mint condintion. I even have the boxes they came in, but the boxes are not in mint condition. Have you ever seen the price of those old cars? Often well out of my budget!!

QUOTE
remember when the challenger blow up?


I remember that day well. I was an assistant manager of a McDonald's then, and could not leave. I called home to my wife, who had yet to leave for work and asked her to put a tape in the VCR and let it run. I called friends and had a bummer of a day. I had seen Challenger land several times at Edwards AFB.

I remember the Gemini missions, the Apollo missions, but don't remember the Apollo one mission fire when it happened. (I think my parents hid that from me.) I read about it later in the 70s when I really was into the space program. I remember watching the first moonwalk on the 20th of July in 1969.

I remember when National Geographic came out with the plastic record about the space program, I played it often. (And I think I still have it in a box somewhere).




Posted by: Dogshirt 18-Mar-2006, 12:09 PM
Do you remember The Howdy Doody show?
Do you remember when $2 would give about 1/2 -2/3 of a tank?
How about having to have help carrying in $20 worth of groceries?


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Posted by: Monarchs Own 18-Mar-2006, 04:04 PM
Do you remember records - not CD's or even the i-pod. Good old scratchy records?
Do you remember not having an ansewering machine at home and not even touch tone telephone - rotary was the style back than. biggrin.gif


Posted by: bannja 24-Mar-2006, 07:45 AM
Do you remember the commercial "It's now 10 PM do you know where your children are?"
Now that was a good Public service that went away.

Posted by: bannja 24-Mar-2006, 07:49 AM
Do you remember the commercial "It's now 10 PM do you know where your children are?

Posted by: CelticCoalition 24-Mar-2006, 12:21 PM
I remember sitting in class when columbine happened and being sent home early. I remember going home and watching other high school kids running from the school on the news.

I remember playing with transformers and ninja turtles. I remember watching Thundercats and Heman.

I remember eating oatmeal cookies at my grandparents house.

I remember my first day of college.

I remember watching surfers off a cliff in New Zealand while drinking wine.

Posted by: CelticCoalition 24-Mar-2006, 12:22 PM
I remember sitting in class when columbine happened and being sent home early. I remember going home and watching other high school kids running from the school on the news.

I remember playing with transformers and ninja turtles. I remember watching Thundercats and Heman.

I remember eating oatmeal cookies at my grandparents house.

I remember my first day of college.

I remember watching surfers off a cliff in New Zealand while drinking wine.

Posted by: cynni 24-Mar-2006, 03:55 PM
I remember the dad milking the cows.The milk went in Milk cans and not the bulk tanks like they have now.
Then mom would get the cream off the milk and make old fashion cream pies. Those were the best pies. thumbs_up.gif biggrin.gif chef.gif drool.gif To have a pie like that would be heaven.

Posted by: Senara 25-Mar-2006, 09:04 AM
I remember....

my german shepard named "Brandy" watching me in my play pen...probably my first memory ever...

my first bike a yellow Huffy with the big banana seat and grippy handle bars....

watching the Sonny and Cher variety show, Donny and Marie Variety show, The Gong Show, The Muppet Show (which I'm now collecting on DVD slowly but surely) The Greatest American Hero....A-Team, Quantum Leap.....ahhhh real TV!

I remember when Strawberry Shortcake was big the first time around, along with the Cabbage Patch dolls but didn't care much for them...much rather drool over my posters of Andy Gibb and Shawn Cassidy (wonder if I still have those some where)....

And I remember when the challenger blew up...I was in Junior High and everyone was weeping and just entranced infront of the TV and I really couldn't understand really what was going on. Ya so the challenger blew up...I pretty much expected it to for some reason and I don't know why....guess I was always the skeptic or something....


Posted by: crazykiltedcelt 28-Mar-2006, 12:11 PM
I just read all eight pages of this one boy I must be old bercause I can remmber but listening to the radio programs. heres one foroyu JUST A LLITTE DAD WILL DO YOU brillel cream. laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif

Posted by: crazykiltedcelt 28-Mar-2006, 12:14 PM
I just read all eight pages of this one boy I must be old because I can rember but listening to the radio programs. heres one for you JUST A little DAD WILL DO YOU brillel cream. laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif

Posted by: bannja 29-Mar-2006, 12:47 PM
Do you remember the best thing in Life was an RC cola and a Moon pie.

Posted by: bannja 29-Mar-2006, 12:48 PM
Do you remember the best thing in Life was an RC cola and a Moon pie.

Posted by: Senara 29-Mar-2006, 01:47 PM
I remember RC cola...sure...never did have a moon pie though. We don't get those kinda things up here in the frozen wastelands...

Always thought RC cola made better floats than Coke anyway....


Posted by: bannja 30-Mar-2006, 08:19 AM
This may help.

http://www.moonpie.com/

Posted by: bannja 30-Mar-2006, 08:19 AM
This may help.

http://www.moonpie.com/

Posted by: sisterknight 26-Apr-2006, 07:32 PM
mae west and lick-a-made sticks????cinnamon wax lips, black balls,a store bought cake for your b-day was a big thing.....sleepovers where you were allowed to stay up to watch jack parr's tonight show and monty python's flying circus.....oh such good things....memories note.gif note.gif

Posted by: bannja 09-May-2006, 07:06 AM
Do you remember Moon rocks?

Posted by: sisterknight 06-Jul-2006, 12:50 PM
black balls and black babies???

Posted by: crazykiltedcelt 06-Jul-2006, 01:01 PM
I remeber moon rocks how about pet rocks and chia pets

Posted by: sisterknight 06-Jul-2006, 01:06 PM
i had a troll with orange plastic hair....

Posted by: crazykiltedcelt 06-Jul-2006, 01:10 PM
i had five with differnt colors hair and colthes. caveman ect.. slingky and duncan YO-YOs. can you walk the dog?

Posted by: Senara 06-Jul-2006, 01:29 PM
QUOTE (crazykiltedcelt @ 06-Jul-2006, 02:10 PM)
i had five with differnt colors hair and colthes. caveman ect.. slingky and duncan YO-YOs. can you walk the dog?

not only can I walk the dog, but I can go around the world baby....oh ya! and then rock the cradle...YO! wink.gif


I remember when there used to be entertaining cartoons on tv saturday mornings...don't see any of those now...just the "educational" ones. Blech...like the last thing I wanted on a day off from school is something educational.

Besides Hanna-Barbara and the Warner Bros. had some kick-&%^ cartoons! Not all "it's a small world"-ized super perky Disney garbage. Don't get me wrong Disney is okay...but there's just no edge to it...not a whole lot for the adults to get into these days.







Posted by: crazykiltedcelt 06-Jul-2006, 02:39 PM
Amen wheres' duffy duck when you need him?
remeber Schoolhouse Rock!!

Posted by: Dogshirt 06-Jul-2006, 03:51 PM
Or Heckle and Jeckle! Todays cartoons leave a lot to be desired in the animation department too! puke.gif


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Posted by: marti64 06-Jul-2006, 07:32 PM
The classic cartoons are definitely better!!!!!!! The ones on Nickelodian are not really funny!!!! Isn't that what a cartoon is suppososed to be?

MK

Posted by: marti64 06-Jul-2006, 07:33 PM
The classic cartoons are definitely better!!!!!!! The ones on Nickelodian are not really funny!!!! Isn't that what a cartoon is suppososed to be?

MK

Posted by: Senara 06-Jul-2006, 08:41 PM
The one old cartoon that really sticks in my head for some reason is "A Bunny in King Arthur's Court" As a kid it was just silly and all the little details just slipped right by me. Now that I've seen it (on rare occassion) as an adult I now get all the little gags for example the scene where all the knights are sitting around the round table. They have names like Sir Osis of Liver, and Sir Loin of Beef...as a kid it never stuck...but now every time I see that scene I'm giggling.

Same with the "Are we there yet Papa Smurf" line in the cartoon the Smurfs....


Posted by: stoirmeil 06-Jul-2006, 08:50 PM
Actually -- and I really only catch glimpses at the laundromat and stuff -- but I find some of them a little scary. I think Cat-Dog is funny, and they actually get some interesting points made around the wackiness, but Ren and Stimpy I didn't know what to make of. Not even the crudity so much -- but the grotesqueness of the animation makes me cringe a little.

Ah, well. I liked Warner Brothers but not Hanna-Barberra. Rocky and Bullwinkle and all their other things (Mr Peabody especially) was the best. Talking about scary weird -- do you remember Tom Terrific and his Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog? Crabby Appleton was normal for a villain, but remember Isotope Feeny? What were they SMOKIN'?

Posted by: crazykiltedcelt 28-Jul-2006, 12:23 PM
two more grear cartoon from the past Jhoony Quest and his dog bandit and how about SpaceGhost. just remberd aother about some caveage muntaint types withsuperpoweers can not rember the name of it. Catdog is cool can't stand ren and stimpy or many of today's cartoon.

Posted by: Senara 30-Jul-2006, 06:41 AM
Anyone else glued to their TV's 25 years ago today (July 30) for the first images of MTV????

Posted by: crazykiltedcelt 30-Jul-2006, 08:46 AM
Remember it but did not watch it then thought was dum and still do not watch it now. it's just rude most of the time.

Posted by: marti64 30-Jul-2006, 12:54 PM
Does anyone remember the first video played on MTV???? i won't give the answer now, maybe later, unless someone else gets it first!!

Marti

Posted by: Senara 31-Jul-2006, 07:04 AM
Video Killed the Radio Star.....duh.... smile.gif

Everyone should know that by now....I miss the old days of MTV though when they actually played music videos and not all this stupid reality tv stuff. The original VJ's were awesome. You actually learned good stuff about the band and their music styles....

Posted by: Dogshirt 31-Jul-2006, 09:19 PM
I have NEVER seen a music video. I remember when music was an AUDIO thing.


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Posted by: stoirmeil 31-Jul-2006, 10:06 PM
I came to it a few years in, in my mid-30s. I vividly remember my first experience, though, in a pizza joint with a viewer up on the wall in a corner -- it was Van Halen's "Jump!" Don't let it get around, but I was totally blown away by it. whistling.gif When feral types like me come crawling in out of the woods, we're easily entertained.

Posted by: Macfive 01-Aug-2006, 04:35 AM
QUOTE (Senara @ 31-Jul-2006, 09:04 AM)
Video Killed the Radio Star.....duh.... smile.gif

Everyone should know that by now....I miss the old days of MTV though when they actually played music videos and not all this stupid reality tv stuff. The original VJ's were awesome. You actually learned good stuff about the band and their music styles....

I missed the old days of music video's too! I can remember staying up until midnight (before the days of MTV and cable) to watch music videos on late night TV during the early 80's.

How about Radio GA GA by Queen? smile.gif


Posted by: Raven 01-Aug-2006, 10:10 AM
Remember when music videos came in more than one Genre?

Posted by: Perkeo 01-Aug-2006, 08:02 PM
Remember when you could tune into a Music TV channel and actually watch Music Videos?

Posted by: zeryx 20-Aug-2006, 11:22 AM
QUOTE (cynni @ 15-Jan-2006, 04:54 PM)
Do  you remember The first man on the moon, Hazel?
I can even remember the outhouses. My grandparents had a 3 seater.  lol.gif

I remember my parents keeping my brother and I up to watch it on TV ... all I wanted to do was sleep and really couldn't have cared less where and who was on TV! rolleyes.gif

Do you remember Space Hoppers, the original roller skates that were just four wheels you strapped onto your shoes - oh and Clackers that put so many children in hospital with swollen wrists?!

Posted by: sisterknight 18-Sep-2006, 12:41 PM
QUOTE (zeryx @ 20-Aug-2006, 01:22 PM)
Do you remember Space Hoppers, the original roller skates that were just four wheels you strapped onto your shoes - oh and Clackers that put so many children in hospital with swollen wrists?!

unfortunately i had both way back....my wrists and tops of my hands had so many bruises on them that my mum took them away!!!!what about high handle bar banana seat bikes?? and skip-its?

Posted by: zeryx 20-Sep-2006, 12:18 AM
smile.gif I had both too!! lol Oh the chopper bikes? Yup I remember them too - and the tassles we put on the handle bars of our bikes?

Skip-its? The only thing I can think you may be referring to were the balls on the end of a rope connected to a plastic ring that you put round your ankle ... I don't recall ever giving them a name so they may very well have been a skip-it.

Oh and do children these days still play 'elastics' in the playground? I don't recall mine ever walking round with lengths of elastic to play it with their friends.

Do you remember the early tape recorders? I had one and thought it was so cool that I could play a cassette tape on a 'mobile' device - my cassette player/recorder was about 12" long by 6" wide - children these days would laugh at me ever thinking of that as mobile! lol

I have a cupboard full of LPs and singles ... one day a few years ago a conversation came up in the house about LPs and vinal records. My son and daughter, (who had grown up with CDs) then aged about 12 and 10 listened intently then Caroline piped up "oohhh, do you mean them round black things in the cupboard?" - of course Kevin and I howled with laughter and the family have always referred to 'them round black things' since! lol.gif

Posted by: Lady of the Loch 20-Sep-2006, 06:09 AM
Do you remember:

Roller Derby, holly Hobby, or when the magic eight balls were all the hype? Atari, the Muppet show,or being a faithful watcher of the Dukes of Hazard?

Posted by: gcw57 23-Sep-2006, 04:19 AM
Wow! I just read 11 pages of memories and I can share most of them!

I remember using the clackers in the hall at school and getting a right reaming out...they were quickly banned within school.

I remember "F Troop" with Larry Storch as "Corporal Agarn" and Ken Berry as "Captain Palmenter".

"Dark Shadows", I think, was the first soap opera that kids ever watched. Do you remember "Quentin's Theme"?

I recall being so small that I could lie on the shelf under the back window in the car and watching the stars as we drove.

I collected pop bottle caps with the cork liners that you could pull out, put inside your shirt and press the bottle cap onto it from the front of your shirt so you could wear them as a badge. I loved "Orange Crush". I remember going to A&W and buying a gallon of Root Beer in a huge glass bottle! beer_mug.gif

I remember a set of army toys that included tanks with moving treads, ambulance with opening rear doors, troop carriers and dozens of little green men! Boy, I wish I still had those tucked up somewhere - they would be worth a fortune!

The first song I ever requested on a radio station was "She's Just My Style" by Gary Lewis and the Playboys for my girlfriend Jane. He didn't play it and I always remembered that when I was working in radio and always tried to play the requests. note.gif

Well, I'm sure that's more than enough from me! It was fun reading all the posts and remembering the things mentioned.

Posted by: Roberto Phoenix 18-Oct-2006, 09:31 PM
Sigh. Read through all the pages and knew or had about 98% of them. Here's a few more from back in the day.
Captain Action, Major Matt Mason, and the Aurora Monster and Superhero models.
Tonka toys made out of metaL, not plastic.
Cartoons only on Saturday morning till noon. Bugs Bunny, Wacky races, Scooby Doo, Superheros like Superman, Batman (cartoon and live) and those badly drawn Marvel cartoons.
Hanna Barbera, and Sid and Marty Kroft. Shazam/Isis show
H. R. Puffinstuff (hate to see Barney try to be friends with Witchiepoo)
Big Wheels and crazy carts, mold makers and Easy Bake ovens
When the face on the Burger King character was a real person, not some mask.
The Sheriff and crook mascots for Hardees. Were do you think the big star logo is from?
Only 3 channels plus PBS. Sesame street, Electric Company, and Mister rodgers-in that order.
The Osmonds vs the Jacksons.
Those "don't touch the blasting caps" and "watch out for the rub-on tattoos laced with drugs" commercials
Comics and stamps-8cents, gas 25 cents, and mego action figures for the guys.
A mouse was an animal chased by a cat named Jerry and virus protection was a scarf and Vicks vapor rub.

Posted by: Lady of the Loch 19-Oct-2006, 06:16 AM
QUOTE (Roberto Phoenix @ 18-Oct-2006, 10:31 PM)

Tonka toys made out of metaL, not plastic.
Cartoons only on Saturday morning till noon. Bugs Bunny, Wacky races, Scooby Doo, Superheros like Superman, Batman (cartoon and live) and those badly drawn Marvel cartoons.

Big Wheels and crazy carts, mold makers and Easy Bake ovens

Those "don't touch the blasting caps" and "watch out for the rub-on tattoos laced with drugs" commercials

A mouse was an animal chased by a cat named Jerry and virus protection was a scarf and Vicks vapor rub.

i remeber those days! The big wheels were so cool back then!

Posted by: LORD RHYS 27-Oct-2006, 08:23 AM
Do you remember trick or treating without worrying !
Do you rememer riding you bike away from home and your parents didnt have to worry
Black waX chewable mustaches , dot candies on that paper roll , lickmaid. penny gumballs , 5 cent candy bars!


Saturday TV Shows..

Rin Tin Tin
Roy Rogers
Sky King
My Friend Flicka
Lone Ranger
Circus Boy
Fury
Huckleberyy Hound Show
Rocky and Bullwinkle

Posted by: Antwn 27-Oct-2006, 04:19 PM
Arglwydd Rhys! Mae gennyf fi lyfr am eich cyfenw yn yr iaith Gymraeg. Croeso i'r negesfwrdd!

Yes, I remember them. I especially loved Rocky & Bullwinkle, bad puns and all. You might add a few more to your list for the silverheads among us: Howdie Doodie, Ed Sullivan, Truth or Consequences (with Bob Barker, can you believe it?), What's my Line, The Jackie Gleason Show, The Mike Douglas Show, Jack Paar, American Bandstand, The Red Skelton Show, Rowan & Martin's Laugh In.

I recall my parents just saying "go out and play". I'd find my friends and be gone all day. We had a signal, taking a piece of grass between the thumbs and blowing. If you heard it you knew that the game's afoot. My mother finally placed a large metal triangle next to the front door, and when she rang it, I knew it was my signal to come to dinner. It was funny, right out of an old western smack dab in cloistered suburbia. If I was too far to hear it I missed out. "All the more for us" was the typical refrain. Consequently, I learned to make it home on time.

I remember trick or treating w/o worry or parents in tow, except for the little ones. Swarms of baby boomlets running amok through the neighborhood like errant bees on mass-produced candy crusade. Got home about 10ish, spilled a grocery bag of candy on the floor and began to negotiate heated trades with my brothers like midget commodity brokers. Riding bikes all day w/o helmets or knee pads, sledding down a mile long twisted road in winter, wiping out in an eight foot ravine occasionally, piling our sleds in front of the snowplows in futile protest to the end of our fun, dirtball battles in summer, raking the leaves and burning them in the street after jumping in them for an hour, building a treefort in the woods with some friends and camping out in it at night, 50 cent weekly allowance all blown on bubble gum causing my parent's allowance to be blown on dentistry, impromptu baseball games involving much of the neighborhood, my father practicing his crow calls in the back yard. An idyllic contrast to the precautionary micromanagement of childhood today.

Posted by: stoirmeil 28-Oct-2006, 08:17 PM
QUOTE (Antwn @ 27-Oct-2006, 05:19 PM)

I remember trick or treating w/o worry or parents in tow, except for the little ones. Swarms of baby boomlets running amok through the neighborhood like errant bees on mass-produced candy crusade. Got home about 10ish, spilled a grocery bag of candy on the floor and began to negotiate heated trades with my brothers like midget commodity brokers. Riding bikes all day w/o helmets or knee pads, sledding down a mile long twisted road in winter, wiping out in an eight foot ravine occasionally, piling our sleds in front of the snowplows in futile protest to the end of our fun, dirtball battles in summer, raking the leaves and burning them in the street after jumping in them for an hour, building a treefort in the woods with some friends and camping out in it at night, 50 cent weekly allowance all blown on bubble gum causing my parent's allowance to be blown on dentistry, impromptu baseball games involving much of the neighborhood, my father practicing his crow calls in the back yard. An idyllic contrast to the precautionary micromanagement of childhood today.

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Every bit of it. You could have been my twin. What a loss to the nose and the soul, when the ordinances against burning piles of leaves in the nose-biting air of October went into effect (for that matter, when October itself could still bite your nose, or when your trick or treating could still be done with a few dry flakes of snow coming down.)

We did two rounds of trick or treat, my brother and I, and my mother would shrivel up and die if she knew I was telling you -- we went out at dusk, in old sheets with two eye-holes cut in, for enough of a haul to fill her candy bowl to give out, then we ranged all over for hours til after 10 on our own. There were a few families who made cider and donut parties in their barns for us, too.

Posted by: gwen 31-Oct-2006, 01:54 PM
why is that our childhood always seem so magical compared to our children's lives? do you think they feel like they are missing anything? it is so wonderful to share with my own small ones the things i enjoyed as child...

banana seat bikes with flower-covered baskets, sit-n-spins, muppets, "the apple dumpling gang," Dick and Jane books (thank you ebay), and so many other things.

Posted by: Lady of the Loch 31-Oct-2006, 02:41 PM
Sometimes I think they got it better though, I mean, who wouldn't like cartoons 24/7 and not just on saturday mornings, Kwim?

Posted by: LORD RHYS 31-Oct-2006, 02:46 PM
QUOTE (Antwn @ 27-Oct-2006, 05:19 PM)
Arglwydd Rhys! Mae gennyf fi lyfr am eich cyfenw yn yr iaith Gymraeg. Croeso i'r negesfwrdd!

Yes, I remember them. I especially loved Rocky & Bullwinkle, bad puns and all. You might add a few more to your list for the silverheads among us: Howdie Doodie, Ed Sullivan, Truth or Consequences (with Bob Barker, can you believe it?), What's my Line, The Jackie Gleason Show, The Mike Douglas Show, Jack Paar, American Bandstand, The Red Skelton Show, Rowan & Martin's Laugh In.

I recall my parents just saying "go out and play". I'd find my friends and be gone all day. We had a signal, taking a piece of grass between the thumbs and blowing. If you heard it you knew that the game's afoot. My mother finally placed a large metal triangle next to the front door, and when she rang it, I knew it was my signal to come to dinner. It was funny, right out of an old western smack dab in cloistered suburbia. If I was too far to hear it I missed out. "All the more for us" was the typical refrain. Consequently, I learned to make it home on time.

I remember trick or treating w/o worry or parents in tow, except for the little ones. Swarms of baby boomlets running amok through the neighborhood like errant bees on mass-produced candy crusade. Got home about 10ish, spilled a grocery bag of candy on the floor and began to negotiate heated trades with my brothers like midget commodity brokers. Riding bikes all day w/o helmets or knee pads, sledding down a mile long twisted road in winter, wiping out in an eight foot ravine occasionally, piling our sleds in front of the snowplows in futile protest to the end of our fun, dirtball battles in summer, raking the leaves and burning them in the street after jumping in them for an hour, building a treefort in the woods with some friends and camping out in it at night, 50 cent weekly allowance all blown on bubble gum causing my parent's allowance to be blown on dentistry, impromptu baseball games involving much of the neighborhood, my father practicing his crow calls in the back yard. An idyllic contrast to the precautionary micromanagement of childhood today.

Yup remember all those shows to.. Sat. play often didnt start till after those shows were over. I miss the crsip Oct air the beautiful leaves as they burned and that wonderful smell they had when burning. Time just goes to fast sad.gif And I do think our kids and grandkids are missing something so much has changed and they are made ( for lack of a better term ) to grow up faster than we boomies .

Posted by: gwen 31-Oct-2006, 03:44 PM
i think they only grow up fast if we make them. i'm home when my son comes home from school, my daughter has never ridden her bike farther than the corner, and they don't watch a lot of television, so they don't get exposed to a lot of the influences that would age them or spoil them. they still enjoy a hike through gold aspens on a frosty day. they love cuddling with a good book, even the oldies but goodies like "The Velveteen Rabbit" and all the Shel Silverstein stories and poems. they love making cookies and playing tag and hide and seek and messing around with hula hoops and frisbees and many of the same things that we enjoyed. i think we just have to be careful about what they are exposed to.

Posted by: Lady of the Loch 01-Nov-2006, 06:09 AM
I was thinking about all the old sitcom's that used to be on, like The facts of life, give me a break, etc. I know there were a few others that I watched around that time when I was little, but I can't remember them.

Posted by: gwen 02-Nov-2006, 12:29 PM
"Webster" was one of my favorites at home. My grandparents had cable, though, and I loved watching all the old shows on Nickelodeon like "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show". Those were the best. And do y'all remember when "The Muppet Show" was in prime time? That would never happen nowadays, but I loved it!

Posted by: LORD RHYS 02-Nov-2006, 05:25 PM
Leave it to Beaver
Donna Reed Show
Father Knows best
Ozzie & Harriet
National Velvet ( had a crush on the star Lori Martin )
Bonanza
Gunsmoke
My Three Sons

Posted by: Lady of the Loch 02-Nov-2006, 06:37 PM
I remember gun smoke and my three sons, but I believe they were still before my time. Oh, I remember different strokes and silver spoons too.
Yeah, the muppet show was awesome!

Posted by: gwen 03-Nov-2006, 08:33 AM
do y'all remember the original National Velvet movie, with Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney when they were really, really young? i know it's way before my time, but my grandparents had it on tape. i remember watching it over and over-loved that movie. and the old Little Women movie with Katherine Hepburn as Jo.

Posted by: Lady of the Loch 04-Nov-2006, 08:30 AM
QUOTE (gwen @ 03-Nov-2006, 09:33 AM)
do y'all remember the original National Velvet movie, with Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney when they were really, really young? i know it's way before my time, but my grandparents had it on tape. i remember watching it over and over-loved that movie. and the old Little Women movie with Katherine Hepburn as Jo.

no, I don't sad.gif I haven't even heard of it. but there are a lot of times I will sit and watch old movies like that.

Posted by: ikkinlala 04-Nov-2006, 08:02 PM
This thread is making me feel really young. Of everything listed, the only things I remember are:

- Phone booths, which are still around, although harder to find than they used to be. The last time I used one, I was shocked to find that a local call cost 35 cents.

- Polio vaccine in paper cups. I know I got that at least once, and I think the other kind I got was something on a sugar cube.

- Not having an answering machine (my family still doesn't have one), and having a rotary phone (the phone company said we had to get a touch tone phone when I was about nine, but the rotary one is still in use as our upstairs phone).

-Rabbit ears being the only way to get TV reception.

I'm in the age group that I should probably remember some of the toys and cartoons that have been mentioned, but I didn't watch a lot of TV.

I'm not sure there's much I can add that not everyone would remember, but since I seem to be on the phone theme right now I'll mention party lines. When I was little, we'd sometimes pick up the phone to use it and get yelled at by the teenager from down the road.

Posted by: Lady of the Loch 04-Nov-2006, 08:25 PM
oh yeah, I remember the party lines. When we werew little we would get on there and listen to the old people hahahahahahaha

Posted by: zeryx 05-Nov-2006, 04:51 AM
smile.gif my parents used to have a party line and we'd sometimes hear the other people on the line.

I'm sure everyone remembers well though the excitement they felt when they woke up during the night on Christmas Eve, wondering if Father Christmas had been yet!

Posted by: Lady of the Loch 05-Nov-2006, 07:52 AM
absolutely! That is like my fav part of x-mas cause I can see that in my kids, being all excited and nervous, not wanting to sleep...hahahahaha the good thing is they still all believe

Posted by: gwen 13-Nov-2006, 10:53 AM
i remember one Christmas when i was about nine that we all spent the night of Christmas Eve at my grandparents' teeny house. i vowed i would stay awake all night long to see if i could hear Santa or the sleigh bells. i remember staying up most of the night watching the clock, but i never heard a thing. must have fallen asleep at some point, though, because all the presents were there in the morning.

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