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Posted: 2/4/2007 12:59:46 AM | | I remember being trusted to babysit at 11 years old and making a whole dollar a night. I can remember my first bike, a handmade one that my mom rode during wwII, and nobody thought it was strange, because it still worked, damnit. I can remember swimming in the rapids of the river, with no adult supervision and when somebody got hurt, just showing up at the nearest house for help, no questions asked. I remember being the first girl to actually wear a miniskirt from England, and fuscia plastic shoes that matched it, and getting sent home because it was too short! I can remember when you could feed a family of 6 for a week on ten dollars, and nobody went hungry. I can remember going to the store with a quarter, getting popsicles for5, plus a small pop and a chocolate bar, then taking the empty bottle back for another popsicle for Mom. I can also remember when the Beatles first came out, and the twist was banned in local sock hops because it was immoral. | |
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Posted: 2/4/2007 6:43:40 AM | You Might Be Older Than Dirt.........IF......... Posted: 7/31/2006 8  11 AM you know your old if you rememeber when the dead sea was only sick
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... when icing your cake gave the cook repetitive wrist injury, and required as many men as does a coffin: to carry it to the table, and took an hour to load with the candles, a blowtorch to light them and and a firemartial was on hand... and blowing them out requires a paramedic and a free-standing oxygen cylinder... | |
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Posted: 2/5/2007 8:31:36 AM | | i was on shooting team in high school and member of school pistol club. Or home ec husbands the guy would do the things that girls werent sposed to do like sharpen the knifes, clean and gut fish, any and all heavy lifting ( bad for girls to lift heavy things) take out the trash.... but you got to sample all the food and sweets they made i gained 5lbs that 1st year. bikes with the cheater slick on back an tiny front wheel ( to give it that hot rod look) mine had a sissy bar and wheelie bar..also had a nut buster gear shift. playing base ball with out helmets, pads, or lawyers. fist fights that ended with a bloody nose or split lip not a school shooting. and when on 1st months of school you could abuse freshmen but only till spring break then they were allowed to be human... | |
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| You Might Be Older Than Dirt.........IF.........
Posted: 2/7/2007 4:23:31 AM | If you remember when microwaves came out, they were huge and cost at least $400.
You actually remember what a record player & 8-track is.
You know where you were & what you were doing when Elvis died, Ronald Reagan got shot & remember Watergate.
You had one of those character lunchboxes, "Dukes of Hazzard", "Wonder Women", etc
You got a box of cereal for the plant in it. You could water that thing and it would grow and grow. (no toys in the boxes then)
Bellbottoms were hip, now we have "hipsters".
You thought 30 was old, now you realize you hit the big 30 you are in the prime of your life.
Riding in the back of a truck was cool & not against the law... ride for hours, going on vacation....
It was cool to go to a flea market... | |
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Posted: 2/7/2007 3:31:03 PM | Yeah the whole candy thing...
Bubs Daddy, Candy Cigarettes coated with powdered sugar so you could make it look like you were smoking, swedish fish, wax pop bottles (bite the top drink the pop and chew the wax). Anyway this is in no way an endorsement but this site has some good vintage candy if anyone has any other links post 'em.
http://www.oryans.com/video.html
So old that you remember:
Riding a bike without a helmet and having one of the dangerous banana seats so you could pop wheelies and ride down the street with a baseball card and a clothespin so people would "think" it was a motorcycle.
Remembering the Wonderful World of Disney TV premeire, or being at either park when it opened.
Pong was "****in'" and you could play for 8-10 hours and "This is so cool it ain't never gonna get any better than this!" (BTW I'm 39 and yes I STILL play video games).
Not being able to afford levis and having your Mom drag you to Sears and buy "Tuffskins" in odd colors and coordinate them with plaid shirts...or worse... "Tuffskin" corduroys. You could never sneak up on someone because from 1.5 miles away they could hear "wvoop wvahp wvoop wvhap".
Having winter boots that were rubber and went over your normal shoes (the non insulated type).
Family videos on 8mm FILM (not tape) with no audio.
The remote control was the next person to get up from the couch to go to the bathroom...I swear we had contests becuase the person that got up also had to, in addition to changing the channel, had to get the chips, the kool aid etc.
Monopoly only came in one version.
There was this cool new thing called Betamax....
Everyone had a "mood ring".
As far as the channel 1 thing goes it is because In 1939 RCA asked the Federal Communications Commission to designate 13 television channels, enough to deliver three networks to every part of the country without interference. Even though each TV station would eat 30 times as much spectrum as one FM channel, Sarnoff tried to force the FCC's speedy approval -- mainly by demonstrating television at the 1939 World's Fair.
Peeved at Sarnoff's bullying, FCC chair James Fly responded with populist fury: He believed bandwidth should deliver information and entertainment to every woodland shack before it delivered flashy TV to people who could, in 1939, afford a $600 set. Television, he announced, could ask for its bandwidth after FM radio got what it needed. And he promptly gave part of RCA's proposed Channel 1 to FM. | |
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Posted: 2/7/2007 8:06:08 PM | | If you got your fashion tips from what gregg brady( the brady bunch) wore....If you can remember going on a date ( dinner movie and snack after movie) cost less than 10.00..... | |
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Posted: 2/7/2007 8:35:24 PM | I remember buying ciggarettes for my mom as a kid for 2 dollers when canada still had the 2 doller bill. I remember this beef jerky call " big chief" i loved that stuff. I asked someone today if they rember the show M*A*S*H she did not!!! I also remember a show i can't remember the name of it, It had a narrorator guy that was in an oval taking about science discoveries or something. They had cartoony pictures i remember watching it all the time but i can'remmeber the name of it. This is a fun thread really back memories.
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Posted: 5/26/2007 3:07:15 PM | crap, i remember bein a kid, and guys were still dressing like fonzy, there were greasers, and hippies...
I leaned towards the hippie way, even though i was only 7 or 8...
I was a Cub Scout too...
a hippie Cub Scout, whittled bongs from willow trees.
no, that was a lie... | |
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Posted: 5/26/2007 4:46:01 PM | I don't remember odd/even days,
but I remember seeing concerts for 5 bucks and the original skynaryd for 2 bucks...
festival seating rocked back then, no air up front, getting smashed from all sides,
hot as hell, loud as hell...
last time i went to a concert it was a hundred bucks for 2 tickets, no smoking, no festival seating, and the crowd was so subdued..
it was skynard and zz top...
finally i got pissed and lit up a cig and held my lighter high,
and i will be damned, but i was the only one !!
what a bunch of wimps some of us are now... | |
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