| Funky Offbeat Memories for those 40+....
Posted: 3/6/2007 7:30:36 PM | I'll chime in with a couple...who remembers Radio Shack and the 'Tube Tester'? You know...for those old TVs that had tubes in the back that you could replace yourself if you had the inclination. That or you had the TV repairman come to the house with that suitcase of a tool box.
And how bout the Poppe Shoppe??? Damn I miss that. | |
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Posted: 3/6/2007 7:46:00 PM | You mean the kinda T.V I am using right now then? Hey do you know where I can get a new set of rabbit ears? I need to focus in on my tv tenis!!
How about those 25 cent grab bags at the corner store!
Ok so what is the point of this thread
 I feel old now, hahahaha NOT! oh the memories!!! | |
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Posted: 3/6/2007 8:08:56 PM | | 45's, 8-tracks, rabbit ears, TV converter, car seat was a case of beer, seat belts where never heard of, families actually spent time together on Sundays as the Sabbath Day was recognized back in those days, cussing got your mouth washed out with soap then followed up with a lash with the old mans belt, you didn't talk back, elders were treated with respect, you knew all the neighbors on the street by name, you left your house and car unlocked at all times, playing street hockey until your nose froze, you actually had to walk to school as your parents would not even think of driving your lazy ass to school, pizza once a month was a real treat, home cooked meals daily, The Flintstones, Leave it to Beaver. | |
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Posted: 3/6/2007 8:20:07 PM | I remember my dad coming home with our first colour TV!
I remember the wonderful "cable box" that was attached to the TV by a 20 ft cord. My mom always vacuumed the darned cord up in our Kirby!
We did have one of the first "laptops" which was actually a "dummy terminal" hooked up by telephone to the mainframe at work. But it was cool, and I remember using it as a speakerphone too, to call friends, lol. We sounded "really far away" lol.
Who remembers cars without seatbelts? | |
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Posted: 3/6/2007 8:33:24 PM | When watching tv and you saw people kissing that was a no no lol
Now a days you see nudity on regular tv
Or when I was in elementary school and couldn't wear pants at all never mind jeans lol
How about atari games
Or a drive up A&W you would get someone to serve you right at your car or the little box heaters you would attach to your cars at the drive in lol
now I feel really old
When I was a teenager and getting into a bar under age (bad girl) lol and the beer was $1.10
smokes were only a dollar and change too wow times have changed | |
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Posted: 3/6/2007 8:36:15 PM | | My uncle had a maroon and white Barracuda and wow, he'd take me out "cruisin" with the Ventures playing loudly on his 8 track lol. I thought he was the coolest uncle! | |
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Posted: 3/6/2007 8:40:52 PM | ^^^ I hear ya markusmarkus
I too became a mom at 20 lol
how about mister dress up and bugs bunny and the roadrunner when nobody that they were violent cartoons to watch back then uncle bobby, bannasplit, hr puff and stuff
Friendly giant gumby and pokey, partridge family, the osmonds, jackson five, there is so much to remember my head is starting to hurt now lol
omg feeling old yet lol
Many parties for me too had our own little place in a hydro field
k enough I am feeling really old now lol
oh yes and I do remember the poppe shoppe too | |
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Posted: 3/6/2007 9:01:16 PM | I remember tube testers (for radios and tvs) before Radio Shack came to Canada. Everyone remembers the Poppe Shoppe. I think the original may still be operating down in Windsor. Someone from that area can confirm this for us.
We have all seenTimmies each day, but who remembers Mr. Donut, or the Saturday morning cartoon classic of Cecil the Sea Serpent and Beanie. If so, give me a "I'm coming Beanie Boy" holla. Better still, what about Davey & Goliath, Rocket Ship 7 in the mornings and Commander Tom in the afternoons, as beamed to the TV antenna (pre-Rogers) out of Buffalo, NY.
There was also that other great Canadian fast-food giant (pre-MacDonalds), the Red Barn. A few structures can still be seen in different places. In Toronto, there is one still standing on Dufferin (south of the 401) on the east side. I think it is a car rental place now.
Oh well, now that I have tripped down memmory lane, someone please bring me back! | |
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Posted: 3/6/2007 10:40:23 PM | I'm not quite 40 yet, but where I grew up, we were a few years behind so....
conjunction Junction (what's your function)
Pong (wow! look! 2 white lines and a small square going back and forth between them!)
A first computer class was learning to use a card reader!
Sundays were days for games with dad - games like Subbuteo or Canasta
renting projectors to watch a movie at home (either on a white wall or a screen or a nice white sheet)
taping off the radio by putting your huge-a$$ tape recorder up to the speaker
cycling around on those pre-BMX bikes that were not built for stunts, but we did them anyway
skateboards only slightly wider than your foot
Roller discos (aaaarrrrrgggggghhhhh - suddenly I am plagued by memories of clogs, bell bottoms & girls screaming over John Travolta) | |
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Posted: 3/7/2007 12:26:12 AM | | Rolling up the window in your car? Putting $5.00 worth of gas in it? Actually getting up and going to the TV to change the channel? Ok, I'm just coming up on 53, and remember things when I was really young: the coal chute on the side of our house, the egg lady selling door to door, the scissor/knife sharpening man walking the neighbourhood ringing his bell, Silverwood's Dairy delivering milk by horsedrawn carts, going house to house with my old baby buggy, asking for empty pop bottles - to cash in at the corner store for penny candy, the wonderful smell of burning leaves at the curb..... | |
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Posted: 3/7/2007 3:33:37 AM | Are we really that old?!?! I remember all of that!!! I still have a puppet of the bad guy from the Cecil and Beanie show!!! Barbies were not controversial!!!
Remember being able to play outside from dawn until dusk and never being affraid of being abducted?!?!!? We used to play street hockey with like 30 kids - 'CAR!' Hide and seek was a neighbourhood game - all those 30 kids would join in again!! I remember going to the cottage and being able to see to the bottom of the lake it was so clean - not now!! | |
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Posted: 3/7/2007 4:17:22 AM | My roller skates had pom-poms and bells!!!! There is a roller rink in Mississauga that has an 80s night on Sundays--it is a total blast from the past--most of the skaters are right out of that time period--same music--clothes--mullets.....and you better know how to skate or you won't keep up---I wish I could find my old roller skates!
I remember b+w tv--getting 2 regular channels and a few vhf channels (but they came in fuzzy)...
Our first Commodore 64 (and all my friends came over to use it!)
Those disc movies--bigger than a record album--->remember those?
I remember those little nursery rhyme figurines that came in the red rose tea---my mom drank alot of tea and I had tons of them......
I remember being sent to the store with a note to buy cigarettes for my mother--with a dollar and then getting change! | |
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Posted: 3/7/2007 4:23:53 AM |
I remeber the first colour tv we got and the first movie was The Wizard of Oz in colour..
Wow, you were lucky! My mom wouldn't get a colour TV, she was afraid of the radiation. So, when microwaves came out, forget that!!!! lol Funny though, after all the kids left, she did get a colour TV.. hehe
Pong, hmmmm.. I remember having a 'pong-a-thon', a bunch of us pulled an all-nighter having a huge Pong tourney. Too funny. And ya, the street hockey.. skating down TO the skating rink (grew up in Timmins, the snow on the roads were so packed down, we could skate on them.. and hanging out in the 'hut' with the wood stove at the rink to warm up..  | |
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Posted: 3/7/2007 4:55:14 AM | Milk and bread home delivery
Doctors made house calls
45's, 75's, and 8 tracks
Teased hair, shag haircuts
Girdles, yikes!!! man made torture
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Posted: 3/7/2007 6:06:03 AM | Going to the Red Barn
Renting movie reels from the public library for 25 cents
CGIT's, ( compared to brownies )
Getting the newest rage for Easter, the frisbee | |
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Posted: 3/7/2007 6:20:26 AM | Cruising Young Street in the 70's was soooo fun - lots of crazy characters to see and none of them wanted to shoot or stab ya!! Pop Rocks and weed made for an enjoyable evening!!  | |
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Posted: 3/7/2007 6:30:57 AM | Cars with chrome bumpers front and back with that little slot in them for the bumper jack that never worked properly car would fall off,start again
Trying to convince the vice principle it was ok to skip school
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Posted: 3/7/2007 8:54:39 AM | LMAO rollerskating home from the rink and getting caught by the cops!
Sleeping out on the deck(no tent) so we could catch a glimpse of the milkman gawd he was cute! 
My dad getting up at three in the morning to put the hose to the rink that all the neighbour kids could skate on.
Playing kissing tag til dusk, then run like hell for home!
What a thrill at my 13th "B" day being able to use my dads 8track player and listen to Johnny cash! Boy I was popular that day! hahahahaha
I still listen to my 78's | |
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Posted: 3/7/2007 9:22:09 AM | Yonge St was pretty exciting, even in the 80's, seeing bras in front windows made of plastic or studs lol. (such an experience). But I won't say it was SAFE, given all the "bawdy houses" they cracked down on, and the sad death of "Emanuel, the Shoeshine boy" (guess some news hit me harder than others in the 70's being an impressionable kid)
I have really enjoyed reading everyone's memories though, because they have been real memories of our own childhood and youth, and not snippets picked up from a google search lol.
There certainly have been a lot of changes in the past 30, 40 yrs! | |
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Posted: 3/7/2007 9:40:24 AM | Frank Vetere's and the Superstein. Thanks for providing that memmory. Cruising Yonge St?
How about Cruising the Yonge St. Mall on foot. Now that's an oldie. From Richmond to Dundas was closed at one point. Lots of people, khrishna prayers & song, beads, and flowerpower. You could roam anywhere in TO back then, without fear (yes, until the Emmanual Jacques death). It truly changed Toronto.
By the by, if you go to Belleville, Ontario, on North Front Street, Ponderosa Steakhouse still operates. | |
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Posted: 3/7/2007 9:54:22 AM | Did anyone else have an H. Salt Fish & Chips or a Roy Rogers restaurant? I remember two A&W's here and both had roller skating waitresses into the 80's.
I remember Tim Horton's all looked the same and the box you'd get a dozen donuts in looked like the store.
Lik'em'aide, Bottle Caps and Choc-o-lotto chocolate bars where you'd get a discount on your next one inside the wrapper. Gambling for children. WOOT!
Hockey cards for 25 cents. A gross piece of gum inside that you'd eat despite it tasting slightly less appealing than eating the actual hockey card.
One word. Stubbies. | |
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