Yeah right, lol. And when someone, who I think of as young, like Barbie and Case start posting, and the convo goes to being from the Stone age well..... it does not help lol
Imagine no cell phones, no gps, no www. Really you dont have to because you lived it. But the kids of today, cant imagine it.
My grandson is in first grade, and I was watching him for his mommy. I turned on the classic Alice in wonderland and said, I loved this movie as a kid. He said, without blinking an eye, and meaning no disrespect, "why isnt it in black and white?"
Stone age indeed.... but I remember growing up and hearing about WW2 and thought that was a history lesson, now Vietnam is and some of us lived through it. I remember every car on the highway was American made with the exception of the VW bug and a MG or 2. And they all looked different.
What do yall remember? and if case says anything about "PONG" I will smack him. lol
Wearing a POW bracelet.
Seeing Richard Nixon resign on TV.
My mom not having a dishwasher...and her getting a dishwasher...made my life easier too.
Telephones(landlines) with no buttons to push, you just put your finger in the number hole and dialed it slowly, hearing that "click, click, click' when dialing!
Getting my first cell phone installed in my car in 1987. It was HUGE and I had a big antenna on my car for cell phone reception.
That's all I'm copping to!
xoxo,
Steph
Oh that does bring back memories, Casey Kasem. I remember all of them except the car phone, well I never had one, but I did have a CB radio. In those days I was Hawkeye, and would sign off with, "yall keep the shiny side up and the greasy side down and may all your ups and downs be between the sheets. Fitting for here isnt it?
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Jeez where's the love man?!!! Won't mention Pong for fear of a Roadie smack down :0)!! What gets me sometimes is music I listened to as a teen starts showing up on classic rock stations. Then I hear the crap my kid listens to and I'm like that ain't real music we had Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Hootie etc.. They got crap for music now. Here's one that will fit in with ya Roadie, I grew up in WV which is always behind the rest of the world anyways. My grandfather was a minister and I remember a church he pastored that had an outhouse. This was in the late 80's I guess and only like 2 miles from the biggest town in the county. Now that one amazes my kid. Didn't see my first cell phone till I was 14 thought it was some Star Trek shit, y'all all got me out experienced but dang ain't this world changing fast, one more reason to get out there and experience all ya can. Luckily there's some fine ladies here to help us with the journey!!
Any ladies out there can give Case the girl cousin experience?
Been a Carolina boy for last 20 years
Close the kin the deeper in!! Just kidding think ill pass on the cousin experience. Any ladies offer a light bondage experience? Think that would be better, being at a hotties mercy. Any takers?
Posted By: oldted
Any ladies out there can give Case the girl cousin experience?
Pearl who??? Where is Jimmy Hendrix? Three Dog Night? Led Zepplin? Santana? The true greats!!! And in my early years we had no indoor plumbing. And the sears catalogue was your friend
Think you tend to embellish a bit there. Agree with ya that is some great music though.
Posted By: Roadshow2
Pearl who??? Where is Jimmy Hendrix? Three Dog Night? Led Zepplin? Santana? The true greats!!! And in my early years we had no indoor plumbing. And the sears catalogue was your friend
I can just see you with your nose buried in the Woman's Underwear section. Staring at the bra and panty models! Those big Cross Your Heart Bras and panties. Oh yeah and the night gowns too-LMAO. Did you hide it under your bed?
Steph
naw it was in the outhouse, and yes as I youngun that was my first indoctrinization to what I have become. And we thought granny panties were hot
But the reference was to the shiny pages, they didnt work as well as the others rotfl. Gawd am I old.
Galaxy 500, could not wait to get 8 trac player installed! Oh my what a large back seat!!!
We put a bi-centenial quarter on the tracks.
I went to HS and college in the 80s which would explain alot about me lol
btw we did have PONG , the advanced one where you could put "english" in the ball and our first VHS was hi-fi and $800
Most of the things mentioned here are modern history to me. What about no indoor plumbing? What about plowing a field with a mule and hand plow? What about killing and dressing your own chicken for a chicken dinner? I used to say I'm an old fart. Now, I'm saying I'm an ancient fart! Up to a certain point, age is not a number. After that point, it is a number, but it can have an attitude. I still enjoy beautiful, sexy ladies, just not as intensely as I used to!! 
Went to college in the 90's and was introduced to something called the internet. IT was the difference between night and day when I left high school. MY High School was still using the Card Catalog, and some old school microfiche. College on the other hand had most of there stuff in computer data bases making Research a breeze.
I also remember using the payphone, the VCR, walkman , 1st Nintendo,and CD Player. Kept the VCR recorder and tapes in case a museums would like to buy it from me
But that number is climbing
In the spirit of remembering......... running home from junior high to see our new color TV, the advent of FM radio, and my first "stereo" playing Stevie Wonder (after all, I am a Detroit boy ! ) blaring out a mind blowing 25 watts of power LoL.
The Beatles live on Ed Sullivan
Sitting in a hotel room at Surfside Beach with family watching the Moon landing
Getting into the movies on Saturday morning using bottle caps to get in, and you could get popcorn and a drink for 15 cents
Rusted out floorboard of my Mom's Studebaker
Having 0 asian built cars on the road
Kids playing Army, Cowboys and Indians, Cops and Robbers, and running around the neighborhood with toy guns (and nobody made a big deal over it)
PF Flyers and US Keds
Westerns on TV every night
Gas costing .25/Gal when I was a teenager, and I thought the guys that paid .35 for Sonoco 260 were crazy
Record Players (though those that know me know how much I still value my LPs and Turntable)
Roadie, My Man, we are getting "up there"
Have fun playn'
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, never wore Levis, never set foot on a golf course, never traveled out of the country or had a credit card. In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears & Roebuck. Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.
My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow)
We didn't have a television in our house until I was 9. It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; it came back on the air at about 6 a..m. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people.
I was 14 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called 'pizza pie.' When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.
I never had a telephone in my room. The first phone I can remember had a hand crank and not a rotary dial. After the phone system was 'modernized' The only phone in the house was in the kitchen and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.
Pizzas were not delivered to our home But milk was.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers --my brother delivered a newspaper, seven days a week. It cost 10 cents a paper, of which he got to keep 2 cents.. He had to get up at 5AM every morning. On Saturday, he had to collect the 70 cents from his customers. His favorite customers were the ones who gave him $1.00 and told him to keep the change. His least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut.. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it.. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.
How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
Older Than Dirt Quiz : (I remember all but 1)
Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about..
Ratings at the bottom.
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2.Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines on the telephone
8 Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11.. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels... [if you were fortunate])
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S& H greenstamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25.. Wash tub wringers
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Funny thing I figured this hobby would be mostly guys my age bracket (mid 30's) to maybe late 40's. Maybe cause my old mans close to 60 and I just thought everybody was a cranky old fart like him. Never assume anything I guess, had to give y'all a little grief but all y'all "old" dudes have been a big help with my introduction to Hobbywood. Ill be there one day if I'm lucky my goal is to live to 100 and be shot by a jealous husband.
dang dude, I need to go buy a walker. Not only do I remember 20 of 20 but your preamble was right on. And when you talked about the phone, we were on a party line. We had 2 rings. If it was 1 ring or 3 it was for the neighbor. The lady named Helen pushed a button to ring the phone. I forgot all about that. She would try a couple of times and would serve as an answering machine if it was important.
don't recall the chewing gum. A couple were at my grandparents' place out in the country (which is now a very populous suburb). My Dad actually had a Studebaker; earlier he'd had a Kaiser & nearly bought a Hudson, & one of my Mom's co-workers drove a Henry J. I remember the soda pop bottle with sprinkler head on the ironing board & TV test patterns (we had 4 channels). Part of my first driver's test involved using hand turn signals. I remember the insulated milk box outside the kitchen door where the delivery guy would place the milk bottles in the early AM; it never occurred to us that anyone could come & steal the milk & it never happened. Never tasted pizza until I was in high school. Guess I'm older than dirt!
before I read this, I really didn't think I was that old............ LoL !
Checking to see if I am really as old as you folks are making me feel. No.. refuse to believe it! Still getting better. LOL Besides, as a wise man once said "you are only as old as the woman you feel", and that works for me.
See my post on the Media Board - Alvin Lee RIP
