[Fun] I'm So Old I Remember....

I remember when a&w chicks would serve us in the parking lot

 

I remember Kathy Fiscus. Fell down a well in '49 and couldn't be saved. No TV then--it was play by play, so to speak, on the radio. Nationwide.

I remember when stores had little vials of clove oil for sale. You took a toothpick,dipped it in the oil and ---well--that was a big thrill, I guess. I remember when ALL cars on the road were from the 30s and 40s. I remember when 16 feet was surpassed in the pole vault. When the 4 minute mile was first broken. That Aussie--was it Roger Bannister?
I remember the fog being so thick in the San Joaquin valley, that you couldn't see 10 feet in front of you. If you were in the country on a road with no center line--you opened the car door and looked straight down and would turn back to the center of the road when you went off the edge.

I remember going to Pismo to go clamming on various weekends in the 40s, never locking our doors at home. I learned to drive -age 8-(I was way big for my age) and then hot wiring various of my familys' vehicles and riding around with my 10 year old friends. Only got caught once.

 

I remember '6 O'Clock Rock', Heartbreak Hotel etc.

Went to a party when Bill Hayley was famous, played 6 O'Clock rock on repeat for EIGHT hours straight.

Never heard such music before.

 

scratcho,

Roger Bannister was English, the Australian that everyone expected to be the first, was John Landy. Landy went on to break a zillion records.

Bannister ran his 4 minute mile by being 'paced' by his university mates who ran ahead and made Bannister chase them, before dropping out and being replaced by another.

 

When cable remotes had wires.

 

i remember the olden days when people actually paid for shit quick by opening a wallet and handing over cash instead of standing there like a retard trying to remember their pin number

 

I remember when people used to take 5 minutes filling out a check for milk and eggs at the piggly wiggly.

 

i'm so old, i remember when the hippies were the smart people. and the media tried to claim we didn't care about anything, because they didn't and we did.
i'm so old i remember the beatniks, the purple onion, the hungy eye, the smother's brothers and the kingston trio.
when off road vehicles were world war two military surplus. and the union made label on blue denim overalls.
mr zip and ready kill-o-whatt. ma bell. purity markets and united grocer's association.
if you owned a house, you didn't need a code approved plan and building inspection to add on an extra room.
when you didn't need a license to do things yourself, and most people did.

 

I remember when the remote was; "would you go change the channel"?

 

Outta likes today, ozjohnn and themnax, otherwise---

 

When there were few tv shows centered around people acting stupid and doing anything for attention.

 

you mean like when tv was first being invented and most people listened to radio or read books?

well i do remember when the news, it may have already been mostly spun and slanted, but before it became infotainment.
huntly-brinkly my mom always used to watch. good night chet.
when most of the shows on there were either singers and musicians, or cartoons, or 'westerns'.
i remember when p.b.s. was n.e.t. and they had actually tele courses on there, that you could sign up and send in the homework and take the tests for college credit.
this was back before the kennidy assasination. i even remember kukla, fran and ollie, and i may have seen one or two episodes of bill sear's in the park.
when they didn't even have fade-desolves or a/b roles. when the stations would go off the air and they had test patterns.
i remember the smother's brothers, rowan and martin, and the first season of star trek. also outer limits, which i always thought was better then twilight zone.
and back in the 50s, before either of them, there was a weekly show called science fiction theater.
i don't miss laurance welk and his sappy bubble machine though.
sing along with mitch was ok, and even heehaw wasn't that bad.
in the 80s there was benni hill, monte python, and are you being served

even then there were sit-coms and game shows. but they didn't try to call them reality.

 

^^^ I miss Lawrence Welk. I watched the Lawrence Welk show with my grandmother, when she babysat me.

I remember when playing video games was something you did only when it was raining, mostly, or sometimes when you had friends over for the night.

 

i remember when playing video games was something that didn't exist yet.

there were just chess and checkers and monopoly and percheesy and variations on shoots and laders.

and then when role playing games came along we were just beginning to have personal computers, and they weren't powerful enough to do much more then roll dice.

and then there were text based games on computers before there was the internet, and there were local dial up buliten board systems.

but even those didn't exist until i was in my 30s.

what i did on rainy days when i was in high school was read model railroad magazines, and draw imaginary track plans and pretend running imaginary trains on them.

(now i can do that on the computer with this program that was written by this german guy, jan bochim, called bahn, that will run as many trains as i want at the same time without running into each other, with programable signals and switches. but until well into the 80s, it was only with pencil on paper that could do anything like that)

(my mother watched laurance welk every week, like it was some kind of religion. also ed sullivan. that's where i first saw kermit the frog, and the beatles. other shows she always watched were nat king cole, and dina shore. and we watched them in glorious black and white. that new fangled color television was more expensive then we could afford, and mom tought it was too complicated for her. she hated stereo too, she thought it hurt her ears. she may have been a little unbalanced, which i figured because my dad in a lot of ways may have been too. when color television became the only television she refused ever to use a remote, and hated digital tuning, even though with mechanical tuning, she always wore them out.)

 

first time I bought a condom -.-

 

I'm so old I forgot...

 

i remember when the technologies we now consider almost as primative as flint knives and bear skins, like control panels with colored lights and lighted switches, were just so totally futuristic and amazing. so beautiful and wonderful it made me dream of an long for the future. and now we're so far into that future, land fills are so full of it, and kinds think its all just really old crap. i would throw none of it away if i had unlimited space to keep all of it.
i suppose the drive belt that portable 1/2 inch video tape recorder needs to be replaced, probably doesn't even exist anymore.

the alpha and omega of my nostelgia will always be abundant public transportation. because it was my favorite thing growing up, that will always be what my mind goes back to.

i don't care about horse and buggies or steam, but i do believe a day is ahead, when anything like today's cars, will simply no longer be practical.
i don't know which of several scenarios will bring that about furst. and there are several that are only a matter of time.
(i do remember when a car was something that anyone of average intelligence could fix everything on it. but i also remember living on a much less crowded planet when it was)

i've always had more nostelgia for the future then the past too. when i was little it was for a future of computers. now it is for a future, at my age, i am very unlike to live to see.
yes i'm so old, i remember when a year was a lifetime, and the years i could expect to live ahead of me were a virtual eternity.

now of course, a year is a lifetime in the very different sense that each could be my last, yet it seems like they go by so fast, that if i blink my eyes too long, i might miss one.
i remember when anyone the age i am now, was incredibly ancient and they gloried in the fact that they were and didn't try to hide it.

i remember when it was cool to be old. or young. or whatever age you might happen to be.
when people didn't expect 90% of the people they said hi to on the street to look like they'd just stepped of the set of shooting a movie.

 

that one time... at band camp..

 

When it was hard to accidently hit the wrong button while looking directly at it.