I Am So Old ...

Discussion in 'Remember When?' started by Shale, Apr 25, 2013.

  1. themnax

    themnax Senior Member

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    and nat king cole and jimmy durante and diana shore, all had a half hour every week on tv. my mom watched them all.
    actually i remember those others being before andy williams. and the kingston trio was before williams too.
    williams was with the second wave of those, which included mitch miller and herb alpert.
    and of course, ed sullivan and his really big shoe. we're talkin pre-1958 for the first batch,
    williams and them were somewhere around 1960 onward.
    i was born in 48, so yah, they were what was on.
     
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  2. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    No safety caps or tamper proof packaging.
    The standard safety option in many cars was a plastic statue on the dash.
    [​IMG]?​
    Spare tires were actually used when you got a flat.
    Most toys were made of tinplate, not plastic.
    Dixie cups.
    [​IMG]
     
  3. ahsorandy

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    Dixie cups and Dixie Chicks still exist! ;)
     
  4. themnax

    themnax Senior Member

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    a spare tire was a real tire and everybody changed their own oil.

    you went to the store and bought a case of 10-30 or whatever,
    and an oil filter, unscrewed the little bolt on the bottom of the oil pan and the cap on the dip stick hole,
    replaced the old filter with a new one, put the little plug back in the bottom,
    poured in the new oil, one can at a time, (opened each can with a church key),
    checking with the dipstick and wiping it each time,
    and when it was up to where it should be,
    started her up and let er idle for a few minuets,
    checked the dip stick again,
    and you were good to go.

    but i still thing the best part was that you didn't have to have a car,
    if you lived within a mile or two of the train or bus station,
    no body thought there was anything wrong with you if you just walked,
    and there were always paces to walk, not always paved sidewalks,
    but relatively safe places to walk where everyone did.
     
  5. Eric!

    Eric! Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    Oh shit, the Charmin bathroom tissue commercial with Mr Wipple- "DONT SQUEEZE THE CHARMIN!" That was more than 40 years ago!
     
  6. morrow

    morrow Visitor

    I remember arguing who's turn it was to wack the top of the TV to get reception back.

    Straw shopping baskets

    The first supermarket in my town, we all walked around just to get close to it all, we never thought of shop lifting.. did that phrase even exist?
     
  7. BlackBillBlake

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    I recall when Safeway first opened here. Automatic doors that were triggered by a kind of rubber mat either side of them. Seemed like a huge place at the time - now it would appear like a very small supermart.
    But we still had small local shops of the traditional kind too. One just 4 doors away. The proprietor used to wear a white coat. I don't think I heard of shop lifting until probably the late 60's.

    We used to go to town on the bus, which had a conductor! An extinct species for a long time now. I remember there were butchers shops that had sawdust on the floor. And an ice cream parlour that was opened by non other than Sooty and Sweep, with Harry Corbet.

    Seems like another world. On the subject of puppets, anyone recall Pinky and Perky?
     
  8. NoxiousGas

    NoxiousGas Old Fart

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    I remember when an ice cream cone at Thrifty drug store was 5 cents for a single, 10 for a double and 15 for a triple scoop, now they cost so much it's more economical to just buy a half gallon (which aren't even a half gallon anymore [​IMG])

    also remember when MTV actually played music videos 24/7 with an occasional 15 second blurb reminding you that you were watching MTV....
    why the fuck do they even call it MTV anymore?
    it used to stand for MusicTeleVision, I guess now it stands for MoronicTeleVision.
     
  9. SpacemanSpiff

    SpacemanSpiff Visitor

    im so old i remember when the oldies channel played old stuff
     
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  10. Eric!

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    Here's one for you. Anyone ever seen the Animated Star Trek series as a kid?

    https://youtu.be/9hseFdKcCD4
     
  11. Eric!

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    Remember the ol drive-in movies? Man, that was fun to go to as a kid. I know these are still around and wish there was one close to me

    https://goo.gl/images/j74vID
     
  12. NoxiousGas

    NoxiousGas Old Fart

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    I'm so old I remember watching the original TV series when it was new.
     
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  13. Eric!

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    Well, you got few years on me, lol!
     
  14. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    We have one around here.
    Went to it last year but it was a disappointment. Now it's filled with pick up trucks and SUVs so if you go in a car you have to park up front to see anything.
    And everybody tailgates, lawn chairs and tables everywhere. Corn hole and all sorts of games going on, barbecues, kids everywhere, people sitting on the roof of their vehicles...it was a mess.
     
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  15. Eric!

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    Man...that actually sucks. But times have changed. It wasn't that chaotic back then.
     
  16. I'minmyunderwear

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    there's one by where i lived through high school and again for a year when i was about 28. it sounds like it was a little less chaotic than yours last time i went, but the same general idea. i thought it was fun. better than just sitting in a car for 4 hours like when i was a kid.
     
  17. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    Okay, here's how old I am:

    We used to drool over a 7 transistor radio.

    [​IMG]
    Now, my graphics card alone has 956 million transistors!
    ...not counting the motherboard or CPU.

    old (four transistor) [​IMG]
    new (more than four transistors)

    [​IMG]
     
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  18. Aerianne

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    I'm so old that I sometimes exclaim, "Oy Vey!".
     
  19. themnax

    themnax Senior Member

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    i'm so old, i remember when new technology was something people looked forward to and their imagination was inspired by.

    when the word 'technology' meant tools, and we could choose which ones which caused the least harm while most effectively serving their reason for being invented.

    of course, that was before it became popular to hate logic, and believe it the will of unseen things to do so.
     
  20. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    I remember the first personal computers. They were so much fun.

    All of a sudden you could type without paper, make corrections without whiteout, and print multiple copies without carbon paper!

    And you could write your own program to print your name!

    And the greatest was ACAD! Imagine doing technical drawings without a T-square and India Ink!

    Zork, Night Driver, Asteroids.

    Later tweening and 3d animation!

    Ahh the good of days.
     

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