[ARCHIVED THREAD] - i remember when.. (Page 1 of 10)
Posted: 10/12/2015 12:09:07 AM EDT
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I remember when..
telephones first became push buttons.. cellphones were science fiction.. you had to get up to change the channel cable tv came about..and hbo was two movies each day the first car phones rich people had...that really only worked in movies. I did a walk-a-thon shit was made in America... the year 2000 was like so far into the future...it would never come. |
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I remember when.. telephones first became push buttons.. cellphones were science fiction.. you had to get up to change the channel cable tv came about..and hbo was two movies each day the first car phones rich people had...that really only worked in movies. I did a walk-a-thon shit was made in America... the year 2000 was like so far into the future...it would never come. I grew up with rotaries. Car phones were not that non existent, your phone rang and your car horn honked. Cable Television was not to be had. Car phones were for business men, and the new age C.B. Radio. I never did a walk-a-thon. I do remember when my family first got a home computer and the internet in 1998 and how amazing it was. I also remember the year my family lived without the internet from 2007-2008 and how it was much simpler. |
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You could smoke in Burger King everywhere. FIFY I do remember pretty much everything on the list. Add another: The spirit of 76 (1976). I was a little kid but I distinctly remember everything being red/white/blue. A local cement truck company painted the drums of all their trucks like flags and I loved watching them spin around. |
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My kids are 8 years old and have never heard a dial tone or busy signal. Wow. Good call. When did busy signals go away? Late 90's-00 ish I guess. Hadn't thought of those in years. The long extended cords on land line phones, so you could have some privacy talking to your girlfriend. And they would immediately be all knotted up. |
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I remember when a carton of cigarettes was $5.36. The cigarette display was an end-cap of an aisle near the registers, but treated no differently than any other product.
I remember Howard Cosell on Monday Night Football. I remember being able to buy shotgun shells as a high school kid, but needing an adult for .22LR and spray paint. We had guns in the cars in the high school parking lot, and went hunting right after school. After the age of 16 we rarely hunted with adults, and we were out most evenings and every weekend for upland birds or waterfowl. For that matter I remember when steel shot was mandated for waterfowl, and the bitching was epic. I still have some "Duck & Pheasant" lead shells around somewhere. I remember telling my dad to buy stock in a company, because I felt they had a future. He didn't. The year was 1980. The company was Apple. I'd be one of the Arfcom multi-bajillionaires if dad had listened to me. Damn the luck. |
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I remember driving into a gas station and the attendant would come out, pump your gas, check your oil and air pressure, take your payment, and give you a free glass with your receipt, which read $0.32 per gallon.... I was that attendant for a few months between high school and the Army. |
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I remember when:
-I got a Commodore 64 for Christmas -Cigarettes were a little under a dollar/pack -Gas was about $0.50/gallon -Used cars depreciated so rapidly you could buy one in very good condition for $4000-$8000 -College was affordable -Americans loved guns -Walmart sold American made products -Public play-sets (whatever you call those areas) had no safety stuff -Kids were respectful to older folks -Cranking a car on a cold morning meant pumping the gas a little and letting it warm up -The best flashlight weighed 5 lbs and 2 feet in length -Cars could hit a tree and the bumper would get dented -Cops were nice |
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I remember when.. telephones first became push buttons.. cellphones were science fiction.. you had to get up to change the channel cable tv came about..and hbo was two movies each day the first car phones rich people had...that really only worked in movies. I did a walk-a-thon shit was made in America... the year 2000 was like so far into the future...it would never come. Yea, well, do you remember these? 
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I remember when… Saturday mornings meant laying in front of the TV eating Apple Jacks and watching awesome cartoons Having Ronald Reagan as CINC The first time someone came to school with a mowhawk- that was BIG news. The Apollo landings "School House Rock” and "Brady Bunch” were current TV shows Seeing Pele play at Soccer-Bowl ’77. He even did a bicycle kick. You could get in a fight and "settle things” without threat of being expelled. |
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I remember the end of WW2. I remember when the first jet fighter planes landed at Alameda Navel Air Station. I remember when we got our first TV. I remember when gas was $0.17 per gallon. I remember the day in 1955 when the High School issued me a Marlin .22 Target rifle with instruction to take it home and clean it and practice with it. We had a rifle team.
I don't remember where I left my cane. Gonna need that this week so I better get to searching. |
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I remember when.. telephones first became push buttons.. cellphones were science fiction.. you had to get up to change the channel cable tv came about..and hbo was two movies each day the first car phones rich people had...that really only worked in movies. I did a walk-a-thon shit was made in America... the year 2000 was like so far into the future...it would never come. Me too. As a kid, I remember thinking how I would be 30 in the year 2000 and how that seemed like that was so far in the future. lol |
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FIFY I do remember pretty much everything on the list. Add another: The spirit of 76 (1976). I was a little kid but I distinctly remember everything being red/white/blue. A local cement truck company painted the drums of all their trucks like flags and I loved watching them spin around. Quoted:
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You could smoke in Burger King everywhere. FIFY I do remember pretty much everything on the list. Add another: The spirit of 76 (1976). I was a little kid but I distinctly remember everything being red/white/blue. A local cement truck company painted the drums of all their trucks like flags and I loved watching them spin around. My father was the Commander of the local American Legion and I marched in the 4th of July '76 parade. |
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Air raid siren drill..I heard them couple years ago in OK for tornadoes. .scared the shit out of me. To this day, the tornado sirens are tested at 12:00 noon on the first Monday of every month here . . . The sound is actually rather comforting when you realize that they are working just fine. dp |
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-there was only one phone company
-flying was enjoyable -you could smoke just about everywhere -cars had square headlights -Madonna was hot -you had to switch your TV between VHF and UHF and have two different antennas -there was music on MTV -ATMs were science fiction -driver licenses didn't have photographs -everyone thought 2000 would either be space age paradise or T2 meets Mad Max -the Russians were Soviets -Sting was cool -400 hp in a family car was tantamount to lunacy |
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To this day, the tornado sirens are tested at 12:00 noon on the first Monday of every month here . . . The sound is actually rather comforting when you realize that they are working just fine. dp Quoted:
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Air raid siren drill..I heard them couple years ago in OK for tornadoes. .scared the shit out of me. To this day, the tornado sirens are tested at 12:00 noon on the first Monday of every month here . . . The sound is actually rather comforting when you realize that they are working just fine. dp They do that here, too. Although it's a bit unnerving if there is an active thunderstorm in the area at noon on the first Monday. :) |
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I remember having the TV repair man come to the house and troubleshoot the old black and white set and dad being happy it was just a blown tube. You could also test and buy new tubes at the super market.
I remember a guy from the phone company coming out and coiling the cord from the hand set to the rotary phone body with a heated curling iron thing so the cord was then springy.I remember a summer without TV and getting punished for sneaking afternoon TV at the neighbors house. I had the choice of a licking or not going with the family to the state fair. I chose the licking. My sister chose to skip the fair. The tears the night of the fair were epic. I still remember how smug I felt that I had taken the belt. ETA: I was not allowed to watch Star Trek on TV because my mom felt it was too weird for kids. My older brother made a crystal radio set and tuned the cat whisker to the TV station so we could listen to it in our bedroom. |
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Gas stations with attendants who filled up your tank, and then stuck a little ball of colored styrofoam on the car antennae, or stuck a goofy piece of plastic in the shape of a pair of horse shoes on the automobile body near the gas tank.
Bags of potato chips had those little plastic envelopes filled with black and white granules inside of them to keep the chips crisp. Loaves of bread came wrapped in wax paper, not a plastic bag, and the bread truck delivered door to door. And yes, my mother banned Star Trek in my house as well. Any show with a science fiction, horror, or dark fantasy twist. |
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Wow. Good call. When did busy signals go away? Late 90's-00 ish I guess. Hadn't thought of those in years. The long extended cords on land line phones, so you could have some privacy talking to your girlfriend. And they would immediately be all knotted up. Quoted:
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My kids are 8 years old and have never heard a dial tone or busy signal. Wow. Good call. When did busy signals go away? Late 90's-00 ish I guess. Hadn't thought of those in years. The long extended cords on land line phones, so you could have some privacy talking to your girlfriend. And they would immediately be all knotted up. they still have busy signals, i still get one trying to order a pizza on busy nights or if my mom forgets to hang up a cordless phone, but everybody has call waiting these days |