Things That The Class of 2012 Doesn't Know

[Robert Goren]

I was just reading a story about D B Cooper. I remember being amazed that the kids at work didn't know he was. They didn't who Patty Hearst was either. There was guy who did not even know what DOS was. What things or people do find that young people give that blank stare when you bring them up?

[Black Ruby]

horse racing!

[Greyfox]

daily milk and bread delivery (at one time with horse drawn vehicles)

[Tom]

daily milk and bread delivery (at one time with horse drawn vehicles)

And you paid for it yourself - not the gubbermint.
* * *
GF, we had an ICE BOX when I was a kid - and my Grandfather delivered the ice!:eek:

I remember adding the yellow colorant to the white margarine because you couldn't sell it pre-colored.

Remember the cans of pop that had the tops like a funnel? And the little labels you could peel off the Hostess Cupcake wrappers? And Winky Dink and the Magic Screen? Pinky Lee? Sky King and Penny?

[PhantomOnTour]

I was just reading a story about D B Cooper. I remember being amazed that the kids at work didn't know he was. They didn't who Patty Hearst was either. There was guy who did not even know what DOS was. What things or people do find that young people give that blank stare when you bring them up?
Yeah, they've got a new lead :rolleyes:
Dude stole 500k and they've spent how much trying to catch him? For how long now...40yrs?

None of the kids that work for me get any of my Cheers or even most of my Seinfeld quotes/jokes!
A kid was late one day and said his alarm clock didn't go off.
I asked, "Was it an AM/PM thing?" (seinfeld episode) and he gave me the blank stare.
Mostly college kids work for me so they are up to date on historical references, but the pop culture of my day is not the pop culture of their day.

[Greyfox]

GF, we had an ICE BOX when I was a kid - and my Grandfather delivered the ice!:eek:



Yes. We had one too. When the ice truck (or horse drawn cart) came, we'd take small slivers of ice off the floor of it on hot summer days. Better than ice cream we thought.


rabbit ears, crystal radios,
Radio soap operas - Ma Perkins, Pepper Youngs family,
Radio whodunits - The Shadow, The Green Hornet,
Radio comics - Fibber McGee and Molly, Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen,
The Great Gildersleeve, Jack Benny,
Saturday afternoon movies where you didn't find sexual prediators and watched cowboy heroes (Roy Rogers, Gene Autrey, Lash LaRue, The Durango Kid, Hopalong Cassidy, Rocky Allen Lane, Red Ryder,...)
Race track - different windows for different priced tickets

[cj's dad]

No texting

[Robert Goren]

This making me feel old. Nine Inch Nails is going to play Finger Lakes Casino. I am too old by 30 years to know who Nine Inch Nails is and they are playing the oldies circuit.

[Robert Goren]

Yes. We had one too. When the ice truck (or horse drawn cart) came, we'd take small slivers of ice off the floor of it on hot summer days. Better than ice cream we thought.


rabbit ears, crystal radios,
Radio soap operas - Ma Perkins, Pepper Youngs family,
Radio whodunits - The Shadow, The Green Hornet,
Radio comics - Fibber McGee and Molly, Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen,
The Great Gildersleeve, Jack Benny,
Saturday afternoon movies where you didn't find sexual prediators and watched cowboy heroes (Roy Rogers, Gene Autrey, Lash LaRue, The Durango Kid, Hopalong Cassidy, Rocky Allen Lane, Red Ryder,...)
Race track - different windows for different priced tickets I worked a $5 place window.

[Pell Mell]

Ration stamps for gasoline
Chicory for coffee
Condensed milk for sugar
Natural rubber tires[when available]
Real sponges
No jeans in school
Girls didn't drive cars
Sandlot baseball
Big Band music
Sat. night fights w/Don Dunphy
Swimming or ice skating anywhere at all
Them was the days!

[Robert Goren]

Ration stamps for gasoline
Chicory for coffee
Condensed milk for sugar
Natural rubber tires[when available]
Real sponges
No jeans in school
Girls didn't drive cars
Sandlot baseball
Big Band music
Sat. night fights w/Don Dunphy
Swimming or ice skating anywhere at all
Them was the days! How old are you? I was born in 1948 and I don't remember some of that.

[ArlJim78]

Remember what a big deal getting a long distance call used to be? someone would call out "It's long distance!" so everyone was expected to hustle.

[Pell Mell]

How old are you? I was born in 1948 and I don't remember some of that.

I was in high school in 48 and in the service in 50

[mostpost]

Ration stamps for gasoline
Chicory for coffee
Condensed milk for sugar
Natural rubber tires[when available]
Real sponges
No jeans in school
Girls didn't drive cars
Sandlot baseball
Big Band music
Yes to all the above
Sat. night fights w/Don Dunphy
I don't know if it was Saturday night, but I do remember listening to Don Dunphy describe Ingemar Johanson dispatch Floyd Patterson with the "Hammer of Thor"

Swimming or ice skating anywhere at all
Anywhere at all? That one is just nonsense!! you can't swim where there's no water and you can't ice skate if that water isn't frozen. Although you can snow ski in Dubai in the summer. Indoors, no less.
Them was the days!
That is true.

[Greyfox]

newspaper shin pads for hockey
newspaper lining to keep boots warm
red strap blue jeans
roller skating car hops
roller skates that clipped on the bottom of your shoes
inner tubes for tires (bicycles and cars)
patches for inner tubes
slingshots made from inner tubes and a tree twig
shoe shiners
greasy Fitch hair oil
duck tail hair cuts
sack dresses
zoot suit pants

[Rookies]

The frightening one for me is that yearly updated analysis of what the incoming freshman University students have always been exposed to in their lives. These are things Cell Phones, Laptops, etc. that most of us find so significant a tech change in OUR lives/lifetimes, but to them it's ho-hum...

The unfortunate side of this is that critical, transformative events in OUR lifetimes don't resonate much with them and those generations- events like D-Day, Hiroshima, Vietnam, Desegregation, Man on the Moon, etc.

I have 2 whip smart young friends with science degrees +, I've known for a decade since they were 23 and joined my office. There is very little I can put by them. They are even up on the Beatles, Stones, etc.

But there are certain catch phrases and sayings they've never heard of or stuff like this which baffled them both:

" You know, that place is like duelling banjos in 'Deliverance'."

Both said: " Whaaaaa ? ":rolleyes:

[bigmack]

that place is like duelling banjos in 'Deliverance'."
What ignoramuses. It's clear you were referring to Canada.

[Rookies]

What ignoramuses. It's clear you were referring to Canada.

No, it's rather 1972 v.s. 1978.

Part of this I can understand since when all the heavy hair 80s music was blasting away, I listened to Raffi & SL&B and watched Mr. Transvestite... errr Dressup, Sesame Street, etc. 24-7. Young children made a 8-10 hole in contemporary western culture for me.

[Actor]

Answering nature's call in a privy.
Wind chargers
Watching workmen plant poles in the ground for the new fangled power lines.
The power came from a big "generator building" on the east side of town.
The town had a "creamery" where you bought cream and butter.
Sliced bread was something rich folk bought at the local bakery.
Movies were 10 cents for grownups, 5 cents for kids.
Movie screens were 4 x 3 aspect ratio.
Quarter pounder meant a pound of meat for a quarter.

[Greyfox]

Schools:

blackboards
the "Strap"
desks that were bolted or screwed to the floor in rows and couldn't be moved
playgrounds that didn't require teacher or adult supervision
separate outdoor entrances for "Boys" and "Girls"

[ElKabong]

Remember what a big deal getting a long distance call used to be? someone would call out "It's long distance!" so everyone was expected to hustle.

certainly do remember this part. unwritten rules was to not have any moment when someone wasn't speaking on the phone b/c of the cost

also,
rotary dial phones.
one area code for dallas
local calls didn't require dialing area code
prank calls were common w/o caller id
busy signals
cigarette commercials on tv
test pattern on the tv screen late nights
attic fans (pre a/c)
one college football game on tv per week (this was painful...it also forced us to go to games...)
two nfl games on tv per week
HS football was far bigger than the NFL or AFL was....when Hillcrest played Woodrow the last game of the year in the early-mid 60s it was all people talked about....nada about the cowboys or texans (now the kc cheifs)
baseball doubleheaders were scheduled, and well attended
50 cent beer night at the ballpark
bat day
no goaltenders masks in hockey
no curved sticks in hockey (damn that rod gilbert!)
no helmets in hockey
baseball uni's were like heavy flannel mat'l....you'd sweat in your pants, slide and come up muddy. sweat + dirt = mud
flip down sunglasses for baseball.. "but dad, willie mays wears them...i gotta have a pair!"
chris schenkel
dizzy dean and pee wee reese in the 7th inning hawking Falstaff beer
gillette friday night fights

[Greyfox]

record players (with needles) and records - 78's, 33's, LP's

[ArlJim78]

Remember what a big deal getting a long distance call used to be? someone would call out "It's long distance!" so everyone was expected to hustle.
oh yeah, I just remembered the funniest part about the long distance call was that you had to speak very loud, because it was long distance of course you practically had to shout.

[JustRalph]

we call them "90's Babies" where I work.

I was singing "sara smile" as I was walking down the hall at work one day. It was playing on the muzak in the elevator or something........ one of the 90's babies asked me how old I was.......... :bang:

I realized that every time I buy a pack of lifesavers I would start to hum and sing "play that funky music" took me a while to figure that one out. I was buying Wild Cherry lifesavers...........

[Robert Goren]

I knew a Fonzy before there was a Fonzie.

There was no question about who was the best QB in pro football and he played for the Colts, The Baltimore Colts.

It was Rock and Roll and the Drummer was the star of every local band.

Tom Snyder was as controvertible as TV got.

I knew someone who had a fallout shelter.

Jimmy Dean was a singer not a sausage brand.

Sonic Booms were common.

[Greyfox]

Hard to spot and vanishing fast:

clothes lines and clothes line poles
clothes pegs (probably some around still)
(in winter the "Long Johns" could be walked into the house frozen)
corner telephone booths

We used to take a clothes peg and a piece of cardboard.
We'd attach that to our bikes so that the cardboard would just strike the spokes. As the spokes turned they made a loud clicking noise.

[Zydeco]

Hard to spot and vanishing fast:

clothes lines and clothes line poles
clothes pegs (probably some around still)
(in winter the "Long Johns" could be walked into the house frozen)
corner telephone booths

We used to take a clothes peg and a piece of cardboard.
We'd attach that to our bikes so that the cardboard would just strike the spokes. As the spokes turned they made a loud clicking noise.


We used baseball cards in our spokes.

[DJofSD]

http://www.ask.com/wiki/Brylcreem

[Dave Schwartz]

What a great thread!

Thanks.

[Actor]

I saw Elvis in concert. Twice.
Walter Cronkite - the most trusted man in America. If he had run for President he could have beaten Reagan.
$1.75 per hour was a pretty good job.
A girl in her twenties was Queen of England.
I liked Ike. But I couldn't vote.

[Greyfox]

bobby pins in girls' hair
nylons with a single line seam up the back (prior to that girls penciled that line in
when they couldn't afford nylons)
bobby sox
white and blue saddle shoes
autoclaves (high pressure cookers (which could explode))
wringer washing machines
ironing boards (maybe still some around)
treadle sewing machines
mechanical typewriters where the keys would get stuck

[canleakid]

Catching baseball games on the radio :ThmbUp:
we were the first family on our block to get a TV wow
Cokes were a nickel burgers were a .25 cents
we got a window air condtioner in '57
walking to school and going home for lunch everyday
got a new gadget called a transistor radio
going to the "sox hop" rock and roll forever !!!!!!!!!!
the day the music died :(
jr. high (staying up late to watch the results of the 1960 election)
"and its 1,2,3 what are we fightin for?
don't ask me i don't give a damn, the next stop is Vietnam"
1-A, 4-F or student deferment all in the same boat
first car a 1958 Chevy Impala "FAST" :cool: and I got the tickets to prove it
gas @ 40 cents a gal. :faint: ;)
after all the education done, first job paid $120.00 a week :faint:

[DJofSD]

Any one remember vacations in the family car with the burlap water bag hanging off the front of the car?

What about curb feelers?

[rastajenk]

Slide rules! :ThmbUp:

[Tom]

Schools:

blackboards
the "Strap"
desks that were bolted or screwed to the floor in rows and couldn't be moved
playgrounds that didn't require teacher or adult supervision
separate outdoor entrances for "Boys" and "Girls"

Monkey bars.

[Ocala Mike]

I worked a $5 place window.

Robert, at NYRA the mutuel clerks would kill to get to be cashier at the $5 Combined (W/P/S) window. Nobody knew how much their winning tickets were worth, and the cashier's thievery at that window was legendary.

Here are some other things that may have not been mentioned:

Tooth POWDER (not paste)
Ball point pens that you went into Woolworths with to get refilled
No telephones at tracks


Ocala Mike

[Greyfox]

An actual wire above the track.
Cardboard in front of the radiator in winter.

[Tom]

Fizzies.

[Greyfox]

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[ArlJim78]

Duck and cover drills in school, because your desk offered protection from the nuclear blast.

[chrisl]

Way Back: Canning and jarring your own food with your Mom, making sausage and curing meat, splitting and stacking firewood,making a fire, climbing with a lunch bag to the top of a 150' spruce, and hanging out, while you had lunch with your buds. learning how to throw a ax, sharpening that ax. Never back talk a teacher. Teacher busting your ass when you did. Then dad doing the same thing but worse. I know this is off topic. I raised 5 kids and they did none of the above even being raised in Gods country. I have been trying to teach my children the way that I was raised. No luck.. Completely different generation. I am not saying that is bad. I think these skills just might come up as very important in the near future. And learning how to make the best run of moonshine with Grandpa...Chris

[Robert Goren]

Duck and cover drills in school, because your desk offered protection from the nuclear blast. I saw a sign a bar once what to in case of a nuclear blast.
1) Get under the table
2) Stick head between your legs
3) Kiss your ass good bye.
It was next to the "Be Alert The World Needs More Lerts" sign.

[Actor]

Driving to Kansas because 18 year olds could buy beer in Kansas.
Bringing it back to Oklahoma and selling it to 16 year olds at 300% profit.


Cigarette vending machines.

Prohibition still alive in Oklahoma.

[Actor]

The dust bowl was supposed to be over, but in 1959 I witnessed a wall of dust coming toward my grandfather's farm, stretching from horizon to horizon and reaching into the stratosphere. When it hit you couldn't see anything. It lasted an hour. I had not seen anything like it before and have seen nothing like it since. Afterward there was a layer of dust on everything.

[Greyfox]

large upright very heavy machines that printed your weight on small tickets for 1 penny (penny weight machines)

[Robert Goren]

Coffee machines
soda pop machines the kind where they mixed the pop in the machine.
Even candy bar machines are becoming rare.

[LottaKash]

Coke, Pepsi & Royal Crown Cola, that didn't taste like "chemicals"....:jump:

And, going around town, collecting those same m-t bottles for $.02 a pop......:jump:

best,

[Greyfox]

Golf balls that would get gouges and cuts in them if hit wrong. (They also didn't go nearly as far.)

[The Judge]

SLOW DANCING, stood close by the girl you wanted to dance with so as soon as a slow record came on you would be the first to ask for the dance. That's been a lost art for some time now

78's and 45's ( RMP records) or any records for that matter.

Things that are FREE. I mean FREE no catch. (bones from the butcher with so much meat on them to make soup even though they were suppose to be for the dog) Free to get into the Zoo, the Aquarium, Museums I could go on and on.

Penny candy or anything for a PENNY.

Jump rope

Hop Scotch

Marbles

Movies with 1 free popcorn, 2 feature films , 2-3 cartoons, a newsreel, a Serial chapter, and maybe a short, plus bingo or some sort of prize giveaway or talent show all for 25 CENT's. You stayed there all day with a show full and kids and NO PARENTS. Lots of noise no trouble or very little trouble 1 usher with a flash light could handle it. If he/she shined the light on you you set down and kept quiet.

Drive In movies

[Tom]

78's and 45's ( RMP records) or any records for that matter.

And those little red disc you put in the big hole of the 45 so you could play it on the 33 tables.

[Actor]

also,
rotary dial phones.


Phones with no dial. Just pick up and a voice said "number please?"
Phones with a crank on the side.
Party lines (phone lines that is).

[Robert Goren]

switch boards with a real operator

[BlueShoe]

Wow, thread of the month, or quarter, or even the year? :ThmbUp: :ThmbUp: :ThmbUp: Have spent at least 30 minutes just on this thread going back and forth carefully reading and re reading each post, time traveling along the way. Spotted at least one guy that may actually be older than I am.:D There is very little I can add in spite of my ancient age, you guys have covered it so well, but---
Buying 10 cent stamps one at a time and pasting them in a book until you had enough to turn them in for one War Bond.
Cutting both ends out of tin cans and crushing them compact and saving them to be turned in.
Carefully collecting and saving every newspaper you could find and turning them in at school paper drives.

[Tom]

S&H Green Stamps - got my Tonka Trucks with them.

[Ocala Mike]

Phonograph needles (had to change them every few 78's you played).

X-Ray machines for your feet in shoe stores.

My personal favorite: Trains that criss-crossed the country full of passengers, running on time, and run by actual railroads, not Amtrak.

Horses that would ship from one track to another in special railroad boxcars; used to see them heading for Belmont on the LIRR back in the 50's.


Ocala Mike

[BlueShoe]

SEX before and outside of marriage was considered to be dirty and taboo. :eek: But lots of folks still did it, then as now. :lol:

[Greyfox]

Names they might not recognize:
Daisy Mae (Lil Abner's babe),
Festus (Gunsmoke)
Howdy Doody
Barney Fife
Miss Brooks (Eve Arden) and Mr. Conklin (Gale Gordon)
Norton (The Honeymooners)
Perry Mason (Raymond Burr)
Jingles (Wild Bill Hickok's pardner)
Slim Pickens
Victor Borge
Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver (Leave it to Beaver)
Fred and Ethel Mertz (The Desi and Lucy Show)

[PhantomOnTour]

Music videos on MTV...Aug 1 was their 30th anniversary.
Video killed the radio star

[Spiderman]

free seat at Ebbet's Field with 5 sticks from Borden's ice cream pops

NYC subway tokens

safe subway rides

lunch at home during school days or a homemade lunch at school

when taking two steps with a basketball was a 'travelling' violation

when politicians were civil

[WaHoo]

SEX before and outside of marriage was considered to be dirty and taboo. :eek: But lots of folks still did it, then as now. :lol:

Drive in Movies

[offtrack]

Increased weight assignments in Handicap races.

[BlueShoe]

If you did something wrong the whole neighborhood would know about it and your mother would be informed before you got home and be waiting for you.

[Tom]

Increased weight assignments in Handicap races.

:lol:

Also, a :6: horse in every race.

[Greyfox]

Has anyone said:

Big Little Books (see http://www.biglittlebooks.com/learning.html)

miniature metal toy soldiers

[Greyfox]

balloon tires on bicycles
bicycle bells ?

[DJofSD]

Bells on bicycles? That was for girls. Guys always had playing cards afixed to the forks with clothes pins and the cards partially inserted into the spokes.

[Greyfox]

Bells on bicycles? That was for girls. Guys always had playing cards afixed to the forks with clothes pins and the cards partially inserted into the spokes.

Agreed. See Post #26 of this thread.

(Which reminds me of a girl named Isabelle, who never appreciated being asked "Is a bell necessary on a bicycle?")

[Greyfox]

garbage barrels that required two men to heave on the truck

[Tom]

Twice a day mail delivery

[Greyfox]

The Kentucky Derby has had the song "My Old Kentucky Home" as it's theme for years and years and years.
But before political correctness came in Stephen Foster's original song started:

Verse 1:
"The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home
'tis summer, the darkies are gay,"

Similarly, probably also influenced by political correctness was that fact that
Aunt Jemima no longer wears a bandana tied around her head and her face is slightly younger and less rounded (or have you noticed that.)

[Steve 'StatMan']

Pinboys. Ash cans where families legally burned their trash outdoors. The little black, round kerosine lamps that used to mark (poorly) the constructions spots/holes in pavement being worked on. Glass soda pop bottles. Soda pop machines where you pulled the glass bottle out of the hole yourself. Actually, anything sold in glass bottles - that was awful being a kid and dropping and breaking the glass shampoo bottle with a head/face full of suds in the shower, and very nearsighted, so one couldn't see the glass shards on the floor very well. Yay for unbreakable plastic product bottles.

[Robert Goren]

The evening newspaper.

[Greyfox]

A greater observance of Sundays as a day of rest with very restricted shopping, in terms of stores that opened and hours they were open.

[Spiderman]

A greater observance of Sundays as a day of rest with very restricted shopping, in terms of stores that opened and hours they were open.
We voted to retain Blue Sunday laws in Bergen County. Only essential services, food, gas and pharmaceuticals, stores are open.

[Actor]

Sandra Dee was a hot teen movie star. Now she's a song from the movie Grease. :(

[JustRalph]

Sandra Dee was a hot teen movie star. Now she's a song from the movie Grease. :(

I admired her husband when I was young......I thought he was the ultimate cool in those Rat Pack styled suits.........

[Tom]

The Mousekateers
The Peanut Gallery
Smoking on TV -- even the news anchors
Real News anchors

Good night, Chet
Good night David
Say good night Dick
SockittomeSockittomeSockittomeSockittomeSockittome
Look that up in your Funk&Wagnels

Pop top beer can chains
Milk boxes

[Ocala Mike]

Joey Heatherton (BEFORE she married that perv, Lance Rentzel).


Ocala Mike

[OntheRail]

Mercury Theater (Radio Plays)
Wide World Of Sports
Movie Of The Week
Night Shadows
Nascar reflector real production cars
Phone Booths
Victory Gardens
Self Reliance

[098poi]

I had a crush on Patty Hearst. This was my favorite picture. (Disclaimer: I did not condone the SLA and I am not a terrorist)

[NJ Stinks]

The New York Journal-American
The Washington Star
The Philadelphia Bulletin

Free air at a gas station
WIBG
Push button cars
$3 trifecta bet minimum
Brandywine's Retractable Grandstand Window
Liberty Bell running thoroughbreds and standardbreds
$4 reserved seats on Preakness Day
When Roosevelt really was the capital of harness racing

[Actor]

Free air at a gas station


Inner tubes that went inside your tires.
Hot patches for inner tubes.
Granny gear in trucks.
High-low beam switch on the floor.
Fina Gas stations advertised that their "free air" was pink.

[dartman51]

The New York Journal-American
The Washington Star
The Philadelphia Bulletin

Free air at a gas station


When I was in high school, I had a job one summer, at a gas station. My job was to pump the gas, check the oil and tires, and wash the windshield. A thing of the past, although, I understand there are some places, maybe NJ, where they still pump your gas. Don't know about, full service. Also, when I was 12, I had a newspaper route, selling "GRIT", a rural weekly newspaper. I made about $6 pr week, thought I was RICH. :ThmbUp:

[LottaKash]

An impression of a round cirlcle left on the outside of my wallet....

best,

[canleakid]

an oldie but a goodie "AIR MAIL SPECIAL DELIVERY" our home office aka payroll was up in Mahwah, NJ, so every Thursday the mail guy was our hero!!!!!! down here Austin Tx.

[BlueShoe]

When the car you drove did not have turn indicators and you stuck your arm out the window and made hand signals.

[Greyfox]

When the car you drove did not have turn indicators and you stuck your arm out the window and made hand signals.

Now that I'm older some drivers still make hand signals at me! :D

[Steve 'StatMan']

Now that I'm older some drivers still make hand signals at me! :D

Kind of them to tell you they're continuing to go straight. :D

[dav4463]

candy cigarettes

Saturday morning cartoons

Metal dashboards

Ethyl gasoline

dart guns

[Tom]

Lucy!

[LottaKash]

.
Watching the movie from the backseat of the Chevy at the Drive-In-Theater......In colder weather no movie, just fogged up windows...:jump:

best,

[BlueShoe]

True magazine.
Argosy magazine.
Typewriters.
Quiet libraries.

[Tom]

When figure skaters actually had to make figures!

[Greyfox]

If I didn't mention it in an earlier post in this thread, at one time young people gave their seats up on buses for senior citizens and stood. Similarly for ladies, gentlemen (young and old) stood.

[Robert Goren]

If I didn't mention it in an earlier post in this thread, at one time young people gave their seats up on buses for senior citizens and stood. Similarly for ladies, gentlemen (young and old) stood. That was when people actually rode the bus.

[Greyfox]

Bicycles with lights, front and back. Also fenders on bikes.

[Greyfox]

Opaque Projectors - These were large cumbersome devices that Professors and teachers used to put books on and project the page onto a screen.

http://auction.citrus.k12.fl.us/uploaded/2009-9-7/rad1B455OPAQUE.JPG

[Greyfox]

Mimeograph machines and gestetners.
These were duplicating machines that preceeded photocopying.
They were popular duplicators at school and church.
The original was put on a metal drum and copies were cranked off by hand as paper fed through it. The blue ink had quite a smell and the operator's hands were often covered with it after. After 30 or 40 copies a new original had to be put in as I recall.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Mimeograph.svg/250px-Mimeograph.svg.png

[Valuist]

Pick up games of baseball or football in the park. Not organized....no adults involved.

[Actor]

Walter Cronkite

[DJofSD]

Groucho and You Bet Your Life.

[Actor]

"The War" meant WWII. "Korea" meant the Korean War. Nobody had ever heard of Vietnam.

[Greyfox]

Famous horses.

Trigger,
Buttermilk,
Champion,
Silver,
Scout,
Topper,
Buckshot,
Joker,
Thunder,

Those are horses from the Oater era, the days when Little Beaver wasn't
referred to as a conquest. Being gay was a state of happiness to seek. Now most of us avoid that tag. (With all the male pairings in those western flicks, was Hollywood teaching male bonding, gay activism, or gender inequality?
Or were they teaching us to love horse racing? :D )

[Actor]

Famous horses.

Trigger,
Buttermilk,
Champion,
Silver,
Scout,
Topper,
Buckshot,
Joker,
Thunder,

Those are horses from the Oater era, the days when Little Beaver wasn't
referred to as a conquest. Being gay was a state of happiness to seek. Now most of us avoid that tag. (With all the male pairings in those western flicks, was Hollywood teaching male bonding, gay activism, or gender inequality?
Or were they teaching us to love horse racing? :D )
Sad to say but, unless they've seen the movie, they have never heard of Secretariat.

[Tom]

That was when people actually rode the bus.

Then they won't remember this, either!
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[The Judge]

public swimming pools. Our pool had a low dive and one about 6 feet above the water.

[rastajenk]

Public pools in general. Seems like every community that has a budget problem axes the pools first.

[BoldEye]

Time for Beanie with Dishonest John and Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent...
A Lasalle was the "baby Cadillac"...
Miniature wax bottles full of sugar pop and you'd bite the top off to drink...

Great times...

[BlueShoe]

Handwriting. Aka as basic handwriting or cursive handwriting. Many schools have dropped it from their curriculum and no longer teach it, and more are considering doing so. :(

[Tom]

...

[Actor]

Being gay was a state of happiness to seek.Gay was having just enough alcohol in your system that you could still pass the sobriety test when the cop pulled you over. :lol:

[Tom]

When being a crack salesman was a good thing!

[highnote]

When I was in high school, I had a job one summer, at a gas station. My job was to pump the gas, check the oil and tires, and wash the windshield. A thing of the past, although, I understand there are some places, maybe NJ, where they still pump your gas. Don't know about, full service. Also, when I was 12, I had a newspaper route, selling "GRIT", a rural weekly newspaper. I made about $6 pr week, thought I was RICH. :ThmbUp:


Sounds exactly like me. We must be about the same age.

I pumped gas in Ohio when I was in high school. Had to check the oil and wash the windshield everytime. We'd also check all the fluids and tire pressure, if asked. Transmission was my least favorite. They had to leave the car running.

I sold Grit in the neighborhood -- except I lived in the country and the houses were few and far between. I walked my ass off to make a sale.

When I saved up $28, which was a lot back in 1973, I bought a pair of red suede Puma sneakers. Someone stole them out of the locker room locker. The school gave me $28 -- they said they had insurance. They said they filed a claim for $28? I was skeptical.

What I think happened is that I was the only kid on the basketball team with red Pumas -- the rest had white Chuck Taylors. I think the coaches wanted me to conform, so my sneakers kind of disappeared. It was disappointing, though. I felt like I worked hard for my money and was damn proud of those sneakers. I walked around for months checking out all the kids' sneakers to see if I could find out who stole them. I had really small feet, so they probably didn't even fit whoever took them. :D

I could never make much money selling Grit and after awhile customers stopped buying. They said they never read it.

I found out later, from a friend, that the way he made money was to have his mother drive him around to all the bars after the day shift let out and all the drunks would buy a copy. He would sell out in a day. Damn. Had I only known!

I grew up in a factory town of about 15,000 people. We had a lot of three things -- gas stations, bars and churches. :D

[Greyfox]

Here's an oldie.

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[highnote]

public swimming pools. Our pool had a low dive and one about 6 feet above the water.


We used to have two low ones and one high dive. The high dive must have been about 10 or 12 feet above the water. It was awesome. Made hundreds or thousands of dives off of all of them!

[The Judge]

Love reading post #113 you know there must be a book, short story, movie of some kind in this thread.

[highnote]

Love reading post #113 you know there must be a book, short story, movie of some kind in this thread.

You're right! Some good stories here. GameTheory -- are you reading?

[highnote]

I grew up in a factory town of about 15,000 people. We had a lot of three things -- gas stations, bars and churches. :D


You can probably guess which two I frequented. ;)

[turninforhome10]

I remember 1975, my Uncle had one of those really cool chevy vans with the bed in the back and stereo with 8 track. It was a chick magnet. Chevy Van Sammy Johns
I loved the song, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBNRfZlGatw had to buy the 45 to play on my Record Player.

When truckers were cool and even had a cool song had this 45 too Convoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3VN54M1OXA&feature=related

Found the link to the movie Convoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5XGvNpWXqA&feature=related

[Robert Goren]

Hippies and their Volkswagen minivans with flowers and peace signs painted on them.
Datsun pickups
Ramblers
Chevy El Camino
Dodge Darts

[turninforhome10]

Hippies and their Volkswagen minivans with flowers and peace signs painted on them.
Datsun pickups
Ramblers
Chevy El Camino
Dodge Darts


Dodge Darts with the push button transmission, my brother had one.Cool

[Actor]

Fountain pens, inkwells, and being able to walk into an office supply store and ask for a nib without getting slapped. :lol:
Polio, the March of Dimes, iron lungs, Jonas Salk, getting your armed scratched down to the quick for a vaccination.
620 film that went into big (by today's standards) box cameras.
8mm movie cameras and projectors without sound.
The NBC peacock announcing that "the following program is in color."
Duck and cover.
Intermissions in epic movies. I think the last movie I saw with an intermission was Gettysburg.
In rural areas far from the big city you could tell how rich someone was by the height of their TV antenna tower.
TV repairmen. No one repairs a TV these days -- they replace it.
Steam engines at the front of trains. Freight trains with a caboose on the end.

[Tom]

Fresh milk in a box on your porch every morning.
The evening Newspaper.
Fizzies
Aluminum foil on the rabbit ears

[Actor]

Fresh milk in a box on your porch every morning.Ours was in a glass bottle.

[Tom]

D'oh!

[johnhannibalsmith]

...Chevy El Camino
Dodge Darts

Had one of each... love the Dart... virtually every repair/maintenance could be done in 20 minutes or less with a swiss army knife.

[bigmack]

Had one of each... love the Dart... virtually every repair/maintenance could be done in 20 minutes or less with a swiss army knife.
You speak the truth and your frequent posts are missed. :kiss:

I had a Dart somewhere around '78 I believe was a late 60's. No shortage of room to work on the engine.

'Course if a car ever breaks down I haven't a clue. I look for an on/off switch under the hood or my tripA card.

http://www.gifbin.com/bin/102010/1287682380_truck-goes-off-the-highway.gif

[Greyfox]

Telephone poles with iron rungs out of the side that you could climb.
Also telephone men sometimes used "spurs" that dug into the wood to climb the poles.

[Tom]

Telephone poles with iron rungs out of the side that you could climb.
Also telephone men sometimes used "spurs" that dug into the wood to climb the poles.

uh, we still have those.

[ArlJim78]

The NBC peacock announcing that "the following program is in color."



but you left out the key word, it was "Brought to you in Living color by NBC"
I was always curious what made it living color, and how was NBC's living color different from the others. these were the weighty questions that consumed my mind back then.

another TV fav of mine "Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport, the thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat, the human drama of athletic competition. This is ABC's Wide World of Sports"

[DJofSD]

How about TV stations that did not broadcast 7 by 24?

Remember seeing this? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Head_test_card)

[ArlJim78]

trying to get a clear picture on UHF.

[Greyfox]

uh, we still have those.

I suppose wood can last a long time....until Hurricane Irene at least.
Our telephone linemen now use "Cherry Pickers" and the rungs are all gone.
Do the telephone linemen still put a belt around the pole and use spurs to climb them?

[Greyfox]

How about TV stations that did not broadcast 7 by 24?

Remember seeing this? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Head_test_card)

Yes. I remember. Also see Post #39 of this thread.;)

[DJofSD]

Yes. I remember. Also see Post #39 of this thread.;)
To repeat Tom's post above: D'oh!

[Greyfox]

Fresh milk in a box on your porch every morning.


Yes, and on cold days the cream, at the top of non-homogenized milk, would freeze and push the cap off the top of the bottle and sit about an inch above the rim. (When it was that cold my Mom would literally walk the long John underware into the house off the clothes line.)

http://www.sciencephoto.com/image/161713/large/E1270048-Frozen_milk-SPL.jpg

[cj's dad]

The lamplighter - circa early to mid 50's

[Tom]

I suppose wood can last a long time....until Hurricane Irene at least.
Our telephone linemen now use "Cherry Pickers" and the rungs are all gone.
Do the telephone linemen still put a belt around the pole and use spurs to climb them?

Yes, TW Cable guys, too.

[Steve 'StatMan']

Horse Racing :(

[BlueShoe]

When you needed a Churchkey in order to drink your beer.:D

[Tom]

(When it was that cold my Mom would literally walk the long John underware into the house off the clothes line.)



Talk about your underwear creeping up on you!

[Tom]

When you needed a Churchkey in order to drink your beer.:D

Before we had credit cards, we used those slots int he wallet for a churchkey and a condom. One got used a whole lot more than the other one! :D

[Steve 'StatMan']

Before we had credit cards, we used those slots int he wallet for a churchkey and a condom. One got used a whole lot more than the other one! :D

Hopefully you rinsed it out once in a while! ;) :lol:

[BlueShoe]

Hopefully you rinsed it out once in a while! ;) :lol: Yeah, they cost around 50 cents apiece, lots of money back then. :D Churchkeys you could always get for free. Oh, and another thing, no one ever called them condoms. That is a much more more modern "PC" name. :)

[Greyfox]

At one time we had small grocery stores and the groceries were delivered by boys on bikes with carriers on the front. Most of those stores are gone. I haven't seen bike carriers on the front for eons.
Certainly "grocery boys" are a thing of the past in our region.

Also, as a kid I used to "hot walk" horses in the morning at the track. Quite a contingent of adults used to earn their meagre livings hot walking following the races from city to city. Now it's mechanical hot walkers.

[DJofSD]

And, along with grocery boys, the first job a lot of kids got was delivering newspapers. Boy, has that changed in more ways than one.

And then there was the old fashion cash registers. A good cashier was able to do simple math and make change. Now a days, you give some one the odd collection of coin to get back just bills, you get a puzzled look. I just laugh then shake my head.

[ArlJim78]

I'm sure many future entrepeneurs started out with paper routes and/or lawn mowing jobs.

[Greyfox]

I'm sure many future entrepeneurs started out with paper routes and/or lawn mowing jobs.

Yes. I was a paper boy helper.
Later towards adulthood I tried my hand at selling Encylopedias and World Book door to door (without much success).
I haven't seen those door to door book pedler salesmen in years.
(The internet killed those types off.)

[ArlJim78]

Yes. I was a paper boy helper.
Later towards adulthood I tried my hand at selling Encylopedias and World Book door to door (without much success).
I haven't seen those door to door book pedler salesmen in years.
(The internet killed those types off.)
didn't there used to be all kinds of door to door peddlers, selling vacuums, aluminum siding, the Fuller brush man, etc?

[johnhannibalsmith]

I'm sure many future entrepeneurs started out with paper routes and/or lawn mowing jobs.

Some of us didn't fare so well... :D

It occurs to me from time to time the things that would have been missing (I guess) from youth without both a morning and an afternoon paper route from the time I was 13 or 14 years old. On weekends it was often a day of lawn mowing since there was no school. In free time we went to the municipal golf course and walked the woods, retrieving the balls, washing them, and selling them in bulk to a nice goombah named "Angelo" who resold them.

When there wasn't work to do, we assembled and played baseball at the school - usually without a chaperone or fear of a lapse in liability insurance. Often the kids playing ranged from ages 8 to 18. Organized sports was when we discussed what time to show up tomorrow.

What the hell do kids do anyway in 2011? Tweeeeeet? :(

[Greyfox]

didn't there used to be all kinds of door to door peddlers, selling vacuums, aluminum siding, the Fuller brush man, etc?

Yes, and thank God they don't pester us any more.
Today we still get Girl Guide's selling cookies, various charities (Cancer, Heart), Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses coming to the door.

[DJofSD]

Some of us didn't fare so well... :D

It occurs to me from time to time the things that would have been missing (I guess) from youth without both a morning and an afternoon paper route from the time I was 13 or 14 years old. On weekends it was often a day of lawn mowing since there was no school. In free time we went to the municipal golf course and walked the woods, retrieving the balls, washing them, and selling them in bulk to a nice goombah named "Angelo" who resold them.

When there wasn't work to do, we assembled and played baseball at the school - usually without a chaperone or fear of a lapse in liability insurance. Often the kids playing ranged from ages 8 to 18. Organized sports was when we discussed what time to show up tomorrow.

What the hell do kids do anyway in 2011? Tweeeeeet? :(
We used to play football and baseball all the time. In the street, touch and three flies up with a softball, at the local schools (3 to choose from), tackle (had the wind knocked out of me more than once) and hardball -- over the line if just a few people, or, a regular game if enough were around.

Now a days, the school grounds are locked.

[ArlJim78]

yep same here, played ball all the time, with no supervision whatsoever. The only rule we had (which was often violated) was of course to "be home before the streetlights come on"

[johnhannibalsmith]

Yeah - sewercaps for home and second base, a mailbox for first, and someone's bicycle for third... how did we all survive childhood in such an uncontrolled, dangerous environment?

:confused:

[DJofSD]

Ya, now a days that kind of radical behavior would be view as a bit of the ultra violence (winky winky).

[ArlJim78]

sometimes a good hardball was hard to come by. didn't matter though because we'd keep using it until it pretty much fell apart. I remember playing even after the cover came off and it was just a ball of string.

[BillW]

.. how did we all survive childhood in such an uncontrolled, dangerous environment?

:confused:

Our old ball field was on a site of a previously razed schoolhouse. Exposed bricks etc. sticking out of the ground. They weren't so thorough back then when they tore down a building. :lol:

[rastajenk]

sometimes a good hardball was hard to come by. didn't matter though because we'd keep using it until it pretty much fell apart. I remember playing even after the cover came off and it was just a ball of string.And then the string would start to unravel, and it would still be good for a few more innings. :ThmbUp:

[wisconsin]

And then the string would start to unravel, and it would still be good for a few more innings. :ThmbUp:

As long as the cover was flopping and barely held on, good to go, indeed! ;)

ps-broken bats with nails and duct tape lasted a long, long time.

[Ocala Mike]

At one time we had small grocery stores



Not only did we have small grocry stores, but (around 1950) my mother would send me to one of those stores in Corona, Queens to pick up a few dollars worth of groceries, and the counter clerk would add up the purchases with a tiny nub of a pencil using the paper sack to write his figures on. What's more, whatever the total was would go in a "book" for my father to settle up with on payday.


Ocala Mike

[Tom]

The Game Box and Playstation was a cardboard box in the yard.

[lamboguy]

kids walking to and from school without their parents

kids playing without a "playdate"

marilyn monroe

connie stevens

bridget barot

sophia loren

calling a business on the phone and getting a person that answers it that lives in this country

[Robert Goren]

kids walking to and from school without their parents

kids playing without a "playdate"

marilyn monroe

connie stevens

bridget barot

sophia loren

calling a business on the phone and getting a person that answers it that lives in this countryAnd the mother of the gal on L&O SVU

[Tom]

Stores were closed on Sunday and *gasp* there were NO MALLS!

Bowling alley pin boys.
The mini balls for kids to bowl with.

[canleakid]

"duck-and-cover drills" :confused: getting ready for the BIG ONE with Russia :eek:

[dav4463]

Roger Daltrey of The Who is currently on tour performing the great Rock Opera "Tommy"......


I already have my tickets! I hope he doesn't have to sing "Amazing Journey" like this............"Hearing Impaired, Speech Impaired, and Visually disabled boy, he's in a quiet vibration land...." !!!

[Track Collector]

Some more:

--> Collecting stamps and shopping for them "on approval" -- H E Harris Co, Boston, MA.
--> Heath Kit Radios.
--> Inch-size pet turtles at department stores.
--> TVs without UHF (and without a remote channel changer).
--> Balsa Wood gilder kits with plastic propellers and rubber bands.
--> Kite kits.
--> Telephone numbers which began with two letters.
--> Walkie talkies.
--> Games on the back of cereal boxes. (I still remember a neat baseball game on the back of a box of Frosted Flakes. You cut out a spinner with the numbers 1 thru 6 on it, and placed a toothpick in the middle. You spin twice and add up the total. Each total has a specific result associated with it. The totals of 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11, and 12 were associated with triple, double, single, out, out, double play, out, out, single, walk, and home run respectively. A worn out spinner was quickly replaced by two dice.).
--> School lunch boxes.
--> Social card playing.
--> Listening to a baseball game on the radio and recording the results of each batter with special short-hand, like 4-3 means a ground out to the 2nd baseman.

[RaceBookJoe]

The original Cable TV boxes were attached by a long cord.
Mud Horses indicated by an " X "
When call-waiting was waiting for the person you were trying to call hung the damn phone up. rbj

[Mike at A+]

QE2 was a cruise ship.

[Greyfox]

You still see the occasional one, but I'll toss in lawn mowers that didn't have motors. They could be heavy as heck to push through deep grass.

[Greyfox]

Handwriting has been mentioned earlier, but have hand-written letters mailed between friends , not post cards?

[Tom]

When horses used to warm up before races - away from the lead pony.

[Greyfox]

When horses used to warm up before races - away from the lead pony.

Horses also pulled milk wagons.

[DJofSD]

When you actually had to plan your TV watching and have your rear-end planted in front of the boob tube when the program aired. No DVR, no DVD, no VHS.

[Tom]

When you only had three channels to choose from.
Unless it rained.

[Actor]

When you only had three channels to choose from.
Unless it rained.
And only the rich had color TV. Ours was B&W.

The first color TVs cost over $1000; that's over $10,000 in today's money.

[Greyfox]

Service stations with service. An attendant would gas you up and wash your windshield.

[DJofSD]

Leather shoes that periodically needed to be cleaned and polished.

[BlueShoe]

When almost everything that came in a box, package, or container could be easily and quickly opened using just your hands.

[Actor]

Leather shoes that periodically needed to be cleaned and polished.Even small towns had a cobbler shop where you could get shoes repaired or resoled.

[BlueShoe]

Mud Horses indicated by an " X "
Superior Mud Horses indicated by an "X" within a circle.

[Ocala Mike]

Actually, there were three different categories, represented by an asterisk, an X, and an X in a circle. I remember when these marks first disappeared from the Morning Telegraph. The story, somewhat apocryphal, about why they disappeared was "the guy who used to assign them died."

I also remember a mag called Turf and Sport Digest that assigned numerical ratings to every horse. They also used symbols next to some of them; I think "u" meant improving.


Ocala Mike

[Tom]

Superior Mud Horses indicated by an "X" within a circle.

Inferior mud horses indicated by a $2.00 ticket within my pocket.

[Greyfox]

Once upon a time, you could stroll around entire towns and cities and never see barred windows and doors on stores (including Pawn Shops) after closing time.

[toetoe]

A Mr. Harry Lee writes to the editor that he studied William Faulkner as an English Literature major fifty years ago. While talking recently with a young co-ed with the same major, he was asked by her, "Who is your favorite writer ?" He mentioned Faulkner. The young lady probed further. "Oh, what did he write ?" Now, only someone championing Charles Blow and Maya Angelou as national treasures could feel anything but despair at this turn of events.


I know, I know --- dead white Southerner Faulkner; tea-guzzling white male racist Toetoe. Nevertheless, the case for despair is a strong one.

[cj's dad]

"duck tail hair cuts"

I was suspended for a day because I had a this hair cut from a local Italian owned barber shop(Mimi -Di-Pietros). I had no idea that back in the '60s there was some sort of stigmatism to having a Duck tail. What did I know. :confused:

[Ocala Mike]

Yeah, ducktail haircuts (we called them d.a.'s), pegged pants (used to have to measure the peg to make sure it conformed with the limit), motorcycle jackets, and garrison belts were all telltales back in the day, and some schools banned some or all of them in NYC.


Ocala Mike

[Tom]

...when candidates referred to their opponents as, "my worthy opponent" instead "that lying SOS."

....when debates had questions above the 5th grade level
....when debates had answers above the 3rd grade level

[RaceBookJoe]

...when candidates referred to their opponents as, "my worthy opponent" instead "that lying SOS."

....when debates had questions above the 5th grade level
....when debates had answers above the 3rd grade level

When news was news, not entertainment. rbj

[Robert Goren]

A Mr. Harry Lee writes to the editor that he studied William Faulkner as an English Literature major fifty years ago. While talking recently with a young co-ed with the same major, he was asked by her, "Who is your favorite writer ?" He mentioned Faulkner. The young lady probed further. "Oh, what did he write ?" Now, only someone championing Charles Blow and Maya Angelou as national treasures could feel anything but despair at this turn of events.


I know, I know --- dead white Southerner Faulkner; tea-guzzling white male racist Toetoe. Nevertheless, the case for despair is a strong one. Nobody I knew liked having to read Faulkner in High School. Of course, we never got to read the cool stuff like Catcher In The Rye

[BlueShoe]

Inferior mud horses indicated by a $2.00 ticket within my pocket.
Inferior horses period indicated by a $2.00 ticket in pieces within my nearest trash can.

[DJofSD]

Nobody I knew liked having to read Faulkner in High School. Of course, we never got to read the cool stuff like Catcher In The Rye
Too bad. We read both along with a lot more.

[BlueShoe]

When you were looking for a job and reading the help wanted ads in the classified section of your local newspaper there were two sections, help wanted men and help wanted women.

[canleakid]

Oh the fun of being a "Shadetree Mechanic",

[The Judge]

the Sunday "funny paper" to you.

You spread the "funnies" out on the floor and followed along even if you couldn't read. He would read and tell you about some of the pictures so you could follow along. A bell would ring when it was time to turn the page. No need for Mom or Dad.

[Greyfox]

the Sunday "funny paper" to you.

.

Speaking of funny papers, my favorite was Major Hoople, of Our Boarding House. He was a pathological pompous "bull shipper" who bragged about exploits that never happened.
(I used to kid 46Zil of this board that he was Hoople's nephew.)

http://p2.la-img.com/436/14873/4800192_1_l.jpg

[canleakid]

Backseat romance at the drive-in theater, last time for me 1970 in Miami, Fla. still can not remember the name of the flick :lol:

[Robert Goren]

Backseat romance at the drive-in theater, last time for me 1970 in Miami, Fla. still can not remember the name of the flick :lol:You are lucky. There is one of these backseat romances from about the same time that I can't for the life of me remember the name of the gal. I can see her face as plain as day, but the name is gone.

[Greyfox]

Canleakid and Robert, have you considered:
From what you tell us the Class of 2012 may have some of your grand-children??

[Actor]

Has anybody mentioned having to register for the draft when you turned 18?

[BlueShoe]

Has anybody mentioned having to register for the draft when you turned 18?
When if you were a fit young man with no physical or mental defects the question was not whether you were going to serve in uniform or not. The question was which branch to choose to enlist in or to wait and take your chances in the draft.

[Actor]

When if you were a fit young man with no physical or mental defects the question was not whether you were going to serve in uniform or not. The question was which branch to choose to enlist in or to wait and take your chances in the draft.I served for three years, from age 22 to age 25. At about age 40 I was diagnosed with a condition which one doctor claimed would make me 4F. The condition is hereditary and I was born with it. The Army docs missed it. :bang:

[Actor]

Backseat romance at the drive-in theater, last time for me 1970 in Miami, Fla. still can not remember the name of the flick :lol:It can be hard to concentrate on two things at once. :lol:

[BillW]

Has anybody mentioned having to register for the draft when you turned 18?

Registration is still required :)

[cj's dad]

Backseat romance at the drive-in theater, last time for me 1970 in Miami, Fla. still can not remember the name of the flick :lol:

For a second there, I read this word incorrectly. I almost spit out my coffee.

[DJofSD]

A prosperous economy.

[Pace Cap'n]

Marbles.

[chickenhead]

you guys are older, and had even more dangerous stuff, but when I was a kid we had these small hard plastic rockets.

You would fill them with water, lock them into this launcher/pump thingy with this little mechanism, and start pumping away to pressurize the water. Once you got it up to around 2000 psi, you'd yank on this little release and it would rocket off at hundreds of miles per hour, high into the air, and land in someones property far far away. Usually never to be seen again.

We used to shoot them at each other, like I'm sure all kids did, probably why I don't think they give them to 10 yr olds anymore.

Now its just a bunch of soft stuff, with no real power behind it. No ability to thin the herd.

[BlueShoe]

For a second there, I read this word incorrectly. I almost spit out my coffee.
Freudian slip?

[Actor]

Bands would send your cancelled checks back to you.

I kind of miss that. These days if you need a cancelled check the bank, for a fee, sends you a photo the size of a postage stamp.

[Ocala Mike]

I love Bosco/It's rich and chocolatey/Chocolate-flavored Bosco is mighty good for me/Momma puts it in my drink for extra energy/Bosco gives me iron, and sunshine vitamin D/Oh, I love Bosco, that's the drink for me!


Ocala Mike

[Actor]

Bands would send your cancelled checks back to you.

I kind of miss that. These days if you need a cancelled check the bank, for a fee, sends you a photo the size of a postage stamp.

And of course the spellchecker missed "bands" for "banks". :bang:

[Greyfox]

The J-E-L-L-0 song where many preschoolers learned those letters before any others.

[DJofSD]

Then there was the Oscar Meyer hot dog jingle, "My hot dog has a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R, my hot dog...."

[Greyfox]

Toy soldiers made of lead metal.

[canleakid]

P F Flyers, would make you ran faster!!!!!!! would outran Nike and Adidas :D

[BlueShoe]

When a large main frame computer cpu had far less memory than a modern cell phone.

[Greyfox]

Colored toilet paper.

[Greyfox]

Colored toilet paper.

Just to clarify, that's not toilet tissue that you leave your coloring on. :D

[Actor]

Checks with a stub on the left rather than a duplicate.

[Actor]

Fifty cent coins.

[cj's dad]

Living a life without cell phones- i pads - tweeting - texting - facebooking - etc....

life sure was easier then !!

[DeltaLover]

I don't think anyone in this board remembers this which is was the norm in my youth when playing horses:

http://www.dpgr.gr/usergalleries/albums/userpics/12462/Ganian_08.jpg

[Steve 'StatMan']

Banks would send your cancelled checks back to you.

I kind of miss that. These days if you need a cancelled check the bank, for a fee, sends you a photo the size of a postage stamp.

I miss that a bit now too. I finally got around to shredding my old documents, and found my old cancelled checks from my early adult life, 1981-1987. What a thrill it was to look at those and remember my old friends, family members and businesses I dealt with and remember what was going on in my life. Checks written & cashed by my lste Father, Gramma, etc. and many living friends but who fell out of my life over time. Technically I had their autographs in my hands unexpectedly after all these years - brought them back just a little bit. True, banks needed to cut costs and be efficient, not too practical anymore. But it was a nice moment. I saved a few.

[Actor]

Calling a business and having the phone answered by a human instead of a computer. :bang: :bang: :bang:

[Tom]

Calling a business and having the phone answered by someone who speaks American and is not named Peggy.

[Greyfox]

Calling a business and having the phone answered by someone who speaks American and is not named Peggy.

Expanding on Actors good contribution.
Calling a business and having the phone answered by a live person who is not saying if you need this push 1, if you need that push 2, if you need this and that push 3....and so on. Then if you ever get through you are talking to someone in a call center in India who can't answer your question anyways.

[Tom]

I like Ted Nugent's answering machine:

You have reached Ted Nugent.
For English, dial 1
For English, dial 2
For English, dial 3

[Robert Goren]

The class of 2012 would not know what "dial one" meant.

[Robert Goren]

For that matter, they would not know who Ted Nugent is either.

[Tom]

They know Ted.

[Greyfox]

They know Ted.

They know Dick All.

[thaskalos]

I don't think anyone in this board remembers this which is was the norm in my youth when playing horses:

http://www.dpgr.gr/usergalleries/albums/userpics/12462/Ganian_08.jpg
I'll say this though...

The players then were alot better dressed...:)

[Tom]

I that a bandage on the guy's eye? Was he a bookie who got punched out? :D

[DJofSD]

Nope. That's super handicapper. Picking winners with just a program and one eye tied behind his back. And talent on loan from Philadelphia Phil.

[Actor]

Checks with a stub on the left rather than a duplicate.
For that matter, not having to have your own pre-printed checks. I recall when every business in town would have a stack of checks from every bank in the county. All that was pre-printed was the bank's name. You just filled in your name and signed. You didn't even have to remember your account number.

When I was in college I was able to go the the student union and write a check on a form they had that worked for all banks. I had to fill in the bank's name and address.

And you could write a check on anything. Remember the time on the TV show People Are Funny when they wrote a check on a watermelon and had the guy hitchhike from L.A. to Miami, Fla. to get to a certain bank and cash it?

[Actor]

Only oil companies issued credit cards, and they were hard to get.

[PhantomOnTour]

The sheer excitement (and sometimes joy) of getting the morning paper and hunting for the baseball box scores in the Sports section...not knowing if your favorite team had won the night before.

[BlueShoe]

When every game of the World Series was played in the daytime.

[Robert Goren]

When every game of the World Series was played in the daytime.In high school we could go the gym and watch it on a tv during study hall.

[illinoisbred]

My folks bought their 1st color tv right before the Mets vs Orioles World Series in 1969. I thought this was the greatest thing to ever come along...remember cutting school to watch a game or two.

[BlueShoe]

In high school we could go the gym and watch it on a tv during study hall.
Can recall cutting the first class after lunch because we just could not tear ourselves away from the tv set showing the game. We would leave the campus at the lunch break and walk to a business that had the game on. Most popular was the local Chevy dealer that tolerated a bunch of teen age boys cluttering up his showroom. :) Can still hear the late, great Mel Allen and the Gillette Blue Blade commercials. :)

[Actor]

"Standing tall before the man."

I used this phrase in a conversation with my grandson and he had never heard it before. He immediately grasped its meaning and thought it was hilarious.

I"m pretty sure it's military. I know it's used in Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket but I'd heard it used long before that came out.

[Greyfox]

Mandrake The Magician

http://www.schwimmerlegal.com/images/mandrakemag.jpg

[Actor]

Here's one that surprised me. I found out a few days ago that my grandson had never heard of a camera that used film, in spite of the fact that you can still buy the stuff at Wal Mart.

[DJofSD]

Ask him if he has ever seen an LP record.

[Ocala Mike]

Back 60 years or so, you called the doctor when someone was sick, and he came to your house with his "little black bag" to do his examination. No health care histories, insurance questionnaires, or HIPAA laws either.


Ocala Mike

[Robert Goren]

Back 60 years or so, you called the doctor when someone was sick, and he came to your house with his "little black bag" to do his examination. No health care histories, insurance questionnaires, or HIPAA laws either.


Ocala MikeAnd not very good medicine either. Today a lot of people are alive that would died 60 years ago including me.

[BlueShoe]

Ask him if he has ever seen an LP record.
An LP? Better yet, how about a 78 RPM? The ones that only had one song per side and shattered if they were dropped. No need to quiz grandchildren, unlikely if more than a very few on PA have ever seen or played one.

[Greyfox]

Haystacks.