Posted on 07/08/2008 10:27:50 AM PDT by 11bravo wolfhoundf
I remember when....
A small bottle of coke was only 5 cents
Hollywood candy bars
Hide and go seek
Wild Root Hair Tonic
Building Forts
Playing Army
Collecting bottles for the deposit
Winky Dink
When there were only a few people who had a TV and the screen was really small
the test pattern
Feel free to add your own memory
Burma-Shave
Howdy Doody
Snooky Lansen
Topo Gigio
Carbon paper
Beta-Max
Beta-Max
"google" the peanutbutter stuff
Tests in school produced on a mimeograph machine
The first Jared commercial.
I vaguely remember a time when I could remember things.
No.
Hollywood candy bars
Yes. They were awful.
Hide and go seek
Yes.
Wild Root Hair Tonic
No.
Building Forts
Yes.
Playing Army
Yes.
Collecting bottles for the deposit
I still do.
Winky Dink
He's still around.
When there were only a few people who had a TV and the screen was really small
Still the case.
the test pattern
Yes.
I remember when gas stations had giveaway promotions, such as steak knives and salad bowls. I remember the Dino dollars game at Sinclair stations. I remember when you could get free road maps at a gas station.
I remember getting S & H green stamps at gas stations and supermarkets.
I remember when gas stations normally had a repair garage attached, instead of a convenience store.
I remember Esso gas,before it was Exxon.
I remember Atlantic and Richfield as separate companies, not Arco.
I remember Cities Service gas stations, before they were Citgo.
I remember nickel bubble gum with baseball cards.
I remember when you could get an afternoon newspaper in most cities.
I remember VHF as opposed to UHF TV channels.
I remember drive in theaters.
I remember amusement parks such as Glen Echo in Washington, and Riverview in Chicago.
I remember fins on cars.
I remember when a Toyota was a rare brand.
I remember Ramblers and when American Motors was one of the big car companies.
I remember Larks and when Studebaker was a major car company.
I remember cigarette commercials on TV.
The Lone Ranger...(on radio)
The Cisco Kid and Pancho
Lash Larue
Wagon Train
Have Gun, Will Travel
Sky King
Pinky Lee
You Bet Your Life (Groucho Marx)
8-Tracks
reel-to-reel
Milk AND Bread were delivered, as was the Coal—All by truck...
"Yeah, he'll eat anything."
"He likes it!"
"Hey, Mikie!"
But back then, a week's allowance was a quarter.
Of course, if you raided the couch cushions, you could end up with a jackpot.
I remember when television wasn’t 24 hours and the regular broadcast dead spots weren’t filled by infomercials for ‘Girls Gone Wild’, ‘Make Money on Ebay’, and the latest Ron Popeil ‘set it and forget it’ kitchen gadget.
Used to be up before television broadcast started. Broadcast day started and ended with ‘The Star Spangled Banner’
It wasn’t really that long ago either if you think about it.
I remember when FM radio was mostly classical music or hard rock. And in any case, FM stations weren’t listened to as much, because most clock radios in the home and car radios only got AM. But in the old days, the big music or Top 40 radio stations were all on AM.
I remember summer nights listening to AM radio, when the radio signals travel farther. I remember hearing broadcasters such as Ernie Harwell on WJR in Detroit, and Haray Caray on KMOX in St. Louis, broadcasting Tiger and Cardinal games. I remember all the rock and roll music on WOWO in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, broadcasting to half the country at night.
Good times. Good times.
Gas was 35 cents a gallon.
A cool DA.
Another song I remember, produced by Paul McCartney and sung by Mary Hopkins, was “Those Were the Days.” Those truly were the days before walking at night was a time to be afraid.
Don't mention him, you know that he died when he ate all those Poprocks and washed it down with a bottle of Coke.
Yep, my dad WAS the milkman and we had that silver metal box (after the days of the wooden ones) on the porch for our milk. Gosh, I am ready to get a little weepy right now...wah
I only remember the test pattern and .10¢ cokes.
(Ouch!)
LOL! I hadn’t though of those things in years. Tasty!
Yeah, I remember when we got one TV channel, there was no such thing as a remote control and in the winter when Mom signed us up for cable we got 3 channels. Boy, were we excited! AND, I remember having a huge crush on the guys on ADAM 12. I was a 3rd grader, I think...haha
What’s life?
Life is just a bowl of cereal.
In 1970 I bought my first tape deck for my car. It was cassette while all my friends had 8-track. I just couldn’t stand the idea of switching tracks IN THE MIDDLE OF A SONG, as well as the short life of tapes due to the twisting of the tape over itself to create an endless loop.
Meanwhile I bought about 30 8 track tapes a few weeks ago for $2 and an Akai 8 track recorder for $40 last week. It’s actually fun to play them, especially the Elvis live in Memphis tape.
Home computers before iMacs
I remember fizzies. They were fun.
I remember “Sing Along With Mitch” and following the bouncing ball to see the words of the songs.
I remember when every family had a mother and father, married to each other, with the kids. I don’t remember knowing anyone who was divorced, or didn’t have a dad living with them in their home.
I remember Sunday drives into the country.
I remember Burger Chef.
I remember McDonald’s before they had drive thrus, and before they had indoor seating. You just had to eat in your car in the parking lot if you wanted to eat there.
I remember a time when nuclear power was the new techonology that would create clean energy.
Penny candy at the five and dime (which had a ten-cent pay toilet).
Rocky and Bullwinkle on Sunday morning, Abbott & Costello after that
I remember when we hunted geese in the morning and took our guns to school.(early 70s)
A cheeseburger, fries and a chocolate malt cost a buck. (96 cents, 4 cents tax)
Geez, you guys are young
Quake Cereal
The milkman
Nickel Hershey popsicles
Milkshake candy bars
28 oz. leaded glass bottles of Coke sold by the case at the gas station
Flat top rectangular quart milk cartons for 15 cents from the vending machine
2 cent half pints of milk in glass bottles at Kindergarten
W.T. Grants Department Stores
The Hartford Times
Open Reel Tape Decks (7 1/2 ips, please)
78 RPM Record Players (Grandma’s Rosemary Clooney and Patti Page records)
Family of seven in a Dodge Lancer, not breaking any laws
Tapes of candy buttons given out by the nice lady at the corner store with every purchase
S & H green stamps from the gas station
Bootlegged 8 Track tapes for $3
Little red “P Box” kits at the Radio Shack for making your own electronics (that barely worked)
Red tops on the mailboxes
Men who wore fedoras with a feather in the band
Soda cans that needed to be punched open
15 cent comic books
Locally produced children’s television (in Connecticut it was Hap Richards and Mr. Goober)
The Ed Sullivan Show
Backyard incinerators
Clotheslines in every backyard
I remember when Esso changed to Exxon.
I remember free gas station road maps too.
And oil in cans with that spout that cut into the top
Hai Karate aftershave
"Ruff 'n Ready" on Saturday mornings.
"Sky King" (also on Saturday mornings)
"Fury" with Peter Graves
TV Commercials for Hamms Beer that featured a Bear and an great theme song.
"The Untouchables" with Robert Stack
"The Twentieth Century" on Sunday afternoons.
The AFL and the NFL
Actual Roll Call votes at Major Party conventions.
No overhad storage compartments on airplanes (there was only an unenclosed space)
And whatever happened to Howard Johnson’s? They used to be as common as Denny’s are today, as I remember. The bright orange roof was their trademark.
I still drink RC cola but the moon pies now days are small...they used to be HUGE! ;)
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